Wonderful Life

◎ Purpose:

    This category is for extensive reading of the topic of  "chapter 6, Detective stories". Students usually like mysterious and detective or horrible stories. According to the students' those tastes, I choose 4 stories about  detective stories. The story is short and the overall vocabulary or sentence structures are understandable for advanced level students. They can read these matierials for fun. In addition, students can improve their "inferring" reading skills to find the suspects of the stories with logical reading process. This will be for in-class activity.


◎ Difficulty Levels:

- The Case of the Snack Shack          : ★★★☆☆

- The Case of the Broken Window    : ★★☆☆☆

- The Case of the Defaced Sidewalk : ★★☆☆☆

- The Case of the Surprise Visitor     : ★★★☆☆


◎ Procedure:

 1) Pre-reading:
   
  Students will choose freely the case of detective stories according to their tastes and reading proficiency level.

2) While-reading:
 
   Students will read for about 15minutes in the reading class in the computer-equipped classroom. They can read freely. If they want to read more stories, then they can read another one.

3)After-reading:

   In each story, there is a question that asking which one is a suspect of the incident. Students will think carefully to find the suspect and then check their answers by clicking 'continue' link. Students can gather together who read the same story and then discuss about the reasons why they think someone as a suspect.