Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained　

Welcome to the unit

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.