Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教案及板书设计

Unit 1 Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained Step 1 The title means:“No Pains, No Gains”，so I have a question for you“If you want to achieve your dream, what will you do?”

Step 2 A Successful Failure. Why does the author say it’s a

“successful” failure? Step 3 Some useful background information. 

Who wrote the story?

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What’s the name of the ship?

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In what style is the passage written?

Step 4 Fast reading 1．What’s the main idea of this passage?

A.

How Perce managed to get off the ship.

B．How magnificent the Endurance was.

C．How the staff overcame the difficulties in the exploration.

D．How the Endurance ship reached Elephant Island. 2.How to divide the passage into four parts? STEP 5 Some detailed information about the text. Part one(1-2) - circumstances : desperate

- a new day on Elephant Island 1．What did “Everything was grey” mean?

A．Perce felt sad and was in a very low mood.

B．There was something wrong with Perce’s eyes.

C．The weather was so dark that he could see nothing clearly.

D．He was happy and moved.

2. The smell is, as usual, almost unbearable, being a mixture of sweat, seal oil fat and dirty underwear. 3.句型转换：

Just as I am about to become self-pitying, the door to our shelter opens and a blast of cold air tears

through the hut. 4.…for I am part of a failed expedition that tried to cross the continent of Antarctica, ___________ that had never been done before. A.anything B. something

C. everything

D. nothing

Part Two(3-4)

- expedition: announced

- I secretly joined and accepted as a steward

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1. Why did Blackborow think that being “young, fit and energetic” would encourage Shackleton to take him on the trip?

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2. How did Perce join this expedition?

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3. So it was with great excitement one morning in July 1914 that I read this advertisement.

高考寻影：

It was not until 1920______regular radio broadcast began.

A. Which

B. when

C. that

D since

4.Anyhow,Shackleton seemed interested in my silly behavior…

他告诉我不要买它，但不管怎样，我还是买了.(翻译)

Part Three(5-6)

-The Endurance: stuck in pack ice and crushed

-camp on Elephant Island.

T or F 1. Shackleton felt the men would need encouraging after this disaster.

2.Perce was

20

when they were stuck in the ice.

3. Shackleton had already taken all the necessary supplies from the ship , including some coins and his gold watch.

4. It is the team-spirit that saved our lives.

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1. Soon shackleton set out the framework for our life here.

2.Calling us calmly together, he made an urgent announcement that we must save only essential supplies before the ship sank.

Part Four(7)

-Shackleton and five others sailed to bring help - the rest remained on Elephant Island. 1．Who went to ask for help?

A．All the staff.

B．Half of them.

C．Five persons. D．Six people. 2.What did the people on the island want to do? 3. We who remained on Elephant Island swore that we would do as he advocated: Remain optimistic and recover our health before he returned to rescue us. 4.因为无人知道我们在什么地方，所以别指望任何外部救援。

Step 5：Summary

A Successful Failure

Shackleton was one of the most famous ________ of his day.He began an ________ to the South Pole in August 1914.I was only twenty and I had always dreamed of _________. I was an amateur but I was young，fit and _________.I secretly hid aboard ship，Endurance，in a small cupboard. They didn’t find me_________the ship had sailed. I was suffering badly from ___________.Shackleton seemed interested in my silly ___________ and accepted me. He made me a steward to help cook twentyeight meals three times a day. On January 18th,1915 the Endurance became________in pack ice as we___________ Antarctica.The ship was gradually crushed in front of our eyes.___________us calmly together，Shackleton announced________we must save only essential supplies before the ship sank，particularly the small boats，food，cooking equipment，candles，bedding and clothes. To show his _____________，Shackleton threw some gold coins and his gold watch onto the ice. On April 9th 1916，we moved to Elephant Island. Shackleton _______ five of us with him to go to South Georgia and bring help.We10.____________on Elephant Island to wait for their rescue.