英语（九年级上册）
Unit 8 Detective stories
Task
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to write a detective story according to the pictures and the given information.
II. Teaching contents
How to organize and write a detective story.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Learn to make the detective story smoothly.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
1. T: Our school will hold a writing competition about detective stories. My friend Millie is very interested in it. She wants to have a try.
2. T: However, she doesn’t know how to plan a detective story. Could you please give her some advice?
【设计意图：设置情境引入本课时的写作任务，同时注重培养学生的资源策略。】
3. T: There are 6 elements in a story. They are when, where, who, what, why and how. Boys and girls, if we want to tell a detective story, what information will you be interested in? (Time, place, victim, suspect, witness, clue, fingerprint and so on.)
【设计意图：运用思维导图，将侦探小说包含的所有要素进行罗列。】
4. T: How can we organize all the essential information?
I think it’s a good idea to draw some pictures to help develop the story.
Step 2 Presentation
T: Here are the pictures. Look at the pictures carefully and try to describe them one by one.
Pay attention to details and try to match the pictures and sentences.
Ask some questions about the crime according to the sentences.
What did Bruce find one day?
What did he plan to do with it?
Did a witness see Bruce running into the building?
Was Bruce charged with murder?
Finish the mind map of the story.
T: Can you make it clearer for the readers to know which detective story you will tell? (Add the story name.)
T: According to the pictures, Millie has written the first part of the story, but she has missed out a few words. Can you help her complete the sentences?
T: Bruce was not guilty, but how could he prove it?
Work in groups of four and find a way to help Bruce. Each group writes an ending to the story
and share your stories with your classmates.
Discussion: What makes a good detective story?
Essential information
Clear structure
Simple past tense
【设计意图：通过对A部分从句到篇的逐步分析和推进，帮助学生掌握写好一则侦探故事的几大步骤，为B部分的写作开展做好准备。】
Step 3 Practice
T: You also want to enter the writing competition at school. You have drawn some pictures too.
T: Look at the pictures carefully and try to catch the essential information.
Picture 1: What kind of crime is it?
Picture 2: What is the detective doing? What do you think he can find there?
Pictures 3&4: Talk to the cook and the witnesses。
Picture 5: What will the detective do with the gun and the knife?
Picture 6: The cook is the murderer. How does the detective know? Why did the cook do that?
【设计意图：通过观察图片回答问题，帮助学生打开思维，理清故事要素和大意。】
T: When you are writing, remember to include the following points in your story:
A description of the crime
Any objects or clues found at the scene of the crime
A description of the suspect
How the detective finds the criminal
Ask students to write a detective story according to the pictures and the given information.
Ask students to share the story with each other.
V. Homework
1. Make your detective story better and more interesting.
2. Preview the new lesson.
课件30张PPT。Unit 8 Detective stories TaskA writing competition!How to plan a detective story…Drawing can help develop the story.a gold necklace What do you know from the picture? What do you know from the picture? What do you know from the picture? What do you know from the picture?A witness saw someone running into Bruce’s building.
Bruce planned to take the necklace to the police station the next day.
One day, Bruce found a gold necklace outside his door.
Bruce was charged with theft.Read and matchc. One day, Bruce found a gold necklace
outside his door.
b. Bruce planned to take the necklace to
the police station the next day.
A witness saw someone running into
Bruce’s building.
d. Bruce was charged with theft.cbadWork in pairs. Answer the questions.1. What did Bruce find one day? 2. What did he plan to do with it?He found a gold necklace.He planned to take it to the police station the next day.3. Did the witness see Bruce running into the building?
4. Was Bruce charged with robbery? No, the witness saw someone running into Bruce’s building.No, he was charged with theft.A detective storyWhen
Where
Who
What Why Howone dayoutside Bruce’s doorBruce, a witness, a policemana gold necklaceBruce and the theft…Bruce gets along with all of his neighbours except the man who lives next door. The man never speaks to anyone, and no one knows what he does for a living. One day, when Bruce came home from work, he found a (1) _____________ outside his (2) ______. Bruce wondered where it came from. gold necklacedoor与……和睦相处Bruce thought that perhaps someone had dropped the necklace. He planned to take it to the (3) _____________ the next day. Just then, a (4) __________ came to Bruce’s home and saw the necklace in his hand. Bruce was very surprised when he was charged with (5) _____. police stationpolicemantheftThe policeman told him that some valuable jewellery had been stolen. A
(6) _______ said that she had seen someone run from the jewellery shop into (7) _______________ right after the theft.
Bruce was not guilty, but how could he prove it?Bruce’s buildingwitnesssteal vt. 偷，窃取①Bruce gets along with all of his neighbours except the man who lives next door. The man never speakd to anyone and no one knows what he des for a living.②One day, when Bruce came home from work, he found a gold necklace outside his door. Bruce wondered where it came from.③Bruce thought that perhaps someone had dropped the necklace. He planned to take it to the police station the next day. Just then, a policeman came to Bruce’s home and saw the necklace in his hand. Bruce was very surprised when he was charged with theft. The policeman told him that some valuable jewellery had been stolen. A witness said that she had seen someone run from the jewellery shop into Bruce's building right after the theft. ④Bruce was not guilty …You can write a story like this!IntroductionMain bodyConclusionBruce was not guilty, but how could he prove it?
Work in groups of four to find a way to
help Bruce. Write an ending to the story.Story timeStep I: Talk about the picturesA murderA murderA murderA murderA murderdcefabStep II: Find out what they are saying! a. I’ll have to check
these for fingerprints.b. You’re under arrest
for murder.f. We didn’t see or hear anything.
We were having a party.e. I don’t know. I’ve never seen him before.d. We’d better call the police.c. He was murdered.
Start looking for clues.Step III: Writing Remember to include the following
points in your story.
★A description of the crime
★ Any objects or clues found at the scene
of the crime
★ A description of the suspect
★ How the detective finds the criminalStep IV: SharingCan you find any mistakes?
Can you find expressions to make the story better and more interesting?Make your detective story better and
more interesting.
2. Preview the next unit. Homework
