Project

Telling a mysterious story

Step one Vocabulary Brainstorming 1. 无法解释的神秘事物 2. 先进的科学技术 3. 遇见 4. 寻找 5. 失踪 6. 出现 7. 对 … 感兴趣 8. 令人困惑的亮光 9. 由于 10. 害怕 11. 根据 …. 12. 目击者 unexplained mysteries advanced science and technology run into search for go missing show up show interest in due to get frightened according to witness puzzling lights

13. 怪模怪样的动物 14. 研究 … 15. 调查 16. 发生在某人身上 17. 做恶梦 18. 编造 19. 令人信服的证据 strange-looking creatures do research on look into happen to sb. have nightmares make up convincing evidence

20. 取得很大进步 21. 梦见 … 22. 实施 23. 实现 / 成真 24. 和 …… 分离 25. 对某人失望 26. 寻找财宝 make much progress dream of carry out come true separate from be disappointed with sb. look for treasure

Step two Lead in

Yeti: man-like /ape-like, hairy, fur, short legs, long arms, large hands, huge shoulders, strong and tall

Step three Reading Searching for the Yeti

Fast reading tasks: Read the article, divide it into parts and find out the main idea of each part.

We can divide the passage into ____ parts. four Part one: (Para1) Part two: (Paras2-4) Yetis are reported to have been seen all over the world. Descriptions of Yetis in different places.

Part three: (Paras5-6) Part four: (Para7) Scientists’ different opinions about Yetis. Scientists hope to find the truth.

Careful reading tasks: Learn the useful expressions and sentence patterns in the article. Analyze( 分析 ) the writing features( 特点 ) of the article.

Useful expressions 1.a wild man-like creature 2. run after 3. on average 4. run with amazing speed and strength 5. hard evidence supporting the existence of Yeti

6. play a joke 7. make its way to…

Sentence patterns Yetis are said to be heavily built and hairy. The footprints could have been made by.. He became convinced that they exist…

Analyze the writing features of the article. Find out the function of each part in the article. Part one: to arouse the readers’ interest

Part two: to support Para1 with some details Part three: to make readers think more about Yetis Part four: to give readers imagination with an open ending

Conclude the writing features 1. an interesting and attractive title 2. an attractive beginning 3. details of the story with pictures 4. scientists’ or people’s different opinions 5. an open end of the story

Step four Group work Work in groups of six choose a mysterious story you would like to tell. Make an outline (1) Give an attractive title.

(2) How can you develop your story? a. What will you tell in the first paragraph? b. Then, what information can you use to support your story? c. What end would you like to give to your story?

Discuss and revise your draft. Tell your story to the class. Please look at some more pictures to gain intuitive ( 直观的 )impression about some mysteries.

Homework Perfect your story and write it in your exercise-book. Finish off the exercises in Workbook.