高三英语 英语教案

Book 8 Module 1 Deep South

Period 1 Introduction and Reading -- Antarctica: the Last Continent ▇Goals

●To learn something about the North pole and South pole

●To learn to read with strategies

●To learn and master some useful words and expressions in the text

Procedures

Step 1: Warming up

1. Warming up by questions

Hello, class. Today we’re going to learn Module 1. This module is a common knowledge about Antarctica. Well, do you know the differences between the South Pole and the North Pole? Now let’s try a quick quiz. Work in pairs

Before we read the text, we should firstly study some new words which appear in the passage. Well, look at these

1. Do you know the ______(一年的) course of the sun?

2. The well is ten meters in d______.

3. France made a peace t________ with a neighboring country.

4. She left her purse on the table as a t_____ of the child’s honesty.

5. The house was in a dirty _____(状况)

6. The football team was ____(晋升) to the first division.

Step 2: Reading

1. Reading and find a heading for each paragraph

3. Reading and answering questions

1. Which of the following sentences is WRONG about Antarctica?

A. Antarctica is not only the coldest place but also the driest place on earth.

B. Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world

C. A high mountain range, the Trans-Antarctica range, cuts the continent in two

D. Antarctica holds 70% of the world’s ice and 90% of the world’s fresh water.

2. Which of the following descriptions is RIGHT about the wild life in Antarctica?

A. There are flying birds, seals, whales and one type of penguins.

B. The long Antarctica winter night, the extreme cold and lack of rainfall make few types of penguins.

C. There are some trees on the large continent.

D. Only two types of flowering plants are found and no forms of algae can grow on ice.

3. Antarctica rocks are very important for research because ______.

A. the rock has become a window on the past

B. gases and minerals trapped in the rocks can tell us a lot about the weather in the past

C. most of the rocks are meteorites from outer space

D. most Antarctica rocks are dark in color

4. _________crossed the Antarctica Circle in the late 18th century.

A. The British explored James Cook

B. The explorer called Norwegian

C. The explorer called Carstens

4. Complete the article with one word in each blank

Antarctica is the coldest and driest place in the world. It is technically a _______. It _____ 90% of the world’s ice and most of its fresh water is in a frozen _______. In some places it reaches a ________ of five kilometers.

The wildlife in Antarctica has ____ its extreme conditions, but few types of plants can survive there because of the long winter night, the extreme cold and _____ of rainfall.

Researchers can get a lot of ________ from the ice, gases, minerals and rocks there. Rocks in dark color which