Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending板书设计

Book 9 Unit 2 Reading Teaching Aims: 1.

Learn and master the key words and expressions Voyage

mercy

minimum

nowhere

pole

overhead

offshore

accelerate

outward

longitude

latitude

precise

simplify

portable

shortcoming

updated

tendency

reliable 2.

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：

1.

How to help the students understand the reading passage better. 2.

How to improve the students’ reading ability. Teaching Methods: 1.

Scanning the text to get the general idea of it. 2.

Carefully reading to finish the Comprehending exercises on page 14. 3.

Discussion after reading to make the students understand the text better. Teaching Aids: The multimedia, a tape recorder, the blackboard Teaching procedures Step 1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. Step 2 Revision Check the homework exercises Step 3 Lead- in 1.Show the students some pictures to see if they can identify the early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they used. 2. Ask students the following questions a. How many oceans are there in the world? b. What is the difference between a navigator and an explorer? Step 4 Pre-reading Ask students some questions a. How do you think seamen found their way before modern accurate methods of navigation were invented? b. Which do you think was easier to work out: latitude or longitude? c. Can you identify these early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they are used? d. Which ones do you think are still used today? Step 5 Reading Scanning Scan the passage and answer the following question:

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How did seamen explore the oceans before latitude and longitude made it possible to plot a ship’s position?

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What skills did sailors use to explore the seas and discover new lands? Skimming Skim the text and fill in the blanks Step 6 Listening and comprehending After listening to the contents of the text do the comprehending exercises on page 14&15. Step 7 Explanation After comprehending, it is a good time to deal with the new words and language points in this part, esp. the following: Voyage mercy minimum nowhere pole

overhead offshore accelerate outward longitude latitude precise Step 8 Discussion Let’s the students have a discussion by working in pairs or in groups. Topic : imagine you are on a boat with twenty-nine other people. You have a small box for your personal things but it can only hole ten items. What would you need for a week’s journey across the North Sea to England? Step 9 Summary

The 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. Step10 Homework

Finish the exercises about using words and expression on page 61.