1、Unit8 Detective stories Study skills Teaching goals: 1.了解阅读小说的方法。 2.学会用适当的方法阅读小说，获取重要信息。 Individual self-study: 1.讨论：Do you often read novels? If so, do you read them word by word or just read quickly to get the general idea? 2.讨论：How to read a novel? 3.阅读 P117 页的解释，了解什么是略读？ 4.阅读 P117 页小说片段，回答问题，核对答
2、案。 5.回答下列问题，加深对略读的理解 Who were the other two detectives? Who were the two detectives looking for? The group cooperation: 四人一组， 阅读老师呈现的一些英文 原版小说片段和阅读理解题，快速阅读并找到答案。 Teachers help: 小组讨论解决知识难点，老师巡视，必要时集中解答。 Exercise testing: 阅读理解 In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, late
3、ly retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times. He laid the paper down and glanced out of the window. They were running now through Somerset. Glanced at his watch another two hours to go. He went over in his mind all that had appeared i
4、n the papers about Indian Island. There had been its original purchase by an American millionaire who was crazy about yachting and an account of the luxurious modern house he had built on this little island off the Devon coast. The unfortunate fact that the new third wife of the American millionaire
5、 was a bad sailor had led to the subsequent putting up of the house and island for sale. Various glowing advertisements of it had appeared in the papers. Then came the first bald statement that it had been bought by a Mr. Owen. After that the rumors of the gossip writers had started. Indian Island h
6、ad really been bought by Miss Gabrieller Turl, the Hollywood film star! She wanted to spend some months there free from all publicity! Busy Bee had hinted delicately that it was to be an abode for Royalty? Mr. Merryweather had had it whispered to him that it had been bought for a honeymoon Young Lor
7、d L had surrendered to Cupid at last! Jones knew for a fact that it had been purchased by the Admiralty with a view to carrying out some very hush experiments! Definitely, Indian Island was news! Where was Mr. Justice Wargrave smoking? How long would he spend going to the destination(目的地)? What was an American mill ionaire crazy about? What does “Definitely” mean? After class to consolidate: 1.阅读其他的小说片段，小组交流。 2.预习 Task。 【Teaching reflection】
