Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending名师教学设计

Book 9

Unit 2

Sailing the oceans

教学设计

Warming up & reading

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遂溪县大成中学

麦景娣

I. 教材分析

The topic of this class is “sailing to oceans”. It consists of two parts: listening and speaking. In the first part，we’ll listen

to a dialogue and finish exercise 1 to 4 together. In the second part，we have a discussion and class debate to improve the students’ ability of expression.

II．Teaching aims: 1.

Knowledge Aims

A. Ecourage students to talk about cause and effect. B. Through the discussion, get students to express their opinion about the topic

2. Ability Aims

A. Train the students to listen carefully for both key words and details. B. Improve students’ expression abilities

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Emotional Aims

A. Stimulate the students’ intrests of learning history.

B. Set up the students’ selt-confidence in English speaking and learning. III.. Teaching Important Point: Train students to listen carefully for specification and help them to finish the debate. Ⅳ. Teaching Difficult Point:

1.How to make use of the listening materials for futher understanding.

2. How to encourage the students to talk freely and actively. V. Teaching methods: Self-learning

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Task-based Language Teaching

VI. Teaching procedures:

Step1. Leading in Give questions: How many oceans are there in the world?

What is a navigator?

Step2. pre-reading What is the difference between a navigator and an explorer? Look at these famous people. Are they navigators or explorers? What do you know about them?

The four basic instruments for navigation: compass, astrolabe, sextant and nautical chart.

1. How do you think seamen found their way before modern accurate methods of

navigation were invented? 2. Which do you think was easier to work out: latitude or longitude? 3. Can you identify these early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they are used? 4. Which ones do you think are still used today?

Step 3: Scanning Scan the whole passage as quickly as you can and then answer the following questions.

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

What skills did sailors use to explore the seas and discover new lands?

Step 4:skimming

Skim the text and fill in the blanks.

Nature Celestial bodies were used to _____ the positions of navigators and to work out their _______. _______ was used to tell where the ship was close to land or to show the ____ to land.

Step 5.

Detailed reading Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions. 1) Why are speed and time important in working out the longitude of a ship?

2) Why is the position of the sun and various stars useful for working out latitude?

2. Suppose you were a sea captain aiming to sail round Africa. Discuss in groups. 1) What skills would you seek in your sailors? 2) What problems would you anticipate for this journey?

3. Read the chart below and fill in your

plans of action to deal with them.

Step6. summary Q：What have you learnt from the passage?

____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Step 7 : Homework 1. Review this passage. 2. Preview Learning about language.