1、Unit 2 Sailing the oceansPart 1 Teaching Design第一部分 教学设计Period 3 A sample lesson plan for Using Language(THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL)IntroductionLanguage is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students read a narrative writing
2、about sailing at sea. Then they listen and speak about Viking sailing and Polynesian seamen. In the end they are helped to rewrite the story on page 17.ObjectivesTo help students read the passage THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL on page 17To help students listen and speak abou
3、t Viking sailing and rewrite the text just readProcedures1. Warming up by learning something about William BlighWilliam Bligh in 1814Vice Admiral of the Blue William Bligh, FRS (9 September 1754 - 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. He is best known
4、for the famous mutiny that occurred against his command aboard HMAV (His Majestys Armed Vessel) Bounty and the remarkable voyage he made to Timor on the Bountys launch after being set adrift by the mutineers. Many years after the Bounty mutiny he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, with a bri
5、ef to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the NSW Corps. He had some success in his task but quickly faced opposition which culminated in the Rum Rebellion led by John Macarthur. 2. Reading for forms Read the text THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVALon page 17 to: cut/ the sentence
6、into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. 3. Copying expressions and making sentencescatch in a dilemma, risk certain death, sit close together，face an uncertain future, have no charts, take with sb., set the course, make sure, sta
7、y on that course, keep to a straight course, in addition, keep sb. work out the position, take a great deal of time, cope with, drive sb. mad, preserve ones good spirits, talk hopefully about, get worse, sink into, take ones minds off ones stomachs and thirst, keep sb. alive, set loose, have fever,
8、show the hardships, suffer the hardships, escape the jaws of death, complete the greatest navigational feat of all time4. Listening and speaking about Viking sailing and Polynesian seamenThe name Viking is a borrowed word from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse warriors who raided the coasts
9、 of Scandinavia, the British Isles, and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. Vikings traveled to the west and Varangians, who were best known as the Varangian Guards of the Byzantine emperors, to the east. This period of European history (generally dated to 793 - 1066
10、 AD) is referred to as the Viking Age. Where is Polynesia?A division of Oceania including scattered islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean roughly between New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island. The larger islands are volcanic, the smaller ones generally coral formations.Now go to page 19
11、. Lets go to listen to something about Viking sailing the oceans. While listening try to circle those aids in the box on page 19 that the early sailors used to find their ways at sea. Now you shall listen to the tape once again to fill in the chart on page 19.On page 20 there are four sayings from P
12、olynesian seamen. What does each of them mean? Now in pairs talk about each of the sayings.5. Closing down by writing, by imitation, a passage of your own based on the text on page 17 A possible versionI am proud to have traveled with my father on his journey of over 60 days through about 4，000 kilo
13、meters in an open car across China in 2006. Our outward journey in the car to Hainan had been filled with the kind of incidents that I thought would be my stories when I returned homeBut how wrong I was! On our departure from Taiyuan，some of the bad men took over the car. They deposited my father on
14、to a small bike to 1et us find our own way homeBut what else was to be done? We on the road were caught in a dilemmaOnce we were far away from the bad men，our routine the following three days was the sameAt sunrise and sunset my father measured our position listening to the local new on the radio an
15、d set the course /using the signs along the roadIt was extremely difficult for us to get a correct direction from the radio as the bike moved constantlyI used a system called “people reckoning”I knew there were villages directly northwest of our original position. So my task was to make sure we disc
16、over any of the villages. As you can see now from the map we kept to a straight course pretty well. In addition, my father kept me busy singing songs to overcome our tiredness. Although this took a great deal of strength, it didnt matter. Songs were, after all, what I had a lot of! You could not ima
17、gine a more disturbing sight than what we looked like when arriving in Yaojiagou over three days after being robbed of our open carOur clothes were torn，we had fever and our faces showed the hardships we had sufferedBut after a rest，some good meals and some new clothes，everything changedWe couldnt stop talking about our journey and everybody wanted to hear about itWe were the heroes who had escaped the jaws of death by completing the greatest traveling feat of all time!