Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优秀说课稿

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Teaching aims Let students have some knowledge of early navigation methods.

train the students’ reading ability.

Inspire students to explore more about ancient travelling after class.

Teaching procedures: Step 1. Lead-in

Activity1.Enjoy some pictures about sailors or navigators. 2. Enjoy some pictures about early navigational instruments

Step 2. Reading Fast reading What did people use to help sailing? Careful reading about the first anecdote. Using celestial bodies to plot the positions to work out the latitude Using

wildlife: If seaweed was fresh and smelled strongly, the ship was close to land.

Sea birds could be used to show the way to land when it was nowhere to be seen. Using

the weather Fog To help identify the position of a stream or river when…

Wind To direct their sailing Use the information to analyze the navigational skills and write the answers in your own words.

1. To find the ship’s position at sea a sailor used _______________________. 2.A sailor knew that land was nearby if he saw__________________________ __________________________ 3. Sailors used ____________________

______ to increase their speed. Careful reading : There were two methods to find longitude:

1. __________________________

2.__________________________ Write down the working principles of the following instruments:

What is the use of a bearing circle, astrolabe, quadrant or sextant? Discussion:What would you do if you came across the following problems during your voyage?

Homework

After class try to collect more information about sailing or navigation, sort it out and prepare to make a presentation next class.