高中英语Lesson 3 Race to the Pole教案

Unit 5 Humans and Nature

Lesson 3 Race to the Pole

教学目标与核心素养：

知识目标：Students can learn some new words and expressions and theusage of suffixes.

能力目标：Students can have a further understanding of the passage.

情感目标：Students can think individually and learn cooperatively.

教学重难点

教学重点：How to learn the new words and expressions and theusage of suffixes.

教学难点：Howto make students have a better understanding of the passage.

课前准备：多媒体，黑板，粉笔

教学过程：

一、Pre-reading

1. Greeting

2. Leading-in

ACTIVATE AND SHARE

教师活动：教师提问

Look at the photos of Antarctica. What difficulties do you think explorers may facethere? What preparations do they need to make?

Ask students to think and share their answers.

二、  While- reading

READ AND EXPLORE

1. 学生活动：阅读文章，获取信息。

Here is an account of two teams' journeys to the South Pole. Read the text and find out when the two journeys began and what happened to the two teams.

2. 学生活动：阅读文章，完成表格。

Read again. Complete the information about the two exploration teams. Then talkabout the journeys based on your notes.

3. 学生活动：Pair Work

Summarise the change of feelings on Scott's team's return journey. Givereasons for the words or phrases you have chosen.

(Suggested answers:

·hopeless and helpless (The men were tired and were running out of food. )

·determined and devoted (They found time to look for rocks and carried twenty kilos of rocks all the way with them.)

·sad but courageous (Edgar Evans had a terrible disease and died. The next to go was Captain Oates. We all hope to meet the end with a similar spirit.)

·full of sadness, completely hopeless, sorry (A terrible storm started and they could not leave their tent. Scott's letter "tell you lots and lots about this journey" "stories for the boy" "what a price to pay".))

4. 学生活动：阅读文章，完成练习。

Read the underlined sentences from Scott's diary and letter. Work out the implied meaning of these sentences from the context. Write your inferences below.

line 21 _____________________________________________________________________

line 26 _____________________________________________________________________

line 33 _____________________________________________________________________

line 42 _____________________________________________________________________

(Suggested answers:

line 21: They lost the reason for the journey.

line 26: The men were getting weaker.

line 33: He is going to walk into the cold and die away from the team.

line 42: The journey cost the men their lives.)

三、After-reading

学生活动：Group Work Think and Share

1. Would you say that Scott and his team were losers? Why or why not?

(Even though Scott and his team lost the race to the Pole, they showed true determination and strength of character which is seen in heroes. Scott and his team are inspirational and not losers. Scott's team had always kept their goals in mind. They carried the rocks even in extremely difficult situations. The spirit and what they have done helped followers do further research.)

2. How do you understand Amundsen's saying about Scott's death "Captain Scott left a record, for honesty, sincerity, for bravery, for everything that makes a man"?

(Captain Scott wrote a diary detailing his journey, each entry was truthful and honest. He was honest about the feelings of his team and his fears. Captain Scott and his team brought back rocks for research, they did not only think about themselves but also about the greater good of humankind and the effect of the research.)

FOCUS ON LANGUAGE: SUFFIXES

学生活动：Complete the Word Builder. Then use the correct form of the words in the Word Builder to complete the sentences below.

1. Scott and Amundsen waited anxiously for spring during the Antarctic winter of 1911.

2. Amundsen got to the South Pole before Scott because he had done more ___________ before leaving for the Pole.

3. Scott and his team got into a difficult ___________ because their sledges broke down.

4. Scott's team tried to stay___________ despite all the difficulties they faced.

5. Scott experienced a great sense of___________ after realising that all of his efforts toreach the South Pole were for nothing.

6. Scott wrote about their ___________ situation in his diary.

7. The bad weather increases the danger of their ___________.

(Answers:

situation; hopeless(ness) ; cheerful; exploration; anxiously;sadness

2. preparation  3. situation  4. cheerful  5. sadness  6. hopeless  7. exploration)

EXPRESS YOURSELF

1. 学生活动：Pair Work

Read the sentences from Scott's diary and letter again.

1. Discuss what he was trying to say in each one.

2. Highlight the parts that impress you most and explain why.

2. 学生活动：Pair Work

Discuss the following questions. Read the text again if necessary.

1. Why do you think the writer of the text used the word "race" in the title?

2. Why was the world shocked by Scott's death?

3. 学生活动：Search online for the main events in China's Antarctica exploration. Why do people try to explore the toughest part of the Earth?

语法：后缀

后缀是一种重要的构词法，通过后缀常常可以判断出一个词的词性。一个英语单词可以分为三个部分：前缀、词根及后缀。单词中位于词根前面的部分就是前缀。前缀，可以改变单词的意思。在语言学里，后缀，又称词尾，是一种后置于其他词素后的词缀。

例如：下列词加一个合适的后缀构成一个新词

drive(驾驶)v.→ driver(司机)n.

act(扮演)v.→actor(演员)n.

host(主持)v.→ hostess(女主人)n.

friend(朋友)v.→ friendship(友谊)n.

mouth(嘴)n.→ mouthful(满嘴的)adj.

educate(教育)v.→ education(教育)n.

move (移动) v. → movement (运动) n.

arrive (到达) v. → arrival (到达) n.

happy (高兴的) adj. → happiness (幸福) n.

home (家) n. → homeless (无家可归的) adj.

brother (兄弟) n. → brotherly (兄弟般的) adj.

comfort (安慰) v. → comfortable (舒适的) adj.

person (人) n. → personal (个人的) adj.

imagine (想象) v. → imaginary (虚构的) adj.

attract (吸引) v. → attractive (有魅力的) adj.

strange (奇怪的) adj. → strangely (奇怪地) adv.

1.常见名词后缀+-ment,+-ion/-tion/-ation/-sion/,+-ance,+-ing,+-ure

例如：下列词加一个合适的后缀构成名词

agree → agreement (同意)

attract → attraction (有吸引力的事或人)

conclude → conclusion (结论)

compete → competition (竞争；比赛)

discuss → discussion (讨论)

organize → organization (组织)

appear → appearance (外貌；出现)

perform → performance (演出)

mean → meaning (意义)

say → saying(谚语)

press → pressure (压力)

fail → failure (失败)

2.常见形容词后缀+-y,+-ed,+-ful/-less,+-able,+-ous,+-al,+-ly,+-en,+-cal及-ce变-t

例如：下列词加一个合适的后缀构成形容词

anger → angry (生气的)

health → healthy (健康的)

balance → balanced (平衡的)

gift → gifted(有天赋的)

care →careful/careless (小心的/粗心的)

use → useless/useful (无用的/有用的)

harm →  harmful/harmless (有害的/无害的)

change → changeable (易变的)

knowledge → knowledgeable (博学的)

danger → dangerous (危险的)

humor → humorous (幽默的)

confidence → confident (自信的)

difference → different (不同的)

class → classical (经典的)

nature → natural (自然的)

friend → friendly (友好的)

love → lovely (可爱的)

wood → wooden (木制的)

gold → golden (金色的)

chemistry → chemical (化学的)

physics → physical (身体的)

importance → important (重要的)

3.常见副词后缀+-ly；辅音字母y变ily

例如：下列词加一个合适的后缀构成副词

correct → correctly(正确地)

quiet → quietly(安静地)

easy → easily (容易地)

healthy → healthily (健康地)

lucky → luckily (幸运地)

polite → politely (有礼貌地)

fortunate → fortunately (幸运地)

safe → safely (安全地)

练习：

1. Jack doesn't want to buy a pair of gym shoes but to take ___________ (fit) classes.

2. The ___________ (relation) between the twospeakers is classmates.

3. The man seldom does exercise because he lacks ___________ (motive).

4. All across the country, ___________ (recover) centers have begun building Healing Gardens.

5. The ad had a phone number for a town in ___________ (south) Michigan.

6. But then we got an___________ (office) letter and we wereblown away.

7. Most of us volunteers ___________ (breath) a sigh of relief when the season ends.

8. It is difficult to figure out a ___________(globe) population of polar bears.

9. Whether sick or fine, she is always ___________ (cheer).

10. The social environment is extremely influential when we're making___________ (decide).

(Answers:

1. fitness  2. relationship  3. motivations  4. recovery    5. southern

6. official  7. breathe     8. global       9. cheerful    10. decisions)

四、Summary

重点词汇：shock, goal, ambition, prove, distant, within, on the way, in preparation for, break down, have difficulty doing sth.

重点句型：全部倒装

重点语法：后缀

五、Homework

Write a short passage to express your opinions about the text.