Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending第一课时教学实录

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Unit 2

Sailing the oceans

教案

Period 1 Reading I. Teaching aims: 1. Enable the students to have some knowledge of early navigational methods. 2. Learn and master the key words and expressions 3. Explain how seamen explored the oceans and what kind of navigational instruments were used to sailors before the 17th century when they were navigating the open seas without seeing the land. Ⅱ. Teaching important points:

1. How to help the students understand the reading passage better. 2. How to improve the students’ reading ability.

Ⅲ. Teaching difficult points: Train the students’ reading ability

(skimming, detail reading, distinguishing different styles of articles) Ⅳ. Teaching methods: Cooperative learning, task-based learning Ⅴ. Teaching aids:

A computer, a blackboard, a tape-record Ⅵ. Teaching procedures: StepⅠ

Lead-in * Show the students some pictures to see if they can identify the early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they used.

Step Ⅱ

Pre-reading 1. Ask Ss to quickly glance at the five text and answer the questions designed for this part. 2. Get the Ss know some reading strategies: skimming, detail reading and paying attention to the words that frequently appeared in the text and equally important, their relative words. Step Ⅲ

Reading 1. Ask the Ss to read the text quickly and dhe comprehending exercises on page 14&15. 2. Ask the Ss to read the text in detail, underline the information they didn’t know before and 1

write down five facts that they consider to be the most interesting and exchange information in groups’ work.

Step IV

Explanation After comprehending, it is a good time to deal with the new words and language points in this part, esp. the following:

*minimum, accelerate, updated, tendency reliable * at the mercy of, even though, be used to, in relation to, aim to ,

Step V Discussion

Ask the Ss tos to have a discussion by working in pairs or in groups. Topic: Imagine you are on a boat with twenty-nine other people. You have a small box for your personal things but it can only hole ten items. What would you need for a week’s journey across the North Sea to England? Step Ⅵ

Homework Finish the exercises about using words and expression on page 61. 2