Teaching Aims

1. Learn and master the following words and phrases:

step, will, step mother, afterwards, wealthy, check out, go through, look into, build up, divide up

2. Understand the text better.

Teaching Important Points

1. Learn and master the following:

Phrase: step into, build up, by his first marriage, turn up, divide up, check out, apart from

Sentence Pattern: leave sth. to / with sb.

2. Improve the reading ability of the students.

Teaching Difficult Points

Understand the following sentences:

1. In fact it all goes to Clare.

2. …because something somewhere smells funny.

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 Get Ss to tell stories about Gandhi.

Step 2 Presentation

SB Page 49, Part 1. Get Ss to talk about the pictures and describe what they can see. Ask them what they think is happening. Teach the new words wealthy, step-mother, etc.

Step 3 Reading for general understanding

Read aloud the two general comprehension questions. Allow the Ss enough time to read the text and compare their answers, then check the answers with the class. (1 Clare Flower, Mrs. Flower's step-daughter. 2 Tom Goode, Mrs. Flower's nephew; he wants the detective to check out Clare Flower and see whether she has the right to get his aunt's money.)

Step 4 Reading

SB Page 50, Part 3. 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.

Answers：

1 Her husband had built up a large business and left all his money to his wife when he died.

2 1984, when she left home at the age of eighteen.

3 Only Mr and Mrs Flower.

4 Mrs Flower's pet dog.

5 Klegg was very important to Tom's aunt, Mrs Flower.

6 That it was Mrs Flower's pet dog, and had died.

7 He is not sure about Clare Flower and thinks that something smells funny.

This is a good time to deal with any language problems. See if the Ss can guess the meaning of build up.

Notes：

a cigar =a large tube of tobacco leaves rolled together. It is smoked like a cigarette but is larger and more expensive.

b stepped into the… office =walked into the … office

c by the way： Note this phrase for adding some extra information.

d Her husband had built up a large business =Her husband had been in charge of his own business company and he had made it grow larger.

e he left all his money to his wife =He instructed in his will that his wife should receive all his money after his death.

f So your aunt was a wealthy woman?： Note the question, in the form of a statement, for the purpose of checking information.

g her will =a legal document, which is prepared by a lawyer and

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