Unit8：Lessons4教案

Lesson4 Journey to the Antarctic教案

Teaching aims:

1. To practise understanding difficult words in a reading text using syntactic and semantic clues.

2. To predict the content of a text using information form the title and accompanying pictures.

3. To develop word building skills by making nouns from adjectives.

Teaching important points:

Word building

Teaching aids : CAI

Teaching procedures:

Step1. Warm up

Let's enjoy the wonderful Antarctic

Step2. Pre-reading

Talk about the questions:

1. Can all of us go to the Antarctic?

2. Who is the first person to go to the South Pole?

Then pre-view the Vocabulary

Step3. Reading

Task1. Read the reading strategies and explain it to the students

Task2. Read the text quickly and decide whether the statements are true or false

Task3. Read and find the following expressions

Step4. Vocabulary: Word Building

Task1. Find these words in the text and decide what kind of words they are

Task2. Complete the sentences. Make nouns or adjectives from the words in brackets.

Step5. Exercise