Going West教案
5.because the sea was frozen,while the only two planes had been stored.
step ⅴ writing
t:now look at page 54.it’s time for us to do some writing practice.this time,we’re going to write a story based on the dialogue we learnt just now.retell the story first and then write it on a piece of paper.the pictures below may help you finish the task.before retelling it,you’d better look at the pictures carefully.when you finish it,exchange your writing with your partners and correct the mistakes in it.at the end,i’ll ask some of you to retell the story orally.is everything clear?
ss:yes.
t:ok.you can begin your work.
(teacher gives the students enough time to finish the task of writing.if time permits,teacher asks some of them to retell the story in class.)
one possible version:
one day,in the winter of 1925,the only doctor in nome dr welch discovered that some children had a terrible disease called diphtheria.soon some children died.in the small city,dr welch had enough vaccine for 5 people.the only way to prevent the disease was to get more vaccine as quickly as possible.at last,dr welch found the vaccine in a hospital,but the hospital was 1000 miles away.at that time,the sea was frozen and the only two planes had been stored.the only way would be to take the medicine first from anchorage to nenana by train and then send them to nome by a relay of dog teams.it would take up to 13 days to complete.soon twenty tough men formed a relay team.they rode day and night,through snow storms,against the temperature more than 30 degrees below zero.at last,they covered almost 700 miles and took the vaccine to nome as soon as possible in little more than 127 hours.the children of nome were saved.the drivers and dogs were so tired that the dogs couldn’t bark when they arrived in nome.people in the city much appreciated the dogs and thought they were really heroes.in december that year,a bronze sculpture of a dog was placed in new york’s central park in honour of them.
step ⅵ summary and homework
t:in this class,we’ve reviewed the useful expressions and the grammar—the attribute.and we’ve also learnt a dialogue about a historical event in 1925 and some useful phrases and a sentence pattern.besides,we’ve learnt how to write a story.after class,go over all the language points learnt in this unit.if you haven’t finished your writing,please go on with it.well,up to now,we’ve learnt the whole unit.can you tell me how you fell about perseverance?
s1:i fell that perseverance leads to success.