Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending第二课时教案

Book 9

Unit 2 Teaching aims: Knowledge aims: Get the main idea of the text. Ability aims: 1.

Improve students’ reading ability.

2.

Help students to understand the passage. Emotional aims: 1.

Arouse students’ interest in navigational instruments.

2.

Encourage students to talk about discovery and exploration of an unknown land.

Key Points and Difficult Points

Key Points:

Improve students’ reading ability.

Difficult Points:

Cooperate with group members to get the answers. Teaching method: 1.

Individual, pair and group work 2.

Task-based Teaching aids: 1.

Multimedia 2.

Text book

3.

Blackboard Teaching Procedure: Step 1: Warming up

1.

Show students a picture of Marco Polo and ask students to guess who is him. Ask students whether Marco Polo is a navigator or explorer? 2.

Show some pictures of some famous people, and ask students whether they are navigator or explorer. 3.

Ask students what’s the differences between navigator and explorer.

(A navigator explores new routes across the sea. An explorer discovers new places o land. ) Step 2: Pre-reading 1.

Show students some pictures to see if they can identify the early navigational instruments seamen used and to explain how they are used.

2.

Listening to the record of the text

Step 3: While-reading 1.

Skimming Read the text quickly and complete the chart below Sailing the oceans Using nature to help keeping Using navigational instruments to alongside the coastline help Using celestial bodies: ______, Finding longitude ______, _______

Using wildlife: ______,______ Finding latitude:______ 2.

Scanning

Read the text again, finish the tasks below. (1)

There were two methods to find the longitude: A.

_____________________________________ B.

_____________________________________ (2)

Chose the right answer a. What’s the main topic of this text? (B) A. The voyages of the travelers before the 17th century A.

How to plot a ship’s position on a map B.

How did ancient men navigate so well C.

Use nature to aid navigation

b. What is the use of a bearing circle,astrolabe, quadrant or sextant?(B) What is the use of a compass?(A)

A. To set the course of the ship

B. To measure the position of the ship

C. To measure the speed of the ship

D. To tell the time c. Ancient navigators use navigational instruments to help them (D)

A. find celestial bodies

B. predict the weather

C. explore the sea

D. find the latitude d. The author of the passage implies that the ancient navigators were (C)

A. hard-working

B. brave

C. intelligent

D. energetic Step 4. Post-reading Ask the students if navigators and explorers. Step 5. Homework 1.

Review the text 2.

Finish the exercise

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