高三英語(yǔ)nothing ventured nothing gained教案
unit 1
nothing ventured, nothing gained
第四課時(shí)learding about language
ex 1, p 5
april 16th, 1916
moving to elephant island was a dangerous under-taking, but it was not our first. we had __________ onto the ice to make camp when the endurance was stuck. the ice constantly broke up at night because of the warmth of our bodies and we often dropped into the freezing water while sleeping. though we were in an __________ situation, we tried to make our daily life___________ with singing and making fun of each other. our______________ improved when we saw the solid land of elephant island appear on the horizon. shackleton gave us no time to ___________ the failure of our expedition. he encouraged us all with advice to prevent ___________ . without his___________ that we would indeed survive, we might all___________ to despair. ___________ we prepared to follow his advice and on this day climbed into the three small open boats ready for the journey.
ex. 2, p 6
gou jian, king of yue, was captured by his enemy, fu chai, the king of wu. his __________ lasted for three__________ years, which to him seemed like a lifetime. one day the king of wu fell ill. after tasting the king‘s stool(大便), gou jian announced that fu chai would soon_______. fu chai was moved by his act and he let him return to yue.
remembering how ____________ his life as a slave had been, gou jian took no interest in ___________ and continued to live in the same way as he did in wu. he wanted to___________ his lost land. but he also knew it was _________ to___________ the chance with care. so first he introduced the king of wu to a beauty called xi shi. while fu chai was trying to entertain xi shi, gou jian attacked and defeated him.
ex. 3, p 6, creating a word web of adjectives to describe peoples’ characters
useful structures--attributes: ex. 1, p 6
warm and dry clothes,
a cosy bedroom,
sunny days,
my mother’s face and
tire celebration we will
get when we return
….
ex. 2, p 7
freezing
who liked to visit sites of historic places
landing
where they had struggled to land
soft-eyed
which looked grey and forbidding
that surrounded the camp on two sides
unfair coldest, most unfriendly
to eat of men