The curse of mummy●Teaching contents: Reading——The curse of the mummy●Teaching objectives:1. Enable the students to have a good understanding of the content.2. Provide chances for students to increase their knowledge of history.3. Introduce to them the skills related to predicting information.4. Provide the students the chance to introduce a person.5. Develop the students’ desire for exploring, the qualities of courage, cooperation, confidence and so on.●Teaching methods:1. Skimming, and careful reading.2. Asking-and-answering activity to check students’ understanding of the content.3. Task-based teaching methods.4. Group discussion.●Teaching aids: Powerpoint presentation.●Teaching procedures:Lead-in1.Play the song my heart will go on to arouse student’s interest to learn this passage.What does this song remind you of ? What happened to Titanic? Another explanation for its sinking is because of the curse of mummy which was taken on the ship by a businessman.2.Explain the meaning of curseCurse is a word that has a magic power to make sth. bad happen. For example: If someone hates you, he will say you won’t pass the examination tomorrow. That is a curse. Do you think it really works? Reading comprehension1. PredictionToday we’ll learn the special curse, the curse of the mummy. Look at the title, can you guess what the article is about?What more information can we get from the first paragraph?用心 爱心 专心2Introduction of Carter.Read paragraph 1 to know the main idea. Howard Carter ,an explorer, discovering many amazing things Predict what might be mentioned in the following passage.For example , his interest, discovery, and family and so on.3. SkimmingGo through the whole article to see the predictio...
