2017-2018学年 牛津版 必修二Unit 3 Amazing people-Reading教案

The curse of the mummy (Reading)
Teaching objectives:
1) to make Ss have a better understanding of an amazing person
---the famous explorer Howard Carter 2) to improve students’ ability of summarizing the qualities of amazing people as well as
cooperating to finish a talk show.
3) to encourage students to learn from those amazing people and become a successful student. Step 1 Lead-in
1. To introduce some amazing people as well as their good qualities
2. To introduce a famous explorer Howard Carter.
Step 2 An analysis of the text
1. ( Para1~2)
What good qualities did Howard Carter possess?
2. Questions（Para 3）
1. Where did Carter make the discovery?
2. Who playe d an important role in Carter’s most amazing discovery?
3. What were found in the tomb of Tutankhamun?
Further questions:
1. Why did Lord Carnarvon choose Howard Carter among so many explorers?
2. Did they take the treasure away? How did they deal with the discovery? Why?
Other strange cases
The lucky bird
The lights
His dog
4. Different explanations for the deaths. （Paragraph 6~8）
People have different explanations for the strange deaths. Some people say the deaths were just _____________while others believe that they were in __________with the mummy’s curse, as a ____________for those who enter the resting place of the dead. However, still others hold the view that there is a_________ explanation. Inside the tombs, there are many __________.If __________in, they can cause people to fall ill or even _______.
In the writer’s view, it remains a _________.
Step 3 Discussion
(1)What do you think is the explanation for so many strange deaths?
a curse, a coincidence or having a scientific explanation?
(2)If Howard Carter were alive, would he believe in the curse of the mummy? Why?
Step 4 Pair Work
A talk show
Step 5 Homework
1. Read the passage fluently and find out difficult language points, and try to understand them in context.
2. Surf the Internet and enjoy some more riddles about ‘the curse of the mummy’.
Howard Carter ['hauəd] ['kɑ:tə] Alexandria [,ælig'zɑ:ndriə] Carnavon [kɑ:'nɑ:vən]
Luxor ['lʌksɔ:] /['luksə] Tutankhamun [,tu:tən'kɑ:mən] Cairo ['kaiərəu]
George Gould [dʒɔ:dʒ] [gu:ld] Richard Bethell ['ritʃəd] [beθəl] Arthur Mace ['ɑ:θə] [meis]
Howard Carter ['hauəd] ['kɑ:tə] Alexandria [,ælig'zɑ:ndriə] Carnavon [kɑ:'nɑ:vən]
Luxor ['lʌksɔ:] /['luksə] Tutankhamun [,tu:tən'kɑ:mən] Cairo ['kaiərəu]
George Gould [dʒɔ:dʒ] [gu:ld] Richard Bethell ['ritʃəd] [beθəl] Arthur Mace ['ɑ:θə] [meis]
Howard Carter ['hauəd] ['kɑ:tə] Alexandria [,ælig'zɑ:ndriə] Carnavon [kɑ:'nɑ:vən]
Luxor ['lʌksɔ:] /['luksə] Tutankhamun [,tu:tən'kɑ:mən] Cairo ['kaiərəu]
George Gould [dʒɔ:dʒ] [gu:ld] Richard Bethell ['ritʃəd] [beθəl] Arthur Mace ['ɑ:θə] [meis]
Howard Carter ['hauəd] ['kɑ:tə] Alexandria [,ælig'zɑ:ndriə] Carnavon [kɑ:'nɑ:vən]
Luxor ['lʌksɔ:] /['luksə] Tutankhamun [,tu:tən'kɑ:mən] Cairo ['kaiərəu]
George Gould [dʒɔ:dʒ] [gu:ld] Richard Bethell ['ritʃəd] [beθəl] Arthur Mace ['ɑ:θə] [meis] Howard Carter ['hauəd] ['kɑ:tə] Alexandria [,ælig'zɑ:ndriə] Carnavon [kɑ:'nɑ:vən]
Luxor ['lʌksɔ:] /['luksə] Tutankhamun [,tu:tən'kɑ:mən] Cairo ['kaiərəu]
George Gould [dʒɔ:dʒ] [gu:ld] Richard Bethell ['ritʃəd] [beθəl] Arthur Mace ['ɑ:θə] [meis]
Howard Carter ['hauəd] ['kɑ:tə] Alexandria [,ælig'zɑ:ndriə] Carnavon [kɑ:'nɑ:vən]
Luxor ['lʌksɔ:] /['luksə] Tutankhamun [,tu:tən'kɑ:mən] Cairo ['kaiərəu]
George Gould [dʒɔ:dʒ] [gu:ld] Richard Bethell ['ritʃəd] [beθəl] Arthur Mace ['ɑ:θə] [meis]
Howard Carter ['hauəd] ['kɑ:tə] Alexandria [,ælig'zɑ:ndriə] Carnavon [kɑ:'nɑ:vən]
Luxor ['lʌksɔ:] /['luksə] Tutankhamun [,tu:tən'kɑ:mən] Cairo ['kaiərəu]
George Gould [dʒɔ:dʒ] [gu:ld] Richard Bethell ['ritʃəd] [beθəl] Arthur Mace ['ɑ:θə] [meis]
Howard Carter ['hauəd] ['kɑ:tə] Alexandria [,ælig'zɑ:ndriə] Carnavon [kɑ:'nɑ:vən]
Luxor ['lʌksɔ:] /['luksə] Tutankhamun [,tu:tən'kɑ:mən] Cairo ['kaiərəu]
George Gould [dʒɔ:dʒ] [gu:ld] Richard Bethell ['ritʃəd] [beθəl] Arthur Mace ['ɑ:θə] [meis]。