Listening and vocabulary教学设计模板

Module 6

Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary 教学设计

Teaching Goals: 1. To let Ss master how to get useful information from a passage. 2. To let Ss master some words and phrases. 3. To get Ss to talk something about a monster. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision:

Purpose: To check whether Ss master what they’ve learnt in the last period or not. Ask Ss to answer the following questions. (1) What will the Yeti do when it gets angry? (2) What does the Bigfoot look like? (3) Where does the Grey man live? (4) What’s the Loch Ness Monster like? Suggested Answers: (1) It will attack anyone who goes close to it. (2) It looks like a very large monkey – tall and hairy with big arms and legs. (3) The Grey man lives on mountains in Scotland. (4) It has a small head and a long tail and some people believe it is a dinosaur. Step 2. Leading-in Purpose: To let Ss have a discussion about the Monster of Lake Tianchi. 1. Group work Show four pictures and ask Ss to say something about the Lake Tianchi and the monster.

2. Group work

Let Ss reported their discussions to the class and collect them. Then give a simple introduction to lead in the reading.

Lake Tianchi is located in the north-eastern Jilin province near the border of North Korea, in

Step 3. Reading Purpose: To improve Ss’ reading skills. 1. Skimming

Ask Ss to read the beginning of the passage and finish Activity 1 on page 52. Suggested Answers:

A newspaper.

2. Scanning

(1) Ask Ss to read the first paragraph quickly and answer the two questions. ①

According to the text, what did the monster look like? ②

How many people saw it?

Suggested Answers:

①

Black in color; jumped like a seal; its head looked like a horse. ②

About 200

(2) Ask Ss to read the second paragraph and answer the questions: ①

Who else saw the animal? ②

What were they doing? ③

What did it look like? Suggested Answers: ①

A group of soldiers ②

They were walking along the side of the lake. ③

It was greenish-black and had a round head with 10cm horns. (3) Ask Ss to read the third and fourth paragraph and answer the questions. ①

What did Li Xiaohe see? ②

Why could they see the animal clearly? Suggested Answers: ①

A round black creature moving quickly through the water. After 300 or 400 meters it dived into the water. ②

The weather was fine and the lake was calm. (4) Ask Ss to read the third and fourth paragraph and answer the questions. ①

How long was the history of reports of monsters in Lake Tianchi? ②

What do many people think?

Suggested Answers: ②

Since the beginning of the last century ②

The monster may be a distant cousin of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland and there might be similar creatures in other lakes around the world (5) Ask Ss to read the last paragraph and give the following information about Lake Tianchi: Height:

①

Area:

②

Depth:

③

Suggested Answers:

①

2189 m

②

10 km2

③

370 m deep in some places 4. Post-reading

Ask Ss to do Activity 4 on page 53. Then check their answers. Suggested Answers:

(1) a

(2) a

(3) a

(4) b

(5) c

(6)a

(7) a

(8) c

(9) c

(10) b Step 4.

Language Points

Purpose: To let Ss understand the passage well. 1.Group work Ask Ss to discuss the important and difficult language points in groups. (1) It often gets angry and will attack anyone who goes close to it. (Page 51)

它经常生气，会袭击靠近它的任何人. attack

vt & vi

袭击

Eg ①

A girl was attacked and robbed by two strong men. ②

The enemy attacked during the night.

(2) He claims to have seen a round black creature moving quickly through the water. （Page 52）

他说他看见一个圆形黑色的东西在湖面快速游过。

claim vt宣称，声称（后可跟that从句或动词不定式）

Eg ①

I don’t claim to be an expert.

②

He claimed he should be given a fairer opportunity.

(3) It is 2,189 metres high and covers an area of about ten square kilometers. （Page 52）

天池海拔2189米，面积有10平方公里

cover an area of意为“占有……空间”,也可以只用cover表示此意。

Eg The town covers (an area of) 5 square miles.

(4) They say that the low-temperature lake is unlikely to be able to support such large living creatures. （Page 52）他们说，温度低的湖中不可能存活如此大的生物。

◆

be (un)likely to do…

（不）可能做……

Eg You’re likely to catch a cold if you go out now. 2. Individual work Ask Ss to fill the blanks of the summary according to the passage. The “Monster”

of Lake Tianchi, the highest __(1)__ lake in the world, is __(2)__ after several recent sightings. But no one has ever got a clear look at the __(3)__ creature. In one sighting, as is __(4)__ by the director of a local tourist office, it is black and __(5)__ the water like a seal. In another recent sighting, a group of soldiers watched it __(6)__ for about 2 minutes. A third report came from a family who __(7)__ to __(8)__ a round black creature __(9)__ quickly through the water and then __(10)__the water. Many people think the monster may be a __(11)__cousin of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. Scientists, however, are __(12)__, because the low-temperature lake is __(13)__ to be able to __(14)__ such a large __(15)__ creature.

Suggested Answers: (1) volcanic

(2) back in the news

(3) mysterious

(4) claimed (5) jumped out of (6) swimming

(7) claimed

(8) have seen

(9) moving (10) diving into (11) distant (12) sceptical

(13) unlikely

(14) support

(15) living

Step 6. Homework . Ask Ss to finish Reading exercises in the Workbook on pages 99~101.