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    Nonfiction Reading

    Reading Explorer
    Foundations

    Unit 1 How is nonfiction


    reading different
    Mysteries
    from fiction?
    Course Contents
    Unit 1 Lesson 1 A Mysterious Visitor
    Mysteries
    Lesson 2 The Lost City of Atlantis
    Unit 2 Lesson 3 The World of Speed Eating
    Eating Extremes
    Lesson 4 The Hottest Chilies
    Unit 3 Lesson 5 Digging for the Past
    Cool Jobs
    Lesson 6 Getting the Shot
    Unit 4 Lesson 7 I’ve Found the Titanic!
    Shipwrecks
    Lesson 8 My Descent to the Titanic
    Unit 5 Lesson 9 The Disease Detective
    Science Investigators
    Lesson 10 At the Scene of a Crime
    Unit 6 Lesson 11 Planting for the Planet
    Plants and Trees
    Lesson 12 Fatal Attraction

    Which unit looks the most interesting to you?


    Each Unit Includes:
    Reading
    comprehension

    Vocabulary
    Practice

    A Video Listening
    Exercise

    Group Discussion
    Mysteries
    What is the most interesting mystery to you?
    Do you think all mysteries can be solved?
    Mysteries

    Loch Ness Monster


    Do you believe that Loch Ness
    Monster is real or just a hoax?
    Why?
    Mysteries

    The wild man of Shenglongjia Do you think the wild man still exist?
    Why?
    Oumuamua
    pronounced “oh MOO-uh MOO-uh”

    Definitions:

    Astronomers:

    Scientists who study objects in space.

    Asteroid:

    taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft

    Artist's concept
    Gist:
    The general idea.
    b

    e c
    d
    a

    Summary: a brief statement or account of the main points of something.


    Scanning

    Para A, line 1: … astronomers in Hawaii


    Para A, line 2 and line 6: … something surprising
    Para B, line 7: … a different theory
    Para C, line 2: … a piece of alien technology
    Para A, line 2: ... Moving through the solar system Para C, line 9: … came to explore our solar system
    Para D, line 5: … will likely be
    Scanning

    October 2017
    visitor from afar
    after it passed the sun
    professor
    Harvard University
    August 2017
    315,800 km/h
    33,000,000 km
    Let’s watch a video about crop circles!
    Out of all the
    explanations in the
    video, which do you
    think is the most likely?

    1. Magnetic pulses from the core


    2. Aliens
    3. Aquifers carry energy to surface
    4. Portal to another dimension

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLDFAlggffA
    Let’s watch one more video
    about crop circles!
    Do you think
    crop circles are
    real or a hoax?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYV_zpCXYtc
    Strange
    Word Box
    Maybe Strange
    Technology
    Thin Maybe
    Thin
    Technology

    Your sentence:
    Which of the mysteries discussed will be
    the most difficult to solve? Why?
    Vocabulary Review

    Can you think of your own sentence using these vocabulary words?
    Homework: Choose one of the mysteries we explored
    today. Tell me if you think it’s real or a hoax. Defend your
    answer with a good reason.

    (1 paragraph)

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