Reading I Boy missing, police puzzled

Warm-up questions: 1. Do you often 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. Have you ever noticed there are differences in writing styles between newspaper articles and other kinds of articles? 4. what’s the differences? How should we read a news story?

Reading strategy The structure of a news story to give the broadest, most general information title to give the main idea and most important facts. Pay attention to who, what, when, where , why and how about the event; the first paragraph

Reading strategy The structure of a news story the second paragraph to give more important facts the following paragraphs to introduce new but less important background information

Reading strategy The reading skills of news stories For general ideas, read the title and the first one or two paragraphs; For details, read the rest of the story.

Boy missing, police puzzled It’s about __________. the first paragraph: when____________; where____________________; who__________; what___________; how_________________; why_______________________ _______________ the following paragraphs: evidence given by____________________________ Skimming& Scanning a missing boy three days ago Dover, New Hampshire Justin Foster went missing show great interest sightings of strange lights & reports of alien visits Justin’s friends, sister, neighbors …

Justin Foster did go back home. Main ideas Supporting details Who believed he was back? ______________ ______________ Justin Foster did go back home. his two friends witnesses ( Para. 2) his sister

The boy might be taken away by aliens. Main ideas Supporting details Kelly saw ____________________________. Kelly heard ___________. Mavis Wood said _________________________________________________________. The boy might be taken away by aliens. a large spaceship flying outside Justin shout (Para. 3~8 ) that the aliens once took her away so that they could do research on her

What’s the right order of the sentences? Justin did not show up at the family lunch the next day. Kelly heard Justin return home. Justin left home to play baseball with his two friends. Justin was seen walking towards his home at 10.45 p.m. Kelly heard Justin shout. Kelly saw a bright light outside her window. 6 3 1 2 5 4

Find the best answers 1. The reason why people were interested in the disappearance of the child is that ____ A. the lost boy was 15 years old. B. the police advised them to do so. C. the disappearance might have sth. to do with the UFO and the alien. D. all of the above.

2. In the seventh paragraph, “show up” means _________. arrive or appear reach disappear reach for

3. 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, such as murder. All of the above.

4. We can infer that the boy might go missing ______. in his own room on the playground in Kelly’s room in his brother’s room

5. We can know_______. the police have known the cause of the boy’s disappearance the police haven’t found convincing evidence about the boy’s disappearance the police will catch the aliens who took away the boy the police won’t get any information about the child’s disappearance

Fill in the blanks to summarize the story Justin Foster went 1 last Friday night. He didn’t 2 3 at the family lunch the next day. That evening, Justin 4 home after the game. 5 also said missing show up returned Witnesses

they saw Justin walking towards his home they saw Justin walking towards his home. Justin’s sister, Kelly 6 him 7 8 his 9 CD and she also saw a large spaceship 10 outside. She heard Justin 11 . Mavis Wood said that she was 12 13 by 14 . They did some 15 on her. The whole 16 . was terrible. heard put on favourite flying shout taken away aliens research experience

ruled Police have not 17 18 the possibility that Justin was taken away by aliens. Detective Sam Peterson was 19 20 21 the case. out in charge of

Discussion Choose one of them to discuss it with your group members. Do you believe that Justin was really taken away by the aliens? Why or why not? 2. Suppose you were taken away by the aliens, what would you do ?

Assignment Finish the rest exercises on p4-5. 2. 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.