英语:unit3amazing people-reading教案(牛津译林版必修2)

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名称 英语:unit3amazing people-reading教案(牛津译林版必修2)
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● Reading The curse of the mummy
Step 1: Lead-in
We all know that Egypt is one of the 4 ancient civilized countries. Do you know what Egypt is famous for (Yes, pyramids and Sphinx.)
As we all know, the Pyramid is one of the 7 wonders in the world. Have you ever read or thought about what is inside the Pyramids Look at the screen, please.
Today we’ll come to the text The curse of the mummy.
The passage is about a famous explorer who, with the assistance of Lord Carnarvon, led a team to Egypt and made some unexpected discoveries in tombs. It still remains a mystery how one of his discoveries led to illness and death for many of his team members.
Step 2: Fast reading for general ideas
1. Pay attention to the Reading strategy first before skimming the passage.
1) The article you are going to read is about a famous explorer who worked in Egypt. Read the article and make connections between the title and the explorer. Use your imagination and express your opinions freely with each other.
What might be the connections between ‘The curse of the mummy’ and the famous explorer
Why does the writer choose ‘The curse of the mummy’ as its title here Do you think the title can grab your attention and arouse your interest
From your point of view, what might be dealt with in the following article Can something like the explorer’s hobbies, his experiences of adventures, his achievements be covered in the article
2) You’ve done a good job, expressing your opinions about the relationship between the title and the explorer and predicting the main contents of the article. That’s great. But to be more specific, can you anticipate what might be covered in the first paragraph of the article
3)Please read the first paragraph and discuss how the first paragraph agrees or disagrees with your predictions.
What’s the first paragraph about Is it the beginning of a story
What does the writer tell us about the explorer in the first paragraph
What words do you think are useful for you to predict the ideas included in the passage
Now you may find the first paragraph serves as a general introduction of Howard Carter, and please pay attention to the key words in the first paragraph on the blackboard:
famous, brave, adventurous, amazing
4) With the help of the key words, you may predict the content of the paragraphs that follow.
What are the following paragraphs likely to do
Will they give specific examples to support the general description of Howard Carter
Exchange your ideas with your partners and then check your prediction by reading the following paragraph.
5) Now let’s focus on Reading strategy to review the skills of how to predict information in an article.
2. Skim the passage and complete the three questions in Part A.
AnswersA 1. The article is about a mummy’s curse. 2. The name of the Egyptian King was Tutankhamun. 3. They fell ill and died.
Step 3: Detailed reading for important information
1. Now please reread the passage and identify which statements are true and which are false. Then complete Part C1 on P44 individually.
AnswersC1 1 F 2 F 3 T 4 F 5 F 6 T 7 F 8 F
2. While reading please identify the relationships between these characters and try to retell the passage according to the following diagram.
Characters Who was he What did he do How did he die
George Gould a friend of Carnarvon visited the tomb a high fever
Lord Carnarvon a British man interested in Egypt offered Carter money to explore the mysterious;be present at the opened tomb a fever
Howard Carter a famous explorer especially for the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1891 set sail for Alexandria, Egyptby the 1920s searched for the tombs of the Egyptian kingsin 1922 found the tomb of King Tutankhamun seemed nothing to do with the tomb
Richard Bethell Carter’s secretary entered the tomb heart trouble
3. Words processing.
Step 4: Post-reading activities
1. interview
A---the spokesman of Howard Carter
B---a journalist
B will ask A the following questions:
1) What kind of person do you think Howard Carter is Why
2) To be a qualified explorer, what kind of personality do you think he/she should have
3) Do you think the personality of Howard Carter has had a positive effect on his discoveries
4) As for students, what sorts of personalities does a student have to possess
5) Compared with the amazing persons such as Mother Teresa, Bill Gates, Beethoven, Zhang Heng, do you think Howard Carter is as great as them
6) Do you think the mummy’s curse really exists Why
2. Write a summary about Howard Carter in a few sentences.
3. Focus on Part F and make up a dialogue as the example shows.
4. Do with Parts A1 and A2 on page 96 in Workbook to get more familiar with the text and the words in it.
AnswersA1 1. curious 2. emptying 3. examined 4. fresh 5. present 6. preserved 7. adventurous 8. resultedA2 1. died, death 2. discovered, discovery 3. breathing, breath 4. believe, belief 5. short, shortly 6. strangely, strange 7. explorers, exploring 8. full, fully
5. Read Part A in Reading on page 100 in Workbook and answer the questions.
Answers1. They cared about the stomach, lungs and liver because they put them in special bottles. They didn’t care about the brain because they just threw it away.2. First, they removed the liver, stomach and lungs. Then they wrapped the body carefully and placed caps on the fingers and toes. They decorated the body before placing it in the tomb.3. Many mummies were taken by foreign explorers and people used them to make medicine.4. The Egyptians thought they would be questioned by their gods. If the gods were happy with a man, then he could begin his second life. Each hour of this second life was as long as the man’s whole life on earth.5. He doesn’t know if he could get a second life after being questioned by the gods.

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