Unit 1

Teaching Aims：

1.Learn and master the following words and phrases

Survive, item, hunt for, make a fire on board,hammer,mirror, saw,care about,parachute

2.Important Ss'reading ability

3.Enable Ss to value the friendship between friends by learning the reading text

Teaching Important Points:

1.Important Ss'reading ability

2. Master the following phrases

Hunt for,make a fire,care about, on board

Teaching Difficult points:

How to make Ss understand the reading text better

Teaching Methods:

1.Discussion before reading to make Ss interested in what they will learn

2. Discussion after reading to make Ss understand what they've learned better

3. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text

4. Careful reading to get the detailed information in the text

Teaching Aids:

1.a recorder 2. the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Greetings and Revision

Yesterday we learned some self-introduction . We know how to describe yourself and your friends in English . Now who can give us self-introduction in English?

Step 2 Pre-reading

Ok. Thank you for your self-introduction . We all know that we have lived with our parents, since we were born. We have never been left on a plane without your parents , brother or sister, friends and all the things we use in our daily life . Yes or No ?

Step 3 Fast reading

First I'll give five minutes to read the text and then summrize the main idea of each para.

Par. 1 : Chuck's plane lands on a deserted island

Par.2: Chuck has to learn to how to survive on the island

Par.3: Chuck learns a lot about himself when he is alone on the island

Par.4 Chuck has made an unusual friend on the island

Step 4 Careful reading

Read the text again in three minutes and then answer the following questions and choose the best answer

Questions:

1.Does Chuck Noland always have time to get together with his friends?why?

2. Where does he land after the crash?

3. What things must he learn to survive?

4. What is the most difficult for him.

5.Who is Wilson?

6. What does Chuck learn about himself when he is alone on the island?

7. What does Chuck learn from his experience on the deserted island?

8. What can we learn from Chuck's experience?

9.If you were alone on a deserted island,what would you do in order to survive?

10. Imagine that four people are in an airplane that is going to crash. One is a policeman, one is a doctor, one is a teacher, and one is a scientist . There is only one parachute. Decide who should get the parachute and explain why.

Choose the best answer

1.Tom Hanks _____________ . C

A.is a successful businessman B. doesn't have much free time

C. is the main actor in the movie Cast Away D. had a plane accident over the Pacific

2．A deserted island __________ . C

A. has no post office on it B. lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

C. is an empty place where nobody lives D. is a plane crashes are most likely to happen

3.. To be short of _______ is what makes it most difficultfor chuck to live on the island. C

A. volleyball B. fresh water C. friendship D. enough food

4. After 5 years alone on the island , chuck would probably disagree that _______ . A

A. a good friend should never think about himself

B. people can make friends with some unusual things like animals

C. friends are the people who can share your happiness and sorrow

D. as a good friend ,you must give as much as you take

5. which can be learned from the last paragraph of the passage ? B

A. Everyone need an unusual friends

B. Friends can learn from each other

C. A friend in need is a friend indeed

D. Animals and things can make better friends than human beings

Step 5 Repeat the story according to the following.：

plane crashed deserted island make friends with（Key words: learn to realise the lesson from Chuck friendship an unusual friend）

Step 6 Language points

1. ① manager n. 经理,管理者,经营者

这家公司的经理 the manager of the company

manage v. 控制, 管理, 经营 (口语:应付得来,做得来

Manage a business 管理商务 I can't manage it alone.我一个人办不来.

2 crash n. 坠毁,碰撞,碰坏,哗啦啦地倒塌

他于飞机失事中丧生 He was killed in an air crash

v. 撞击, 坠毁, 冲入 公共汽车撞在树上了 The bus crashed into a tree

那架飞机坠毁了 The aircraft crashed

3. deserted adj. 无人居住的 , 荒废了的, 被抛弃了的

a deserted village/island 荒废的村庄/荒岛

4. develop v. 发展, 开发,(使)成长;(使)发育

植物由种子发育而成. eg.Plants develop from seeds

工农业飞速发展. Agriculture and industry develop very quickly

A developing country 发展中国家

A developed country 发达国家

With the development of 随着.......的发展

5.On the island,Chuck has to learn to survive all alone.

Alone与lonely的区别:

Alone adj,adv.作为adj时,只能用作表语,不能做定语. 意为"独自一人" 作为adv时,表示"独自,单独" 用在名词,代词之后,意为"只有"

lonely adj. 表示人 "孤独的, 寂寞的".也可表示地方"荒凉的:, "人烟稀少的",既可以做定语,也可以做表语.

虽然我独自一人,但是我并不寂寞 I am alone, but I don't feel lonely.

他独自一人在荒岛上呆了四年 He lived alone on the lonely island for four years

6.In order to survive, Chuck developed

In order to 引导表示目的的状语,意为"为了"

他早起为了赶第一班车 He got up early in order to catch the first bus.