Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教案教学设计

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Reading Teaching Aims:

a. Learn and master the key words and expressions

incident departure crew deposit dilemma drawback dusk routine pretty starvation extreme psychologically tension gradually foresee thirst hardship b. Train the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Difficult Points: a. How to help the students understand the reading passage better. b. How to improve the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Methods: a.

Scanning the text to get the general idea of it and do some other comprehending exercises. b.

Discussion after reading to make the students understand the text better. Teaching Aids: The multimedia; a tape recorder; the blackboard Teaching procedures & ways

Step1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual.

Step2 Check the exercises.

Suggested answers to Exercise3:

1.

I have gradually accepted the routine at school now that I am in the advanced class and make my own study plan. 2.

The drawback of using that girl for the advertising was her square jaw which made her look unfriendly. 3.

Mathematics is a subject which demands precise and accurate work. 4.

In the park I saw a small boy holding the string of a kite overhead, which was rising and falling at the mercy of the wind. 5.

That explorer wanted to secure his place in history by being the first man to reach the South Pole. 1

Step3 Reading a. Listen to the passage and then let them do some true or false questions according to the text. 1. I was forced to join Captain Bligh in the small boat.

2. After the crew took over the ship “Boundy”, Captain Bligh was allowed to take with him a chart, a compass and a quadrant. 3. It was very difficult for us to get a correct reading from the quadrant as the boat moved constantly during the course.

4. Captain Bligh used a system called “dead reckoning” and he knew there was land directly southwest of their original position.

5. We completely believed Captain Bligh when he talked hopefully about what we would do when we got back to England. 6. Captain Bligh was as weak as the rest of us but he was determined not to give up. 7. Captain Bligh kept us busy and tried to take our minds off our stomach and thirst all the way. 8. We finally escaped the jaws of death and arrived in Timor over fifty days after being set loose in our small boat. Answers: (FFTFFTTF) b. Give the students a few minutes to read the passage again and then get the general idea of the text.

This is the storey of Captain Bligh’s amazing journey across the Pacific Ocean in an open boat with his followers after another group of sailors under Fletcher Christian had taken over the ship. Later Captain Bligh and his men made for the island of Timor using a combination of navigational skill and “dead reckoning”, which is guessing the correct direction. The voyage lasted over 40 days and was one of the greatest examples of survival at sea.

c. Explain some difficult sentences, phrases and words. Step4 Discussion

Discuss these situations in fours and then hold a class discussion. 1.

Would you have behaved like the person in the reading and joined Captain Bligh 2

in the open boat or stayed on the “Bounty”? You should have reasons for your choice. 2. At the time that the nineteen men in the boat sailed for Timor they did not know if they would survive or not. What do you think were the most important things they would need to take with them? Who should decide these items? Remember that the boat was already very full with people and could not hold very much more. 3. Many men who wanted to go into the boat were unable to because of the lack of space. If they stayed on the “Bounty” and were caught by the British navy, they should be killed according to the law. 4. What would the students have done to avoid being caught and punished if they had been part of the group who took over the “Bounty”? Would they have gone back to Tahiti or looked for another place to live? Which place would be the safest? 5. After the discussion let students prepare for the speaking exercise and encourage them to make notes of their ideas. Follow this format: Discuss in pairs.

Make a list of the ideas. 6. Swap ideas with another pair and resolve differences. Make a new list of the ideas.

7. One member of the group should give the ideas to the class in turn. Other groups can discuss these ideas and evaluate them. Step5 Homework

1.Finish exercises in workbook. 2.After class write a report to your letter explaining to him why you think Captain Bligh should or should not receive the medal.

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