单 元：unit 1 tales of the unexplained
板 块：reading 1
thoughts on the design:
本节课为阅读课的第一课时，主要是解决对课文内容的理解和学习有关阅读技巧。本文的体裁是新闻报道，采用新闻报告的常规要点为切入口，从title和五个“w”一个“h”这几个方面构画出新闻报道清晰的框架结构并教学生如何阅读此类文章，如何在此类文章中捕捉所需要的信息。教学方法还是通过预测、略读和寻读等常规技巧，帮助学生了解课文内容。教学步骤的设计以培养说、读、写能力为主。
teaching aims:
after learning the passage, students will be able to know typical writing features in news articles and learn how to read a newspaper article and how to get the important information in it, thus reinforcing their reading abilities in reading this kind of material. besides, students should be encouraged to express themselves in both written and oral english so that their language learning abilities can be enhanced.
teaching procedures:
step 1 lead-in
● warm-up questions:
1.do you often read newspapers? (often, seldom …)
1.2. how do you select the news you like to read, by taking a look at its title or by being attracted by its colorful pictures?
3. have you ever noticed there are differences in writing styles between newspaper articles and other kind of articles you read?
4.can you tell me the feature of a news title? let’s take the passage we’re going to learn as an example, the title is “boy missing, police puzzled”, what’s special? (the title of a news story is usually incomplete, attractive, exact and direct …)
5.can you complete the title? (“a boy is missing, and the police are puzzled”)
6.what information can you get from the title? (how/when/where was the boy missing?; why are the police puzzled?). tell the students a news story will cover such details as what, when, where, who, how and why about a certain event.—ppt5
[设计说明]
通过问题的提出让学生对要学的文体特点先有个粗略的了解，同时希望能激发学生对马上要学的内容的兴趣。
● pair work: —ppt6
now look at the pictures from our reading text and connect them with the topic “boy missing, police puzzled”. use your imagination and guess what happened in the story according to the information we get from the topic and the pictures. work with your partner and then share your story with the rest of the class.
[设计说明]
鼓励学生发挥想象力，激发学生对要学内容的兴趣。
● summary:
