Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending课堂实录

Unit2 sailing the ocean

Period 1 Warming up and reading

Teaching important points

1.Let students learn about the use of the early navigational instruments. 2. Get students to read the passage and know about how to sail the ocean. 3. Have students learn different reading skills. Teaching difficult points

1. Develop students’ reading ability.

2. Enable students to talk about sailing the ocean. 3. Let students learn how to use the navigational instruments. 教学目标

1. Develop students’ reading ability.

2. Let students read the passage and know the use of a compass. 学情分析

1.

Students know little about sailing. 2.

Students are hard to master the detailed multiple choices. 重点难点

1.

Let students learn how to sail the ocean. 2.

Enable students to talk about the early navigational instruments. 3.

Have students learn different reading skills

4.

Teaching methods

1. Task-based teaching and learning 2. Discussion 3. Practice 教学过程

Step 1 Lead-in 1. Let students enjoy some pictures about sailing. Step 2 Warming Up

1. Ask students to discuss two questions: 1 What is a navigator? 2.What is the difference between a navigator and an explorer?

Step 3 Pre-reading

Look at the pictures. Then answer the questions. 1

How do you think seamen found their way before modern accurate methods of navigation were invented? 2 Which do you think was easier to work out: latitude or longitude? 3. Can you identify these early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they

are used? 4 Which ones do you think are still used today? Sea charts are still used today. Step 4 Comprehending Listen and answer Read the passage and answer the following questions. 1 What is the use of a bearing circle, astrolabe, quadrant or sextant? 2 Why are speed and time important in working out the longitude of a ship? 3 Why is the position of the sun and various stars useful for working out latitude?

Suppose you were a sea captain aiming to sail round Africa. Discuss in groups: 1 What skills would you seek in your sailors 2. What problems would you anticipate for this journey? 3. What would you do if you came across the following problems during your voyage? Read the chart below and fill in your plans of action to deal with them.

Using instruments

Step5 Homework

1. Learn the useful words and expressions in this part by heart. 2. Read the reading passage again and try to retell it in your own words.