Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学实录及点评

A sample lesson plan for reading Sailing the oceans Introduction In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to learn about navigational instruments. Then they will be helped to read an exposition about sailing the oceans.

Teaching Aims:

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To help students learn to express causes and effects

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To help students better understand “sailing”

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To help students learn to use some important words and expressions 4.

To improve Ss’ interests of learning English.

Important points and Difficult points: To help students learn to use some important words and expressions.

To know sth. About the ocean.

Aids Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams

Procedures 1．

Warming up

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T asks Ss pay attention to a map of the world, and then tell the name of oceans.1 ⑵

Warming up by talking about Zheng He's Seven Voyages[来源:学科网]

In July 11, 1405, the eunuch Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty royal court set out on his first overseas voyage. In the following 28 years, this navigator proceeded to carry out six more voyages, accompanied by a huge entourage of nearly 30,000 people. By traveling throughout Southeast Asia, and around the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea and East Africa, he also landed at over thirty different nations. He was the earliest largest scale navigation in world history, coming more than half a century earlier than Columbus'famous exploits... 2. Pre-reading by learning about navigational instruments

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artificial 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

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depth finder - navigational instrument used to measure the depth of a body of water (as by ultrasound or radar) ◇

inclinometer - an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon ◇

instrument - a device that requires skill for proper use ◇

asdic, echo sounder, sonar - a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return; sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging; asdic is an acronym for anti-submarine detection investigation committee 3.Reading for forms

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Fast Reading

To get the general idea. 4. Copying useful expressions and making sentences You are going to copy in your notebook all the useful expressions and make sentences of your own with them. 5. Transforming information Next you are going to read the text again to complete the chart below. SAILING THE OCEANS ■Using nature to help keeping alongside the ■Using navigational instruments to help

coastline

●Using celestial bodies: North Star; Sun; ●finding longitude

Clouds ●Using wildlife: Seaweed; Birds ●Finding latitude: The Bearing Circle; The Astrolabe; The Quadrant; The sextant ●Using the weather: Fog; Winds ●Using the sea

6. Reading the text again to decide on the type of writing and summary of SAILING THE OCEAN

Type of writing and summary of SAILING THE OCEAN Type SAILING THE OCEAN Using nature to help:

Keeping alongside the coastline, using celestial bodies, using wildlife, using the weather, using the sea Using navigational instruments to help:

Finding longitude, Finding latitude 7．Making a diagram of SAILING THE OCEAN exposition SAILING THE OCEANS （An exposition）

Using nature to keep alongside coastline

Part 1

Using navigational instruments to help

Part 2

Using celestial bodies

finding longitude

Using wildlife

Using the weather

Finding latitude

Using the sea

8. Closing down by answering comprehension questions1. What is the main topic of this passage? A. The voyages of the travelers before the 17th century

B. How to plot a ship’s position on a map

C. How did ancient men navigate so well D. Use nature to aid navigation 2. Ancient navigators use navigational instruments to help them _____. [来源:学科网ZXXK]

A. find celestial bodies B. predict the weather C. explore the sea D. find latitude 3. The author of the passage implies that the ancient navigators were _____. A. hard-working B. brave C. intelligent D. energetic

4. According to the passage, _____. A. the ancient accomplished navigators were able to use South Star to plot their positions．

B. Sea birds could be used to show the way to land when it was nowhere to be seen．

C. Wise seamen used the snows to direct their sailing．

D. The sextant proved to be the most accurate and reliable of these early navigational instruments．

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