新视野大学英语第三版第二册第二课教案

Unit 2 Section A Swimming through fear

教学重点：

1. to learn to get the key idea and detailed information

2. to understand the text with the questions given

3. to translate some long and difficult sentences and learn some ways to express one’s feeling (horror, relief, relaxation)

4. to understand the problem-solution pattern

教学难点：

1 to separate the Chinese sentences and set the new sentence structure in English

2.to grasp and translate some expressions and long sentences

3.to learn the meaning of some detailed description

4.to ask for and give directions

5.教学过程：

Task 1

Lead-in (Ss work in groups to discuss the following questions)

1. Did you experience some moments when you feared?

2. How did you overcome the fear?

3. Listening: pre-reading activities

4. What can we infer from the title?

Tips:

1. A piece of narration (an event or a story)

2.He or she was afraid of swimming.

3.He or she succeeded in doing sth (according to “through”)

Learn to swim?

Task 2

Text study

1.Ss read the passage and discuss the following questions in groups

A. Why was Jason scared of water?

B.Could the would-be rescuers succeed in saving the drowning boy? Why or why not?

C. Why did Jason decide to intervene to save the boy in spite of his fear of water?

D. Why did Jason become hesitant when he raced down the beach, out onto t

he jetty?

E. How did Jason feel when he jumped into the water?

F. How did the boy respond when Jason grabbed him?

G. Was Jason's swimming back to safety smooth? Why?

H.Whydid Jason feel the water had never looked so beautiful when he reached the jetty?

nguage focus

Ss read the passage and try to find out all new words and phrases of this unit.

1)take \ hold sb. captive

2)turn sb./ sth . down

3)embark on/ upon sth.

4)Share in sth.

5)lead by example

6)be stricken by/ with

7)live on

Task 3

A paragraph of problem-solution pattern

Writing tips:

I. Introduction

Establishes the plot ( setting, characters, and time period )

II. Body

First major event

Second part of the story

Third part …

Climax, the high point in the narrative

Resolution in which the conflict / tension is resolved.

III. Conclusion

What is "the moral of the story?"

Assignment：

Write a paragraph of no less than 200 words on the following topic: slow down

Task 4

Listening part

A. Discuss the following questions.

1.talk about your own traveling experiences

2.Make a plan for a dream journey

3.what do you like about traveling?

4.what don’t you like about traveling?

B. listening to the following parts: sharing,opening up,viewing, speaking for communication part, further practice for listening