1、Teaching aims1、 gain a good understanding of the article2、 learn how to read a newspaper article 3、 Practise students’ abilities in reading ,speaking and writingTeaching important and difficult points1. Make the students have a better understanding of the new
2、s story 2. Make the students master the reading strategy3. Reinforce their reading abilities Teaching facilities1. Multi-media2. Black boardTeaching proceduresStep 1 Questions for your preview1) What is the article about?2) Tell us the chara
3、cters in the article.Step 2 Lead-inWarm-up questions:1. Do you read newspapers? 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.Can you tell me the feature of a news title?
4、 Let’s take the passage we’re going to learn as an example, the title is “Boy missing, police puzzled”, what’s special?Step 3 Reading strategyLearn the structure of a news story and teach the reading skills of news stories.1. The structure of a news story● the titl
5、e: to give a general idea of the news● the first paragraph: to give ________________________________to try to answer________________________________● the second paragraph: to give______________________________● the following paragraphs: to give ____________________
6、________________information2. The reading skills of news stories● For general ideas, read the topic if any and the first one or two paragraphs; for details, read the rest of the story.Now look at the pictures from our reading text and connect them with the
7、title “Boy missing, police puzzled”. Tell us what happened in the story according to the information we get from the title and the pictures. Step 4Skimming& Scanning1. Tell the students it’s time for them to check their imagination of the story. Ask the whole class
8、 to skim and scan the passage, trying to find the answers to the following.●Boy missing, police puzzled It’s about ________● the first paragraph:
