Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending第一课时导学案

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans The First Period

Speaking Teaching Aims:

a. Key words and expressions

navigate, navigator, navigation, navigational; explore, explorer, exploration b. Talk about sailing the oceans. Teaching Methods: Discussion to arouse the students’ interest in sailing and exploring the oceans.

Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class. Teaching Aids: The multimedia; a tape recorder; the blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual.

Step2

Revision

Check the homework exercises. Step 3 Presentation Present the students a map of the world and tell them “Today we are going to learn a new unit “Sailing the oceans”. Then ask them to turn to page 11 and give them a few minutes to have a discussion.

Step 4 Discussion

In pairs discuss the questions on page11.This discussion is intended for students to explore the difference between a navigator and an explorer. This difference is important to establish because it encourages students to appreciate shades of meaning in the definitions f words and also because it establishes the idea of categories. After a few minutes, ask some pairs to speak out their result of the discussion. Then sum up and check the answers. A navigator explores new routes across the sea. An explorer discovers new places on land.

A navigator is somebody who finds the position and plots the course of a ship, an aircraft, a car, etc, using maps and instruments. An explorer is somebody who travels into or through a place in order to learn about it. Very often navigators are also explorers. In history there are four famous voyage explorers in the world, including Zheng He in China, James Cook in England, Christopher Columbus in Spain and Abel Tasman in Holland. In this unit we’ll

talk about Zheng He, James Cook and some other explorers like Marco Polo and Captain Bligh. Step 5 Pre-speaking Ask the students if they want to know some famous navigators and explorers. Then present them some pictures and some related information about them. 1.

About Zheng He. 2.

About Marco Polo 3.

About James Cook 4.

About Ferdinand Magellan

Step 6 Speaking

After showing the students the pictures and their background information, ask the students to think about the question: How do you think seamen found their way before modern accurate methods of navigation were invented? If time is limited, this can be left as their homework. Step 7 Homework 1. Read the new words. 2. Preview Reading SAILING THE OCEANS on page 12. The Second Period Reading Teaching Aims:

a. Learn and master the key words and expressions

voyage mercy minimum nowhere pole overhead offshore accelerate outward longitude latitude precise simplify portable shortcoming updated tendency reliable at the mercy of, even though, work out, be used to, in relation to, aim to , …

b. Train the students’ reading ability. Let the students have some knowledge of early navigational methods. Explain how seamen explored the oceans and what kind of navigational instruments were used to sailors before the 17th century when they were navigating the open seas without seeing the land. Teaching Difficult Points: a.

How to help the students understand the reading passage better. b.

How to improve the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Methods: a.

Scanning the text to get the general idea of it. b.

Carefully reading to finish the Comprehending exercises on page 14. c.

Discussion after reading to make the students understand the text better. Teaching Aids: The multimedia; a tape recorder; the blackboard Teaching procedures & ways

Step1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual.

Step2 Revision

Check the homework exercises. Step3 Pre-reading Show the students some pictures to see if they can identify the early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they used. Step 4 Discussion Discuss the questions on page11. Step 5 Listening and comprehending After listening to the contents of the text do the comprehending exercises on page 14&15. Step 6 Explanation After comprehending, it is a good time to deal with the new words and language points in this part, esp. the following: voyage mercy minimum nowhere pole overhead offshore accelerate outward

longitude latitude precise simplify portable shortcoming updated tendency reliable at the mercy of, even though, work out, be used to, in relation to, aim to ,

Step7 Discussion Let’s the students have a discussion by working in pairs or in groups.

Topic: Imagine you are on a boat with twenty-nine other people. You have a small box for your personal things but it can only hole ten items. What would you need for a week’s journey across the North Sea to England?

Suggested Answer: Category Clothes Hygiene Bedding Items shirt, trousers soap blanket Category Shoes Tools Medicines Items waterproof

boots knife,

scissors

sea-sick

tablets, cold

medicine

Games cards, chess Books novels, collections

Step8 Summary

This reading explains how seamen explored the oceans and what kind of navigational instruments were used to sailors before the seventeenth century when they were navigating the open seas without seeing the land. Step9 Homework Finish the exercises about using words and expression on page61.

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