Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教案2

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Warming up, Pre-reading & Reading Teaching Aims:

A.

Learn and master the key words and expressions

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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.

Discussion to arouse the students’ interest in sailing and exploring the oceans.

B.

individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class. Teaching Aids: The multimedia; a tape recorder; the blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual.

Step2 Warming up In pairs discuss the questions on page11.This discussion is intended for students to explore the difference between a navigator and an explorer. This difference is important to establish because it encourages students to appreciate shades of meaning in the definitions f words and also because it establishes the idea of categories. After a few minutes, ask some pairs to speak out their result of the discussion. Then sum up and check the answers. Step3 Pre-reading Step4 Reading A.

Scanning

B.

Skimming C.

Detailed reading D.

Summary

This reading explains how seamen explored the oceans and what kind of navigational instruments were used to sailors before the seventeenth century when they were navigating the open seas without seeing the land. Step5 Homework