StepI.Introduction:
Good morning, class.First I’ll ask you a question: If you go home much later than your usual time,what will your parents do? I had such experience twice when I was as young as you.I enjoyed myself so much that I forgot to tell my parents that I would be late.Then when I got home, I felt so sorry to discover that they were so worried about me.
Now, let’s watch the vedio and guess why they looked so worried.

StepII.watch and answer:
I.Watch the vedio for the first time and answer:
1.Where are the three students?
2.What are they doing?
3.What are they discussing?
II.Watch the vedio again and finish Exs1 on page 181.
1.Why is Student A sure that Linda Bell will turn up soon?
A.She thinks Linda is in another town visiting her friends.
B.She doesn’t think Linda is far away.
C.She guessed that Linda is somewhere in the college.(A)
2.Why is Student B worried about Linda?
A.She is afraid that Linda may be ill.
B.She thinks that Linda may have had an accident.
C.She can’t find Linda’s money belt. (B)
3.Why does Student C think Linda hasn’t left the college?
A.Because Linda is a very hard –working student.
B.Because Linda is not te kind of student who will miss classes.
C.Because Linda has left most of her clothes,papers and books ih her room.(C)
4.Why do the girls finally think that Linda has gone somewhere for a few days?
A.They can’t find Linda’s purse in any of the drawers.
B.They can’t find Linda’s money belt.
C.They can’t find Linda’s passport ,purse or money belt.(C)
StepIII.Language study:
1. 1)“Yes,that’s possible,but we can’t be sure. Something may have happened to her.She might have had an accident.”
May, might 表推测，may have done 表示对过去发生的事情的推测。又如：“And I can’t find her passport anywhere. So she must have taken that too.”
2) “I’m worried that something has happened to her. It’s not like her to have missed two days of classes.”
It’s not like sb. to do sth: to do 不定式表示将来要发生的动作，如要表示过去发生的动作用：to have done的形式。
2．“Her clothes are here, or at least most of them.And her papers and books are aall over the desk.So it looks as if she meant to return.
Mean to do: intend to do, be going to do.
I’m sorry I hurt you: I didn’t mean to.对不起，我弄伤了你，我不是故意的。
2) mean:adj,形容词，In the store, they were mean to me because I looked poor.
Mean:(of people or their behaviour)unworthy;unkind(指人或人的行为)，卑鄙的，不善良的。

StepIV :Act out.(divide the class into several groups and give them some time to prepare ,then ask them to act it out in class.They can add something, and they can change something.)
StepV. Homework: Prepare the following texts by themselves.

Lesson 38教学设计方案

Today we will learn an interesting story.

StepI.Fast Reading:

I.Search for the answers within 3 minutes.

1.Why was Bill worried?

2.Where had Bill planned to travel to?

II.Reading comprehension:

StepII.

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