1、Unit 7 THE SEALesson 4 Sea Stories教学设计Teaching goals 教学目标1. Target Language语言目标a. 重点词汇和短语 horrible sight, fell terrified, scream for help, stand in terror, float on the sea, survive the risk, recover from the illness, opposite side, recognize ones voice.b. Expressions used to solve problems1. If I w
2、ere on a boat going towards a big whirlpool, I would tie myself to something light.2. If I was on boat and the boat was leaking, I would quickly put on a life-jacket and call for help.3. When I saw our house was on fire and smoke was everywhere, I quickly wetted a towel and put it around my nose.4.
3、If I were lost in a desert, I would use my own shadow to tell directions.5. If I were the president of our country, I would call on people to save the sea.2. Ability goals能力目标Help students read to pick out the information and structure of the text and fully understand the text.3. Learning ability go
4、als学能目标Students will learn how to generalize the structure of the same genre: unusual experiences.Teaching important points教学重点Enable students to follow a certain procedure to put the texts into the right order.Teaching difficult points教学难点Help the students to predict and prove their predictions.Tea
5、ching procedures & ways教学过程与方式Step I RevisionActivity one: TranslationT: Last class we have learnt comparatives. Please translate the following sentences into English and review the usage of comparatives.Let the Ss do translation work and recall the forms of comparatives.Exercise:1. Luke是3个人中最不活跃的一个
6、。2. Anthony比Luke聪明。3. 今天没有昨天冷。4. 象棋没有阅读有趣。5. 哪个海洋生物最危险？Key:1. Luke is the least active of the three.2. Anthony is clever than Luke.3. Todays weather is not as cold as yesterdays.4. Chess is not as interesting as reading.5. Which of the sea creatures is the most dangerous? Activity two: Read and Chec
7、kT: Read the phrases I gave you yesterday and I will check your memory.The Ss read and get prepared for the check.Step Lead-inActivity one: BrainstormT: Suppose you are sailing across the sea. Suddenly, you see a whirlpool, how do you feel? Fill in the chart using the words showing feeling of fear.T
8、he Ss think for a while and call up the words to show fear.Sample chart:Feeling of fearKey:Feeling of fearterrify, frighten, terror, horrible, fear, horrify, afraidActivity two: Experience a sea storyT: Have you seen the following films? What are they about? How do you find them? (activity one)Sa: I
9、 watched Titanic. It is a love story. The romance between the hero and the heroine is moving and the pictures of the film are fascinating.Sb: I have seen Treasure Island. Its about a sea adventure to find treasure on an island. I think the pirates were very cruel. I also believe that wisdom can win
10、over cruelty.Step III Pre-readingActivity one: Predict the contentT: Look at the key words and find them in the pictures. Help the Ss find these words in the pictures and get a general understanding of the story.T: From the pictures, what content may be dealt with in the story?Ss: The story may tell
11、 us two persons who met with a whirlpool. One person died, but the other survived the disaster.Activity two: Predict the structureT: According to your own knowledge in what way will the author write the story.Sa: The author may first tell us what they are doing on the sea.Sb: The author may then tel
12、l us how they met with the whirlpool.Sc: The author may end the story by telling us how a man was saved.T: You all did good jobs in the prediction. When we read stories, we may find most of the stories are organized as the following structure. Therefore, this will help us understand the story well f
13、ollowing the structure.Sample structure:Paragraph functionContentOpening paragraphBackground (before the event)Developing paragraphMajor event (in the event)Conclusion paragraphResult (after the event)Activity three: Predict the purpose of the writerT: What may be the purpose for the writer to write
14、 the text?Sa: This passage is mainly about a risky experience. He may just want to tell us an exciting story.Sb: In the story, I found one person was able to escape because he used a barrel. This may tell us how to face and escape from the danger. Maybe this story wants to tell us how to solve probl
15、ems in face of danger.Step ReadingActivity one: Learn the strategies of sequenceT: Look at the three pictures and decide which shows the beginning, middle and end of the story.Ss: The right order should be: BAC.T: Read each paragraph and decide which paragraph is the background, which is the major e
16、vent and which is the result. Let the Ss read each paragraph and generalize the main idea of each paragraph. Then fill in the chart.Sample chart:ParaMain ideaABCKey:ParaMain ideaAMajor eventBBackgroundCResultT: According to the main idea and the pictures, what should be the right order of the text?S
17、: I am sure the right order is: BACActivity two: Check the orderT: Now please check the order using these phrases as a clue: One day, About 3 years ago, One day, All at once, Our boat survived, At that moment, Without waiting, Some time after, Soon afterwards, In the end. Let the Ss read the passage
18、 and check the order using these connectives as clue.Activity three: Learn the use of signal wordsT: Among the listed words above, which words are used to express a quick decision?Ss: All at once, suddenly, at that moment, without waiting.T: These words are very helpful to be used to distinguish the
19、 order of events. Also in your own writing it would make your writing fluent and readable by using them. Please use some of these signal words to make a short paragraph orally.Sa: One day I was walking along a small river. Suddenly, I heard a cry for help. I rushed to the spot where the cry came fro
20、m without waiting. At that moment, the boy was struggling in the water. All at once I jumped into the water. Catching him in one hand, I swam towards the bank quickly.Activity four: Get familiar with the textT: Read the story again and answer the questions.The Ss read the story and answer the questi
21、ons.Questions:1. What happened when we came back from the island with our boat full of fish?2. What happened to my younger brother when the first wave struck our boat?3. Why did the boat go towards the whirlpool?4. How did the writer feel when the boat was moving towards the whirlpool?5. What was th
22、e boat like when we were inside the huge whirlpool?6. What made the writer notice that the heavier objects went down quickly than the smaller ones?7. Why did the writer tie himself to a barrel?8. Why didnt his brother do the same?9. What happened to the writers brother and their boat?10. Why didnt h
23、is old friends recognize him?Possible answers: 1. All at once the sky was covered with dark clouds and we were in a terrible storm.2. My younger brother fell into the sea.3. The wind and the waves pushed us towards the whirlpool.4. The writer felt calmer than before.5. The boat was going around in c
24、ircles at great speed.6. His calmness.7. He could float on the sea with a light object.8. His brother didnt understand him.9. The boat and my brother sank into the bottom of the whirlpool.10. The writers hair changed from black into white.Activity five: Voice your opinionT: Do you think the story is
25、 true? Discuss with your partner and say why or why not?Sa: I think it is true. The description is vivid and everything in the text is like a true experience.Sb: I believe it is not true. The writer just coined a story to amuse the readers. The reasons are the following: Firstly did he have enough t
26、ime to tie himself to a barrel? Second, how could he manage to tie himself to the barrel with the boat moving at great speed?Step V Post-readingActivity one: Vocabulary buildingT: Find the words in the story that the writer uses to describe his feeling. Sa: In the passage, the writer always felt ter
27、rified, so most of the words are used to show the feeling of fear: terrifying, terrified, horrible.T: Next please finish tasks required in activities 8 and 9.Help the Ss finish the tasks with the correct forms of words.Activity two: Solve the problems T: What would you do if you were in the followin
28、g situation? (activity 10)Ss: Think out an idea to get out the following difficult situations.Samples situations:1. You are going towards a big whirlpool.2. You are on boat and the boat was leaking.3. You saw your house was on fire and smoke was everywhere.4. You are lost in a desert.5. You are the
29、president of our country.Students works:1. If I were on a boat going towards a big whirlpool, I would tie myself to something light.2. If I was on boat and the boat was leaking, I would quickly put on a life-jacket and call for help.3. When I saw our house was on fire and smoke was everywhere, I qui
30、ckly wetted a towel and put around my nose.4. If I were lost in a desert, I would use my own shadow to tell directions.5. If I were the president of our country, I would call on people to save the sea.Step HomeworkTask one: Finish exercises 1 and 2 on page 60.Task two: Tell a short story to your partner following the sequence: background, major event and result.
