Step 1 Lead-in

1. Greetings

2. Show students a series of pictures of the unexplained and ask them the questions:

(1) Do you believe in the existence of the unexplained things? Why or why not?

(2) What other unexplained things do you know about?

  

Step 2 Pre-reading

1. Ask students to read the title of the text carefully, and then try to find out its feature

Feature: incomplete  

Article and “be” can be left out.

Ask students to try to summarize the features of the title of news:  brief/attractive/exact

2. Reading Strategy: reading a newspaper article

Ask one student to read this part, and figure out what should be paid attention to.

The broadest, most general information is given first, and then the details. The first paragraph, or the lead, gives the main idea and most important facts. When reading a news story, read the beginning very carefully.

6 Ws : who

      what

      when

      where

      why

      How

  

Step 3 While-reading

1.Read the lead or the first paragraph, and find out the 6Ws.

   Who: a fifteen-year-old boy

What: went missing

When: three days ago

Where: Dover, New Hampshire

 Why: reports of strange lights in the sky and of aliens

How: receive great interest

 

2.Students need to find out what the second part (Para.2-7) is about by answering some questions:

What did Justin do with friends last Friday?

What did witnesses see?

What color are the aliens according to Kelly?

Why didn’t Mrs. Foster believe her daughter?

Summary:

Kelly Foster thought her brother was taken away by aliens.

Mrs. Foster thought her son was spending the night with friends and became worried when he did not show up for the lunch.

Mr. Foster was working that night on his road construction job and he called the police.

 

 

3.Students need to find out what the third part (Para.8-9) is about by answering some questions:

   What happened to Mrs. Mavis Wood?

 Who was in charge of the case? 

Did he believe that Justin had been taken by aliens?

Summary:

Mrs. Mavis Wood thought Justin was taken away by aliens so that aliens would do research on him.

Detective Sam Peterson thought people sometimes make up stories, and that there was no hard evidence to prove it. He said they would not give up until found out what really happened.

 

4.Exercises:

(1)Students need to read the text carefully to find out the right order of the following events.

Kelly heard Justin shout.

Kelly was woken up by a bright light.

Kelly found the light was moving and coming closer.

Justin was heard return home.

Kelly’s father called the police.

The UFO disappeared.

Kelly thought it was the moon light.

Justin went to play baseball.

Kelly’s mother thought Kelly had a bad dream.

Kelly saw a large spaceship flying outside.

Justin was heard put on CD.

Kelly woke up her mother and told her what happened.

Kelly saw the spaceship moving to Justin’s bedroom.

 

(2)Students should finish the multiple choices about the detailed information of the text.

①The reason why people were interested in the disappearance of the boy is that _________.

A.   the lost boy was 15 years old

B.   the police advised them to do so

C.   the disappearance might have something to do with the UFO and the alien

D.   all of the above

 

②We can infer that the boy might go missing __________.

A. in his own room

B. on the playground

C. in Kelly's room

D. in his brother's room

 

③What is the attitude of the police to the disappearance of the boy?

A. They can't make sure that Justin was taken away by aliens.

B. They think it possible for some people to make up an amazing story.

C. They are looking into other possibilities.

D. All of the above.

④We can know that _________________.

A. the police have known the cause of the boy's disappearance

B. the police haven't found convincing evidence about the boy's disappearance.

C. the police will catch the aliens who took away the boy

D. the police won't get any information about the boy's disappearance

  

Step 4 Post-reading

1. Students will be given 5 minutes to discuss with their group members about what really happened to Justin Foster in their opinion.

 

 

Step 5 Homework

1. Finish the reading part of exercise book.

2. Find a newspaper article by yourselves and try to apply the reading strategy to finding out when / where / why / who /what / how.