人教新课标高中英语选修十Unit1Reading教案

Unit 1 Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Part One: Teaching Design
Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading
(A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE)
Aims
To help students develop their reading ability
To help students learn about adventure
Procedures
■Warming up by read ing for forms
On page 1 there are three short texts. Now read the texts to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.
■Warming up by brain storming Chinese proverbs
Good morning, class. Today is your first day of this term. And I believe you will have lots of work to do. Just as the saying goes Nothing ventures, nothing gained, you have to work still harder so that you might gain success in your studies.
Today we shall read an article entitled A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE. What do you think of this title? Is there anything unusual about it?
Yes, Oxymoron is used in the title. But what is Oxymoron?
Oxymoron (or oxymora) are literary figures of speech usually composed of a pair of neighbouring contradictory words (often within a sentence). However this is not always the case. The Webster Dictionary defines oxymoron as "a combination of contradictory or incongruous words". Oxymorons can be used for dramatic effect, for example: Hell's Angels and deafening silence. They can also be comical, such as in civil engineer. Clearly this is not an oxymoron in the
well-seeming forms! / Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!" William Shakespeare
I. Pre-reading
Before we read the text, let’s f irst get to know some facts about Australia.
1. Facts of Antarctica: Antarctica, the fifth largest continent, c.5,500,000 sq mi (14,245,000 sq km), asymmetrically centered on the South Pole and almost entirely within the Antarctic Circle.
2. Define expedition
In tourism, a journey with few amenities, usually to a remote area, sometimes for a scientific purpose.
II. Reading
On page 2 there is an article entitled "A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE "
You are going to read it to the recording.
Now read the text again to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.
III. Copying the expressions from the text
IV. Transferring information
Read the text again to complete the table with information from the text.
V. Closing down by reading about W. PERCE BLACKBOROW
W. PERCE BLACKBOROW
BORN: PILLGWENTL Y. NEWPORT. W ALES
DIED: MAESGLAS GROVE. NEWPORT. WALES
NICKNAME : BLACKIE
DUTY : STEWARD
PHOTO TAKEN NOT LONG AFTER HIS ARRIV AL HOME FROM HOSPITAL IN PUNTA ARENAS.
Awarded Bronze Polar Medal
Perce Blackborow is famed for being probably the only person ever to stowaway on an Antarctic expedition. He was only 19 years of age when he met up with an American sailor, William Bakewell, and they both found themselves in Buenos Aires without a ship. Bakewell was accepted as a seaman on the Endurance by Shackleton , but Perce was refused due to his young age and lack of seamanship.
At the time he was discovered on board the Endurance the ship was already three days sailing out of South Georgia. Shackleton really had no option but to offer him a position as steward. If anyone has to be eaten, then you will be the first! , said Shackleton.
Perce did not let Shackleton down and he was awarded the honour of being the first person ever to set foot on Elephant Island. Due to severe frostbite to his toes he actually crawled ashore rather than walked.
After the expedition, Perce spent three months hospitalised in Punta Arenas, Chile, recovering from the frostbite damage sustained to his left foot, which had resulted in the surgeons Macklin and McIllroy having to amputate his toes on Elephant Island on 15th June 1916.
Perce it seems was a modest man, for upon returning home to Wales he avoided the welcoming home party waiting for him at the local railway station by going across the tracks and out the other side of the station. He soon volunteered to join The Royal Navy but was turned down because of the lack of digits on his left foot.
He was however, accepted into The Merchant Navy and served until 1919 and went on to become a dock boatman in the Alexandra Docks, Newport.and also fished to help to support his family.
He married a local girl, Kate Kearns and they settled in Maesglas, Newport. Their marriage produced six children .Jack, Jim, Peggy, Ken, Joan and Phillip. Unfortunately Phillip died in infancy and Jack died aged just 9 years.
"We didn't expect a feather bed down here."
8. Some pre-school children go to a day care center, _______they learn simple games and songs.。