Unit 8 Adventure
Lesson 4 Journey to the Antarctic
Background Information
Topic: Journey to the Antarctic
Type: Reading
Time Duration: 30 mins
Students: students of senior high school Grade 2
Teaching Aims: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
Knowledge Aim: (1 ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )) Learn and master some words and expressions: preparation, prepare for, sledge, shocked, ambition, cheerful
(2) Hav ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e a good understanding of journey to the Antarctic
(3) Know about the great explores
Ability Aim: (1) Improve the ability of fast reading, using the reading skills: scanning and skimming
(2) Improve the ability of fast reaction, judgment and imagination
(3) Improve the ability of retelling the text according to the key words
(4) Master the reading strategies: dealing with difficult words to guess the part of speech and the meanings from the context.
Moral Aim: Fr ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )om the moving stories of the great explores, we can learn the spirit of courage, never giving-up, persistence, toughness, perseverance and resolution from the explorers.
Key Points:
To teach the following ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) words and expressions: prepare for, sledge, shocked, ambition, cheerful
To get the students to grasp the main idea of the text.
Difficult Points:
To get the st ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )udents to master the reading skill of guessing words in the context.
To get the students to grasp the main idea of the text.
Teaching Method: Situational Approach and Communicative Approach
Teaching Aids: Photos, chalk, PPT
Teaching Procedure:
Pre-reading:
Warm-up with some photos and questions
Ask students to tell the name of the activity in each photo.
Name: skiing, rowing, bungee jumping, climbing rocks,
Polar exploring
Ask students the following questions:
Where is Antarctic
What’s the weather like, pleasant sunny or terrible snowy
Key: (1) the South Pole (2) terrible snowy
Show the pho ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )tos to the students, photo 1 is penguin in the Antarctic; photo 2 is polar bear in the arctic.
While-reading
Step I Read the t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ext quickly and get the main idea of the text, use the reading skill: skimming.
Main idea: The race of 2 groups to the Antarctic
1st group led by Scott, 2nd group led by Amundsen
Step II Read the text again and divide the text.
Part1 (para1-2) Start
Part2 (para3-4) Arriving
Part3 (para5-9) Return
Step III Read each part again and find some specific information.
Part1. Questions: (1) Who led the groups
(2) What preparation did they do
Answers: (1) Scott and Amundsen.
(2) Both teams organized food bases in preparation for their journey.
Part2. Questions: (1) When did they leave
(2) When did they reach
(3) Who is the first and why
Answers: (1 ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )) Scott left on 1 Nov. 1911, Amundsen left on 15 Oct. 1911.
(2) Scott reached th ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ere on 17, Jan. 1912; Amundsen reached there on 14, Dec.1911.
(3) Amundsen is th ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e first, because he had teams of dogs to pull the sledges and all his men were on skis. Scott had some problems.
Part3. Question: What caused Scott’s death
Answer: There ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )are 4 reasons: (1) shortage of food (2) physical exhaustion (3) carrying rocks for scientific research (4) the terrible weather condition.
Group Work: Is Scott a hero or a loser
(encourage them to express their own opinions freely)
Step V Reading skill: guess the new words
Ask students: H ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ow do you deal with the new words Usually, there are 3 ways to deal with them, they are: look up a dictionary, omit, guess, which way do you think is the best Look up the dictionary is time consuming, omit may cause difficulty in understanding, only the last one—guess does not have such problems. But how to guess the new words
Three steps to guess the new words.
Identifying the part of speech
According to the co ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ntext and word formation, try to guess the meanings.
Check and translation. If necessary, look up a dictionary.
New words as examples.
preparation: (N) the act of making ready for something
Prepare for
E.g. With summer comi ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ng around, it’s time to prepare for our final exams.
(2) sledge: (N) equipment used for moving on snow 雪橇
(3) break down: (of a machine) to stop working
E.g. The old electric fan has broken down. We’ll buy a new one.
Post-reading:
Retell the story according to the two routines:
Scott: start→arriving→return
↑ ↑
Difficulty die
Amundsen: start→arriving→return
↑ ↑
Successful alive
Summary
In this lesson ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ), we learned the stories of the polar explores, from which we learn the spirit of courage, never giving-up, persistence, toughness, perseverance and resolution. They moved us a lot. Also, we learn a new way to deal with the new words, which is to guess.
Homework
After class, I hope ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) you can further study the text and find some information about Marek Kaminski and Helen Thayer. Make a table list like this:
Nationality;
Age:
Explorations:
Greatest journey:
Method of travel:
Aims of exploration:
Other activities:
(2) Write an impres ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )sion of the text and gather the similar stories. In the next class, make a presentation.
Blackboard Design:
Lesson 4 Journey to the AntarcticI. Main idea and division II. Skill &Words III. RetellMain idea: 1. preparation Scott: start→arriving→return Two groups have a race. (N) 准备 ↑ ↑Part1 (1-2) Start prepare for Difficult diePart2 (3-4) Arriving 2. sledge 雪橇 Amundsen→arriving→returnPart3 (5-9) Return 3.break down ↑ ↑ IV. Homework Successful alive
Reflection: