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高二—人教版—英语—选择性必修三第四单元
新建区第三中学 王绮雯
Unit 4 ADVERSITY AND COURAGE
Lesson 5 Using Language (2)
Reading & Writing
Teaching objectives
After learning this class, you will
1. Strengthen the reading skills, such as skimming and scanning and recognize the textual and linguistic features of "memoir" by identifying and organizing key information.
2. Learn the tense, person and structure of a book review article. And learn how to use a checklist to revise your essay through peer evaluation and self evaluation.
3. Learn about the life of crew members who stayed on the island, the difficulties they encountered and the ways they dealt with the difficulties, as well as their optimistic spirit, mutual trust and perseverance during the process.
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tried to make their first land crossing of Antartica
got stuck in the ice
left Elephant Island for help
abandoned the ship and camped on the ice
stayed on the island
Revision
Warm-up
What would happen to the crew members who were left on Elephant Island?
What problems would the people remaining on Elephant Island face?
What do you think was the biggest challenge for them?
How long do you think they had stayed on the island?
Were they finally rescued?
Warm-up
The crew members might struggle with keeping warm in the terrible conditions.
They also would have found it hard to find food and make fire.
The ice would have been moving and breaking too, which would be very dangerous.
In a word, they might suffer a lot physically and mentally.
Probably, the mental struggles would be the biggest challenge.
Maybe they would remain on the island for a long time for it was a big undertaking to look for rescue.
But Shackleton would be successful in rescuing his men.
What would happen to the crew members who were left on Elephant Island?
Read the memoir and check if our predictions were correct.
Activity 1
Skim the text and match each paragraph with its main idea.
Activity 2
Para 1
Para 6
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
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