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Period 3 Optimism Helped us persevere Teaching Goals: 1. To enable the students to better understand the story and spirit of perseverance

2. To improve the students’ reading and speaking ability Step 1. Pre-reading

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Ask the students to predict what the title indicates.

Step 2. Fast reading 1. Ask the students to look though the text and try to find answers to the two questions below.

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What kind of problems did they face? 2)

Were they finally rescued? Step 3. While reading 1.

What kind of problems did the men have to face on Elephant Island?

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What do you think was their greatest worry? How do you think they overcame this difficulty?

3.

Why did Shackleton encourage them to have celebrations? How do you think the celebrations helped?

Step 4. Post reading

Step5. Language points

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The danger of what lay ahead of them, the chances of them ever returning to find us, the fear that we might ever know their fate and possible delays, at first made us feel low and discouraged

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The danger…the chances… the fear…名词词组并列结构

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Delay: n./verb 耽搁，延迟

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Discouraged: adj. 气馁，灰心的

1)

He was discouraged by the unsuccessful attempt. 2)

I was never discouraged in learning English.

2.

There was nothing like a good dinner of penguin and some dynamic music to make a man feel more cheerful again

Dynamic : a. 动态的,有动力的,有力的

1)

He has a dynamic personality For example, we had to gather fresh water by grasping and then melting sea-ice

grasp n. 把握,抓紧,把

v. 抓住,紧握,领会

1)

Kept her hands in my grasp. 2)

You must grasp this opportunity. 3.

This give off oily, black smoke but had the advantages of burning strongly in fierce winds give off:发出(光、声音等)，散发出(气味)

回顾与give有关的短语

give away 泄露；赠送

give back (归)还

give in 交上，呈上；投降，屈服，认输

give off 发出(光、声音等)，散发出(气味) give out 分发；用完；消耗尽；发出(光、声音) give up 停止，放弃；(oneself)自首

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We could eat the remains when the fire died down

Remains: n. 剩余物，遗迹，遗体

1)

The remains of a meal

2)

The remains of an army

die down: to become less strong or violent

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The excitement soon die down 回顾die 的短语

Die away （声音，风，光等）渐渐减弱，甚至停止

Die off 一个接一个的死去

Die out (家族，种族，习俗，观念等）完全消失；绝种

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We were lucky that our group worked hard to show an admirable mental attitude

admirable: a. 令人钦佩的,令人赞赏的

It was reserved for him to make the admirable discovery. 6.

Our optimism and faith in Shackleton had helped us preserve in staying alive and he had repaid us by his commitment to return and save us from a slow but painful death Preserve: 坚持

忍耐

1)

He preserves in his studies

Repay: 回报，报答，偿还

搭配：repay sb for sth

repay sb with/by doing sth

2)

We’ll never be able to repay for everything you’ve done for us

Commitment:承诺，责任，约束

3)

We’ve made a commitment to help, and we will. Homework: Design a post for the story.