Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计第一课时

M9U2 Sailing the oceans

Teaching Aims: 1.

Key words and expressions navigate

navigator

navigation

navigational

explore

2.

Talk about sailing the oceans. 3.

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 17th

century when they were navigating the open sea without seeing the land. Teaching methods: 1.Discussion to arouse the students’

interest in sailing and exploring the ocean 2.Individual , pair or group work to make every student work in class. Teaching aids: The multimedia, the blackboard Teaching procedures: Step 1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. Step 2 Presentation Present the students a map of the world and tell them”Today we

are going to learn a new unit ‘Sailing the oceans’. Then ask them to turn to page 11 and give them a few minutes to have a discussion. Step 3 Discussion In pairs discuss the questions on page 11. After a few minutes, ask some pairs to speak out their result of the discussion. Then sum up and check the answer. Step 4 Pre-speaking Ask the students if they want to know some famous navigators and explorers.Then present them some pictures and some related information about them. a.

About Zheng He. b.

About Marco Polo. c.

About James Cook. d.

About Ferdinand Magellan. Step 5 Pre-reading How do you think seaman found their way before modern accurate methods of navigation were invented? How did they navigate so well? Step 6 Reading

Read about what navigation was like before modern instruments were used.

1.

Fast-reading to get the general idea. 2.

Detailed

reading Listen to the tape and then answerthe questions

Step 7 Homework