高中必修第二册《Lesson 3 Race to the Pole》优质课教案下载

高中必修第二册《Lesson 3 Race to the Pole》优质课教案教学设计下载

2. read for deep understanding

3. summarise information

4. learn about and practise suffixes

【教学重难点】

1. reading for specific information and deep understanding

2. summarising a text

【教学过程】

1. Talk about exploring Antarctica.

(1) Read aloud the title of the lesson. Read about explorers and facts about Antarctica.

(2) Discuss the photos:

a. What are the temperatures like?

b. How would you dress to deal with the weather?

c. How would you get food?

d. Are there civilisations close by?

(3) Using this background knowledge, create a class discussion on the difficulties and preparations needed to race to the Pole.

2. Read the find out.

(1) Remind students that skimming and reading are different ways to understand written information. Now we will read the text. When we read, we look at all the words and try to understand the writer’s complete meaning.

(2) Give students a few moments to skim the explorers’ accounts and determine what they will read about.

(3) Have students read through the explorers’ accounts again, now they need to underline the general sentence and topic sentence for each paragraph.

(4) Explain to students that the texts in italics are the exact words that the explorer wrote in his diary.

(5) Ask students to underline in different colors when the two journeys began and a general sentence of what happened to the two teams.

3. Read again and complete.

(1) Introduce the table. This table contrasts the two different journeys. Let’s read the passage once more and add details to the table. Support students as they complete the task.

(2) Encourage students to rephrase details and ideas from the passage into their own words when discussing their ideas.

(3) Students can use their general sentences to find the information to complete the table.