Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending课堂实录【1】

Unit2Sailing the oceans

Teaching Design

Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading (SAILING THE OCEANS) Aims To help students read about sailing the oceans

To help students learn about the predicate Procedures ■Warming up by leaning about navigator

What is a navigator? What is exploration? ■Warming up by talking about Zheng He's Seven Voyages In July 11, 1405, the eunuch Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty royal court set out on his first overseas voyage. In the following 28 years, this navigator proceeded to carry out six more voyages, accompanied by a huge

entourage of nearly 30,000 people. By traveling throughout Southeast Asia, and around the Indian Ocean to

the Red Sea and East Africa, he also landed at over thirty different nations.

He was the earliest largest scale navigation in world history, coming more than half a century earlier than Columbus'famous exploits... I. Pre-reading

What are navigational instruments?

●Navigational instruments were built in the age of exploration to guide the explorers to their destinations. ●navigational instrument - an instrument used for navigating artificial horizon, flight indicator, gyro horizon - a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope; provides an artificial horizon for the pilot compass - navigational instrument for finding directions depth finder - navigational instrument used to measure the depth of a body of water (as by

ultrasound or radar) inclinometer - an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon instrument - a device that requires skill for proper use asdic, echo sounder, sonar - a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return; sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging; asdic is an acronym for anti-submarine detection investigation committee

2 Reading Reading skill 1: The first para will introduce the main idea（PPT）

Reading skill 2: Mind map can help us get the structure of the passage easily. (PPT) TASK 3: Check your preview What’s the functions of the helpers on Page 1. （PPT）

TASK 4: How many methods are mentioned in this part?

Task 5. Introduce the instruments

In groups Group 1: Find the working

principles Group 2:Find the adjectivesReading skill 3: Judge the attitude from adj.

Reading and writing 1.

Mind map can make the structure clear. 2.

The first paragraph will state the main idea. 3V. n. and adj. are the key Dicussion Why was China overtaken by the West in science and technology?

Homework

1.Polish your article. 2.Read the passage

We may well wonder/ how seamen explored the oceans/ before latitude /and longitude made it possible /to plot a ship's position/ on a map．The voyages of travelers/ before the 17th century /show that /they were not at the mercy of the sea /even though they did not have modern navigational aids．So/ how did they navigate so well? Read these pages/ from an encyclopedia．(PPT)

III. Copying useful expressions and making sentences