M2U3Reading教案

M2 U3 reading
The curse of mummy
●Teaching contents: Reading——The curse of the mummy
●Teaching objectives:
1. Enable the students to have a good understanding of the content.
2. Provide chances for students to increase their knowledge of history.
3. Introduce to them the skills related to predicting information.
4. Provide the students the chance to introduce a person.
5. Develop the students’ desire for exploring, the qualities of courage, cooperation, confidence an
d so on.
●Teaching methods:
1. Skimming, and careful reading.
2. Asking-and-answering activity to check students’ understanding of the content.
3. Task-based teaching methods.
4. Group discussion.
●Teaching aids:Powerpoint presentation.
●Teaching procedures:
Lead-in
Play the song my heart will go on to arouse student’s interest to learn this passage.
What does this song remind you of ? What happened to Titanic? Another explanation for its si nking is because of the curse of mummy which was taken on the ship by a businessman. Explain the meaning of curse
Curse is a word that has a magic power to make sth. bad happen. For example: If someone ha tes you, he will say you won’t pass the examination tomorrow. That is a curse. Do you think i t really works?
Reading comprehension
1. Prediction
Today we’ll learn the special curse, the curse of the mummy.
Look at the title, can you guess what the article is about?
What more information can we get from the first paragraph?
1.Introduction of Carter.
Read paragraph 1 to know the main idea.
Howard Carter ,an explorer, discovering many amazing things
Predict what might be mentioned in the following passage.
For example , his interest, discovery, and family and so on.
3. Skimming
Go through the whole article to see the prediction is right or wrong and answer the followin
g question.
1.What was the name of the Egyptian king whose tomb Carter found?
2.What happened to some of Carter’s team members after the tomb was opened?
4 Careful reading
Read paragraph 2 to introduce Carter according to words in the diagram.
(Job) Howard Carter, a famous ______________________________________.
(education) He did not go to ________________________________________.
(interest) He was curious about ______________________________________.
(discovery )In 1891, ______________________________________________.
By the 1920s, __________________________________________.
5 Playing video
Carter was at the gate of the tomb. Let’s following him to get into it. After students finish wa tching , ask questions: what are there in the tomb? What would you do if you see these treasu res? What did they do according to paragraph 3? Is it right to empty other’s tomb of everythi ng? Were they lucky although they became rich?
6 Reading paragraphs 4 and 5
Read it and fill in the blanks and pay attention to the right form.
7 Listening to the tape
Discussion: Why did these people die strangely? ( For example : They died because of the co incidence and explain the meaning of coincidence: What a coincidence , I am wearing the sa me coat as you. )
Eg. These people died because of the coincidence.
because
because of
due to
result in
as a result of
as a result
Fill in the blanks. Focus on the sentence structure. Ask students to show their opinion with th
e sentence structure.
Discussion
Do you think Carter was an amazing person? Why or why not?
Homework
Choose one of the two (1) .Write a summary about Howard Carter.
(2). Do you think Carter was a real amazing person ? Would you li
ke to be an explorer like Carter? Why or why ?
M2 U3 核心知识结构图
现将该单元分为Welcome to the unit+Reading+Word power，Grammar，Task + Proj ect三个部分，分别呈现三部分的核心知识
一 Welcome to the unit+Reading+Word power
重点单词 Curious, fortune, preserve, content, coincidence, breath
重点短语 Result in, set sail, come across
重点句型
1. He too visited the tomb, only to catch a high fever the next day.
2. If breathed in, they can result in illness or even death.
3. What is certain, though, is that the curse of the mummy’ remains a riddle to this day.
二 Grammar 过去完成时
三 Task + Project
重点单词 Inspire, discourage, devotion, apply, optimistic, desire
重点短语 Look up to, be in control of, have a desire for
重点句型
1. In October 2003, Yang Liwei went to space and returned, making the dream a reality.
2. It was his high scores on the psychological tests that finally won him the status of Chin a’s first astronaut.
教学难点：过去完成时
Part I Preview Sheet
过去完成时
概念
过去完成时表示在过去某一时间或动作之前已经发生或完成了的动作，即“过去的过去（ past-in-the-past ）”。

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那时以前那时现在
构成
过去完成时由“助动词had + 过去分词”构成，其中 had 通用于各种人称。

例如：
They had already had breakfast before they arrived at the hotel.
他们来宾馆之前就已经吃过饭了。

He didn’t go to bed until he had finished he work.
他直到把工作做完之后才睡觉。

用法
过去完成时表示一个动作或状态在过去某一时间或动作之前已经完成或结束，即发生在“过去的过去”。