Journey to the Antarctic

课题 Unit8 Lesson 4 Journey to the Antarctic 计划课时 教学目标：Students can say something about Antarctic and something about Antarctic exploration.. Students can distinguish defining and non-defining relative clauses Students can use new words correctly and make sentences by them. 课标要求和教学目标 知识与技能：To practice understanding difficult words in a reading text using syntactic and semantic clues. To predict the content of a text using information from the title and accompanying pictures. To develop word building skills by making nouns from adjectives 1. 过程与方法：In fulfilling the teaching procedures successfully, Communicative Approach, Deduction and induction Approach, Discussion and Practice method, Task-based language teaching Approach and After-class Survey are adopted 2. 情感态度与价值观: (Ethical goal:.) Get the students to have the spirit of exploration. The students may know little about the Antarctic. 学情分析 项目 教学重点 内 容 (Contents) 解决办法 (Solutions) . To compare and distinguish defining and Students’ discussion and teacher’s guidance non-defining relative clauses 2. To practice defining words by their usage in context How to get the students to distinguish defining and non-defining relative clauses Teaching methods: （1）、Communicative Approach.（2）、Deduction and induction. （3）、Discussion and Practice. （4）、After-class survey. Teaching Aids: computer and cassette 教学难点 教学方法 教学手段 教学过程设计（详细过程） Teaching procedures: Step 1 Pre-reading Land: 14 million sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 million sq km ice-covered) Note: the fifth-largest continent, following Asia, Africa, North America, and South America, but larger than Australia and the subcontinent of Europe Location: continent mostly south of the Antarctic Circle Geography: the coldest, windiest, highest (on average), and driest continent; during summer, more solar radiation reaches the surface at the South Pole than is received at the Equator; mostly uninhabitable Roald Amundsen, born in 1872 near Oslo, Norway, left his mark as one of the most successful polar explorers ever born. On December 14th 1911, he stood victoriously at the South Pole. He reached a goal that was the dream of many men. For the first time, human voices broke the awesome silence of the world's southernmost point. Robert Falcon Scott was born at Outlands on June 6, 1868. He had a race with Roald Amunsden to the South Pole, and he and his four companions arrived one month later than Roald. But unfortunately, on their way back, all of them died of hunger and extreme coldness. 1 >Loot at the title and photos and guess the answers to these questions. Ex1. (1) Which Pole did they race to? (The South Pole.) (2) When did they go? (1910-1911) (3 )Who reached the Pole first? (Amundsen) Step 2 Reading 1>Read the text more carefully. Are these statements true(T) or false(F)? Ex3. Scott’s and Amundsen started their journeys in the polar spring. Scott’s use of sledges and horses was a success. Amundsen traveled more quickly than Scott. When they got to the Pole, Scott’s team had a celebration. Captain Oates went for a walk and got lost in a snow storm. Scott’s last letter was to his wife. Answers: TFTFFT 2>reading strategies Ask a question: What will you do when you meet with new words in reading? Take “sledge” “break down” and “hopeless” as examples and guide students to say about the strategies of guessing the words’ meanings. gies. Work in groups and use the reading strategies to work out the meanings of the words from the text. ( shocked, run out of, hopeless, cheerful, distant, carry on ) Check the answers. Step 3 Post-reading 1>Read the text again and answer these questions. (1) Why did Amundsen succeed and Scott fail? (Amundsen succeeded because he made rapid progress and because he had teams of dogs pulling the sledges and his men were on skis. Scott failed because he and his men had to push the sledges themselves when the motor sledges broke down and the ponies had difficulties with the snow and the cold.) (2)What did Scott’s expedition achieve? (They reached the Pole although they didn’t win the race and they became heroes because of their courage. They collected rocks that proved Antarctica had once been covered by plants.) (3) Why did Scott and his men become heroes? (They became heroes because, although they died on the return journey, they showed remarkable courage all the time.) (4) How did you feel after you read the story? Step four Language points: 1. prepare V. prepare …for… e.g. Please prepare a table for dinner. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Prepare to do sth., be prepared to do sth. preparation n. in preparation 在准备中, in preparation for 为…作准备, make preparations for They put chairs in the school hall in preparation for the concerts. Joe is training in preparation for the next football match. Plans for selling the new product are now in preparation. We should make preparations for our future. 2. wait for sb. / sth. He waited impatiently for an answer. wait to do sth I can tell you something you’ve been waiting to know. 3. make progress in/with sth. progress 不可数名词 e.g. Are you making any progress with your study? They are making slow progress in the construction of the new road. 4. break down a. 机器,车辆等坏了 We are sorry to arrive late, but the car broke down. b. 身体跨了 His health broke down. c. 失败,坚持不去了 The plan was well conceived, but it broke down because people are unwilling to cooperate. break in 蹩脚英语 break in on/upon 非法进入,强行进入 break out 使人心碎 break one’s heart 爆发,突然讲出 broken English 打搅,使停顿 5.have difficulty/problem with sth. have difficulty/problem (in) doing sth. e.g. I don’t have much difficulty with English grammar. He has some difficulties understanding that man’s accent. p.s. difficulty 可做可数名词也可做不可数名词. 6. besides prep. 除了 e.g. Besides you, no one is qualified. What has he done, besides reading the paper? adv. 此外,除此之外 e.g. Besides, I want you to promise me one thing. Her intention was good. Besides, it was pleasant to be with her. except prep. 除去,除掉 e.g. They all went to sleep except the young Frenchman. We go there every day except Sunday. except for 除了有…之外 e.g. Your composition is good except for a few spelling mistakes. Except for one old lady, the bus was empty. 7. spend sb. spend …on sth./ (in) doing sth e.g. He doesn’t spend much time on his homework. He spent much time correcting my grammar. 8. fail vi. 失败 e.g. All our plans failed. fail in sth. 在…不足,在…失败. e.g. He has failed in his mathematics. She failed in her last English exam. fail to do sth. 没有能够,没有 e.g. He fails to understand its real significance. When I failed to find you ,I sent you a note by messenger. 9. run out (of) 用尽，没有了 e.g. The supply of our food almost ran out and we felt helpless. We can see that his patience was running out little by little. 10. at one time 一度，曾经 At one time he lived with his uncle. It was said that at one time a mysterious woman lived in this house. 11. carry on 进行下去，继续下去,carry out 执行，贯彻 They are determined to carry on the struggle for freedom and democracy(民主). One person carried on what the other had left off.一个人把别人未竞的事承担了起来。 Step five Homework ---do the exercises in the workbook. 板书设计 Journey to the Antarctic 1. prepare V. 2. wait for sb. / sth. 3.make progress in/with sth 4. break down 5.have difficulty/problem with sth 6. besides prep. 除了 7. spend 8. fail vi. 失败 9. run out (of) 用尽，没有了 10. at one time 一度，曾经 11. carry on 进行下去，继续下去,carry out 执行，贯彻 巩固练习 教学反思