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Unit 2 Detective Stories Using language II

The Mystery of the Red-headed Club 河北省唐县第一中学

李淑莲

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Teaching Aims 1) to let the students master some important words in this unit 2) to let the students know more aboutAmerican and English literature 3) to improve the students’ reading ability and learn to use different reading skills 2.Teaching Important Points Help the students to understand the text using reading skills 3. Teaching Difficult points How to help the students to use different reading skills while reading. 4. Background Information This text is the first part of a Sherlock Holmes mystery story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who is credited with inventing the modern detective novel in English. It is a good contrast to the previous reading text because Sherlock Holmes was operating before forensic science was an established science. He therefore had to solve crimes by observation and deduction. Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character in many stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. Sherlock

was very clever

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and could solve mysteries better than anyone else, including the police. 5. Teaching Procedure Step 1

lead-in

Let students look at some pictures. Picture 1 Direnjie tell the students Direnjie is a famous

detective, who was born in Tang Dynasty Picture 2 Baozheng

Baozheng was born in Song Dynasty,and he is also a famous detective. Picture 3 Lichangyu

Chang-Yu Lee is a famous detective Picture 4 Sherlock Holmes

He is a famous detective. Today we will study a story about Sherlock Holmes Step 2

Fast

reading Let the students read the text quickly and ask the students to write down the names of the characters in the story, then draw a relationship diagram between them. Assistant & friendSherlock HolmesVincent SpauldingClientAssistantInvolved in the caseMrSpearsWatsonJabezWilson

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Step 3 Carefully Reading and Group Work After you have read the story carefully, answer the following questions 1. What kind of shop did Mr Wilson have and where was it? 2. Why was Mr Wilson so pleased to have incent Spaulding as his assistant even though he spent a lot of time taking photos? 3. What do you think it was about the advertisement that astonished Dr Watson? 4. Why was it that Mr Wilson was at the front of the crowd when Mr Spears came out of his office? 5. What were the two rules Mr Wilson had to obey while working for the Red-headed Club? 6. What do you think the Red-headed Club did and why do you think it was dissolved? Possible answers 1. He had a greengrocer’s shop which was in an alley behind a bank.

2. Vincent Spaulding agreed to work for half pay. 3. It was that there should be a club just for red-headed men and that club members could receive payment. 4. His assistant, Mr Spaulding, somehow managed to push him to the front.

5. He must not leave the office between 11am and 2 pm and the matter must be kept confidential.

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6. It could be a way to keep Mr wilson away from his shop for a few hours each day. Step 4 SummaryGive the students several minutes to fill in the blanks. One morning ,Watson went to visit Sherlock holmes, Mr Wilson a man who has ______ hair has come for help. Mr Wilson start his story: he has a small greengrocer’s shop which is behind the ___________of England. Mr Wilson used to have two __________,now he has just one named Vincent Spaulding only because he agreed to work for _______pay. Vincent Spaulding is an excellent worker but he has his ________, he is always taking photos and running down into the__________. one day Vincent Spaulding showed Wilson an advertisement ,the Red- headed club wanted a man with red hair.

Wilson would work between 11 am and 2 pm each day but there are two_______. Wilson must not ______this building for any reason, secondly Wilson must keep this matter confidential. Wilson went to the club and got his four pounds. This went on for ___________, but this morning when Wilson turned up there was a sign on the door: the club is _________. Possible answers red

bank

assistants

half

faults

basement

rules

leave

eight weeks

dissolved step 5

Let the students read the summary together step 6

Guessing

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Let the students read the advertisement again and guess sth .In your group discuss what you think might happen next in the story. Ask questions and look for clues in the first part of the story. For example:

1. What other buildings were near Mr Wilson's shop?

2. Could there be another reason why Vincent Spaulding kept going into the basement?

3. Could there be another reason for Mr Wilson getting such a strange job? There is no standard answer to each question. Homework Writing task: Find a detective story you are interested in and write a review of it. The purpose of a review is to give enough information about the story so that readers can decide whether they want to read it too.

Reflection after teaching The design of this lesson is based on the Task-based Learning Approach.The students play the leading part in every activity while the teacher is the guide and organizer. Make sure all the students will take a more active part in the tasks and become more confident. As a result,every student will raise their English level and improve their integrating abilities. But because of the time,I should have given the students much time to do guessing.

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