Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学创新设计

Unit 3 Australia 教学设计

The Discovery of Australia

Teaching aims:

1. After learning the text, the students are required to master the following words and useful expressions: aborigines; system; spiritual; faith; hand down; elder; curiously; underground; starve; rather than; thus; percentage; give birth to

2. Revise the grammar: the -ing form used as subject and object.

3. Get the students to read the text using the following reading skills: skimming, scanning and note making.

Key points: 1.Words and grammar 2. Reading comprehension

Teaching methods: Reading-note making and practice.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Revision

(1) Check the homework exercises.

(2) Revise the key points of Lesson 9.

Step 2. Pre-reading report

Pick out some students to report to the class their research in the encyclopedia or the web.

Step 3. Scanning

Now get the students to read the text and answer the following questions:

①

Where did the first Australia come from?

②

What did Kooris use for hunting?

③

How many languages were once spoken in Australia?

Step 4. Scanning

Tell the students to read the text more carefully to find out the specific information. Answer the questions in Exercise 1 on P82 in the workbook. Pick out some students to answer the questions.

Step 5. Language points

(1) Their spiritual faith and their gods were very important to them, and knowledge, customs and memories were handed down by the elders of the race.

他的宗教信仰和他们所信奉的神对他们来说是非常重要的；他们的知识、风俗习惯以及他们所怀念的事情都是由他们种族的长辈传下来的。

句中的短语动词

hand down (= pass down) 作“相传”、“传给”解，意思是“（从上代）传下来(给后代)”。例如：

The old house has been handed down for three generations.

这座老房子已经传了三代了。

This custom has been handed down since the 18th century.

这种风俗是从18世纪传下来的。

In poor families, clothes may be handed down from one child to the next.

在穷苦人家，一个小孩穿过的衣服会传给另一个年龄较小的穿。

(2) They invented different kinds of fishing nets, also a curiously shaped piece of wood for hunting which could be thrown and which would return to the thrower if it did not strike anything. 他们发明了各种各样的渔网，还发明了一种用木头制成的形状奇特的捕猎器，这种捕猎器可以投掷出去，如果没有击中目标，它又会回到投掷者手中来。

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a curiously shaped piece of wood （一块形状奇特的木头）

这个短语中，shaped 是动词

shape(使成......形状)的过去分词，作定语，修饰后面的

piece of wood。这种作定语的过去分词前，还可以带副词作状语，如这个短语中的

curiously。下面是几个类似的例子：

a widely used language 一种广泛使用的语言

a wrongly pronounced sound 一个发错了的音

a newly discovered island 一个新近发现的岛屿

a hastily written letter 一封匆忙写成的信

highly praised deeds 受到高度赞扬的行为

(3) They became experienced at finding underground springs.

他们对寻找地下泉水逐渐有了经验。

be / become experienced at sth. / doing sth. 对某事/做某事有经验。短语中的

at 也可以用

in. 形容词

experienced （有经验的）也可以作定语。例如：

She is an experienced teacher.

她是一位有经验的教师。

They were quite experienced at teaching beginners.

他们教初学者很有经验。

He is very experienced at repairing cars.

他修理汽车很有经验。

He is quite experienced in this kind of work.

他干这类工作相当有经验。

(4) Education was intended for white settlers only, and until very recently no school lessons were held in languages rather than English.

教育只是为白人殖民者而办，而且直到最近以前，还没有一所学校使用英语以外的语言进行教学。

句中的短语介词

rather than 意思是“与其；不是”

(in preference to; instead of)。

例如：

I think Tom, rather than you, is to blame.

我认为该受责备的是汤姆，而不是你。

I think I'll have a cold drink rather than coffee.

我想喝冷饮，不想喝咖啡。

Step 6. Note making

SB P15, Part 3. Get the students to point out what the words referred to. Pick out some students to tell their answers to the rest of the class.

Step 7. Oral practice

SB P15, Part 4. Divide the students into groups of four and tell them to write down the that you are going to interview the Kooris. You are suggested to use the points in Part 3.

Step 8. Workbook

Get the students to do the wb exercises individually and then check the answers with the class. Answers: See Wb P82.

Homework

(1) Finish off the exercises of Lesson 10 in the workbook.

(2) Revise the key points of this lesson.