Using LanguageⅡ名师教学实录

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Part One: Teaching Design Period 3: A lesson plan for Using Language (THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL) Aims To help students read the passage THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing Procedures I. Warming up by learning something about William Bligh William Bligh in 1814Vice Admiral of the Blue William Bligh, FRS (9 September 1754 - 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. He is best known for the famous mutiny that occurred against his command aboard HMAV (His Majesty's Armed Vessel) Bounty and the remarkable voyage he made to Timor on the Bounty's launch after being set adrift by the mutineers. Many years after the Bounty mutiny he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, with a brief to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the NSW Corps. He had some success in his task but quickly faced opposition which culminated in the Rum Rebellion led by John Macarthur.

Although William Bligh was certainly not the vicious man portrayed in popular fiction, some claim his over-sensitivity and acid tongue damaged what would have otherwise been a distinguished career. II. Reading for forms

Read the text THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL on page 17 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.

谓语需用单数的几种情形

1）

代词each和由every, some, no, any等构成的复合代词作主语，或主语中含有each, every, 谓语需用单数。

Each of us has a tape-recorder.

There is something wrong with my watch. 2）

当主语是一本书或一条格言时，谓语动词常用单数。

The Arabian Night is a book known to lovers of English.

<<天方夜谭>>是英语爱好者熟悉的一本好书。

3）

表示金钱，时间，价格或度量衡的复合名词作主语

时，通常把这些名词看作一个整体，谓语一般用单数。(用复数也可，意思不变。)

Three weeks was allowed for making the necessary preparations.

Ten yuan is enough. THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL I am proud to have sailed with Captain Bligh /on his journey of over 40 days/ through about 4，000 miles/ in an open boat /across the Pacific Ocean /in 1789. Our outward voyage/ in the“Bounty" /to Tahiti /had been filled with the kind of incidents /that I

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thought/ would be my stories/ when l returned home．But /how wrong I was! On our departure /from Tahiti，some of the crew/ took over the ship. They deposited the captain /into a small boat/ to 1et him find his own way home．But/ who else was to go with him? Those of us /on board/ the“Bounty”were

caught

in a dilemma．Was

it better /to risk certain death /by sitting close together/ on a small，crowded open boat /with very little food/ and water? Or should one stay

on the“Bounty”/with the crew /and face certain death /from the British Navy /if caught? The drawback of staying /on the ship seemed to grow /as l thought about how wrong it was to treat Captain Bligh /in this way．So I joined him /in the small boat．As dusk fell，we seemed to face

an uncertain future．We had no charts/ and the only instruments/ the captain was allowed to take with him /were a compass /and a quadrant．

Once we were at sea，our routine /every day was the same．At sunrise /and sunset /the captain measured our position /using the quadrant/ and set the course /using the compass．It was extremely difficult for us to get a correct reading /from the quadrant/ as the boat moved constantly．The captain used

a system /called“dead reckoning”．He knew

there was land /directly northwest of our original position. So /his task was to make sure /we stayed

on that course. As you can see

from the map/ we kept

to a straight course pretty well. In addition, the captain kept us all busy /reading the tables /to work out our position. Although this took a great deal of time, it didn’t matter. Time was, after all, what we had a lot of!

Our daily food was

shared equally /among us all：One piece of bread /and one cup of water．It was

starvation quantities /but the extreme lack of water was

the hardest /to cope with psychologically．Imagine all that water/ around you，but none of it was safe to drink /because the salt /in it would drive you mad! All the time /the captain tried to preserve

our good spirits/ by telling stories /and talking hopefully about /what we would do/ when we got back to England．We only half believed him．

The tension /in the boat got

worse /as the supply of food/ and water /gradually disappeared．We could foresee that /we would die/ if we could not reach land very soon/ and we sank gradually into a sleepy, half-alive state．The captain was as weak as the rest of us, but he was

determined

/not to give up．He continued

his navigational measurements /every day．He kept us busy/ and tried to take our minds off our stomachs/ and our thirst．He kept us alive．

You could not imagine a more disturbing sight /than what we looked like /when arriving in Timor /over forty days /after being set loose /in our small boat．Our clothes were torn，we had fever /and our faces showed the hardships /we had suffered．But after a rest，some good meals/ and some new clothes，everything changed．We couldn’t stop talking about our voyage /and everybody wanted to hear about it．We were

the heroes/ who had

escaped

the jaws of death/ by completing the greatest navigational feat of all time!

III. Copying expressions and making sentences the greatest navigational journey, a lesson in survival, be proud to do…, sail with…, on one’s journey of…, over 40 days, through about 4，000 miles, in an open boat, across the Pacific Ocean, one’s outward voyage in the“Bounty",

be filled with, the

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kind of incidents, on one’s departure from…, take over…,deposit sb. Into…, let sb. find one’s own way home, go with sb., on board, catch in a dilemma,

risk certain death, by sitting close together, on a small，crowded open boat, with very little food and water, stay on…, face certain death, think about, treat sb. in this way,

join sb. in the small boat, face an uncertain future, have no charts, allow to do, take with sb., at sea，at sunrise and sunset, measure the position, use the quadrant, set the course, use the compass, make sure, stay on that course, keep to a straight course, pretty well, In addition, keep sb. all busy doing…, work out the position, take a great deal of time, after all, a lot of, one’s daily food, one piece of bread, one cup of water, lack of water, cope with, none of, be

safe to drink, drive sb. mad, try to do, preserve one’s good spirits, tell stories, talk hopefully about, get back to, get worse, the supply of food and water, sink into…, the rest of…, give up, take one’s minds off one’s stomachs and

thirst, keep sb. alive, look like, set loose, have fever,

show the hardships, suffer the hardships, stop doing, talk about one’s voyage, hear about…, escape the jaws of death, complete the greatest navigational feat of all time

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