1、lesson1 The Spirit of Explorers Teaching aims:1. to get to know the story and spirit of the sea explorers2. to practise reading for specific information3. to practise using relative clauses with when, where and why.4. to review an consolidate the relative pronounsTeaching difficult and important poi
2、nts:1. to master relative clauses with when, where and why2. to improve the students reading skillTeaching procedures:. Warm up Multiple choice to choose the first person to arrive in America. Pre-reading Task1: Background information about the Viking 1. the Vikings2. the time 3. the voyages4. find
3、Chinese names for these places on page110task2: Learning new words before reading . Reading Task1: Read the passage and complete the table below about the Vikings three major discoveries.Task2: Read the text again and answer the following questions.a) Why did Eric the Red leave Iceland?b) Who was Bi
4、arni looking for when he was blown to an unknown land ?c) How do we know about the Vikings ?. Language points & grammarTask1: to learn some useful words and expressionsTask2: to revise the new wordsTaks3: to learn the relative clausesTask4: to do some exercise about the relative clauses. Sum up . Homework