Nov. 22, 2010

unexplained 1. What do people call them? 2. Who do you think operates the UFO? unexplained 3. Do you believe the UFO and the aliens exist?

A boy is missing, and the police are puzzled. Unit Reading 1 A boy is missing, and the police are puzzled. Boy missing, police puzzled What information can you get from the title?

to give detailed but less important information title Reading strategy How to read a news story to give detailed but less important information title the 1st paragraph to give the main idea of the news the 2nd paragraph to tell readers “who” “when” “where” “what” “why” “how” the following paragraphs to give more important facts

5 Ws & 1H ( Para 1) Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? a 15-year-old boy went missing three days ago Dover, New Hampshire show great interest strange lights & alien visits

More important facts ( Para 2) Main idea Supporting details Justin’s friends said ______________________________________. Witnesses said ________________________________________________. Kelly heard _______________________________. Justin went home after the game Justin did return home. they saw Justin walking towards his house at 10.45 p.m. him return home at about 11p.m.

Supporting details( Para 3-8) Main idea Kelly saw _________________________. Kelly heard ____________. Mavis Wood said _________________________________________________________. Supporting details Justin Foster’s mother found he didn’t _______________________. Justin did go missing and was taken away by aliens. show up at the family lunch the next day a large spaceship flying outside Justin shout the aliens took her aboard the UFO so that they could do research on her

Supporting details( Para 9) What is the attitude of the police to the disappearance of the boy?_____ They can’t make sure that Justin was taken by aliens. They think it possible for some people to make up an amazing story. They are looking at other possibilities. All of the above. D

Consolidation Main ___1___ Justin Foster Event Justin went missing and the police were ____2____ Opinions of the ___3____ ★ His 2 friends said he went home after the ____4___. ★ Kelly, ___5___ nine, heard him return home at 11p.m. ★ Kelly saw a large ___6____ move towards his bedroom, and heard him ___7___. character puzzled game aged witnesses spaceship shout

aboard Experience of Mrs. Wood The aliens took her ___8____ the UFO and then set her ___9___ without any injuries. She thinks Justin was taken away by them, too. Opinion of the police While they haven’t ____10_____the possibility that Justin was taken away by the aliens, they are looking into other possibilities as well free dismissed

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Make an interview Suppose you are a journalist from China Daily. You want to tell the public about the incident, so you ask the five characters what happened that night. I’m Tom, a journalist from China Daily.

Can you tell me what happened that night? Detective Sam Peterson Mr. Foster Mrs. Foster Mrs Mavis Kelly

Important sentences 1. This incident has received great interest due to reports of strange lights in the sky and of alien visits around the time the boy disappeared. (译)

2. Justin Foster, a high school student, went missing last Friday night. Justin’s sister, Kelly, aged nine, says she heard her brother return home. Mary, monitor of our class, was invited to the party too. 2) He himself told me that his brother is a world-famous doctor.

Mr. Smith is our new English teacher. He is very kind to us. 用同位语合并下列句子 Mr. Smith is our new English teacher. He is very kind to us. → Mr. Smith, our new English teacher, is very kind to us. 2) We are Chinese people and we are brave and hardworking. → We Chinese people are brave and hardworking.

3. Justin’s sister, Kelly, aged nine, says… = who is aged nine, = who is at the age of nine, = who is nine years old,

4. I heard him (put) on his favorite CD. I saw a large spaceship (fly) outside. 1) He was seen (go) into the restaurant at 10 a.m. 2） He was seen (leave) an hour ago. watch, look at, hear, listen to , notice, feel ,observe; put flying going to leave

5. Standing inside were lots of strange creatures with white skin and large black eyes. = Lots of strange creatures with … were standing inside. ● 本句倒装句结构是：现在分词+ be+主语 1) 坐在教室后面的是一群来自不同学校的老师。 Sitting at the back of the room are a group of teachers from different schools. 我们学校周围种着各种各样的树。 Growing around our school are trees of different kinds.

我家房前有颗50年的古树。 Standing in front of my house is an old tree of 50 years.

Since 副词,放句尾, ‘从那以后’ I haven’t seen Justin since. = I haven’t seen Justin ever since. = I haven’t seen Justin since then.

1. assume = believe /think 我们相信他在撒谎。 7. She assumed that kelly was having a bad dream, and sent her back to bed. 1. assume = believe /think 我们相信他在撒谎。 It is assumed that he is telling a lie. = we assume that he is telling a lie. 2. Assuming that 从句 = If 从句

8. research v. 研究 = study = do research on 他们正在研究新的交通规则。 They are researching… = ……

9. While conj. 尽管，虽然 = though / although 虽然我喜欢这顶帽子的颜色,但我不喜欢它的形状。 While I like the color of the hat, I do not like its shape.

Fly our imagination All the people are concerned about Justin’s disappearance. What do you think might have happened to him? Please give an ending to the story.

The first possible ending : Several days later, Justin was found dead in the forest not far away from his house. The police found many wounds(伤口) in his body, with no blood around. His family were very sad and asked the police to find out the truth. After searching for a few days, the murderer was at last caught. Hard evidence proved that Mavis Wood killed Justin. The flash of light that Kelly saw was in fact from the flashlight, and Justin shouted because of the pain. The so-called spaceship was a plane which was flying low.

The second possible ending : Eighty years later, Kelly’s son, Jim, ran into his uncle in space. When asked about the incident, Justin told Jim his experience. That night he was about to go to bed when he saw a flash of light out of the window. He went out and was taken away by the aliens. They got along well with each other. The aliens took him to outer space, he was so excited that he forgot about the time. With Jim’s help, Justin came back to the Earth. Kelly, who is now an old lady, burst into tears when she again saw his “young” brother.

The third possible ending : The aliens took Justin to their own planet when he was sleeping. When he woke up, he found himself lying on a special bed. The aliens did some research on him. A week later, he was sent back to his house, with a strange mark on his head. The scientists were surprised to find that there was nothing wrong with him and that they didn’t understand what the mark really meant.

The fourth possible ending : Justin wasn’t caught by the aliens. All is a lie, or a trick played by Justin himself. First, no strong evidence for the existence of aliens has ever been found by now. Second, the UFO may be a plane flying in the sky at that time. Or maybe it is a plane-model kite, which looks like the UFO. Third, what Kelly saw and heard is just a terrible dream of Kelly’s. or maybe Justin asked her sister to say so on purpose (故意). Why? Justin wants to be famous overnight, so he along with his friends made up the story.

1. What are these? 2. Who made them and why? unexplained

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