1、The Fourth Period Extensive ReadingTeaching goals教学目标1. Target language 目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语glare, portable, luxuries, discourage, fragile, via, trap, lifeboat, permanent, crewb. 重点句子 Sunrise and sunset come once every six months. Medical assistance is available in case of an emergency. Its a privilege, n
2、ot a right to come to this extraordinary place. 2. Ability goals能力目标Enable the students to learn more about the South Pole and the travel of Shackleton to Antarctic. 3. Learning ability goals学能目标Help the students learn more about Antarctic and how Shackleton made his travel.Teaching important points
3、 教学重点Learn more about the South Pole.Teaching difficult points教学难点Learn how Shackleton made his travel.Teaching methods 教学方法Reading and discussion. Teaching aids 教具准备A recorder, a projector and a computer.Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式StepRevision T: Good morning / afternoon everyone!Ss: Good mo
4、rning / afternoon, Sir / Madam!T: Yesterday I asked you to do Activity 4 P9 and Activities 14 P9192, yes? Now Ill check your homework.The teacher will check the students homework by asking them to report the results aloud in the class one by one and correct the possible mistakes and then lead them i
5、nto reading.StepReading (1)Lead-in and fast-readingT: If you have read an off-beat advertisement of journey, do you want to join in the journey or not? Why?S: I dont want to go, because it is hard to imagine what kind of journey it may be. Maybe its a trap to exploit you money.S: I dont think so. On
6、 the contrary, I will try to make a journey as what the advertisement said because I like challenging myself. T: Very good! But after reading the advertisement in activity 1, P6, can you guess where the place is? And tell us why you would or wouldnt reply to it. Three minutes later.T: Do you have an
7、y ideas?S: I think its an inhospitable place, it seems there is full of danger and no way to come back, I dont want to go there.S: Yes, I agree, I think no one can be so brave as to reply to it.S: I dont think so. If no one wants to make this kind of journey, there would be no discovery of Antarctic
8、a, the research and exploration would not be like what it is now.Careful-reading Deal with Activities 3 & 4.T: We will read the passage How Failure Became Success now. Look at Activity 3, work in pairs, choose question words from the box and write two comprehension questions to ask the other one. Th
9、en read the text fast to decide which statements you agree with. Then I will check your work.Five minutes later, check the answers. T: Are you ready? Which pair can be the first?Sa: When did the Endurance leave for Antarctica?Sb: It left on 8th August, 1914.Sa: How did Shackleton rescue the crew of
10、the ship?Sb: Because he landed on the wrong side of the island, he walked 36 hours over mountains to reach the camp, and then returned to Elephant Island to rescue the crew.T: Good! Another pair?Sc: What was the aim of the journey?Sd: The aim of the journey was to cross the frozen continent via the
11、South Pole a journey of 1,800 miles.Sc: Who made the journey become success?Sd: The captain of the ship.T: Yes, you do quite well. Any others?Se: Where was the permanent camp?Sf: It was 800 miles away from South Georgia.Se: Why can we say the journey was a success?Sf: Because Shackleton kept his pro
12、mise and returned to Elephant Island to rescue the crew. He had failed to reach the pole but he had saved the lives of all his men.T: Well done! Activity 4, do you agree with the first one? Why?Ss: No. He saved the lives of all his men at last. He was a good captain. T: Yes, so the second sentence m
13、ust be right. Do you think so?Ss: Yes, we do.T: OK. Do you think the journey was a failure just because the captain had bad luck with the weather?Ss: Yes.T: When the ship sank, the men knew they were going to die. Right or wrong?Ss: Wrong, they still tried to fight against the execrable environment.
14、T: I agree with you. They were fortitudinous. Now, the last two sentences: Shackleton was a very brave man and the world was amazed that all of the crew came back alive, true or false?Ss: They are true.Post-reading and word studyThe teacher can then have the students do the exercises in Activity 5,
15、and then check the sentences one by one. After that, ask the students to work in pairs, discuss the questions about the vocabulary in the passages, and then help them make a summary about these words as follows:1. journey and voyage: Journey means travel on the land while voyage means travel by ship
16、2. a whale and a fish: A whale is a mammal but a fish isnt though they both live in the sea.3. a ship and a lifeboat: A ship is a large traffic tool in water but a lifeboat is a small boat used in emergency when the ship is in danger.4. drifting and floating: Drifting means moving in water or air wh
17、ile floating means unfixed.5. frozen and icy: Frozen: made into, covered with, or surrounded by ice; icy: very cold.6. risking ones life and saving ones life: They are opposite. Risking ones life means ones life is in danger while saving ones life means ones life is out of danger.7. give up and aban
18、don: Give up means stop doing; abandon means to leave something behindIf time permits, the teacher can ask the students to make sentences with these words.Step Reading (2)Lead-in and fast-readingT: Boys and girls, do you think we live comfortably? We can enjoy the bright sunshine when it is sunny, a
19、nd in cold winter, we can stay in the warm houses, drinking, talking or listening to disc as we like, and living far away from dread and loneliness. But do you know what the life in the South Pole is like? Ss: No, but we are eager to know something about that.T: Now turn to page 11, lets come to the
20、 passage “Welcome to the South Polo”, then you will satisfy your curiosity. Look at the questions in Activity 2. After reading, answer them, OK?Three or four minutes later.T: Ready? The first question?S: I think the glare of the sunlight is very dangerous. If you go out without wearing sunglasses or
21、 using suncream, there would be a severe risk that youll damage your eyesight or get badly sunburnt.S: Theres heavy frost even on the warmest summer days, so the cold weather is the most dangerous.T: You are right. So, who can summarize the climate there?S: It is cold and dry. As the passage says, t
22、he temperature is between minus 21 in the summer and minus 78 in the winter, and it doesnt snow very much only about four millimeters a year.T: Yes, excellent! The last one?S: The writer advises not to take cameras there, because photography is tricky, as film is fragile and the camera battery doesn
23、t work in the cold weather.T: Anything else?S: The writer tells us not to leave any rubbish there because the ecology of Antarctica is very delicate and not to take any souvenirs home, and be careful to leave nothing but footprints.T: Wonderful!Careful-readingFirst, the teacher will manage the stude
24、nts to deal with Activities 3 & 4, and then come to Activity 5.T: OK. Now lets turn to Page 12, go on reading the passage, then do Activity 5 in pairs. One is to make questions and the other is to answer them. Sample questions and answers:QuestionsAnswersIf you arent careful in the open air,Youll da
25、mage your eyesight or get badly sunburnt.If you dont like long, dark winters,You can listen to the radio and make electronic communications.If you dont like living with lots of people,The living quarters are modest, with few luxuries, but cosy for you.If you like personal comforts,You could stay in
26、the dormitory for sleeping, get great food from canteen, and enjoy DVDs and videos in the library.If you use conventional tools and technical equipment,The power cord will snap and doesnt work in the cold.If you dont take home everything you brought with you,Be careful to leave nothing but footprint
27、s.Post-readingT: Now, please pay attention to Activity 6 on Page 12, imagine you visited the South Pole scientific station, talk to your partner about what life was like for you, and then write it down, OK? The students are talking about the life in South Polo that they imagined in pairs. Six minute
28、s later, the teacher will ask some of them to read their reports. Sample report:Though now is the Antarctic summer, the weather condition of the region is still very bad. After settling at the Great Wall Station, I ran out to appreciate the open air and grand view of South Pole and I stayed there fo
29、r more than 2 hours outside. Feeling sharp pain on the face that evening, I found the skin of my face desquamated unexpectedly and violently the second day. Since the South Pole is faraway and the weather is bad, the supply for the Great Wall Station of South Pole is more difficult. The food for the team is mainly frozen and arrives with “snow dragon” of science investigation transportation of China by ship. The yonder weather and life is the most terrible thing for me.Step IV HomeworkT: Homework for today: Try to retell the second passage. See you next class!Ss: See you!