The First Period

Teaching Aims:
1.Learn and master the new words and phrases: comfort, reception, considerate, astonish, tension, elegant, bachelor, turn down
2.Do some listening.
3. Do some speaking by talking, describing and discussion.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Train the students’ listening ability by listening practice.
2.Make the Ss express their ideas correctly.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.How to improve the students’ listening ability.
2.How to help students finish the task of speaking.
Teaching Methods:
1.Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through the listening material.
2. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. a tape recorder
2. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Warming up
T: Can you imagine that your works are being read?
S: I always dreamt of being a famous writer like Wilkie Collins. But it’s only a dream.
T: Only a dream? Now, your dream may come true. Look at the pictures. Try to describe the people and events in each picture. Because the first thing you must have as a writer is rich imagination and the ability to describe sth. Talk about the pictures and put them in right order.(3-2-4-1-6-5) Then tell the story.
Step II Listening
T: Listen to some conversations happening at a birthday party. Look at the pictures and answer the questions:
What type of conversation do people have at a birthday party?
What topics might they discuss?
S: I think their conversation is friendly and enthusiastic. Sometimes they have a discussion, but not fierce.
S: I think at a birthday party, women may discuss sth about the hostess’ dress, jewels and the gifts while men always focus on cigars and some important events. Listen and check the answers.
Step III Speaking
T: Now it’s your turn to experience being an actor or actress. Read the two situations and choose one to make up a conversation. Firstly, write out the outlines and then act it out.
Situation 1:
Godfrey’s feeling for Rachel;
Reasons why he thought they would be happy as husband and wife;
The reasons Rachel might have given for refusing him;
How Godfrey felt when she turned him down;
Situation 2:
How Rachel felt about losing her diamond;
What the other characters said to comfort her;
What suggestions and advice they might have given her;
Who might be the thief
Step IV Homework
Preview the reading material.
Step V The Design of the Writing on the Bb
Unit 13 The mystery of the Moonstone
The First Period
What type of conversation do people have at a birthday party?
What topics might they discuss?

The Second Period

Teaching Aims:
1.Learn and master the useful words and phrases.
2.Train the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Master the following phrases and sentence pattern:
theft, entertainer, religious, enquiry, assistance, vital, smear, guilty, stain, considerate towards, in fact of revenge
2.Enable the students to understand the text better.
3.Improve the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to make the students understand the reading text better.
Teaching Methods:
Pre-reading to predict what the text tells about.
Fast reading to get a general idea and careful-reading to further understanding the text.
Post reading to check the Ss’ understanding of the text.
Explanation for Ss to master some language points.
Teaching Aids:
1.a computer
2.a tape recorder
3.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Lead-in and Pre-reading
T: What we have learned in warming-up and listening is related to what we’ll learn today. So what is the story about?
S: It is a detective story. The story begins with the loss of the precious stone, The Moonstone. Sb stole the Moonstone. One day the Moonstone was given to a beautiful girl as a gift. The Moonstone was stolen again.
T: What happens next in the text?
S: It’s time for the detective to solve the puzzle.
Step II Reading
T: Now read the passage once as carefully as possible. Then answer some detailed questions on the screen. You may discuss them in pairs if necessary.
Who gave the Moonstone to Rachel and why he gave it to her?
Why wasn’t Rachel’s birthday a success?
Why did Sergeant Cuff believe that the garment with the paint stain belonged to the thief? Learn some new words and expressions.
Considerate towards sb: careful not to hurt or bring inconvenience to others.
might/may have done: show the possibility of sth having happened in the past.
in an act of revenge: in order to return an injury.
(from/out of)force of habit: to do some things in a certain way from always having done so in the past. Read the text to make a list of the people and the reason why Sergeant Cuff suspected that they might have stolen the Moonstone.
Suspect Reason for Suspicion
The Indians They followed the Moonstone around the world waiting for an opportunity to take it back to India.
Godfrey He might have stolen the Moonstone as revenge for loss of face, because Rachel turned down his proposal of marriage.
Dr Candy As with Godfrey, he lost face because of the quarrelling with Franklin.
Rosanna She might have taken the diamond either from force of habit, for she was a thief before Rachel’s mother gave her a job or cause a disagreement between Rachel and Franklin.
Rachel Perhaps she had debts that needed to be paid.
Franklin He gave the detective as much assistance as he can. His enthusiasm was the reason why he was suspected, because it was not his business.
Have a discussion about different people in the story. Decide who stole the Moonstone.
Step III Ho

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