Unit 2   Crossing limits

3. 課型設計與課時分配（經教材分析，根據學情，本單元可以用7課時教完）
1st period    listening
2nd period    speaking
3rd period    reading
4th period    language study
5th period    extensive reading
6th period    writing
7th period    integrating skills

iv.分課時教案
the first period   listening

teaching goals 教學目標
1. target language 目標語言
重點詞匯和短語
explore, exploration, discover, discovery, face risks, face challenges, modern means, equipment
2. ability goals 能力目標
enable students to learn that exploring in the past and present are quite different.
3. learning ability goals 學能目標
enable students to learn how to compare between the past and present exploring. 
teaching important points 教學重點
enable students to fully understand the “problem-solution” part in warming up and listening materials.
teaching difficult points 教學難點
by training listening strategies of prediction and doing shorthand, enable students to form a good habit of listening.
teaching methods 教學方法
1. team work learning
2. task-based learning
teaching aids 教具準備
a projector and some slides
teaching procedures & ways 教學過程與方式

step i revision (give reading materials before class)
t: first, let’s check your homework to see how well you have prepared for the class. now please do the quiz.
quiz:
1. who was the first person that mapped the indian coast?
2. who was the first person that discovered the “new world”?
3. why did abel tasman sail along the coast of australia and many islands in the pacific ocean?
4. what was james cook’s purpose of his voyage?
key:
zheng he
columbus
tasman was to answer questions about the nature of the geography of pacific ocean regions during his exploration.
cook was chosen by the royal society of london to undertake a scientific journey to tahiti to observe and document the event as the planet venus passed between the earth and the sun. his secret task was to find new landmasses in the south.

stepⅱ warming up 
task one: world map exploration
t: look at the map and tell me how many continents there are in the world. what are they?
show a world map through slide.
s: there are seven continents in the world. they are asia, africa, europe, oceania, north america, south america and antarctic.
 
t: observe the map carefully and find their separate positions. tell me which ocean separates asia from oceania, and which separates europe from america. then tell me which oceans we have to cross if we take the shortest route from china to the east coast of africa by sea.