Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优秀教案设计

Teaching Aims: a.To develop students’ basic skills of listening,speaking,reading and writing.To improve the reading skills is one of the most vital part in this lesson.Reading skills for students include predicting , skimming , scanning and digesting. b.

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. c. To get students to practice,participate,and co-operate in the classroom activities.

Teaching Important Points: Help the Ss to improve the reading ability. 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 exercises . c. Discussion after reading to make the students understand the text better. Teaching Aids:

The multimedia; a tape recorder; the blackboard Teaching procedures

Step1 Warming-up and lead-in Free talk(class work) I will invite Ss to answer the following Qs. Q1: If your friends want to come to our school, but he doesn’t know where our school is ,how can you tell him the position of our school? Q2: Can you tell me some instruments in the ancient? Goal: To lead up to the topic , get Ss to warm up and arouse their interest in the topic. Step2

Pre-reading Show the students some pictures to see if they can identify the early instruments seamen used and explain how they used. Brief introduction of some navigational instruments Compass:___________________________________________ Astrolabe:____________________________________________ Sextant:________________________________________________ Nautical chart:___________________________________________

Step 3 Reading 1 Skimming

Ss are required to go through the whole passage quickly to get the general idea .

Give the Ss a mind map and ask Ss to fill them 1)

What is the text mainly about?(

) A.How seamen explored the oceans and the instruments they used. B. How seamen sailed around the oceans. C. What kinds of navigational instruments the navigators used. D. How to explore the oceans. 2)

How seamen explored the oceans before 17th century 1.

Nature:____________________________________________ 2.

Navigational instruments:______________________________

Goal:

To develop Ss’reading skill--skimming. 2 Careful reading This passage has two pages . Page 1 is about nature can help us when we are sailing. Give Ss four minutes to read page1 .After reading ,answer the following questions. Q1 What can we use celestial bodies to do? Q2 What can we use wildlife to do? Q3 What can we use the weather to do? Use celestial bodies North Star-_____________________________________

Sun-______________________________________________ Clouds-_________________________________________________ Use wildlife Seaweed-______________________________________________ Sea Birds-_______________________________________________ Use the weather Fog-_________________________________________ Winds-_________________________________________

The page 2 is about how to find longitude and latitude. Give Ss four minutes to read page2 .After reading ,answer the following questions. Question : How to find longitude and latitude? Using navigational instruments 1.

Finding longitude:__________________________________ 2.

Finding latitude:_____________________________________

Step4 Post- reading Have a review of the passage .

Sailing the oceans We may want to know _________seamen explored the oceans before

latitude and longitude ________(appear). ___________ they didn’t have the modern navigational helps, seamen could still control the sea by using some skills________(explore) seas and discover the new lands. _______(use) nature is the first and_________(useful)form of ________(explore) keeping the ship ________(sail) alongside the coastline, such as celestial bodies, wildlife, weather, and the sea. Because of these skills, sailors increased the ______( able) to navigate new seas when they used ___________(instrument), including longitude and latitude.

Step5 Discussion What would you do if you came across the following problems during your voyage? Goal:

To develop Ss’creative thinking and get to know the importance of knowedge. Step 6 Homework After class try to collect more information about sailing or navigation, sort it out and prepare to make a presentation next class. Goal: To encourage Ss to study English spontaneously and independently after class.