Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending课堂实录及点评

Unit2 Sailing the oceans

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 , …

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.instruments seamen used and explain how they used.

Step1. Pre-reading

What are navigational instruments?

●Navigational

instruments were built in the age of exploration to guide the explorers to their destinations.

instrument - an instrument used for navigating

horizon, flight indicator, gyro horizon - a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope; provides an artificial horizon for the pilot compass - navigational instrument for finding directions

Step2

Reading

for

forms

●navigational

artificial

Read

the

text

SAILING

THE

OCEANS

on

page

12 Step 43Discussion Discuss the questions on page11.

Step4 Listening and comprehending

After listening to the contents of the text do the comprehending exercises on page 14&15.

Step5 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 ,

Step6 Discussion

Let’s

the students have a discussion by Topic: Imagine you are on a working in pairs or in groups.

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?Teaching Difficult Points:

a. How to help the students understand the reading passage better. b. How to improve the students’

reading ability. Teaching Methods:

text to get the general idea of it.

a. Scanning the b. Carefully reading to finish the Comprehending exercises on page 14.

c. Discussion after reading to make the students understand the text better.