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10 Unit 1

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

第三课时Listening Teaching Goals: I. Emotional Learing: Through listening the text, Ss will have a further understanding of the theme of “ gains comes with great effort”. II. Teaching Important and difficult points: 1) How to do warming-up to get close to to the topic of the story to be listened. 2) How the find a proper approach to the questions-answering and direct the Ss to find the details and make a summary of the text. III. Teaching procedure:

I. Listen to the tape on page 7. Listening material

THE RESCUE

1 Read these questions and listen to the tape for the first time.

Why did Shackleton have to attempt the journey to South Georgia? There were two reasons: he felt his men were too weak to last very long without rescue; no ships passed that way. So Shackleton knew he would have to go for help himself.

Do you think there was any alternative? 2 Listen to the tape again. Write down the problems that Shackleton faced on the rescue attempt and how he overcame them. Shackleton’s problem

How he overcame them

1 To make sure that the group left behind had the best chance of survival

2 How to arrive safely on South Georgia the navigator

3 He arrived on the wrong side of South Georgia.

1 The choice of his party: He took the best navigator and the most difficult crew members so that he left the optimistic and most co-operative people behind.

2 The quality of the navigation: Despite terrible seas checked the ship's position only three .times but managed to arrive safely.

3 The perseverance of the party: They crossed the mountains sometimes sliding on their bottoms and arrived safely.

ll. Listen to the tape on page 51 on Workbook. LISTENING TEXT WHERE DID HUMANS COME FROM? Ex,1. Questions before listening:

1.What theories on the origin of species existed before Darwin's idea? 2.What is Darwin's idea? 3.What was the public reaction to his idea? 4.Does everyone believe in his idea now? 5.What do you think of his idea? Ex. 3

Fill in the information in the chart. Old theory New theory

Who made the different God animals and plants? The theory of evolution that animals developed from earlier species How do you know? From the Bible By collecting evidence How long did it take? Six days Millions of years Where did people come God made them. Developed from monkeys from? Ex. 4 Answer these questions

1 What made Charles Darwin change his mind and explain his new theory? 1

After twenty years Charles Darwin changed his mind and explained his new theory because another biologist also had the same idea. The two of them worked together. 2 What was the public reaction to his book The Origin of Species? 2 The public reaction to the new theory was very fierce. (Everybody was forced to take sides in the debate between the biologists and the Christian Church. Even the Prime Minister of the day, Benjamin Disraeli, was asked his opinion. He said "Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.") 3 Who did he upset? Why did he upset them? 3

He particularly upset all the followers of the Christian church who believed that the Bible came directly from God and therefore every word must be true. 4 How did he handle the criticism? 5. He handled the criticism with tact and patience. III. Listen again and recall what the content is. Play the whole listening text once again and instruct the Ss to listen attentively from the beginning to the end. While listening, try to catch the key words and the general

content of the story then prepare themslves for the next activity. IV. Homework: 1.After class , write down the listenning text withion 50 words. 2. Finish off the exercises on Page 5 and Page 6, and find out the key expressions we have learnt.