2014-2015学年高中英语 Unit 2 Sailing the oceans A sample lesson plan for Using Language 教案 新人教版选修9.docVIP

Period 3 A sample lesson plan for Using Language (THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL) Introduction Language is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students read a narrative writing about sailing at sea. Then they listen and speak about Viking sailing and Polynesian seamen. In the end they are helped to rewrite the story on page 17. Objectives ■ To help students read the passage THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL on page 17 ■ To help students listen and speak about Viking sailing and rewrite the text just read Procedures 1. Warming up by learning something about William Bligh William Bligh in 1814Vice Admiral of the Blue William Bligh, FRS (9 September 1754 - 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. He is best known for the famous mutiny that occurred against his command aboard HMAV (His Majestys Armed Vessel) Bounty and the remarkable voyage he made to Timor on the Bountys launch after being set adrift by the mutineers. Many years after the Bounty mutiny he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, with a brief to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the NSW Corps. He had some success in his task but quickly faced opposition which culminated in the Rum Rebellion led by John Macarthur. 2. Reading for forms Read the text THE GREATEST NAVIGATIONAL JOURNEY: A LESSON IN SURVIVAL on page 17 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. 3. Copying expressions and making sentences catch in a dilemma, risk certain death, sit close together，face an uncertain future, have no charts, take with sb., set the course, make sure, stay on that course, keep to a straight course, in addition, keep sb. work out the position, take a great deal of time, cope with, drive sb. mad, preserve one’s good spirits, talk hopefully about, get worse, sink into…, take one’s minds off