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Module 3 Unit 8 Lesson 4 Journey to the Antarctic Reading: The Race to the Pole Teachers: JIN Wenzhi from Luoyang No.1 Middle School Students: Senior 1 Teaching Content: The text is chosen from Lesson 4, Unit 8 of the textbook used by students from senior 1. Its about 2 teams racing to the South Pole and the hardships they came across on the way back. Teaching aims: 1. Students are supposed to use reading extensive reading to get the main idea of the passage and intensive reading to find the specific information. 2. Get more specific information by finishing some tasks. 3. Grasp the ability to guess the meaning of an unfamiliar word in a context. 4. Recognize the devotion made by Captain Scott and relate to their suffering. Important points: 1. Read the text and understand it generally and in detail. 2. Practice guessing the new words from the context Difficult Points: 1. Use the students’ own words to retell the stories. 2. Express their opinions on success and failure freely and accurately. Teaching method: Task-based reading; cooperative learning; inquiry teaching. Teaching preparation: PPT; handouts Teaching procedures: Step 1. Warm-up and lead-in Warm-up: Show a short video to let the students know the beauty of the Antarctic. Lead-in: 1. Ask the students to have a brainstorm to find some words to describe the Antarctic. 2. Show some pictures to show the severe circumstance of the Antarctic. 3. Ask the question: Do you want to go to the Antarctic for travel? Intention: To attract students with the beautiful scenery of the Antarctic. Then shock them with the truth of the terrible environment there. To let them know it’s never easy to explore the Antarctic. Step 2. Pre-reading Ask the students to predict what the passage is talking about by reading the title and looking at the two pictures. Who participate in the race? Where were they racing? Who won the race? Intention：Through reading the titles and watch the two pictures to make a prediction of t