Unit 12 Fact and fantasy ,Senior 2
The third period Reading
Teaching goals
1. Learn and master the useful words and phrases
2. Train the students ’ reading ability
3. Let the students learn about the French writer Jules Verne and his two famous science fictions
Teaching important points
1. Improve the students’ reading ability
2. Master the useful phrases and sentence:
fantasy collision permanent phenomenon hesitate etc
make a living lay the foundation of be believed to on a voyage ect
(1) Many of the instruments in his novels will remind the reader of Dr Benjamin Franklin’s experiments with electricity.
(2) By taking the scientific development of his day one step further ,Jules Verne laid the foundation of modern science fiction.
(3) Ships are disappearing all over the world and it is believed to be caused by a sea monster.
(4) Dressed in diving suits ,Captain Nemo and his guests walk around this magic world ,lighted by the lamps of the ship .
(5) But at other moments you will find him gentle and weak, as when he cries about the lost lives of people drowned in ships that have sunk .
Teaching difficult points
1. How to make the students understand the passage better
2. How to help the students finish all the exercises in Post-reading
Teaching method
1. Discussion before reading to make students learn more about some scientific facts .
2. Skimming method to find the general idea of each paragraph .
3. Reading carefully method to get the detailed information in the text .
4. Discussion after reading to help the students finish the tasks in Post-reading .
Teaching aids
A recorder and a projector .
Step I Lead-in and pre -reading
T :Morning everyone !Yesterday we talked about science fiction and also had a scientific test .By doing the exercises, we learn some scientific facts .Today ,let’s continue to learn more about scientific facts .Please look at the pictures on Page 11.Here are three great inventions, Who can tell me when the inventions in the pictures were made
(Ask some students to answer it and check it .Then complete the next questions )
Step II Reading
Task 1:Scanning
T :Read the text quickly and find out How many parts the passage can be divided into
Ss :Three parts .
Part 1 (Paragraph 1) General introduction about Jules Verne .
Part 2 (Paragraph 2-5) Brief introduction of 20,000Leagues Under the Sea .
Part 3 (Paragraph 6) Brief introduction of Journey to the Centre of the Earth .
T :What kind of writing do you think the text is
Ss :It’s like a biography
T: Usually what are included in a biography
Ss :First it should give a brief introduction about the leading role ,then introduce his main achievements, his influence to later periods, and so on .
Task 2:Details reading
T: Read the text again to complete the following information .
I Jules Vern
Born in :____ Died in : ____ Nationality : ____ Interested in : ____
Remembered as : ____ Famous novels : ____
II 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Ships are ________ → set out to find the ______
↓
An _______ship ← submarine
↓
_______furniture
huge _____windows
protected with ____ ____ plates
electricity is used for ____,____,____,etc .
All that is needed for ___ comes from _________.
Character of Captain Nemo :
III Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Travel to ______
Through a _____in a ____volcano
Through a _____ _______
Through layers of _____and _____
Reach a _____ _____or underground ocean
Through forests of _____and _____
Cross the sea in a____
Drawn into a _____ ______
Shot out of a _____in southern _____
In the following part ,teacher can deal with some language points .
(1)make a living =earn one’s living
eg .She made a living by singing in a nightclub.
(2) lay the foundation of
eg. Four-year college life laid solid foundations of his career .
(3) set out to do /set about doing
eg. They set out to look for the lost child .
We set about cleaning the classroom after school .
(4) defend against/from
eg. She had to defend herself against the guard dog .
(5) be dressed in
eg. The man is dressed in blue .
Dressed in uniform ,he looks handsome .
Step III Post –reading
T: now, please turn to Page 13 and finish Exercise 2 with the text we have just learned .
(After a while ,teacher checks their answers with the whole class. )
Suggested answers :
1. When they were trying hard to continue to live ,they find themselves outside of the monster’s body.
2. his prisoners .
T: Well .Now ,please look at Exercise 4.In Jules Verne’s times ,the knowledge about the earth was very limited, and many scientific facts couldn’t be explained by people .But Jules Verne contained a lot of knowledge about the earth in his novel. Where do you think he might have got his ideas from You can use all the knowledge you have learnt to explain the questions. Work in groups of four to have a discussion .
(Next go on with the exercises left .)
Step IV Assignment
1. Recite the key sentences in the passage .
2. Read one short science fiction story and write a brief introduction.