Period 2 Reading (Ⅰ)
Teaching goals
● To infer meaning from keywords, context and existing knowledge
● To understand a series of events and simultaneous actions.
● To identify specific details by following a route and marking points on a map.
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Revision
Review the words about directions.
Step 2 Presenting
1. T: Look at me. Can you try to guess what I am doing? (push, pull.)
2. T: I have some more new words, please look at these pictures and tell me what they are.
(police station, police uniform, robbers, green van, traffic lights, knife, building)
3.Then make up a new dialogue with these words.
T: Look! There is a building. It’s a police station. In the police station, there are three robbers. They are in police uniform. There is a green van nearby. In the van there is a knife. The policemen find the robbers at the traffic lights.
Why are the three robbers in police uniform in the police station? Can you guess?
T: Now please look at the picture on page 46 C2 . Can you find the following places?
(restaurant, hotel, Hill Building, police station, Park Road, 4th Street, 5th Street, 6th Street, 7th Street,8th Street)
4. T: Ok, you know about the places, let’s do part B1 on page 45.
Step 3 Reading
1.T: Now please listen to the tape, and try to answer the questions.
How many people are there in the story?
Who are they? (the twin brothers, Susan, and the policeman.)
Do the twins go to the police station? (Yes, they do.)
2.T: Ok, you can open your book now and check the answers.
Please read the text quickly and answer the following questions.
Who is making a call to the twin brothers? (Susan.)
Where are the robbers? (They are in Hill Building.)
How do the twins go to Hill Building? (They drive there.)
What do the robbers push the twins into? (They push them into a van.)
How do the twins open the back door of the van? (They use a knife.)
Who do the twins see at the police station? (They see the robbers.)
Step 4 Reading
1. Now please work in a group of 4 students. Try to draw out Justin’s and Paul’s route to the police station on the map. ( check the answers)
2. T: Let’s look at these True or False questions, and write T if it is true, write F if it is false.
The twins use a knife to open the back door of the van. (T)
The twins run to the police station on 5th Street. ( F)
When the van stops at Hill Building, the twins jump out of it at once. (F)
Justin and Paul take different routes to the police station. (T)
At the police station, the twins are happy to see the robbers. (F)
The twins catch the robbers. (F)
Check the students’ answers and provide help if necessary.
3.Now please read after the tape for one time.
4.Please work in a group of 4 students, each student read one person.
(Susan, policeman, Justin, Paul) Ask the best group to show their play to the others.
5.Finish the exercises of B2 on page 45 and C1 on page 46.
Step 5 Summary
Today we learned about the story of a robbery, now please read the story again.
Step 6 Doing homework
1. Read the text familiarly and try to recite it if possible.
2. Ask my students to try to tell the story in their own words.