Using LanguageⅠ名师教学设计2

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Using Language (THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL) Teaching aims:

To get students to read this passage.

To get students to think about t how to survive in the journey.

Teaching key and difficult points: Key points: Students can master the key phrases and sentences. Difficult points: Students can improve their ability of reading and writing. Teaching method:

Task-based teaching method and communicative teaching method Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Ask the students to read the new words and phrases together. Step2. 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.

Step3. Give the students a few minutes to learn this passage by themselves. (cut the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. ) Step4. Copying expressions and making sentences catch in a dilemma, risk certain death, sit close together，face an uncertain future, have no charts, take with sb., set the course, make sure, stay on that course, keep to a straight course, in addition, keep sb. work out the position, take a great deal of time, cope with, drive sb. mad, preserve one’s good spirits, talk hopefully about, get worse,

sink into…, take one’s minds off one’s stomachs and thirst, keep sb. alive, set loose, have fever, show the hardships, suffer the hardships, escape the jaws of death, complete the greatest navigational feat of all time Step5. Listening and speaking about Viking sailing and Polynesian seamen ●The name Viking is a borrowed word from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, the British Isles, and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. Vikings traveled to the west and Varangians, who were best known as the Varangian Guards of the Byzantine emperors, to the east. This period of European history (generally dated to 793 - 1066 AD) is referred to as the Viking Age.

●Where is Polynesia? A division of Oceania including scattered islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean roughly between New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island. The larger islands are volcanic, the smaller ones generally coral formations. Now go to page 19. Let’s go to listen to something about Viking sailing the oceans. While listening try to circle those aids in the box on page 19 that the early sailors used to find their ways at sea.

Now you shall listen to the tape once again to fill in the chart on page 19. On page 20 there are four sayings from Polynesian seamen. What does each of them mean? Now in pairs talk about each of the sayings. Step6. Homework

Closing down by writing, by imitation, a passage of your own based on the text on page 17