(
课件网) Unit 4 Adversity and Courage Using Language＆Assessing Your Progress Teaching Objectives: 1. Find the solutions to the hard life on Elephant Island and develop a positive attitude towards adversity. 2. Recognize the textual features of “memoir” by its definition. 3. Write an essay about Shackleton and his men on the ship Endurance. Key and difficult points: Key point：Use the expressions in the listening text to express air pollution and solutions. Difficult point：Express ideas on the causes and solutions of air pollution and learn from them with the help of the target vocabulary and expressions. Part 1 Listening Shackleton and a team tried to sail to another island to find help. Look at the picture below and discuss the challenges you think they faced. South Georgia Island Listen to one of the team members talk about the rescue plan and their journey. Complete the summary. The team consisted of _____members. They sailed on rough seas for days before they landed on the _____ side of South Georgia Island. Later they climbed over the mountains and _____ the whaling station. Later, Shackleton arranged for a rescue boat to return to _____ Island. Luckily, everyone was _____. six wrong arrived at Elephant still alive Listen again and answer these questions. 1. Why was it necessary for Shackleton to travel to South Georgia Island 2. Why was it important to include a navigator in the team Shackleton had to travel to South Georgia Island to get help to rescue the rest of his crew. It was important to include a navigator so they would know where they were going and not get lost. Listen again and answer these questions. 3. Why did Shackleton choose the most difficult and unfriendly man to join the rescue mission Shackleton chose him because he wanted the crew left behind to remain cheerful and positive and the man would have had a negative influence on the crew. 4. Why did Shackleton look extremely old Shackleton looked extremely old because of the conditions but also because he was very worried about the fate of his crew left behind. Part 2 Lead-in What happened to Endurance became stuck abandoned the ship Camped on ice Watch the documentary (纪录片) and predict what the 22 crew members would suffer on Elephant Island. In pairs, predict what happened to the crew members. Then read the memoir below to see if your predictions were correct. Part 3 Reading Read the memoir and check if our predictions were correct. A memoir is a narrative written about an important event in the author’s life that affected them in some way. Characteristics of Memoirs: A memory; a description of a true past event Written in the 1st person Reveals the feelings of the writer Has meaning; shows what the author learned from the experience About the author’s experience more than about the event itself Fast Reading Scan the text and divide it into four parts and match the main idea of each part. Fast Reading Part 1 ... ...
