M2 Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained Reading(2)

课件29张PPT。Unit 1 Reading (2)
Boy missing,
police puzzled
Language pointsRevision:Get several students to read the text.
Get some of them to retell the text.
Check the exercises A1 & A2 (p86) in the workbook.
1. Police in America have stepped up their search for a fifteen-year-old boy who went missing two days ago in Dover, New Hampshire.step up ( increase, speed up) When John realized he was going to be late, he stepped up his pace.
我们将加大训练，迎接即将到来的篮球赛。
We will have to step up training for the coming basketball match.我们决定加快生产，以满足不断增长的需求。
We decided to step up production to
try to meet the increased demand.
go + adj. His hair _______________ over the years.
The heat has caused the milk to _______ .
She_________ when she found out that she had failed the exam.go sourwent crazyhas gone grey/white( become+adj. )2. People have shown great interest in his disappearance due to sightings of puzzling lights in the sky and reports of alien visits around the time of his disappearance.due to ( because of, caused by)_____________, the scheduled visit to a factory has been put off.
He arrived late ____________________.
__________________, I didn’t say one more word to him.
由于他的粗鲁Due to his rudeness由于生病Due to illnessdue to the unexpected
storm由于未预料的暴风雨3.When Justin did not show up at the family lunch the next day, Mrs Foster became worried and told her husband to call the police.show up (turn up; appear)We have been waiting for you to show up.
You showed him up by calling him by his nick name in front of his girlfriend.
The sunlight showed up the marks on the glass.( make sth. become visible)( arrive, appear)( make sb. embarrassed)Guess the different meanings.4. Police have not ruled out the possibility that Justin was taken by aliens, but are also looking into other possibilities.rule out ( get rid of )look into ( examine )The police__________ the possibility that the boy had been murdered by his step-mother. We had to ________ the possibility of increased supplies.
His suggestion _____________ as unworkable.was ruled outruled out排除排除排除rule outThe police _______________ the reason why the plane crashed into the sea.
Would you mind ______________ the problem for me?look into ( examine )looking into在调查调查are looking into5.Sometimes people make up such amazing stories.

---You are late again! What excuse have you made up this time?
---My mother is ill. I could do nothing but send her to hospital.
Uncle Dick likes making up interesting stories for the children.
I feel I have been mean to you. I want to make it up to you.
She had been absent from school for two weeks, so she had lots of exams to make up.( invent )( do sth. that corrects a bad situation )( replace sth. that has been lost)Guess the different meanings.Girls make up 45% of the student population in our school.
Tom watched his sister make herself up for her date.
We haven’t been getting on well. Let’s make up.( form )( make one more attractive)( end a quarrel with sb. and become friendly again. )Fill in the blanks:Police in America ______________ their search for a 15-year-old boy who ____________ two days ago in Dover.
have stepped upwent missingPeople have shown ____________ in his disappearance ________ sightings of puzzling lights in the sky and reports of alien visits around the time of disappearance.
great interestdue toAt first, Justin’s mother, _____ went to sleep early that evening ____________ a headache, thought that the teenager ____________the night with a friend.was spendingwhobecause ofHe did not tell anyone that he ___________________.
When he didn’t __________ at the family lunch the next day, Mrs Foster became worried and told her husband to ________ the police.was staying out lateshow upcall However, police found that Justin ____in fact return home on Friday night at about 11 p.m.
He left home ________ baseball with two friends, _____ both say Justin went home _______ the game.didto playwhoafterI didn’t see him but I heard him put on his favourite CD. That’s ________ the lights came.
According to Kelly, a bright light then __________ outside her window.whenappearedAt first, the young girl thought it ______ the light of the full moon, but then she realized that it _________________________ closer.
I pulled back the curtains and saw a large spaceship _______ outside.
waswas moving and comingflying____________________lots of white-skinned, strange-looking creatures with large black eyes. I was frightened.
Standing inside wereI heard Justin ________, then the UFO just ______________. I haven’t seen Justin since.
I’m sure the aliens _______ him, but my parents said I ___________________.
shoutdisappearedtookwas only dreamingThe aliens took me away so that they could do research on me. ______, they returned me to my home. I think Justin was taken away by them too. They ____ interested in us. I still have nightmares about them.Luckily areI __________________ well since I returned home. The whole experience was very _________. I even get _________ when I hear a plane fly over.haven’t been sleepingfrighteningfrightenedPolice have not ruled out the possibility _____ Justin was taken by aliens, but __________________ other possibilities.
Sometimes people __________ such amazing stories.thatare also looking intomake upSo we ____________________ other possibilities too, such as murder. We will not give up ______ we find convincing evidence.have been looking atuntilHomework:Finish the exercises B1 & B2 (p87) in the workbook.
Make up sentences using the phrases we’ve learned in class.