Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending名师教学实录

Unit 2 sailing the sea （reading）

Teaching Aims: a. Learn and master the key words and expressions voyage mercy minimum nowhere pole overhead offshore accelerate outward longitude latitude precise simplify portable shortcoming updated tendency reliable

at the mercy of, even though, work out, be used to, in relation to, aim to , …

b. Train the students’ reading ability. Let the students have some knowledge of early navigational methods. Explain how seamen explored the oceans and what kind of navigational instruments were used to sailors before the 17th century when they were navigating the open seas without seeing the land.

Teaching Difficult Points: a. How to help the students understand the reading passage better. b. How to improve the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Methods: a. Scanning the text to get the general idea of it. b. Carefully reading to finish the Comprehending exercises on page 14.

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c. Discussion after reading to make the students understand the text better.

Teaching Aids: The multimedia; a tape recorder; the blackboard

Teaching procedures

Step1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. Step 2 Pre-reading Show the students some pictures to see if they can identify the early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they used. Step 3 Discussion Discuss the questions on page11. Step 4 reading Page 1 Fast-reading

1 . How did seamen explore the oceans before latitude and longitude made it possible to plot a ship’s position?

Using nature: ________________________

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________________________ _________________________ __________________________ _________________________

2. Use the information to analyze the navigational skills and write the answers in your own words. 1)To find the ship’s position at sea a sailor used _______________________. 2)A sailor knew that land was nearby if he saw____________________________ _____________. 3)Sailors used ______________________

_____ to increase their speed.

Page 2 Fast-reading 1. What skills did sailors use to explore the seas and discover new lands? Using

navigational

instruments

1)Finding

longitude

_________________________ 2)Finding

latitude ____________________________

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___________________________ ___________________________ __________________________ Using

instruments

There were two methods to find longitude:

1) __________________________

2) __________________________

______________________

Careful reading Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.

Nature _______was used to tell where the ship was close to land or to show the ____ to land.

Celestial bodies were used to_____ the positions of navigators and to work out their_______. The weather could help _______the position of a stream or river and to direct the sailing.

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Certain________________ on the sea were used to carry ships to the destination. The________ was used to help find longitude.

The Bearing Circle, the Astrolabe, the Quadrant and the ______ were used to find latitude.

Read the passage again and use the information to analyse the navigational skills.

Write the answers in your own words.

Using nature

1.To find the ship's position at sea a sailor used _________ 2.A sailor knew that land was nearby if he saw

_____________________________________________________

3.Sailors used ____________________

to increase their speed.

Using instruments

4.There were two methods to find longitude:

1) _________________________

2) _______________________

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Read the chart below and fill in your plans of action to deal with them. What would you do if :

Plan of action You were far from land and a storm arose. You knew your latitude but didn’t know your longitude.

You were blown off-course. You were offshore but you needed more food and water. You wanted to keep a straight course.

You were lost with no land in sight.

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Step 5 Discussion Let the students have a discussion by working in pairs or in groups. Topic: Imagine you are on a boat with twenty-nine other people. You have a small box for your personal things but it can only hole ten items. What would you need for a week’s journey across the North Sea to England? Suggested Answer: clothes ,shirt, trousers, shoes, water ,boots, knife, scissors, medicines, sea-sick tablets, cold medicine, games cards, chess novels …..

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