北師大版Module3Unit8Lesson4JourneytotheAntarctic學案

1、第1頁/共5頁The Students ' SheetModule3 Un it8 Less on4 Jour ney to the An tarctic班級：姓名：Read the Backgro und In formati on 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

2、: the fifth-largest continent, 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

3、 summer, more solar radiation 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 n'a:m? nds?n, born in 1872 n ear Oslo, Norway, left his mark as one of the most successful polar explorers ever b

4、orn. On December 14th 1911, 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 world's souther nm ost point.2. Robert Falcon Scottsk?t was born at Outlands on June 6, 1868. He had a race wit

5、h Roald Amunsden to the South Pole.StepI: Predicti onLook 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 lear nWhile-reading 1: Now read the first four paragraphs within 3 minutes to check your gue

6、sses.While-readi ng 2: Read the followi ng 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) pre

7、parati on s,prep?'re?) n for the raceWhile-read in g3: Scan(尋讀)the text. Are these stateme nts 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 cel)ebration.4) C

8、aptain Oates went for a walk and died in a snow storm.()5) Scott ' s last letter was to his wife.)While-read ing 4:Read the Read ing Strategies as fast as possible:Deali ng With Difficult Words?Read the sentence the word is in and decide what kind of word it is (e.g. Fnd out thR foMowi ng words

9、in the text:the con teheck the con text to see if the mea ning fits, e.g.“sledge ”kMoposeiprneofsmwqThiofmheiUinidetijnedwodext of the senten cesj (1) OjoHeuhedadflgsongothfieieqgesexadtaW eaim§n)whewskis.is possibly aA. carriageB. equipme nt used for moving on snow?leR§ad tbeokerdgwphambi

10、worddssteiaod try to work out the meaning from thfeReadthe Paragraph the word is in and try to work out the meaning fromun der the snows,'t give it up halfway.Part of speech(詞性): nounClue(線索):Meaning :(2) L14: Scott soon had problems. First, his two sledges broke down and then the horses began t

11、o have serious difficultie s .Af ter a while, they had to push the sledges.break dow n: A. stopped fun cti onin g 運轉(zhuǎn))B. lost in snowPart of speech: phrasal verb(成語動詞 )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 o

12、f our ambition and goodbye to most of our dreams.ambiti on A. way back homeB. sth. you want to achievePart of speech:Clue:Meaning :(4) L34 These rocks proved that at one time in the distant past the Antarctic was covered by pla nts A. far awayPart of speech:Clue:Meaning :Practice閱讀專項訓練-猜測詞義題1. Child

13、ren are always boasting . They say th ings like “ My Dad ' s car is bigger than your DadMy Mom is smarter tha n yours.” andaMImfarmrliydney tha n yours.The word boasting ” means.A.驕傲 B.吹牛 C.頑皮 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 h

14、er an eccentrie lady.The word ecbentric ” means.A.愛貓的B.古怪的C.閑不住D.動物保護主義者3. He is a resolute man. Once he made up his mind to do something, he wonThe word resolute mea ns4. Today young couples often spend lots of their money on appliances, for instanee, washing mach in es, refrigerators and color tel

15、evisi ons.The word applia nces ” means.A.家具 B.汽車 C.家用電器 D.住房5. When he reached the place with his army, he found an impassable river in front of him.A.可通過的B.不可通過的 C.被凍住的 D.污濁的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 c

16、an un dersta nd it from its con text. If you can't, 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認真的）,write the word and its mea

17、ning in a pers onal vocabulary list preferably 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

18、you hear or to new meanings of words you already 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后綴 and roots. Knowing them enables you to make intelligent guesses about the meaning of words.If you are study ing a foreig

19、 n Ian guage, be alert to words in that la nguage which relate to words in English. English has inherited（繼承）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 a

20、tB. pay atte nti on toC. write dow nD. learn by 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 prepa

21、red for my exam in atio ns. But whe n I go into class to take the exam, I would fall apart. I could just blank out because of nervousness and fear” Hitoshi Sakamoto, an anthropology（人類學）student at Temple University in Tokyo reports similar experie nces.These two young students were experiencing some

22、thing called test anxiety.Because a student worries and is stressed!(壓力于)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 t

23、erest in the examB. refuse to take the examC. 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 very