Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计及教案分析

A Teaching plan for Unit 2,Book 9 (NSEFC)

The First Period Warming up, Pre-reading& Reading

by

Lei Yun

Huangshi No.2 Middle School, Hubei Province I.Teaching Aims:

教学目标

1.To get students to talk about navigators and navigational aids. 2.To develop students' reading skills such as skimming, scanning . 3.To make students understand how ancient navigators plot the course and how navigational aids develop. 4.To arouse students' interest in navigation and navigational skills. II.Teaching Difficult Points: 教学难点

1.How to help the students understand the reading passage better. 2.How to improve develop students’ reading skills. III.Teaching Aids:教学工具

The multimedia; the blackboard IV.Teaching procedures 教学步骤

Step1 Warming up T presents pictures of navigators and gets students to talk about what they know about them. Then guide students to define “navigator” and tell the difference between a navigator and an explorer. Navigators:Zheng He, Marco Polo, James Cook A navigator ___________________; an explorer ___________________________. Step2 Pre-reading T presents pictures of navigational aids and gets students to talk about what they know about them. Navigational aids:compass,astrolabe,quadrant, sextant Step3 Reading

1.

Skimming:to get the students choose the answer for two reading comprehension questions and complete the mind map with the aid of subtitles. 2.

Scanning:to get students to scan for detailed information to fill in the chart and find out how navigational instruments work. Step 4 Language focus

T deals with some key words and long sentence. 1.

at the mercy of

2.

reference 3.

update 4.

in relation to

Step 5

Discussion Let’s the students have a discussion by working in groups of four. Topic: What would you do if you came across the following problems during your voyage?

Step 6 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. Step7 Homework Asks students to listen and read the text again and do the comprehending exercises on page 14&15.