The First Period Reading (I)

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language语言目标

　a. 重点词汇和短语

spirit explorer voyage originate set sail murder direction in search of persuade northeastern unknown deed

　b. 重点句子

　 The Vikings were a group of people whose ancestors came from Scandinavia.

According to the old stories of Iceland and Norway, Eric the Red was forced to leave Iceland because he had committed a murder, for which he got into trouble.

　 He persuaded some people to go back with him to Greenland.

Biarni was hoping to join his father who was with Eric, but he was blown off course and found himself in an unknown land, from where he eventually reached Greenland.

　2. Ability goals能力目标

　Enable students to generalize the structure of a historical event.

　3. Learning ability goals学能目标

　Help students learn how to generalize the structure of a historical event.

Teaching important points教学重点

　Help students follow the procedure to get to know the content, structure and purpose of the text.

Teaching difficult points教学难点

Teach students how to generalize the main idea and its structure.

Teaching methods教学方法

　Team-work learning, co-operative learning, discussion, activity-based learning.

Teaching aids教具准备

　Multimedia.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step I Warm-up

Activity one: match the sounds