北师大版Module3Unit8Lesson4JourneytotheAntarctic学案

1、The Students SheetModule3 Unit8 Lesson4 Journey to the Antarctic班级：姓名：Read the Background Information and ignore忽 略)new words in it:I. The in troduct ion of The An tarctic:I. The area of the Land: 14 millio n sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 millio n sq km ice-covered)2.Size: the fifth-largest c

2、ontinent, followi ng Asia, Africa, North America, and South America, but larger tha n Australia and the subc on ti nent of Europe3. Location: continent mostly south of the Antarctic Circle4. Geography: the coldest, win diest, highest (on average), and driest con ti nent; duri ng summer, more solar r

3、adiation reaches the surface at the South Pole than is received at the Equator; mostly unin habitableII. The famous explorers to the An tarctic:1. Roald Amun dse na:m? nds?n, born in 1872 n ear Oslo, Norway, left his mark as one of the most successful polar explorers ever born. On December 14th 1911

4、, 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 souther nm ost point.2. Robert Falco n Scottsk?t was born at Outla nds on June 6, 1868. He had a race with Roald Amunsden to the South

5、 Pole.StepI: PredictionLook at the title and photos on P28 and guess the answers to these questions.1. Which Pole did they race to?2. Who reached the Pole first?Step II: Read to learnWhile-reading 1: Now read the first four paragraphs within 3 minutes to check your guesses.While-reading 2: Read the

6、following paragraphs and divide the paragraphs into four parts and match the parts with their topics within six minutes.Part1 Para_ - a) the heroich?r?* spiritPart2 Para_ - b) the doomed(certa in to fail)du?md returnPart3 Para_ - c) reachi ng the polePart4 Parad) preparati on s,prep?re?) n for the r

7、aceWhile-reading3: Scan(寻读)the text. Are these statements true (T) or false (F)?1) Scott s use of sledges and horses was a sQcce$s.2) Amun dse n travelled more quickly tha n Scott.()3) When they got to the Pole, Scott s team had a Celebration.4) Captain Oates went for a walk and died in a snow storm

8、.()5) Scott s last letter was to his wife.)While-reading 4:Read the Reading Strategies as fast as possible:Dealing With Difficult Words?Read the sentence the word is in and decide what kind of word it is (e.g. adjeCt曜 OUU nheCOhwing words in the text:is possibly a?leRad tbeokerdgwhambiworddssiaaod t

9、ry to work out the meaning from theReaO?e Paragraph the word is in and try to work out the meaning from the contex?h eck the con text to see if the mea ning fits, e.g.“ sledge ”kcooeqepmenpoFesn ome aThg meahenderhneSiwo the senten ces.) bSNoweuhedadflgsongotheecRqgeexadtatt eOimn)whewskis. A. carri

10、age B. equipme nt used for moving on snowPart of speech(词性): nounClue(线索):Meaning :(2) L14: Scott soon had problems. First, his two sledges broke down and then the horses began to have serious difficulties After a while, they had to push the sledges.break dow n: A. stopped fun cti onin g 运转)B. lost

11、in snowPart of speech: phrasal verb(成语动词 )Clue:Meaning :(3) L20-22 They were shocked when they saw Norwegian flag. And he wrote sadly in his dairy: we have now lost the goal of our ambition and goodbye to most of our dreams.ambiti on A. way back homeB. sth. you want to achievePart of speech:Clue:Mea

12、ning :(4) L34 These rocks proved that at one time in the distant past the Antarctic was covered by pla nts A. far awayB. deep un der the snowPart of speech:Clue:Meaning :Practice阅读专项训练-猜测词义题1. Children are always boasting They say things like “ My Dad s car is bigger than your Dad s,“ My Mom is smar

13、ter than yours.” and “ My family has more money than yours.”The word boasting ” means.A.骄傲 B.吹牛 C.顽皮 D.幼稚2. The old woma n has a stra nge habit to keep over 100 cats in her house. Her n eighbor all call her an eccentric lady.The word ecbentric ” means._A.爱猫的C.闲不住B.古怪的t give it up halfway.D.动物保护主义者3.

14、 He is a resolute man. Once he made up his mind to do someth ing, he wonThe word resolute means第2页A. weak B. firmC. kindD. clever4. Today young couples often spend lots of their money on appliances for instanee, washing mach in es, refrigerators and color televisi ons.The word applia nces ” means.A.

15、家具 B.汽车 C.家用电器 D.住房5. When he reached the place with his army, he found an impassable river in front of him.A.可通过的B.不可通过的 C.被冻住的 D.污浊的Homework（A）Read plenty of good books. When you come across a new word, or a new meaning of an old word, stop and see if you can un dersta nd it from its con text. If

16、you cant, and if you can man age without in terrupti ng the thought of the book too much, look it up in a dictionary or ask somebody and then repeat its meaning to yourself a couple of times. If you are really conscientious认真的）,write the word and its meaning in a pers onal vocabulary list preferably

17、 using it in a senten ce, or you can keep a special vocabulary no tebook. Go over the list from time to time. Further, try to use a new word in writing or conversation a few times over the next several days.Listen to good talks and be alert to new words you hear or to new meanings of words you alrea

18、dy know. The n treat them just as you treat the new words you read.Learn and be alert to the parts of words: prefixes, suffixes?f*s后缀 and roots. Knowing them enables you to make intelligent guesses about the meaning of words.If you are study ing a foreig n Ian guage, be alert to words in that la ngu

19、age which relate to words in English. English has inherited（继承）or borrowed much of its vocabulary of 500 000600 000 words from Latin, Greek, French, Spanish and Germa n.1. The phrase be alert to” in the second paragraph may best be replaced bya”A. look atB. pay atte nti on toC. write dow nD. learn b

20、y heart2. In the third paragraph, the word them” refers to.A. the parts of wordsB. prefixesC. suffixesD. roots（B）Doreen Sykora is now a junior at McGill University. She had a difficult time when she first began college. She said, f was always well prepared for my exam in atio ns. But whe n I go into

21、 class to take the exam, I would fall apart. I could just blank out because of nervousness and fear” Hitoshi Sakamoto, an anthropology（人类学）student at Temple University in Tokyo reports similar experie nces.These two young students were experiencing something called test anxiety.第3页Because a student

22、worries and is stressed!(压力于)about a test, his or her mind does not work as well as it usually does. The student cannot write or think clearly because of the severe tension and n ervous ness.3. The phrase blank out” in Paragraph 1 refers to “二A. lose in terest in the examB. refuse to take the examC.

23、 get an extra paperD. be un able to think clearly(c )My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxe n that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behi nd an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.It was ver