余杭高級中學(xué) 范藝

Goals:

1. To get to know something about a famous woman named Helen Thayer.

2. To develop some basic reading skills.

3. To understand the importance of courage and determination.

Teaching aids: Multimedia

Teaching procedures:

Step1. Warming up

1. Show some pictures of Antarctica.

Q: Is it beautiful? Where is it?

Q: What’s the weather like there?

Q: How is the living condition there? What animals live there?

Step2. Pre-Reading

1. Work in pairs and discuss the following questions:

1). Imagine you are traveling alone to the South Pole, what will you take with you? Why?

2). Do you know the names of three countries that are part of the North Pole?

3). Which animals live on the North Pole? And which on the South Pole?

4). Why do polar bears never eat penguins?

2. Group work:

Study the title and try to guess what the person who was alone in Antarctica is would be like?

----The person must be very strong.

----The person must be very young.

----The person must be healthy.

----The person must have great courage and determination.

----The person must have a strong will.

Q: Can you imagine such a woman of 60 years old making an expedition alone in Antarctic?

Q: What difficulty might she meet in Antarctica?

Step3. Reading

It’s clear to see that being in Antarctica alone is a journey of challenge and danger.

1. Ask the students to listen to the text and make a decision about whether the following statements are true or false.

( ) 1. She spent her 50th and 60th birthday in Antarctica.

( ) 2. During her expedition in Antarctica, the weather was very good though the wind was icy.

( ) 3. Every November there was bright sunshine 24 hours a day.

( ) 4. Her birthday fall on the 22nd day when she began her journey to the South Pole.

( ) 5. She had got self-rescue training before the expedition.

( ) 6. She will never forget her solo travel in the South Pole.

2. Ask the students to read the text and answer the questions.

1). What’s the weather like during the first few days of her expedition?

2). Where did she stay when the wind grew stronger?

3). How did she spend the day of November12?

4). What happened when she was moving forward over a slope?

5). What happened on the 22nd day of the expedition?

3. Finish Post Reading Ex1. on P32

4. Read each paragraph again to pick out the sentence or key words which help you get the main idea of each paragraph.

Find out main idea and detailed information of each paragraph.

5. Language points

Step4. Post- reading

Interview: (If time permits)

Work in pairs. One is newspaper reporter, and the other is Helen Thayer. After the expedition the reporter is interviewing Helen.

Homework:

1. Finish the exercise about Vocabulary and Grammar.

2. Finish English Weekly Proof reading.