Unit 4 Flight 93:What I Never Know understand the text"Flight9:What I Never Know" 2.About the text,Ss should grasp the text content,text structure,basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section. Words:enormous,screw,fumble,poke cockpit,bluff,gag.desert,collide tread,precise. mission,hijack,bless,unsaid,undone Phrases&Expressions:lie around,on business,pack up,get in,fumble with,poke through make it,blow up,in the rear of,in sb.'s hands,hang up,sink in,make sense of 3.About the reading.Ss should learn skills of skimming. 4.About the writing Ssshould learn the use of specific details and write a composition assigned by the teacher. 5.About the listening.Ss finish the Unit 4 directed by teacher II.Key and Difficult Points 1.New Words and Phrases 2.Complex Sentences IIL.Teaching Methods Discussion.explanation,ask and answer IV.Time:4 periods V.Teaching procedures: Step one Introduction 1.Warm-up questions: Give the students the following topics to discuss and then ask them to answer these questions 1)What happened to the United States on September 11,2001? 2)How many planes were hijackedon September 1.2001?What were their targets? 3)What do you know about the events that took place in America on September 11,2001? 4)What do you think the terrorists attacked those targets? 2.Background Information (1)September 11,2001 attacks On the sunny morning of September 11,2001,19 terrorists,working in teams of 4 or 5. hijacked four jetliners and turned them toward targets chosen for of the planes,loaded with passengers.were flown at full speed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the financial district of New York City.The buildings burst into fmes and ther collapsed.killing thousands.A third terrorist crew smashed their plane into the Pentagon headquarters of the U.S.military in Arlington,Virginia The hijackers of the fourth airliner apparently intended to hit another target in Washington.D.C.but the passengers on the plane 1 Unit 4 Flight 93: What I Never Know I. Teaching Aims 1. Help Ss get to understand the text “Flight 93: What I Never Know” 2. About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text structure, basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section. Words: enormous, screw, fumble, poke, cockpit, bluff, gag, desert, collide, tread, precise, mission, hijack, bless, unsaid, undone Phrases & Expressions: lie around, on business, pack up, get in, fumble with, poke through, make it, blow up, in the rear of, in sb.’s hands, hang up, sink in, make sense of 3. About the reading, Ss should learn skills of skimming. 4. About the writing, Ss should learn the use of specific details and write a composition assigned by the teacher. 5. About the listening, Ss finish the Unit 4 directed by teacher. II. Key and Difficult Points 1. New Words and Phrases 2. Complex Sentences III. Teaching Methods Discussion, explanation, ask and answer IV. Time: 4 periods V. Teaching procedures: Step one Introduction 1. Warm-up questions: Give the students the following topics to discuss and then ask them to answer these questions. 1) What happened to the United States on September 11, 2001? 2) How many planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001? What were their targets? 3) What do you know about the events that took place in America on September 11, 2001? 4) What do you think the terrorists attacked those targets? 2. Background Information (1) September 11, 2001 attacks On the sunny morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists, working in teams of 4 or 5, hijacked four commercial jetliners and turned them toward targets chosen for destruction. Two of the planes, loaded with passengers, were flown at full speed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the financial district of New York City. The buildings burst into flames and then collapsed, killing thousands. A third terrorist crew smashed their plane into the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. military in Arlington, Virginia. The hijackers of the fourth airliner apparently intended to hit another target in Washington, D.C., but the passengers on the plane