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• Do you really believe in aliens? Why?
• Watch a short video,
and discuss what it is like?
• Listen to the tape and finish Exercise A
1.1. What is the article about?What is the article about?
2.2. Who is missing?Who is missing?
3.3. Do the police know what happened to Justin?Do the police know what happened to Justin?
It’s about a missing boy,UFO and aliens.
Justin Foster is missing.
No.
Exercise A
2. Why did Justin’s mother go to bed early?
3. What sports does Justin play?
4. What time did the witnesses see Justin walking home?
He lives in Dover, New Hampshire.
Because of a headache.
He plays baseball.
At 10.45 p.m.
Exercise C1
1. Where does Justin Foster live?
5. Does Justin have any brothers and sisters?
6. What colour were the aliens?
7. Who else has been taken by the aliens?
8. Who is in charge of the case?
He has a sister.
They were white.
Mavis Wood has been taken by the aliens.
Detective Sam Peterson is in charge of it.
diagram for self-evaluation
Justin Foster
strange objects
At 8 p.m. ______________________
At 10.45 p.m. _________________________
At 11 p.m. _________________________
After 11 p.m. , he was heard ______________
The next morning, he was found __________
its appearance
its inside
shape
colour
size
• Do you often read newspapers?
• What kind of news do you like to read?
( sports news, entertainment news, political
news or economic news …)
• 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?
Discussion
titletitle
‘Boy missing, police puzzled’
?
A boy is missing and the police are puzzled.
Reading strategy :
the features the features of a news titleof a news title
brief
attractive
exact
direct
…
title
the first paragraph
( to give a general idea about the news )
the following paragraphs
‘How to read a newspaper article’
( to tell readers “who” “when” “where” “what” “why” “how” )
( to give detailed but less important information )
“A boy missing, police puzzled”
the first paragraph
the following paragraphs
evidence given by Justin’s parents, sister, neighbors …
a boy named Justin
last Friday night
went missing
unknown
…
Who
When
What
why
…
It’s about a missing boy
• read the text to make sure you know the
way of writing a news article
• review the new words
• find a news article to read and tell it to yo
ur classmates in your own words, using the
strategy we learned today.
Homework : Homework :
1. step up1. step up
• We decided to step upstep up production to try to meet
the increased demand.
• We will have to step upstep up training for __________
( increase, speed up)
• When John realized he was going to be late, he
stepped upstepped up his pace.
2. go+adj.2. go+adj.
• His hair has over the years.
• The heat has caused the milk to .
• She when she found out that she
had failed the exam.
go sourgo sour
went crazywent crazy
gone grey/whitegone grey/white
( become+adj. )
3. due to 3. due to
•Due toDue to illness, the scheduled visit to a factor
has been put off.
•He arrived late due todue to ____________________.
( because of, caused by)
•Due toDue to his rudeness, I didn’t say one more
word to him.
4. show up 4. show up
• we have been waiting for you to show up.show up.
• You showedshowed him upup by calling him by his nick
name in front of his girlfriend.
• The sunlight showed up the marks on the glass.
( make sth. become visible)
( arrive, appear)
( make sb. embarrassed)
5. rule out5. rule out
• The police ruled outruled out the possibility that the
boy had been murdered by his step-mother.
• We had to rule outrule out the possibility of increased
supplies.
• His suggestion _____________ as unworkable.
( get rid of )
was ruled out
6. look into6. look into
• The police are looking intolooking into the reason why the
plane crashed into the sea.
• Would you mind ______________ the problem
for me?
( examine )
looking into
7. make up 7. make up
• Uncle Dick likes making upmaking up interesting stories
for the children.
• I feel I have been mean to you. I want to make make it
upup to you.
• She had been absent from school for two weeks,
so she had a lot of exams to make upmake up.
( invent )
( do sth. that corrects a bad situation )
( replace sth. that has been lost)
• Girls make upmake up 45% of the student population in our school.
• Tom watched his sister make herself up for her
date.
• We haven’t been getting on well. Let’s make upmake up.
( form )
( make one more attractive by putting sth. lik
e powder or lipstick on one’s face )
( end a quarrel with sb. and become friend
ly again. )
Homework : Homework :
• reviewing the new words and phrases
• finish the exercises in the workbook