高一下学期英语《Lesson 4 Journey to the Antarctic》导学案.docVIP

Teaching objectives: To practise understanding difficult words in a reading text using syntactic and semantic clues. To predict the content of a text using information from the title and accompanying pictures. To have a better understanding of the spirit of the explorers. Teaching important points: Help students understand the text generally and in detail Help students to use some new words and expressions correctly. Teaching difficult points: How to help students deal with difficult words in the text. Background knowledge: 1. About the Antarctic land: 14 million sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 million sq km ice-covered) note: fifth-largest continent, following Asia, Africa, North America, and South America, but larger than Australia and the subcontinent of Europe Location: continent mostly south of the Antarctic Circle Geography: the coldest, windiest, highest (on average), and driest continent; during summer, more solar radiation reaches the surface at the South Pole than is received at the Equator; mostly uninhabitable 2. The Race to the Pole Roald Amundsen, born in 1872 near Oslo, Norway, left his mark as one of the most successful polar explorers ever born. On December 14th 1911, he stood victoriously at the South Pole. He reached a goal that was the dream of many men. For the first time, human voices broke the awesome silence of the worlds southernmost point. Robert Falcon Scott was born at Outlands on June 6, 1868. He had a race with Roald Amunsden to the South Pole, and he and his four companions arrived one month later than Roald. But unfortunately, on their way back, all of them died of hunger and extremely cold. Pre-reading questions: (1) Which Pole did they race to? (2) When did they go? (3 )Who reached the Pole first? (4)How much do you know about the Antarctic? Reading: Step 2 Reading 1Read the text more carefully. Are these statements true(T) or false(F)? Scott’s and Amundsen started their journeys in the polar spring. Scott’s use