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Book 9 Unit 2 Using Language The greatest navigational journey:a lesson in survival

Teaching aims:

1. Knowledge aim: [Com]

Help the Ss to learn about the greatest navigational journey:the story of Captain Bligh’s amazing journey of over 40 days through about 4000 miles in an open boat across the Pacific Ocean with his followers after some of the crew took over the ship. 2. Ability aim:

1). To practice the students’ oral English.

2). To develop the students’ reading skills.

3). To practice the students’ writing skills. 3. Emotion aim:

To let Ss realize that the whole life is an adventure, the furthest people are the person who are often willing to do it and willing to take the risk. Teaching important & difficult points Train students' reading ability and writing ability. Teaching procedures: Step1.Warming up Live dubbing given by Ss to introduce the film:Mutiny on the Bounty.

Step2. Reading Task1. Main idea This is the story of _______ whose amazing journey of over ___ days through about 4000 miles in an ___ boat ______ the Pacific Ocean with his _____

after some of the crew _____ _____ the ship. Task 2.T/F exercises 1. It was very difficult for us to get a correct reading from the quadrant as the boat moved constantly during the course.

2. Captain Bligh used a system called “dead reckoning”and he knew there was land directly southwest of their original position.

3. We completely believed Captain Bligh when he talked hopefully about what we would do when we got back to England. 4. Captain Bligh was as weak as the rest of

us but he was determined not to give up. Task 3. Choose the best answer

1.Which of the following words can best describe the feeling of the local people on

Captain Bligh and his followers when they arrived in Timor? A.Pleased

B.Surprised

C.Frightened

D.Disappointed 2.Why did they describe their journey as the greatest navigational feat of all time? A.They had sailed such a long journey without any help. B.It took them a great deal of time to finish the journey. C.They succeeded in surviving the journey only depending on navigational skills. D.They risked death by sitting together on a small boat with very little food and water. Task4. Fill in the blanks. On our

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(depart) from Tahiti, some of the crew took over the ship. I joined Captain Bligh in the small boat with an uncertain future. The captain used a system

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(call) “dead reckoning”. Our daily food was shared equally

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us all. It was starvation quantities but the extreme lack of water was the hardest to cope with

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(psychology).We sank gradually into a

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(sleep), half-alive state. The captain tried to take our minds off our stomachs and our thirst and kept us

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(live). You could not imagine a more disturbing sight than

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we looked like when arriving. Our clothes were

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(tear), we had fever and our faces showed the very hardships

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we had suffered. We were the

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(hero) by completing the greatest navigational feat of all time. Task5. Post-reading What kind of leadership qualities do you think Captain Bligh showed? Why?

Step3.Good expressions and useful sentences Task1.Good expressions 1.一离开

2.决意不放弃

3.逃离鬼门关

4.遭受极大的痛苦

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有史以来

Task2.Useful sentences 1我有幸与布莱船长进行航海之旅…

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在“邦蒂号”上的我们都陷入了两难的境地

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你简直无法想象我们到达...的凄惨样子

Step4.Writing

Task1. 翻译

1.我有幸能够来这里跟大家一起分享我的难忘经历。

I am proud to ____ ____ ____ to share my unforgettable experience with you.

2.

于2018年5月4日，当飞机一离开重庆，挡风玻璃(windshield)爆裂，发出巨大声响。

__ ____ ________ from Chongqing on May14th ,2018,

the windshield shattered with a loud sound .

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在航班8633的飞机上的我们都陷入了两难境地,我们决意不放弃，助乘客逃离鬼门关。

Those of us __ _____ 'Flight 8633' were caught __ __ _______,but we were determined not to ____ ___ and help passengers escape ___ ________ _____

4.你简直无法想象我们抵达成都的凄惨样子。

You _____ ___ imagine a _____ disturbing sight than _____ we looked like when arriving in Chengdu.

5.尽管遭受巨大痛苦，我们成功地完成了历史上最伟大的航空(aviation)壮举。

Although we had ______ _____ __________, we succeeded in completing the greatest aviation feat __ ___ ___.

Task2.写作

假定你是机长刘传健，你受邀进行电视台采访，并以“An unforgettable experience”为主题进行现场演讲。请你根据以下提示写一篇演讲稿。内容包括：

1.概述所发生事件。

2.概括机长品质。