Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending名师教学视频（文字实录）

Book 10 Unit 1

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

Teaching Goals: I. Emotional learning: 1) Ss should get to know the thorough meaning of the saying “No pains, No ganis”. Meanwhile, put their effort into the practice of pursuing high goal and a further success in life. 2) To relate the Ss to teacher to cooperate with each other and then form a relatively harmonious

and fair atmosphere in class over learning period.

II. Teaching Important Points &Difficulty:

1) the skills of reading: scanning and skimming 2) to read smoothly while reading and dig out the indicated theme of the text

Teaching Procedures: Step I . Warming Up 1.Do you know “不入虎穴，焉得虎子”

in Chinese?

How can we say the same meaning in English? Nothing brave, nothing have.

Nothing seek, nothing find.

Nothing stake, nothing draw.

Nothing venture, nothing win (or have or gain).

Nothing crave, nothing have. Step II. Pre-reading Read and listen to the three stories on P1. And try to think out the characters they have in common. What do you think helped them out and achieved success in life? King Bruce is watching the spider weaving its web. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a hole on a hill from the English. He watched a spider (蜘蛛) making a web. Bruce is said to have got confidence from this and to have gone on to beat the English. Anne Sullivan is teaching Helen Keller by feeling or touching. Helen Keller, born a normal little girl, but at the age of 19 months became ill and lost her hearing and her sight. She and her family was in despair until they met Anne Sullivan. Her work with Helen was very successful. After college, Helen gave lecture tours speaking about her experiences and her beliefs. They worked very hard to raise money, to encourage people to educate blind and deaf children.

Gou Jian is sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall. Gou Jian was the ruler of the kingdom of Yue, conquered by the neighboring kingdom of Wu. He was made a slave and suffered many hardships. But his tolerance earned the trust of the King of Wu and eventually he was set free. But he never forgot his suffering, slept on firewood and straw every night, and tasted bitter gall-bladder until his kingdom was strong enough and 第

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he attacked the King of Wu and killed him. Something in common in the heroes above: (ask the Ss to summarize them and write the qualities on the Bb) make up one’s mind,

be determined to do sth,

persevere with,

stick at, persist in,

not give up, not be discouraged by,

keep going, keep trying, keep positive, Something in common in the heroes: They were unfortunate at first. King Bruce and Gou Jian were defeated and Helen Keller was disabled. 2. They were not discouraged by their misfortune and succeeded at last. 3. All of them were determined. They showed great perseverance when facing difficulty. Step III.

Reading –Comprehending: 1. Robert Bruce was mentioned in the passage to show that______.

A.

people who fail are not lonely

B.

animals can help people sometimes

C.

nature will help us if we are hard-working

D.

confidence is important for one to be successful

2. According to the author, the kindest man on board Endurance is ____. A. Tom Orde-Lees

B. Frank Wild C. Perce

D. Ernest Shackleton 3. “An expedition with the great Sir Ernest Shackleton to the South Pole-I was hooked.” (Para. 5) The underlined word “hooked” is closest in meaning to ____.

shocked

B. terrified C. attracted

D. promising 4. When the ship was gradually sinking, Shackleton _____. A. persuaded Hussey to throw away his musical instrument B. calmed himself down and urged us to save only essential supplies C. kept his important possessions such as his gold watch and gold coins

D. felt disappointed and complained about the unexpected end to his expedition 5. We can learn from the passage that ____. A. one should try not to fail

B. one’s failure is another’s success

C. one should take failure seriously

D. one should learn lessons from failure 6. This passage is mainly about ___. two great men

two sides of failure

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C. the right attitude (态度) towards failure

D. ways to keep away from failure 7. The paragraph followed by the last one will probably talk about ___. A. the experience of the crew left on the island B. the scenery and customs of the island C. Shackleton’s

belief and what he advocated D. Shackleton’s

plan to save the rest of the crew Step IV. Post-reading 1. Which is more valuable: a man’s life or visiting a previously unvisited spot?

2. What precautions should have been taken before the expedition in case of emergency? 3. Why is the title of the passage “A successful failure”? Was the expedition a failure? Was it a success?

Situations: 1. poor English pronunciation 2.poor academic performance 3.huge study pressure 4.get along bad with classmates 5...... Presentation: Have you ever had a hardest experience or faced a greatest challenge? What is it? How did you go through it? What lessons have you learned from it?

Homework: 1. Surf the Internet to get more examples of strong determination and success. 2. Try to grasp the words and expressions in the passage. 第

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