To get deeper insights into text To make creative use of English To be better at writing in English Our Aims Further Development Writing Model & Practice Extraction & Application Interactive Reading Warming-up Activities Warming-up Activities 1 Getting familiar with background information 2 Topic-centered study of new words and their use 3 Video watching & discussion on it Text Reading Par. Writing Further Dev. Extr. & App. The Tucson shooting was reported as an attempt to assassinate (暗杀) the US Representative Gabrielle Giffords. On January 8, 2011, Giffords was holding a meeting in a parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, the United States. Jared Lee Loughner, a 23-year-old man, shot Giffords in the head and then fired on other people. Thirteen people were injured and six others were killed in the shooting. Giffords was in critical Word Study Video Watching Text Reading Par. Writing Further Dev. Extr. & App. Jotter 2011 Tucson shooting (1/3) condition and was sent to hospital immediately. She eventually survived. Loughner was arrested at the scene. But as he did not cooperate with the authorities, the motive for the shooting remains unclear. In August 2012, Loughner pleaded guilty to 19 charges in exchange for the government not seeking the death penalty. During the shooting, many people behaved Word Study Video Watching Text Reading Par. Writing Further Dev. Extr. & App. Jotter 2011 Tucson shooting (2/3) 2011 Tucson shooting (3/3) bravely and are now hailed as heroes. There were the two loving husbands who threw themselves in front of their wives to shield them from Loughner’s bullets and one of them lost his life. There was the young intern, Daniel Hernandez, who ran through the bullets to save Gabrielle Giffords. All these people have shown that an ordinary person can do extraordinary deeds. Word Study Video Watching Text Reading Par. Writing Further Dev. Extr. & App. Jotter Sergeant Ryan Russell had served with the