高一英语精品学案：unit1 tales of unexplained-welcome（牛津译林版必修2）.doc

UnitUnit 1 1 TalesTales ofof thethe unexplainedunexplained WelcomeWelcome toto thethe unitunit 1st period Welcome to the UnitTeaching aims: (1) Get students to conduct a free discussion about some mysterious and unexplained phenomena in the world. (2) Encourage the students to make full use of resources and share their imaginative ideas with each other.Important points Why do some people make great efforts to climb them?Yeti---Abominable Snowman, half-man and half-beast.(3) about Lock Ness Monster: Where is Lock Ness? Why is it famous for?What does the Loch Ness Monster look like? A sunken ship? A kind of dinosaur? (4) about Stonehenge: introduce some information about Stonehenge to students.(5) about pyramids: Where were these pyramids built, on the east coast of the Nile or on the west coast? What are the reasons? Do you think the Great Pyramid is a wonder in human history?One of them: the Sphinx---Half human, half lion, the Sphinx is 240 feet long and 66 feet high. (If time permits, introduce more information about pyramids that we have known about them, such as how wide, how tall and how heavy and do some quizzes.) Step 4 Group discussion: 1.Do you believe in unexplained things mentioned above? Why or why not?2.If you saw a UFO or a monster some day, what would you do? Step 5 Language points1. advanced (adj.); advance (v.)2. run into3. translation of some phrasesStep 6 Homework(1) Surf the net and learn more about world mysteries. Prepare a short speech (better in Powerpoint) to introduce something that interests you.(2) Make a scale model of the Great Pyramid under the following guidelines and bring it to the class. 背景导读：背景导读： AIn 1974, in a village in Nepal, high in the Himalayan Mountains, something strange attacked a young girl called Lhakpa Dolma. When the police saw the footprints of the attacker, they were frightened. The footprints were huge!“What kind of beast is this?” the people asked.Lhakpa lived in the village, and every day she went up the mountain with her yaks(a kind of cow) so that they could eat the grass. Lhakpa knew exactly where to find the sweet, green grass for her yaks on this special mountain, which was called Mount Everest and is famous because it is the highest mountain in the world.“Aren’t you frightened to walk in the mountains alone, Lhakpa?” asked her friends. “What about the yeti?”But Lhakpa was not frightened. “The mountains of the Himalayas are huge!” she laughed. “I only go to one small place, not far from the village. And no one here has veer seen a yeti----it’s only a story.” So Lhakpa never really thought about the old yeti tales while she was working.One day in 1974, Lhakpa took her yaks up the mountain as usual, but she could see that the yaks were not happy. “Perhaps they can smell a bear or a snow leopard near us,” she thought, and looked around.Lhakpa couldn’t see anything, but she moved away. She took the yaks to another place, near a small stream. The water here came from the mountain snow and Lhakpa drank a little----it always tasted good! Then she sat down and watched her yaks eating.Suddenly, Lhakpa heard a noise behind her---it was the noise of an animal, but it was very strange. She looked round very quickly---Lhakpa couldn’t believe her eyes! A huge creature was coming towards her on two legs. Lhakpa’ s eyes got bigger and bigger—it was a yeti!The yeti took Lhakpa up in its long, hairy arms! She was terrified. She shouted and kicked, but it was no good ----- the yeti was too strong. “Help me!” she shouted. But the mountains were quiet, and nobody heard her.But the huge beast was not really interested in Lhakpa --- perhaps she was too small. It put her down in the cold mountain stream, then it turned round and looked at the yaks, which were big and strong---- but the yeti was bigger. Lhakpa watched the yeti--- she was too terrified to move at first. With its strong arms, it quickly killed three of the yaks.Then Lhakpa got out of the stream and ran home. She was frightened and cold. She told her parents about eh yeti killing the yaks. Her family were amazed at the story. They soon went to the police after they learned about it. But when the police and the people from the village arrived at the stream, they saw the huge footprints of a strange creature ---- but they didn’t see the yeti.1. Lhakpa was frightened to walk on the mountains.2. That day Lhakpa found a bear near her.3. The water that came from the mountain snow always tasted good.4.The yeti caught up with Lhakpa and killed her.5. When the police and the people from the village arrived at the stream, only to find some huge footprints. 6. The yeti killed all the yaks. BThe very success of communication satellite system has raised wide spread concern about their future. Some countries are already using satellites for domestic(国内的) communications in place of conventional (传统的) telephone lines on land. Although this technique is extremely useful for linking wide。