Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学目标

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans I. 单元教学目标

技能目标Goals Talk about early navigation

Talk about discovery and exploration of an unknown land Learn about some famous navigators and explorers Learn to express the cause and effect Learn to use the Predicate Write a report about a navigator or an adventurous story Ⅱ.目标语言

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voyage mercy encyclopedia alongside exploration minimum celestial pole equator horizon overhead seaweed nowhere offshore accelerate outward tide secure log knot nautical magnetic random awkward reference precise simplify portable shortcoming update tendency reliable swoop parcel peck cliff expedition compulsory survival incident departure crew deposit dilemma drawback dusk routine reckon reckoning starvation psychology psychologically tension gradual gradually foresee thirst tear hardship jaw background roar at the mercy of

nautical mile

set loose

jaws of death

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复习谓语(The Predicate) Cause & effect

Why are you...?

How could you ...? Why did you...?

Because of .... It was because....

The reason is that .... As he....

Since she .... Now that....

Therefore, ... He was due to....

It is ..., so I’m afraid ....

That's why....

He .... so he is ill with fever after the voyage.

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So how did they navigate so well? As you can see from the map we kept to straight course pretty well. The tension in the boat got worse as the supply of food and water gradually disappear

So accomplished navigators were able to use it to plot their position. Captain Cook had led three great Pacific voyages during his life. I’ll go and get ready to begin work. 1.

You may well wonder…(p12) 2.

… show that they were not at the mercy of the sea even though…(p12)

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Sea birds could be used to show the way to land when it was nowhere to be seen. (p12) 4.

There was no secure method of measuring longitude until the 17th century when the British solved this theoretical problem. (p13) 5.

Its shortcoming was that it still used the moving ship as one of the fixed points of reference. (p13) 6.

I am proud to have sailed with Captain Bligh on his journey of…(p17)

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You could not imagine a more disturbing sight than what we looked like when arriving in Timor over forty days after being set loose in…(p17)

Reading Teaching Aims:

a. 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 at the mercy of, even though, work out, be used to, in relation to, aim to , …

b. 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: a.

How to help the students understand the reading passage better.

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How to improve the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Methods: a.

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

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

Discussion after reading to make the students understand the text better. Teaching Aids: The multimedia; a tape recorder; the blackboard Teaching procedures & ways

Step1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual.

Step2 Revision

Check the homework exercises. Step3 Pre-reading Show the students some pictures to see if they can identify the early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they used. Step 4 Discussion Discuss the questions on page11. Step 5 Listening and comprehending After listening to the contents of the text do the comprehending exercises on page 14&15. Step 6 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 simplify portable shortcoming updated tendency reliable at the mercy of, even though, work out, be used to, in relation to, aim to ,

Step7 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?

Suggested Answer: Category Clothes Hygiene Bedding Items shirt, trousers soap blanket Category Shoes Tools Medicines Items waterproof

boots knife,

scissors

sea-sick

tablets, cold

medicine

Games cards, chess Books novels, collections

Step8 Summary

This 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. Step9 Homework Finish the exercises about using words and expression on page61.

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