unit 1 tales of unexplained reading

课件21张PPT。Unit 1 Tales of unexplained Reading Introduction
1.Does the title arouse your interest when you read it ? Can you complete the title ?
2.What information can you get from the title ?
3.What else do you want to know ? For example, ‘missing boy’
(How/When/ Where was the boy missing ?)
“police puzzled”
(Why are they puzzled?/What are the police going to do about the boy’s disappearance and how ?)
4.Are you curious about why the writer uses an incomplete sentences as the title ? Did you know that it is a feature of a news title? What are some other features of a news title ?
5.Can you guess what details may be covered in the following news story ? A.Read the article and answer the following questions:
1.What is the article about ?
2. Who is missing?
3. Do the police know what happened to Justin ?
Answers:1.It’s about a missing boy /UFOs and aliens.
2.Justin Foster.
3. No.
The first paragraph gives the main idea and the most important facts. Read it and answer more questions:
4.When and where was the boy missing ?
5.What caused the boy’s sudden disappearance (消失)?
6.How old was the boy ?
7.Why did people show interest in his disappearance ?
Answers:
4.Two days ago in Dover, New Hampshire.
5.Aliens.6.Fifteen years old.
7.Due to sightings of puzzling lights in the sky and reports of aliens visits around the time of his disappearance.
Scan the article again and answer the questions in Part C1. 1.Where does Justin Foster live ?
2.Why did Justin’s mother go to bed early?
3. What sport 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?
Answers to Part C1: 1. In Dover, New Hampshire.
2.Because she had a headache.
3.Baseball.
4.At 10.45p.m.
5. Yes, he has a sister.
6.White.
7.Mavis Wood.
8. Detective(侦探) Sam Peterson.Part C2: a newspaper article gives details to support the main points of the story. Identify the supporting details for each point below. Foster went missing.
1.Mrs Foster thought he was spending a night with a friend.
2.Mr Foster was surprised that his son did not tell anyone that he was staying out late.
3.Justin Foster did not show up at the family lunch the next day.
Part C2: a newspaper article gives details to support the main points of the story. Identify the supporting details for each point below.The police found that Justin returned home.
1.Justin’s friends said that Justin went home after playing baseball with them.
2.Witnesses said that they saw Justin walking towards his home at 10.45 p.m.
3.Kelly heard him put on his favorite CD after he went to his home.
Part C2: a newspaper article gives details to support the main points of the story. Identify the supporting details for each point below.The boy was taken away by aliens.
1.Kelly saw a large spaceship flying outside.
2Kelly heard Justin shout.
3.Mavis Wood said that the aliens took her away so that they could do scientific research on her.
Justin Foster
At 8 p.m.________________________________
At 10.45 p.m._____________________________
At 11 p.m_________________________________
After 11 p.m., he was heard ______________________
The next morning, he was found _______________
Strange object (UFO)
Its appearance
Shape__________________________
Colour_________________________
Size__________________________
Its inside ____________________________________Justin Foster
At 8 p.m. , he left home to play baseball with two friends.
At 10.45 p.m , witnesses saw him walking towards his home.
At 11 p.m , Police found that Justin did in fact return home.
After 11 p.m., he was heard to put on his favourite CD.
The next morning, he was found missing.
Strange object (UFO)
Its appearance
Shape : Like a spaceship
Colour : multi-coloured
Size: large
Its inside: There were lots of white-skinned, strange-looking creatures with large black eyes.Complete Part D:1.puzzled(title)
2.due to(line 6)
3.Show up(ling23)
4.witness(line 32)
5.nightmare(line 68)
6.rule out(line 73)
7.make up(line 76)
8.convincing(line 81)
Answers: 1---g; 2---d; 3---e; 4---h;
5----c; 6----a; 7---f; 8---bPart E: Justin’s sister Kelly is writing about Justin in her diary. Help her complete the diary entry.26th September

Justin has been missing for two weeks now. I miss him a lot. I’m worried that something(1) bad has happened to him. I’m sure he came home that night at around 11p.m.I heard him put on his (2)favourite CD. I wonder where the (3) aliens with large black eyes have taken him.
Mavis told me that (4) creature from outer space took her away a few years ago. They did some research on her. The whole experience was very frightening, just like a (5)nightmare ,but at least they returned her home. I hope they will return(6)Justin soon.
The police are (7) not making much progress. They are very (8)puzzled .Now they are searching for other (9) witnesses. They say Justin might have been (10) murdered . Dad is very disappointed with them. He thinks they are not doing their job properly. Mum is really worried ,too. She can’t sleep well. I hope Justin will come home soon and tell us what happened to him. I want all of us to be together again.Do Part A1 and A2 on page 86.Part A1:
1.up 2.to 3. up 4. to 5. for 6. out
7. into/for 8.up 9. of 10. on
11.around/about 12.out /up
Part A2:
1. witnesses 2. creature 3. gone missing 4. frightened 5. research 6.due to
7. show up 8. possibilityNotes (注释)1. (The)Police in America have stepped up their search for a fifteen-year-old boy who went missing two days ago in Dover, New Hampshire.(Page 2,linges1-4)
(1) (The) Police: In newspapers, the space is limited, so articles such as ‘the’ are removed. 报纸中空间有限，所以“the ”省略。
(2) step up : to speed up; to increase e.g.
A. When I realized I was going to be late, I stepped up my pace(步伐).
B. We will have to step up training for the coming basketball match.
(3)search: look for or examine carefully and thoroughly to try to find something.
A. They searched for the missing man ,but they are not successful.
B. He walked through the desert in search of the lost camel.
( search ---- for---, make a search for 搜寻、寻求, )
(4) go missing : go 作联系动词,变成某种状态（通常指不好的状态）
go bad, go wrong , go mad
His hair went grey after his son’s death. His face went red with anger.
In summer milk can go sour easily. Notes (注释)2. show (great ) interest in :对---有兴趣
He began to show an interest in politics during high school.
My five-year old son shows an interest in music.
3. due
（1） ( 归因于)due to = because of ; caused by 由于，由-----引起
He is late due to the bad weather.
Due to illness, he didn’t pass the exam.
The accident is due to his careless driving.
(2) 预定（到达）的，预定做---的 (to do )
The train is due in Beijing at 3 p.m.
He is due to start this morning.
I am due to graduate next year.Notes (注释)4. show up : to arrive as expected or arranged
（1）(口语) 出席、露面、出场 ；
She didn’t show up for breakfast this morning.
We are waiting for you to show up.
（2）显眼、突出 ; The white tall building showed up in the sunlight.
5. Standing inside were lots of white-skinned, strange-looking creatures with large black eyes. (page 3,lines 50-53) (这是一个倒装句)
Lots of white-skinned, strange-looking creatures with large black eyes were standing inside.
e.g Growing around the lake are trees of different kinds.Notes (注释)6. research: serious and detailed study 仔细研究 (n.v)
(1) In his research he found that girls talk more than boys.
They are doing research on the problems.
(2) He is researching the problems of the school students.
research on /into 调查,研究
7. rule out : to say that something or someone is not under consideration as a possibility. 排除
The police ruled out the possibility that the boy had been murdered by his uncle.
We ruled out the possibility of his death.Notes (注释)8. look into: to examine the meaning or the cause of
The police are looking into the boy’s missing.
He is looking into the cause of the accident.
9. make up :
(1)编造 to invent a story, a poem or an excuse.
The teacher asked the students to make up a poem about Christmas.
He made up an interesting story for the children .
(2)和好、和解
They quarreled with each other but soon made up.
(3) 化装、打扮 It took her over 30 minutes to make up.
(4) 弥补--，补充 I must make up the loss.
(5) 组成 Girls make up 45% of the students in our school.Resources(资源) Newspaper articles are often seen as a shorten form of a news report that gives more information. The lead, the first paragraph of a news story, plays the most important part in the understanding of the whole story. It is usually a one- or two-sentence summary of the particular event being reported. The headline and the first paragraph effectively summarize the story’s content.Thank you
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