人教大纲版高三英语教案Unit 2 Crossing Limits.doc

Unit 2 Crossing Limits Goals: Talk about exploring the world Practise judging situations and making decisions Review the predicate Write a persuasive essay The first period Listening Teaching goals: 1. Words and expressions: explore, exploration, discover, discovery, face risks, face challenges, modern means, equipment. 2. Enable the students to learn that exploring in the past and present are quite different. 3. Enable the students to learn how to compare the past and present exploring. Teaching important points: Enable the students to fully understand the “problem-solution” part in Warming up and Listening materials. Teaching difficult points: By training listening strategies of prediction and doing shorthand, enable students to form a good habit of listening. Teaching methods: Team work learning and task-based learning. Teaching aids: A projector and some slides. Teaching procedures: StepⅠ Revision Quiz: Who was the first person that mapped the Indian coast? Who was the first person that discovered the “New World”? Why did Abel Tasman sail along the coast of Australia and many islands in the Pacific Ocean? What was James Cook’s purpose of his voyage? (Keys: Zheng He; Columbus; Tasman was to answer questions about the nature of the geography of Pacific Ocean regions during the exploration; Cook was chosen by the Royal Society of London to undertake a scientific journey to Tahiti to observe and document the event as the planet Venus passed between the earth and the sun. His secret task was to find new landmasses in the south.) Step Ⅱ Warming up Task one: World map exploration How many continents are there in the world? What are they? ( Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, North America, South America and Antarctic.) Task two: Discussion What were the dangers and challenges that explorers had to face in the past while exploring the world? (First they had to struggle against big storms, icebergs and great rocks that lie unnoticed in the sea. Second, they may easily