1、Unit 1 Tales of the unexplainedProject: Telling about an unexplained mystery教案l Teaching aims:1. Help Ss discuss what mystery they want to write a story about, and collect as much information as they can.2. Lead Ss to use what they have learnt in this unit to complete the project.l Teaching procedur
2、es: Step Fast Reading Questions for Ss to answer after reading:1. In which year were Yetis seen?2. Where have Yetis or similar creatures been seen?3. What has been reported about Yetis?4. What do scientists think of Yetis?Step Careful reading Ask Ss to find the main idea of each paragraph and find t
3、he connections between them. Para 1: Sightings of Yetis are reported. Para 2: An eyewitness to a Yeti in 1998. Para 3: Another eyewitness who saw Yeti tracks in 2007, which looked like the tracks of Bigfoot in the USA Para 4: Reports about the Wild Man in Shennongjia and the similarity of Yeti, Bigf
4、oot and the Wild Man in shengnongjia Para 5: An American scientists opinion. Para 6: The hope for the solution of the mysteryStep Discussion1. Do scientists all believe such creatures exist?2. How are their opinions divided? 3. Do you believe in the existence of such creature? 4. How to write a stor
5、y of mystery?Step Information on the writing features of a mystery The writing features of a mysterious story:1. an interesting and attractive title 2. an attractive beginning3. some details of the story with some pictures or photos4. what scientists or people think about the story5. an open end of
6、the story Step Comparison between a news report and a magazine article The reading text is a news report and after reading the first Para, readers will know what has happened and when and where it happened. In the following Paras more details and information are given. The project reading test is an
7、 overview about Yetis and similar creatures and it is a magazine article. It is an overview with general information about Yetis and similar creatures. So it tells readers some details about Yetis and such creatures( Bigfoot, the Wild Man of Shennongjia), people have seen in different places.Step La
8、nguage points1. He reported that they looked like the tracks of a similar creature, called Bigfoot, which some people believe lives in the forest of the north-west of the USA. 本句为主从复合句。句中的reported后接一个由that 引导的宾语从句；a similar creature后面的called Bigfoot是后置定语，其后的which引导一个定语从句，修饰先行词creature。2. Large track
9、s have also been discovered which some people say belong to the Wild Man. 人们也发现过一些巨大脚印，有人称它们属于野人。 本句是主从复合句。句中的which引导一个定语从句，修饰句子的主语tracks；在这个定语从句中，say后面接一个省略了that的宾语从句。如果将原句拆成两句，则应为：Large tracks have also been discovered. Some people say (that) these large tracks belong to the Wild Man.3. He believe
10、d that these creatures are linked to a common ancestor, an animal that lived in Asia some 300,000 years ago. 他认为，这些生物与一个共同的祖先相关联，该动物生活于约30万年前的亚洲。 句中believed 后接一个由that 引导的宾语从句，an animal that 是 a common ancestor的同位语。 句中some 300,000 years ago的意思是“大约30万年以前”；some与数词连用时，常用作副词，相当于approximately。Step Consolidation and HomeworkCreating a story about one of the mysteries.