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1、Tales of the unexplained,Welcome to the unit,Unit,1,What do the letters UFO stand for？,Unidentified ,naidentifaid flying objects.,Are they really from another planet?,Do you believe in UFOs? What might be the most acceptable explanation for UFOs?,A spaceship from another planetA satellite A weather
2、balloonUFOs dont exist.No one can explain them for sure.,Task two: Picture talkThere are four pictures in the textbook(Page 1).Please work in group to discuss the questions for each picture, summarize your answers and then report them to the class.,Do the four pictures have something in common? If s
3、o, what is it?,They are mysterious because no satisfactory answers have been offered to explain them so far. Though these mysteries have puzzled scientists for a long time, they still show great interest in them. People feel puzzled by the mysteries .,The chances of seeing a UFO are greater for thos
4、e people who live in small towns or in the country and are outside late at night.,UFOs come in all shapes and sizes. Some are only small spots of light that move in strange patterns across the night sky.,Some can be seen in the daytime. They are often said to be disk- or saucer s:s -shaped.,Yeti,Wha
5、t do Yetis look like?,Half-man and half-beastStrong, hairy ,Abominable snowmanbminbl喜马拉雅雪人；雪人,Crop circles,Crop circles are unexpected patterns that are found in fields, even in ice and snow.,作物怪圈，庄稼怪圈,They are mostly found in wheat or corn fields, but have also been found in oat (燕麦), grass, and ba
6、rleyb:li (大麦).,Stonehenge,Prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain,索尔斯堡平原 southern England, consisting of two concentric circles (同心圆) of large standing stones, the heaviest of them weighing probably about 45 tons, one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world, added to the UNESCOs list of Wo
7、rld Heritage Sites in 1986, built between 2800 and 1500 BC , thought to have been an astronomical ,strnmikl calendar klind (天文历) or a temple to the sun.,stunhend,巨石阵；史前时期巨大石柱群,Brainstorming:What other unexplained things do you know about,Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa on a piece of pine woo
8、d (松树) in the year 1506.,yramids pirmid one of the seven wonders of the world tombs (坟墓) for ancient Egyptian kings,The Bermuda bmju:d Triangle,百慕大三角,Group discussion,If you saw a UFO or a Yeti , what would you do?,Homework,Surf the Internet and learn more about world mysteries. Prepare a short speech to introduce something that interests you. Preview the reading passage: Boy missing, police puzzled. Answer the questions on page 2.,Thank you,