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Unit 1
Tales of the unexplained (Module 2 Reading: Boy missing, police puzzled
In this section, a newspaper article is presented about a boy’s strange disappearance. This article arouses students’ imagination and they are introduced how to read a newspaper article by means of the reading strategy. Teaching goal: 1. to help students comprehend the whole article and successfully complete all the relevant exercises 2. to enhance students’ reading ability
3. to help them equip with the following skills, such as learning how to predict the context, getting the main idea from the passage, identifying and locating detailed information, identifying which statements are facts and which are opinions, guessing the word meanings from the context, etc. Procedures: Introduction and lead-in interest the learners in the topic initial discussion of key themes making an explicit link between the topic of the text and students’ own lives and experiences
Questions: 1. Do you think all the relevant and important information is in the first paragraph? 2. Is there any relationship between the first paragraph and the following paragraphs? 3. Have you ever had an experience like that in the text? First task (pre-reading The first time reading ----- finish Part A photos of aliens Reading strategy How to read a newspaper article? title the first paragraph the first sentence in the first paragraph the following paragraphs ‘Boy missing, police puzzled’
A boy is missing and the police are puzzled. Why? Questions related to the title: 1. Are you curious about why the writer uses an incomplete sentence as the title? 2. Do you know it’s a feature of a news title?
3. What are some other features of a news title? 4. What kind of information can you predict from the title? Tasks to focus on gist Part A
1. What is the article about ? 2. Who is missing? 3. Do the police know what happened to Justin? Listening and True or false statements:
1. The reason why people have shown great interest in the boy’s disappearance is that something unusual happened at that time.
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2. At first Justin’ s mother took the thing seriously. 3. Mrs Foster didn’ t become worried until the lunchtime the next day. 4. The two friends said that they heard the boy return home at about 11 o’ clock. 5. The large spaceship had multi-coloured lights inside it and there were many windows. 6. The aliens were said to be only interested in Justin. 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. F 6. F Tasks to focus on specific details Part C1 1. Where does Justin Foster live? 2. Why did Justin’s mother go to bed early? 3. What sports does Justin play? 4. What time did the witnesses see Justin walking home? 5. Does Justin have any brothers and sisters? 6. What colour were the aliens? 7. Who else has been taken by the aliens? 8. Who is in charge of the case? Tasks requiring more comprehensive understanding Part C2
Main Points
Supporting details
Mrs Foster thought he was spending the night with a friend.. Justin Foster went missing. Mr Foster was surprised ____________________. Justin Foster ______________________________. Justin’s friends said _______ ________________. The police found that Justin Witnesses said ____________________________. returned home. Kelly heard ______________________________. Kelly saw ________________________________. The boy was taken away by Kelly heard ______________________________. aliens Mavis Wood said __________________________. Post-reading activities Diagram for self-evaluation of the reading comprehension At 8 p.m. ______________________________________ At 10.45 p.m. __________________________________ Justin Foster At 11 p.m. ____________________________________ After 11 p.m. , he was heard ______________________ The next morning, he was found ___________________ shape its appearance colour strange objects size
its inside 1. Ask students to retell the story according to the diagram. 2. Ask students to give an ending to the story.
Though the police have made efforts to investigate the case, how Justin was missing remained a mystery. Was he really