Module 2
Unit 3 Amazing People
Reading: The curse of the mummy
江苏省梅村高级中学 张正东
Class 5, Senior 1, December 12, 2007
Teaching Aims:
1. Improve the students’ reading skill and enable them to learn something about Howard Carter and the other persons who had something to do with the tomb.
2. Enable the students to use what they have learned from this lesson to carry out the reading, listening, speaking and writing tasks.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Help the students understand the text better.
2. Develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. Help the students understand who Howard Carter is and what happened to the persons motioned in the text.
2. Help the students speak freely with what they have learned.
Teaching Methods:
communicative method, structural method, elicitation method
Teaching Aids:
courseware, projector, computer
Teaching Procedures:
Step1: Presentation
（Show a segment from the movie The Mummy before the class.）
Just now, we enjoyed a movie. (1)What impressed you most? (show the pictures from the movie on the screen.) Look at the pictures. (show two pictures of mummies on the screen. ) (2)What do you think of them? (3)Dare you touch a real mummy when you see one up close? Why/ Why not?
The movie and the pictures are all about mummies. Now we are to read an article about mummies.(show the title: The curse of the mummy)
Step2: Fast reading
Scan the article to answer the following questions:
1. How many persons’ names were mentioned? Who were they?
6. Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon, King Tutankhamun, George Gould, Arthur Mace, Richard Bethell
2. What was the name of the Egyptian King whose tomb Carter found?
Tutankhamun
3. What happened to some of Carter’s team members after the tomb was opened?
They fell ill and died.
Step3: Listening
Step4: Reading quickly
Step5: Reading carefully again to fill in the chart below
Step6: More details about Howard Carter
Step7: Putting the following sentences in correct order of time
Step8: Reasons for the deaths
Step9: completing the sentence
_______________ Howard Carter(’) ___________________.
Step10: Story-telling
Step11: Discussions
If you were Howard Carter, would you go into the tomb? Why or why not?
Do you think Howard Carter is an amazing man? Why or why not?
How to be an amazing person?
Step12: Homework
Write a summary about Howard Carter.
课件17张PPT。Welcome to Class Five
Content: The curse of the mummy (Unit 3, Module2)
Teacher: Zhang Zhengdong
School: Meicun Senior High School, Jiansu Provincehorrible, frightening … mummyThe of thecurse Scan the article to answer the following questions:
1.How many persons’ names were mentioned?
Who were they?
2.What was the name of the Egyptian King whose tomb Carter found?
3.What happened to some of Carter’s team members after the tomb was opened?6 Howard Carter
Lord Carnarvon
King Tutankhamun
George Gould
Arthur Mace
Richard Bethell 6. Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon, King Tutankhamun,
George Gould, Arthur Mace, Richard Bethell TutankhamunThey fell ill and died.Listen to the tape and do the following T or F exercises.Howard Carter was
His father taught him to
In 1891, at the age of 17,he set sail for
He discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.
The explorers decided to leave the treasure in the tomb.
Carter’s pet bird usually brought him good luck.
Howard Carter died when he was young.
It is believed that the mummy’s curse makes those who enter Egypt ill. shy.Fbrave and adventurous.write.Fdraw.Carol, FAlexandria,Egypt.Egypt.TFtake awayTF65Fthe tomb Read the text quickly to match the summaries with correct paragraphsA short introduction of Howard CarterHoward Carter became an explorerThe discovery of tomb of King TutankhamumLord Carnarvon died after the opening of the tomb More people died after Carter’s discoveryKinds of explanations for many people’s death A scientific explanation for the deathsTutankhamun’s tomb remains a mysteryPara 1Para 2Howard Carter became an explorerPara 3The discovery of tomb of King TutankhamumPara 4Lord Carnarvon died after the opening of the tomb Read the text quickly to match the summaries with correct paragraphsA short introduction of Howard Carter More people died after Carter’s discoveryA scientific explanation for the deathsTutankhamun’s tomb remains a mysteryPara 1Para 2Howard Carter became an explorerPara 3The discovery of tomb of King TutankhamumPara 4Lord Carnarvon died after the opening of the tombKinds of explanations for many people’s death Para 5 More people died after Carter’s discoveryPara 6Kinds of explanations for many people’s death Para 7Para 8a friend of
Carnarvonvisited the
tombhad a high
feverBritish// interested in
Egyptfell ill with a fevera famous
explorer set sail
for Alexandriabecame an explorer
searching for the tomb found the
tomb of King Tutankhamunnot mentionedCarter’s secretaryheart troublemaybe entered the tomb too Complete the chart belowgave Carter money// entered the tombHoward Carter
Year of birth:
Occupation:
Education:
Interests:
Went to Egypt in the year:
Discoveries:
Greatest discovery:
Year of the discovery:
Location of discovery:
His sponsor(赞助人):1874explorertaught to draw by his fathervisiting new places1891many amazing thingsKing Tutankamun’s tomb1922the Valley of the kingsLord CarnarvonCarter’s experiences:A. Made his most amazing discovery--- the tomb of King Tutankhamun. B. Set sail for Alexandria, Egypt.C. Didn’t go to school but was taught to draw by his father.D. Became an explorer and searched for tombs of the Egyptian kings.C B D AWhat are the reasons for the deaths?Complete the sentence:____ Howard Carter(‘s)____.Suppose you were Howard Carter, please tell us a story about your life and experience.Discussions:1. If you were Howard Carter,would you go into the tomb? Why or why not?2 .Do you think Howard Carter is an amazing man? Why or why not?3. How to be an amazing person?HomeworkWrite a summary about Howard Carter.江苏省梅村高级中学公开课简案
课题：模块二 Unit3 Reading: The curse of the mummy 学科：英语
执教：张正东 班级：高一（5）班
教学目标：
1. Improve the students’ reading skill and enable them to learn something about Howard Carter and the other persons who had something to do with the tomb.
2. Enable the students to use what they have learned from this lesson to carry out the reading, listening, speaking and writing tasks.
教学重点：
1. Help the students understand the text better.
2. Develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
教学难点：
1. Help the students understand who Howard Carter is and what happened to the persons motioned in the text.
2. Help the students speak freely with what they have learned.
教学过程：
Step1: Presentation
Show a segment from the movie The Mummy Returns.
Step2: Reading Strategy — Predicting information
Show the title The curse of the mummy for the students to practise:
What can you think of? What do you expect from the title?
Step3: Fast reading
Finish Part A on P42.
Step4: Listening to the tape with T or F exercises
Step5: Reading aloud and matching the summaries with correct paragraphs
Step6: Reading carefully again to find out the relationship between the persons and what happened to them
Step7: Retelling the text according to the relationship between the persons
Step8: Discussions
执教老师简介：
2001年毕业于扬州大学外国语学院，2001年至今在江苏省梅村高级中学工作，中学一级教师职称。
Complete the chart below
Characters
Who was he?
What did he do?
How did he die?
George Gould
?
Lord Carnarvon
Howard Carter
?
(in 1891)
?
(by the 1920s)
(in 1922)
Richard Bethell
?
Complete the chart below
Characters
Who was he?
What did he do?
How did he die?
George Gould
?
Lord Carnarvon
Howard Carter
?
(in 1891)
?
(by the 1920s)
(in 1922)
Richard Bethell
?
