Learning about Language名师教学视频（文字实录）

Period 3 A sample lesson plan for Using Language

(THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL) Introduction Language is learned to be used in and for communication.

So in this period we shall have the students read a narrative writing about sailing at sea. Then they listen and speak about Viking sailing and Polynesian seamen. In the end they are helped to rewrite the story on page 17. Objectives ■

To help students read the passage THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL on page 17 ■

To help students listen and speak about Viking sailing and rewrite the text just read Procedures 1. Warming up by learning something about William Bligh William Bligh in 1814Vice Admiral of the Blue William Bligh, FRS (9 September 1754 - 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. He is best known for the famous mutiny that occurred against his command aboard HMAV (His Majesty's Armed Vessel) Bounty and the remarkable voyage he made to Timor on the Bounty's launch after being set adrift by the mutineers. Many years after the Bounty mutiny he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, with a brief to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the NSW Corps. He had some success in his task but quickly faced opposition which culminated in the Rum Rebellion led by John Macarthur. 2. Reading for forms Read the text THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL on page 17 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. 3. Copying expressions and making sentences catch in a dilemma, risk certain death, sit close together，face an uncertain future, have no charts, take with sb., set the course, make sure, stay on that course, keep

to a straight course, in addition, keep sb. work out the position, take a great deal of time, cope with, drive sb. mad, preserve one’s good spirits, talk hopefully about, get worse, sink into…, take one’s minds off one’s stomachs and thirst, keep sb. alive, set loose, have fever, show the hardships, suffer the hardships, escape the jaws of death, complete the greatest navigational feat of all time 4. Listening and speaking about Viking sailing and Polynesian seamen ●The name Viking is a borrowed word from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, the British Isles, and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. Vikings traveled to the west and Varangians, who were best known as the Varangian Guards of the Byzantine emperors, to the east. This period of European history (generally dated to 793 - 1066 AD) is referred to as the Viking Age. ●Where is Polynesia? A division of Oceania including scattered islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean roughly between New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island. The larger islands are volcanic, the smaller ones generally coral formations. Now go to page 19. Let’s go to listen to something about Viking sailing the oceans. While listening try to circle those aids in the box on page 19 that the early sailors used to find their ways at sea. Now you shall listen to the tape once again to fill in the chart on page 19. On page 20 there are four sayings from Polynesian seamen.

What does each of them mean? Now in pairs talk about each of the sayings. 5. Closing down by writing, by imitation, a passage of your own based on the text on page 17 A possible version I am proud to have traveled with my father on his journey of over 60 days through about 4，000 kilometers in an open car across China in 2006. Our outward journey in the car to Hainan had been filled with the kind of incidents that I thought would be my stories when I returned home．But how wrong I was! On our departure from Taiyuan，

some of the bad men took over the car. They deposited my father onto a small bike to 1et us find our own way home．But what else was to be done? We on the road were caught in a dilemma．

Once we were far away from the bad men，our routine the following three days was the same．At sunrise and sunset my father measured our position listening to the local new on the radio and set the course /using the signs along the road．It was extremely difficult for us to get a correct direction from the radio as the bike moved constantly．I used a system called “people reckoning”．I knew there were villages directly northwest of our original position. So my task was to make sure we discover any of the villages. As you can see now from the map we kept to a straight course pretty well. In addition, my father kept me busy singing songs to overcome our tiredness. Although this took a great deal of strength, it didn’t matter. Songs were, after all, what I had a lot of! You could not imagine a more disturbing sight than what we looked like when arriving in Yaojiagou over three days after being robbed of our open car．Our clothes were torn，we had fever and our faces showed the hardships we had suffered．But after a rest，some good meals and some new clothes，everything changed．We couldn’t stop talking about our journey and everybody wanted to hear about it．We were the heroes who had escaped the jaws of death by completing the greatest traveling feat of all time!