Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending名师教学视频（文字实录）

Unit 1

Nothing Ventured

Nothing Gained

Period 1& 2 Reading comprehension (Intensive Reading1) Teaching Goals: I. Emotional learning: 1) Ss should get to know the thorough meaning of the saying “

No pains, No ganis”. Meanwhile, put their effort into the practice of pusuiting high goal and a further success in life. 2) To relate the Ss to teacher to cooperate with each other then form a reletively harmoney and fair atmosphere in class over learning period. II. Teaching Important Points: 1) To inspire the Ss to be involved in the hot topic of “

Championship in life”

and lead the Ss to follow the examples of the heroes in Guiness Record. 2) Above all, Ss’s reading comprehension is based on their familarity with the expressions and the usage of the words. Thus, teaching the words and expressions is a task before the reading activity and after readhing. III. Teaching Difficulty: 1) How to use the expressions and how to consolide the knowledge after reading. 2) How to help the Ss to read smoothly while reading period and dig out the indicated theme of the text. Teaching Procedures: Step I . Warming Up Do you know “不入虎穴，焉得虎子”

in Chinese?

How can we say the same meaning in English? Nothing brave, nothing have.

Nothing seek, nothing find.

Nothing stake, nothing draw.

Nothing venture, nothing win (or have or gain).

Nothing crave, nothing have.

Sow nothing, reap nothing.

He who risks nothing, gains nothing.

He who risks nothing gains nothing.

If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.

Tasks: Read and listen to the three stories on P1. And try to think out the characters they have in common. What do you think helped them out and achieved success in life? King Bruce is watching the spider weaving its web. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a hole on a hill from the English. He watched a spider (蜘蛛) making a web. Bruce is said to have got confidence from this and to have gone on to beat the English. Anne Sullivan is teaching Helen Keller by feeling or touching. Helen Keller, born a normal little girl, but at the age of 19 months

became iii and lost her hearing and her sight. She and her family was in despair until they met Anne Sullivan. Her work with Helen was very successful. After college, Helen gave lecture tours speaking about her experiences and her beliefs. They worked very hard to raise money, to encourage people to educate blind and deaf children.

Gou Jian is sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall. Gou Jian was the ruler of the kingdom of Yue, conquered by the neighboring kingdom of Wu. He was made a slave and suff-ered many hardships. But his tolerance earned the trust of the King of Wu and eventually he was set free. But he never forgot his suffering, slept on firewood and straw every night, and tasted bitter gall-bladder until his kingdom was strong enough and he attacked the King of Wu and killed him.

Something in common in the heroes above: (ask the Ss to summerize them and write the qualities on the Bb) make up one’s mind,

be determined to do sth,

persevere with,

stick at, persist in,

not give up, not be discouraged by,

keep going, keep trying, keep positive, etc. Positive adj. patient,

resilient, persevering, resourceful, focused,

serious, determined, strong-willed Negative adj. obstinate, stubborn,

pig-headed Discussion 1. What conclusion can we draw from the three stories? 2. By what did they achieve their success? 3. How do you regard the behaviour of Gou Jian? 4. What can we learn from them? Step II. Reading comprehension The “spider-story”

is often told as an example of this. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a hole on a hill from the English. He watched a spider (蜘蛛) making a web. Bruce is said to have got confidence from this and to have gone on to beat the English. Edison, too, the inventor of the light bulb (电灯泡), made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one.

So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were you in high spirit then? What can you change so that things will go right the next time?

Second, is the goal (目标) you are trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about this question: “If I am successful in this, where will it get me?”

This may help to prevent failure in the things you shouldn’t be doing anyway.

The third thing to remember about failure is that it’s a part of life. Learn to “live with yourself”

even though you may have failed. Remember, “You can’t win them all.”

1. Robert Bruce was mentioned in the passage to show that______.

A. people who fail are not lonely

B. animals can help people sometimes

C. nature will help us if we are hard-working

D. confidence is important for one to be successful

2. Edison’s example shows us that______.

A. he liked to do other kinds of work

B. he invented many kinds of light bulbs

C. failure may be a way towards success

D. he was a man of many important inventions

3. If you are not sure about what success will get you, you’d better .

A. change your goal

B. go on with your goal

C. not care for that

D. work even harder on your goal

4. It can be learned from the passage that .

A. one should try not to fail

B. one’s failure is another’s success

C. one should take failure seriously

D. one should learn lessons from failure

5. This passage is mainly about .

A. two great men

B. two sides of failure

C. the right attitude (态度) towards failure

D. ways to keep away from failure

Keys: DCBAC Step III. Reading

1)

(project:Unit 1 Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained A Successful Failure ) Have you ever had a hardest experience or faced a greatest challenge? What is it? How did you go through it? What lessons have you learned from it? venture

seasickness Scottish

suffering

strengthen

endurance

hut

stove

unbearable

cosy

breathless

Circumstance blacken

rotten blast

hoarse

bless

selfish

hook

aboard

web

anyhow 冒险

晕船

苏格兰的

痛苦,艰难

力量

忍受,持久

小屋

火炉

不能承受的

舒适的

呼吸困难的

情况

变黑

腐烂的

一阵风

嘶哑的

保佑

自私的

钓钩,上钩

到/在船上

网格

不管怎样

steward

crush

mourn

urgent

bedding

vital

cheerful

faith

rank morale

select

persevere

perseverance

framework

booming

swear

advocate block out

give way to

give off

管事,服务员

破碎,压破

哀悼,惋惜

紧急

卧具

生命的

欢乐的

信仰

等级

道德

精选

坚持

框架

咆哮的

发誓

提倡

遮盖

退出;屈服

发生;释放

2) Try to skim through the passage and get the main plot of the story. The main plot of the story This is the true story of one young man, Perce Blackborow, who hid aboard the ship that took Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the South Pole. He was accepted by him, once he was found, and became a steward and cook for the rest of the expedition.

When the ship was crushed by ice, Perce was one of those left behind on Elephant Island to wait for rescue. Shackleton and a few others set out through very dangerous seas to South Georgia Island to get help so that they could all be saved.

The conditions for those left on Elephant Island were very bad. They had little food, other than penguin or seal, problems keep-ing warm, problems melting the ice for water and protecting their fingers and toes from frostbite. Perce had to have his toes removed because they bad become affected by the cold.

Nevertheless the small group remained loyal to their captain's instructions: to remain cheerful and optimistic despite all difficulties. Above all they worked to stay alive till Shackleton returned to rescue them. 3) Answer some questions: 1. Where is the reading passage set? 2. Why is the title of the passage “A successful failure”? Was the expedition a failure? Was it a success? 3. Who does Perce admire and why? 4) Words and expressions explained 1

... almost blocking out the memories of happier times. The expression to block out here is used in an idiomatic way. The verb literally means to stop light reaching a place but it is used in this context to mean to stop remembering things. 2 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. This is a compound word that means to feel sorry for oneself and in the story Perce is about to feel very sorry for himself because of the desperate situation they are in. 3 I believe Shackleton must have mourned this unexpected end to his expedition, but he did not waste time on regrets. To mourn for someone or something means that you are very sad that a person has died or a thing has ended. 5) Ideas understood

1. Why were Perce and his colleagues left on Elephant Island? 2. Why did Perce not apply for the expedition like everyone else? 3. Why is he unable to think of happier times as he lies inside his sleeping bag? 4. What are his problems? 5. Do you think he has a sensible approach to his situation ? Why ? II. After Reading 1) Discussion of ideas

1. Which is more valuable: a man's life or visiting a previously unvisited spot? 2. What precautions should have been taken before the expedition in case of emergency?