高一英語Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World教案
step 3. homework
1. ask ss to revise the passages in the introduction.
2. ask ss to practise making dialogue to say the monsters..
3. ask ss to preview reading and vocabulary in the module.
period 2 reading and vocabulary, writing
teaching goals:
1. to let ss master how to get useful information from a passage.
2. to let ss master some words and phrases.
3. to get ss to talk something about a monster.
4. to help ss write a story about another monster.
teaching procedures:
step 1. revision:
purpose: to check whether ss master what they’ve learnt in the last period or not.
ask ss to answer the following questions.
(1) what will the yeti do when it gets angry?
(2) what does the bigfoot look like?
(3) where does the grey man live?
(4) what’s the loch ness monster like?
suggested answers:
(1) it will attack anyone who goes close to it.
(2) it looks like a very large monkey – tall and hairy with big arms and legs.
(3) the grey man lives on mountains in scotland.
(4) it has a small head and a long tail and some people believe it is a dinosaur.
step 2. leading-in
purpose: to let ss have a discussion about the monster of lake tianchi.
1. group work
show four pictures and ask ss to say something about the lake tianchi and the monster.
2. group work
let ss reported their discussions to the class and collect them. then give a simple introduction to lead in the reading.
for your reference:
lake tianchi is located in the north-eastern jilin province near the border of north korea, in china. the lake is 1,243 feet deep and has had some volcanic activity in the last 300 years. tianchi is honoured as the deepest mountain lake and the largest crater lake in china.
there have been more than 30 reported sightings by tourists from home and abroad over the past 20 years. they said that they saw the great monster in the lake. there are quite a few pictures and videos of this creature, but none is clear enough to give a good appearance of it. some persons made the picture with computer images of it based on interviews. someone drew a picture to show its shape, but it remains unconfirmed.
step 3. reading
purpose: to improve ss’ reading skills.
1. skimming
ask ss to read the beginning of the passage and finish activity 1 on page 52.
suggested answers:
a newspaper.
2. scanning
(1) ask ss to read the first paragraph quickly and answer the two questions.
① according to the text, what did the monster look like?