译林牛津9A教案

Unit 6 Detective stories

Main Task

Teaching aims:

  1. To arrange pictures in chronological order
  2. To complete a story by filling in blanks.
  3. To match sentences with pictures
  4. To write a detective story

Teaching importance and difficulties:

  1. words: necklace, diamond, except, wonder, shocked, jewellery, rob
  2. phrases: see sb. doing sth, be charged with, get along with, do for a living, be shocked

3. To write a detective story

Teaching aids： Multi-media

Teaching procedures:

Step 1: Lead-in

BeijingSunshineSecondary School is holding a writing competition .Millie wants to write a detective story for it.

Step 2: Read and answer

  1. Read the PartA1context first and match the words in the left-hand column with the correct meanings
  2. Encourage more able students to describe the four pictures at the top of the page
  3. Ask questions: What is happening in picture 1? What is the man going to do in picture2? Can you describe something about picture 3. What happened to Tom?
  4. Work in pairs. Ask students to match the sentences with the pictures by writing the correct letter in each box.
  5. Ask students to read out their answers.

Step 3:Exercises

Tell students to complete Part A2 individually. They should use the words from Part A1 to complete Millie’s story.

Check the answers as a class. And read it together, discuss the end of the story.( Have a discussion in a group of four.)

Step 4r: Exercises

1.Look at the pictures in Part B1.Ask six students to read out one speech bubble each.

2.Match the sentences with the pictures. When students have finished matching the speech bubbles with the pictures, choose four students to each play a role( the young man, the young woman, Nick Nelson and the police officer)

  1. Then ask students to work in pairs and report what each character in Part B1 said.

Ask students to think about what happened in Part B1. Ask

Who do you think was murdered--- a man or woman ? How do you think he/ she was killed? Is there any blood ? Who do you think is guilty ? Why do you think he/ she is guilty ?

Step 5:Exercises

  1. Tell students to write their own detective stories. They can use the pictures in Part B1 or write an ending to Millie’s story on Page 109.
  2. Read their own detective stories.
  3. Explain the elements in writing detective stories.

Homework :

Write a detective story :

A jewellery shop was robbed. If you are a detective, what questions will you ask the witness ? How can you get the clues ?