Teaching Aims
1. Learn and master the following words and phrases
anyway, private, signature, brief, foresee, instruct, left-handed, right-handed, to the point
2. Improve the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Important Points
Master the following important points
Words: anyway
Phrases: as follows, come to, add one’s signature, sign one’s name, and take a false name to the point.
Sentence Patterns
1. It only remains for me to pass all the money…
2. Now we know that… is dead, does that mean…
3….if that were to happen, all the money should go to…
Teaching Difficult Points
1. The difference between “to the point” and “off the point”.
2. the use of the word “anyway”.
Teaching Methods
1. Fast reading to get the general idea.
2. Careful reading to answer the detailed questions.
3. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Revision
1 Check the homework exercises.
2 Ask the class a few rapid questions about the story in the previous lesson：
What is the name of the famous detective? (J.J. Coal.) Who came to visit him? (Tom Goode.)
Who died in Tom's family not long ago? (His aunt, Mrs. Flower.) Why was Mrs. flower so wealthy? (Her husband had built up his business and had left all his money to her when he died.) Who in the family saw Clare after she left home? (Only her father and her stepmother.) Where and when did Tom Goode meet Clare? (At tea after the burial service of Mrs. Flower.) Who is going to get Mrs. Flower's money? (Clare Flower.) What did Tom Goode ask the detective to do? (To check out Clare Flower.)
Step 2 Presentation
SB Page 51, Part 1. Get Ss to talk about the picture and describe what they can see. Ask them what they think is happening, but do not answer “Right” or “Wrong”.
Step 3 Reading for general understanding
Read aloud the two general comprehension questions. Allow the Ss enough time to read the text and discuss their answers in pairs, then check the answers with the class. (1 She is taken away by the police; she has pretended to be Clare Flower, but her name is really Hope Darwin. 2 The money is given to an organization for helping the blind called “Helping Hand”.)
Step 4 Reading
Wb Lesson 82, Ex. 1. Go through the exercise and make sure the Ss know what to do. Let them read the whole passage carefully and answer the questions, working in pairs or small groups. Check the answers with the whole class.
Step 5 Comprehension
SB Page 52, Part 2. Get Ss to work in pairs and explain the meaning of the phrases to each other.
Ask for the answers from the class.
Answers
1 The lawyer (probably) introduced the detective with the words “This is my assistant”.
2 The only thing which I have to do now is ….
3 you should be given all the money which belonged to her
4 signed her name on the piece of paper
5 suddenly you thought of a clever thing to do
6 except her step-mother (Mrs. Flower)
7 He was smiling and probably hoping that he would get the money.
8 The lawyer said little and only what was necessary.
