Teaching Aims：

1  Train the students’reading ability.

2  Learn and master the following words and phrases;

1) Words: mile  Antarctic  threaten  optimistic  somehow  shelter  regret  extreme  climate  value

2) Phrases: struggle through   threaten to do sth  lie down  be thankful for    in good health   struggle to one’s feet   make a decision

 

Teaching Important Points：

1.      Improve the students’ reading ability.

2.      Enable the student to understand the text better.

3.      Let the students have strong wills and determination by reading the passage.

 

Teaching Difficult Points：

1.      How to improve the students’reading ability.

2.      The use of some useful expressions.

 

Teaching Methods：

1.      Discussion before reading to make the students be interested in what they learn in class.

2.      Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.

3.      Careful reading to answer some detailed questions.

4.      Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.

 

 

Teaching Aids:

1.          a map of the world

2.         a tape recorder

3.         a computer

 

Teaching Procedures：

Step I   Greeting and speech       

Greet the students as usual and the student who is on duty give a speech before class.

Step II   Lead­-in

1            Do you like travelling ?

Where do you like to travel best ? 

        How will you travel ?

    2   Imagine you are traveling alone to the South Pole, what will you take with you ?

    3          Why do polar bears never eat penguins ?

 

Step III   Fast – reading

 

Ask the students to read the text quickly and silently, find the answers to these three questions .  

1          How did the writer celebrate her 60^th birthday ?

2          When was the writer is 60^th birthday ?

3          Why did she say it was an experience she would never forget and would value for the rest of her life ?

 

Step IV   Careful-reading

     Ask students to read the text again carefully and finish three tasks:

1  Finish Exercise 1 of post-reading on page 32.

2  Fill in the form on the screen .

Time	Weather	What did she do?/What happened to her?
		began her almost 200-mile journey
3rd --11th
		celebrated her 60th birthday
13th --21th	----------------------
22th	-----------------------
23th	----------------------

 

 

3.  Do some T/F exercises on the screen.

1). She celebrated her fiftieth birthday by traveling alone to the South Pole.

2). She went to Antarctica with the dog team pulling her sled.

3). Everything went all right during the first few days.

4). During the next week the wind grew so strong that it blew away her tent.

5). She had an accident after her birthday.

6). It was all her training that helped her out of danger

 

Step V   Listening and Consolidation

Play the tape for the students and ask them to read the text after the tape in a low voice, paying attention to the pronunciation and intonation.

 

Step VI  Discussion

   1. What kind of woman is Helen Thayer ? Describe her in a few sentences.

2.          Do you admire her?  Why ?

 

Step VII   Reading together.

"If you have a goal without a plan, it's only a dream. Once you set a goal, you have to keep going. There have been a lot of times where I was determined to just take the next step. Those who can take that next step are the successful people in the world."

                                                  -------Helen Thayer

 

 

StepVIII   Homework

1.      Reading the text again and again after class.

2.      Finish the exercises of Grammar.

 

Step IX   Record after Teaching