5. What information can you get from the title? (how/when/where was the boy missing?; why are the police puzzled?). Tell the students a news story will cover such details as what, when, where, who, how and why about a certain event.

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　　通过问题的提出让学生对要学的文体特点先有个粗略的了解，同时希望能激发学生对马上要学的内容的兴趣。

　　● Pair work:

　　Now look at the pictures from our reading text and connect them with the topic "Boy missing, police puzzled". Use your imagination and guess what happened in the story according to the information we get from the topic and the pictures. Work with your partner and then share your story with the rest of the class.

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　　鼓励学生发挥想象力，激发学生对要学内容的兴趣。

　　● Summary:

　　I'm sure you definitely want to know what really happened in the news story to check your imagination, but before reading the story, I should tell you how a news story is organized so that you may catch the important information in it more easily.

　　Step 2 Reading strategy

　　Learn the structure of a news story and teach the reading skills of news stories.

　　1. The structure of a news story

　　● the title: to give a general idea of the news

　　● the first paragraph: to give the main topic and the most important facts like when, where, who, what , why and how about the event;

　　● the second paragraph: to give more important facts

　　● the following paragraphs: to give detailed but less important background information

　　2. The reading skills of news stories

　　● For general ideas, read the topic if any and the first one or two paragraphs; for details, read the rest of the story.

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