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课件网) Section A (3a-3c) Unit 8 It must belong to Carla. 课时教学目标 语言能力: 1.能够掌握课时重要词汇和短语； 2.能够理解语篇，并在语篇中掌握情态动词must, could, might, can’t 表示推断的用法。 思维品质: 通过阅读语篇并完成阅读任务，提升思维的逻辑性。 文化意识： 根据已有事实证据进行合理推测，培养、提升学生的科学精神。 学习能力: 1. 能够通过上下文归纳文章大意，推理词义； 2.能够从多角度了解事件信息。 Listen and guess Lead-in What may be happening How do you feel when you hear the sound？ It must be raining. There may be something coming to the dog. I feel kind of uneasy. uneasy 不安的 3a Which might be the best title A. A Small and Quiet Town B. Strange Happenings in My Town C. Animals in Our Neighborhood Read for the title 3a Match each paragraph with its main idea Para. 1 A. The writer’s opinion about the strange noises. Para. 2 B. Something unusual is happening in the town. Para. 3 C. People’s ideas about the strange noises. Read Para. 1 Complete the mind map. 3a Something unusual is happening. People Victor’s wife Victor and his friends The policemen nothing ② _____ They think that ⑤_____ ①_____ _____ outside their window What they hear/see What they think She thinks that ③_____ They think that ④_____ strange noises strange it could be an animal it must be teenagers having fun it might be the wind Read Para. 2 Fill in the chart. 3a Helen’s opinion At first, she thought it ①_____ a dog. But she ②_____ see a dog. So she guessed it ③_____ a dog. One woman’s opinion She saw something ④ _____ one night. She thought it was ⑤_____ a dog. She said that ⑥ _____ it was a bear or a wolf. might be couldn’t couldn’t be running away too big to be maybe Read Para. 3 Answer the questions. 1. How do people feel about it 2. What do most people hope 3. What’s the writer’s opinion The writer thinks the noise-maker is having too much fun creating fear in the neighborhood. They feel uneasy. This animal or person will simply go away. 3a Key points ①We live in a small town and almost everyone knows each other. It used to be very quiet. Nothing much ever happened around here. However, these days, something unusual is happening in our town. Victor, a teacher at my school, is really nervous. When he was interviewed by the town newspaper, he said, “Every night we hear strange noises outside our window. My wife thinks that it could be an animal, but my friends and I think it must be teenagers having fun. My parents called the policemen, but they couldn’t find anything strange. They think it might be the wind. I don’t think so!” 3a 过去…… 没什么事情 被……采访 it must/can’t/could be sb. doing... 一定/不可能/可能是……正在做…… Key points ②Victor’s next-door neighbor Helen is worried, too. “At first, I thought that it might be a dog, but I couldn’t see a dog or anything else, either. So I guess it can’t be a dog. But then, what could it be ” One woman in the area saw something running a ... ...
