Unit7：lesson1教案一

lesson1 The Spirit of Explorers

教案

Teaching aims:

①. to get to know the story and spirit of the sea explorers

②. to practise reading for specific information

③. to practise using relative clauses with when, where and why.

④. to review an consolidate the relative pronouns

Teaching difficult and important points:

①. to master relative clauses with when, where and why

②. to improve the students' reading skill

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warm up

Multiple choice to choose the first person to arrive in America.

Ⅱ. Pre-reading

Task1: Background information about the Viking

①. the Vikings

②. the time

③. the voyages

④. find Chinese names for these places on page110

task2: Learning new words before reading

Ⅲ. Reading

Task1: Read the passage and complete the table below about the Viking's three major discoveries.

Task2: Read the text again and answer the following questions.

a) Why did Eric the Red leave Iceland?

b) Who was Biarni looking for when he was blown to an unknown land ?

c) How do we know about the Vikings ?