Unit 1 Tales of unexplained 导学案
Welcome to the Unit
Learning goals 1. Target language
Important words and expressions：tales, unexplained, spaceship, planet, tracks 2. Ability goals
To conduct a free discussion about some mysterious and unexplained phenomena in the world
To make full use of resources and share our imaginative ideas with each other 3. Learning ability goal
To learn how to conduct a free discussion about some mysterious and unexplained phenomena in the world
To learn how to make full use of resources and share our imaginative ideas with each other
To improve our speaking ability
4. Learning important points & difficult points
To describe what we have known about the unexplained tales and what we are eager to know about them.
To communicate with classmates To improve our speaking ability 5. Learning methods
Discussion and speaking
Learning procedures Step 1 Lead-in
Discuss the following questions.
1. In your opinion, what is the most fantastic thing one can experience? Why? 2. Do you believe in unexplained things such as UFOs and Yetis? Why or why not? 3. What unexplained things do you know about? 4. If you saw a UFO or a Yeti, what would you do?
Step 2 Tales of unexplained
Activity 1 Answer some questions.
1. Do you believe in unexplained things such as UFOs and Yetis? Why or why not? 2. What other unexplained things do you know about? 3. If you saw a UFO or a Yeti, what would you do?
Activity 2 Discuss the four pictures\\
Picture 1___________________________________________________________ Picture 2___________________________________________________________ Picture 3___________________________________________________________ Picture 4___________________________________________________________ (活动操作前，先要给学生足够的时间进行小组讨论，操练学生的英语口语表达能力和思考问题的能力。)
Step 3 Talking and discussion
How could we treat unexplained things properly?
Step 4 Homework
1. If you are interested in this kind of things, please dig into them all by yourselves in your spare time. 2. Preview the Reading part.
Unit 1 Tales of unexplained 导学案
Reading (1)
Learning aims
To improve the reading ability
To learn some useful words and expressions
To develop students’ ability of reading a newspaper article Learning important point To understand this news story well Learning difficult point
How to develop students’ ability of reading a newspaper article Learning methods
Reading, discussion and explanation
Learning procedures
Step 1 Revision and Lead-in
Last time we learned about some tales of unexplained. Today we are going to learn a news story about them. This material is mainly about a missing boy who was said to be taken away by UFO.
Step 2 Reading strategy This is a typical news story.
Activity 1 Reading and learning strategies
1. Do you often read newspapers? What kind of news do you like to read, sports news, entertainment news, economic news…?
2. Is there anything wrong with the title according to the grammar? (The title is incomplete.) What is a complete title? What’s the function of the title? 3. Why did the writer use an incomplete sentence as its title? ( brief ) 4. When reading a newspaper article, what should we pay attention to? 5. What’s the function of the first paragraph?
Activity 2 Skimming and scanning
First, let’s skim the text quickly and try to get the main idea of the article. Main idea:__________________________________________________