高三教学案一体化Unit2 Crossing Limits

2.The contacts between China and Africa over the centuries led to the awareness of each other’s e__________, but still no a___________ maps of the countries around the India Ocean existed.
3.I was w_________ in the street when I saw a tailor’s shop.
4.On his return, Yangliwei was p____________ as a national hero.

Period 2 Reaching out across the ocean

Teaching Aims: 1.Train the students’ reading ability.
2.Learn about exploring the south of the Nile.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Enable the students to understand the text better.
2. How to improve the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Review some new words and expressions.

Step2. Pre-reading. Scan the text and answer the following questions.
1.What do you know about the Silk Road?
2.What could have been possible reasons to search for sea routes from China while routes over land were shorter and already existed?
3.In ancient China, there were some famous explorers, such as Gan Ying and Zheng He. What do you know about them?

Step3.Reading Read the passage as carefully as you can. Fill in the following two charts.
1. Find information in the text about contacts between China and Africa, and write in the chart below the periods when these contacts were made, the names of Chinese explorers, the way by which they traveled, and the goods which they brought home.
Period Name Way of travel Goods
In97A.D.

2.Which of the animals and animal products that were presented to the Ming court could only be found in Africa? Which could be found in both Africa and Asia? Write your answers in the chart below.

Africa Africa and Asia
Goods
Step4.Read the text and find the following phrases and sentences from the text and then explain them in English.
1.The Africans were reaching out to China.

2.The time was ripe.

3.the mouth of the Red Sea

4.For a short time, China had ruled the seas.

Step5.Read the text and find the following important phrases and sentences.　
1. reach out
2. search for
3. find one’s way
4. develop into
5. take……prisoner
6. lead to
7. date from
8. under the command of……
9. in return
10. It is well known that Africa had contacts with India and the Red Sea civilizations from the earliest times
11. Ceylon, with its central position, was the place where Chinese merchants met with Arab merchants and heard about the westernmost lands.
12. The wonderful gift and the contact with the black court so excited China’s curiosity about Africa that Zheng He sent a message to the king and to other African states, inviting them to send ambassadors and open embassies in the new Ming capital, Beijing.
13. The exchange of goods had a symbolic meaning far more important than the value of the goods themselves.

Step6. Homework
Read the text and learn the important sentences by heart.

Period3. Reaching out across the ocean

Teaching Aims 1.Improve the students’ reading ability
2.Grasp the language points
Teaching procedures
Step1.Revision
Ask four students to recite the four sentences.

Step2.Language points
1.reach out (=stretch out)
He reached out for the dictionary.
2.search for
They are searching for the lost child in the forest.
比较: The police are searching the area for clues.
In search of sb/sth The early explorers went in search of gold.
3.It is well known that Africa had contacts with……
It is well known that……众所周知
注意: As is well known +句子;
What is well known is that……
Eg. _____is known to everybody, the moon travels round the earth once every month.
A. It B. As C. That D. What
在该句型中,除know 外,还可以用其它的动词. 如report, announce, mention, hope, think, point out, say等.
. It is reported in the newspaper that talks between the two countries are making progress.
4.take…prisoner (=keep …in prison)
He was taken prisoner for a serious crime in 1999.
5.The wonderful gift and the contact with black court so excited China’s curiosity about Africa that Zheng He sent a message to the king and to other African states, inviting them to……
1)so…that..句型,意为 “如此……以致……”.在该句型中so后一般接
adj和adv,但在该句型中so后接的是动词.
Eg. It so happened I saw Professor Zhang at the conference.
We so wanted to see the performance again that we stayed in the hall for a long time.
2)inviting them to send……作定语 open前省略了不定式符号to
6.The exchange of goods had a symbolic meaning far more important than the value of the goods themselves.
far是用来修饰比较级的,表示 “……得多”,by far 也可以修饰比较级,但要放在比较级后,如放在前面,应在两者中间加the
He is taller by far than his brother.
He is by far the taller of the two brothers.
表示比较程度的状语除了far, by far 外,还有even, a lot, much, still, a great deal, a bit, a little等
He knew a great deal more than I did.
Step3. Homework Review the language points and learn the second para. by heart.

Period4 Grammar Review the Predicate

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