Unit 8 Detective Stories ReadingⅠ
一、Teaching aims and demands:
1.To understand key vocabulary related to crime. and know about the main meaning of the text.
2.To develop the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
3.To have a sense of protecting yourself
二、Important points:
1.To learn some new words and phrases.
2.To Know something about the detective story by reading
三、Difficult points:
To retell the detective stories
四、Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
Showing a picture to tell a story about murder.
Step2. Presentation
1. Say: Good morning, everyone. First of all, let’s watch a part of a film.
2. Say: Just now we saw a young man in the film. What did he do? Yes, he murdered the woman, his wife. He was the murderer, the attacker. And his wife is the victim. (Write the three words on the Bb.)
Step 3 Reading
1. Say this film is full of horror and mysteries. Now today we shall read another murder story. Please open your books and turn to P96. Here’s the article about the murder from a newspaper. Before we read it, let’s deal with the new words first.
2 skim and answer the following 3 questions:
a) Who was murdered?
b) When did the murder take place?
c) So far how many suspects do the police have ?
3 Scan
Say: Now please read the article more carefully and try to tell the following sentences T or F. If it is false, please correct the mistake.
a)The victim’s body was found in Valley Town. _____
b)The victim sold computer programs. _____
c)The victim worked in New Town, _____
d)It is possible that there was more than one attacker. _____
e)The victim had lots of enemies. _____
f)The victim was attacked with a gun. _____
g)The suspect is a short, fat man. ____
h)The police have arrested the murderer. ___
i)The victim’s parents offered a reward for information. ____
Then check their answers.
4 Listen
Say: Now listen to the tape and try to underline the difficult sentences and phrases that you don’t understand.
Read the article themselves for several minutes, then ask 8 students to read one
paragraph by one paragraph. While reading, after each paragraph, do some explanations about the difficult points. Also do some explanations about the title. Show the students more examples.
5.Read together with the tape once.
Step 4. Skim
1. Ask the students to work in pairs and tick out the main idea of the article.
victim: clues:
suspects: the police:
2. Check out their answers orally, then give out the answers on pieces of paper.
Step5.Homework
1.Read the text again and again after class
2.Try to retell the text to your classmates
