Module 2 Unit 1

Tales of the unexplained

Welcome to the Unit

The most beautiful thing one can experience is mysteries. They are truly the basis of all arts and sciences.

Albert Einstein

UFO

UFO stands for Unidentified Flying

Object.

Yeti

A Yeti is reported to be half-man and half-beast. Have you heard of it?

Crop circles

Stonehenge

Module 2 Unit 1Tales of the unexplained

Boy missing, police puzzled

Look at some pictures from the textbook. What do you think has happened to the boy?

Read the passage quickly and answer these questions.

1. What is the article about?It is about a missing boy, UFO and aliens.

2. When was Justin last seen?

3. Who is in charge of the case?

Justin Foster was last seen Friday night.

Detective Sam Peterson.

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Read the passage again and answer these questions.

1. Which city does Justin Foster live in?

In Dover.

2. What did Justin do with friends last Friday?

3. What time did Justin get back home that night?

He went to play baseball with two friends.

At abut 11 p.m.

4. What does Kelly think happened

to her brother?

5. What color are the aliens

according to Kelly?

She thinks the aliens took her brother.

The aliens had white skin and large black eyes.

6. What happened to Mrs. Mavis Wood?

7. What do the police think about the

incident?

She was once taken away by aliens too.

They do not yet know what happened to Justin.

A newspaper article always gives details to support the main points of the story.

Write down the supporting details for each point below.

Main points: Justin Foster went missing.

Supporting details:

Mrs. foster thought ___________________________ _______.

Justin Foster _____________________________.

he was spending the night with a friend

didn’t show up at the family lunch

Main points:

Justin Foster returned home.

Supporting details:

Justin’s friends said ___________________________________________.Justin went home after playing baseball with them

Supporting details:

Witnesses said _________________________ ____________________________.

Kelly heard __________________________________________________.

they saw Justin walking towards his house at 10.45 p.m

him put on his favorite CD after he went to his room

Main points: Justin Foster was taken away by aliens.

Supporting details:

Kelly saw ____________________________.a large spaceship flying outside

Supporting details:

Kelly heard ___________.

Mavis Wood said ________________________________________________________.

Justin shout

the aliens took her away so that they could do research on her

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2 d

3 h

4 e

5 c

6 a

7 f

8 b

1 evidence

2 amazing

3 creatures

4 construction

5 dismissed

6 incident

7 spaceship

8 making up

Reading strategy:

reading a newspaper article

title

the first paragraph

the following paragraphs

to give a general idea about the news to tell readers “who” “when” “where” “what” “why” “how”

to give detailed but less important information

“A boy missing, police puzzled”

the first paragraph

the following paragraphs

evidence given by Justin’s parents, sister, neighbors …

a boy named Justinlast Friday nightwent missingunknown

WhoWhenWhatwhy

It’s about a missing boy.

Read the diary of Kelly. Fill in the blanks with proper words.Justin has been missing for two weeks now. I miss him a lot. I’m worried that something ____ has happened to him. I’m sure he came home that night at around 11 p.m. I heard him put on his _________ CD. I wonder where the ______ with large black eyes have taken him.

bad

favoritealiens

Mavis told me that _________ from outer space took her away a few years ago. They did some research on her. The whole experience was very frightening, just like a __________ but at least they returned her home. I hope they will return _______ soon.

creatures

nightmare

Justin

The police are _____ making much progress. They are very ________. Now they are searching for other _________. They say Justin might have been __________. Dad is very disappointed with them. He doesn’t think they are doing their job properly.

notpuzzled

witnessesmurdered

Mum is really ________ too. She can’t slee

p well. I hope Justin will come ______ soo

n and tell us what happened to him. I want

all of us to be ________ again.

worried

home

together

Homework for today

A1 & A2 on page 86.