西南大学

1. 《新编大学英语 综合教程》 西南大学 Book 1 Unit 6 A World of Mystery 张丽丽 22321302@qq.com 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班

2. Teaching Objectives Help Ss figure out the construction of a mystery story Help Ss acquire the technique of writing a mystery story Help Ss be aware of the mystery of the world and develop critical thinking

3. Time Allotment for the Target Unit Preparation (40 mins) Reading and writing a mystery story (40 mins) Detailed passage reading and practice (Ss’ Q & A)(40 mins) Perception (students’ critical thinking and writing appreciation)(40 mins)

5. Story Time

6. A yacht A blue fog A Swedish couple Mathematics French

7. New College English Book One Unit 6 A world of mystery In-class reading: The Bermuda Triangle

8. Tasks Lead-in Reading & Exploring Writing Technique

9. Lead-in: the location of the Bermuda Triangle Florida

10. Lead-in: the location of the Bermuda Triangle Florida

11. Lead-in: the disappearance of Flight 19

12. Tasks Lead-in Reading & Exploring Writing Technique

13. Reading & Exploring How does the author construct the mystery story? What are the elements of a mystery story? What is the flowchart of writing a mystery story?

14. Reading & Exploring Elements of a mystery story hen here ho hat hy W___ W____ W__ W___ W__ Setting

15. Setting The real world Imagination

16. Reading & Exploring Elements of a mystery story hen here ho hat hy W___ W____ W__ W___ W__ Setting Character

17. Character People involved The victim

18. Reading & Exploring Elements of a mystery story hen here ho hat hy W___ W____ W__ W___ W__ Setting Character Enigma

19. Enigma n. 谜，不可思议的东西

20. Reading & Exploring Elements of a mystery story hen here ho hat hy W___ W____ W__ W___ W__ Setting Character Enigma Solution

21. Solution

22. Reading & Exploring Elements of a mystery story hen here ho hat hy W___ W____ W__ W___ W__ Setting Character Enigma Solution Suspense

23. Suspense n. 悬念；悬疑 curiosity uncertainty anxiety

24. She saw something black, tall, and thin coming up the street on the opposite side, and she froze. Without suspense With suspense “Suddenly she froze. There was something coming up the street on the opposite side. It was something black… Something tall and black… Something very tall and very black and very thin.” --- Roald Dahl BFG

25. Scanning: identify the elements of a mystery in the text Para. 1 December 5th, 1945 Setting Fort Lauderdale -The Bermuda Triangle Para. 1&7 Character Para. 1 the aircrew of Flight 19 Enigma Para. 2-6 the mysterious disappearance of Flight 19 Flight 19 No trace of_________was found. Para. 6 Suspense rescue plane One _____________disappeared too. ships and planes Para. 7 Other_______________ also disappeared. Para. 9 UFOs ______from another planet geography ___________of the area Para. 10 Solution magnetic skewed_________ property of the area Para. 11 methane gas ___________on the seafloor Para. 12

26. The flowchart of writing a mystery Critical thinking: What could be a good title? decide________ choose________ introduce___________ the title a setting the character find__________ create___________ the solution the suspense determine_________ the enigma

27. Tasks Lead-in Reading & Exploring Writing Technique

28. Writing technique: create suspense by raising story questions I wonder if that noise is just the sound of the shutters banging against the house. What was that noise? Was it just the wind or was it something else? “What was that noise?” he whispered. “Was it just the wind or was it something else?”

29. Mr. X was a very short man and he was also very shy. His office was on the 23rd floor. He could not reach the button for floor twenty-three. He could only reach the buttons for floor one, two and three. on sunny days he would take the elevator to floor three and then climb the stairs to floor twenty-three. But on rainy days, he had an umbrella with him, so he could reach the button for floor twenty-three with his umbrella. Without story questions Writing technique: to create suspense by raising story questions

30. Each sunny day, Mr. X entered the office building, and pressed floor three. This puzzled me because his office was on 23rd floor. Mr. X just walked all twenty flights of stairs to his correct floor—twenty-three. Is that confusing? just wait. The story gets even stranger. Each rainy day, I observed Mr. X walk directly to the elevators and press floor twenty-three! What was going on? Why didn’t he ride the elevator to floor twenty-three every day? With story questions Writing technique: to create suspense by raising story questions Actually, Mr. X was a very short man and he was also very shy. On rainy days, he had an umbrella, so he could reach the button for floor twenty-three with umbrella.

31. A quick review Elements of a mystery story Setting Character Enigma Suspense Solution One way to create suspense Raising story questions

32. Assignment : write your own mystery story The Sudden Death of Michael Jackson

33. Line of course design 1.Do you know what we are going to do? No. 2. How about I tell you a story? OK. 3. Where did the story take place? the BT

34. Line of course design 4.Where is the BT? listening practice 5. the most well-known mysterious occurrence in BT disappearance of Flight 19 6. elements of a mystery the 5Ws+suspense

35. Line of course design 7. identify the elements in the text scanning 8. How to arrange those elements? flowchart 9. Writing technique: how to create suspense? raising story questions

36. Line of course design 10. What have we leant? a quick review 11. assign homework create a mystery story themselves

37. Supply Need Reading the webpage & text To tell a mystery story To write a mystery story Listening to the text

38. Thanks for your attention!