Module 2 Making discoveries
Unit 1 Tales of unexplained
1st period    Welcome to the Unit
Teaching aims:
(1) Get students to conduct a free discussion about some mysterious and unexplained phenomena in the world.
(2) Encourage the students to make full use of resources and share their imaginative ideas with each other.
Important points & difficult points:
(1) Students are expected to describe what they have known about the posters and what they are eager to know about it.
(2) Encourage students to communicate with classmates.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
(1) Group discussion: In your opinion, what is the most beautiful things one can experience?        Why?
(2) About Elbert Einstein:
• What have you known about Elbert Einstein? Why was he so great? …
• Introduce his saying about mysteries and lead to the topic of this unit.
Step 2 Photo observation
1. Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? Is the Mona Lisa just the painter himself?
2. On seeing this photo, how are you feeling? Why?  (Revision of the related vocabulary about the emotion.)
3. What has drawn your attention? ( Train students to observe the photo and describe it in their own words.)
Step 3 Posters
(1) about UFOs: What do the letters UFO stand for?
Are they really from another planet? Why?
Read out more information about it.
(2) about Yetis: Himalayas---the highest mountain range in the world;
             Why do some people make great efforts to climb them?
Yeti---Abominable Snowman, half-man and half-beast.
(3) about Lock Ness Monster: Where is Lock Ness? Why is it famous for?
             What does the Loch Ness Monster look like? A sunken ship? A kind of dinosaur?
(4) about Stonehenge: introduce some information about Stonehenge to students.
(5) about pyramids: Where were these pyramids built, on the east coast of the Nile or on the west coast? What are the reasons?
                Do you think the Great Pyramid is a wonder in human history?
                One of them: the Sphinx---Half human, half lion, the Sphinx is 240 feet long and 66 feet high.
            (If time permits, introduce more information about pyramids that we have known about them, such as how wide, how tall and how heavy and do some quizzes.)
Step 4 Group discussion:
1. Do you believe in unexplained things mentioned above? Why or why not?
2. If you saw a UFO or a monster some day, what would you do?
Step 5 Language points
1. advanced (adj.);    advance (v.)
2. run into
3. translation of some phrases
Step 6 Homework
(1) Surf the net and learn more about world mysteries. Prepare a short speech (better in Powerpoint) to introduce something that interests you.
(2) Make a scale model of the Great Pyramid under the following guidelines and bring it to the class.

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