北师大版教案Unit 8 Adventure Lesson 4 Journey to Antarctica.docx

北师大版教案 Unit 8 Adventure Objectives Lesson 4 Journey to the Antarctic To practise 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 wordbuilding skills by making nouns from adjectives. Step 1 Pre-reading land: 14 million sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 million sq km ice-covered) note: 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: 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 worlds 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 extremely cold. 1 Loot at the title and photos and guess the answers to these questions. Which Pole did they race to?(The South Pole.) When did they go?(1910-1911) (3 )Who reached the Pole first?(Amundsen) Step 2 Reading 1Read the text more carefully. Are these statements true(T) or false(F)? 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. 第 1 页 共 4 页 Scott’s last let