Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优质课教案

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans

Warming up pre-reading and Reading Teaching objectives

Knowledge objectives

1 Students can read the passage by using some reading strategies including fast reading and careful reading.

2 Students can know and talk about some stories about sailing oceans. Ability Objectives

1 Students can grasp the main ideas by reading the passage. 2.

Students can write a passage to introduce a great navigator and know how to use scientific methods to do something.

Emotional objectives

1 Students can be encouraged by the strength of the great navigators.

2 Students will have more interest to explore the future world. Teaching Key Points 1 Students will learn to improve their reading ability by using some reading skills. 2 Students can learn some useful words and expressions. Teaching Difficult Points How to improve the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Steps Step1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. Step2 Presentation Present the students a map of the world and tell them “Today we are going to learn a new unit “Sailing the oceans”. and then discuss the questions on the blackboard. Step 3Discussion Discuss the questions and share the answers in pairs. A navigator explores new routes across the sea. An explorer discovers new places on land. A navigator is somebody who finds the position and plots the course of a ship, an aircraft, a car, etc, using maps and instruments. An explorer is somebody who travels into or through a place in order to learn about it. Very often navigators are also explorers.

In history there are four famous voyage explorers in the world, including Zheng He in China, James Cook in England, Christopher Columbus in Spain and Abel Tasman in Holland. In this unit we’ll talk about Zheng He, James Cook and some other explorers like Marco Polo and Captain Bligh. Step 4Pre-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. 1. About Zheng He. 2. About Marco Polo 3. About James Cook 4. About Ferdinand Magellan Step 5 Speaking Make a short dialog according to the discussion and then practice the speaking.

Step 6 Homework I Finish off the exercises on the text book. 2 Recite the useful words and expressions of the lesson.