M3U3Reading疏通学案

2012级高一英语M3U3 Reading 学案1

Teaching 0bjectives:

1. To talk about lost civilizations.

2. To help the Ss develop the ability of reading diary entries.

3. To make the Ss learn more about civilazations and to arouse their sense of protecting civilizations.

Important and difficult points: The way of reading diary entries.

Teaching Methods: listening, fast reading, careful reading, interactive patterns.

Teaching Aids: multimedia, the Bb

Teaching procedures:

Ste p ⅠListening

Ask the Ss to listen to the tape and answer the questions in Part A.

1. What are Pompeii and Loulan? ________________

2. What is one main similarity between the two cities? _______________

3. What was Loulan buried beneath? _____________________

Step II Reading Strategy: reading diary entries

When you are reading diary entries recording someone ’s travels, you should look for:

a. dates and place names;

b. facts and historical information;

c. personal feelings and opinions.

Step III Careful Reading

1. Dates and places:

Pompeii —Day 2, 3 and 4

Loulan —Day 10 and 11

Step IV Reading Comprehension

1. Which disaster destroyed the city of Pompeii?

A. The earthquake

B. The snowstorm

C. The volcano eruption

D. The typhoon

2. What were the stepping stones along the road in the city used for?

A. Leading people walking along the road

B. Making people not step in the mud in the streets on rainy days.

C. Making the city more beautiful

D. Avoiding the children walking in the mud.

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Both of the two cities are lost civilizations about 2000 years ago.

B. Both of the two cities were discovered by local people.

C. Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano while Loulan was gradually covered over by sandstorms.

D. Pompeii was in Italy while Loulan was in China.

4. According to the last sentence, how did the author feel about the loss of Loulan?

A. Excited

B. Sorry

C. Happy

D. Surprising

5. The purpose of writing this passage is______.

A. to show how happy the writer was to have such a chance to visit the sites.

B. to a rouse people’s sense of protecting civilizations

C. to compare the civilizations of Pompeii and Loulan

D. to tell us how Pompeii and Loulan were destroyed.

Step V Fill in the blanks.

On the morning of July 16, we attended a lecture about Pompeii, a city __________ in the 8th century BC. In AD 79, the volcano near the city _________ and many people were buried alive and so was the city. On July 17, we saw the ________ city of Pompeii as it was 2,000 years ago. It was a farmer who discovered a stone with _________ on it in the 18th century. And it was put under government ________ in 1860 so as to be preserved and studied. The streets were just as they had been. And houses __________ with wall paintings can be seen today. Many people fail to _________ the city and their bodies __________, only leaving empty spaces in the ash. How ______! On July 24, we visited Loulan, a busy and wealthy _________ ancient city about 2,000 years ago. Loulan was a stopping point on the Silk Road. It is believed to have been ________ covered by sandstorms form AD 200 to AD 400. About the year 1900, a European ________ found the ruins of the Loulan Kingdom. At the ruins we saw the city walls, ________, temples, workshops and towers. And there was an ancient water _______ running through the middle of the city. Once a green city, now it it being ________ by sand – what a pity!

Step VI Reading comprehension