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     Period 2　Lesson 1 The Spirit of Explorers
　　Teaching goals:
　　1. To practise reading for specific information.
　　2. To practise using relative clauses with when, where and why.
　　3. To practise using relative clauses with prepositions and relative pronouns.
　　4. To review and consolidate the relative pronouns.
　　Teaching procedure:
　　Step 1. Leading-in
　　Let Ss discuss who arrived in America first, using their knowledge from history class.
　　a) Christopher bus  b) Ancient Greeks  c) Chinese sailors  d)Vikings. And then let student discuss other people they know, who have lived or arrived in America.
　　Let student guess the meaning of the words listed and find Chinese meaning on page 108. Then if possible, eliore discussion about these places, such as location, ate, people and their lives.
　　Step 2. Reading
　　1. Have Ss look at the map on page 8&9 and then encourage Ss to scan the text to find out about the Vikings’ three major discoveries.
　　Get Ss to read the text again for specific information about the three discoveries. Then in pairs, plete the table in Exercise 3 with the information they get. Check the answers and then get Ss to read the text aloud.
　　2. Encourage Ss to work in pairs and ask as many questions about the text as they can.
　　In pairs, do Exercise 4 with the given questions and their own questions.
　　Check the answer in class.
　　Step 3.Words and phrases
　　1. Do exercise 6 on page 9
　　2. Phrases:
　　1) They achieved this long before bus ever set sail.
　　早在哥伦布启航前，他们就已经到达那里了。
　　set sail 启航
　　set about doing sth. 开始做某事
　　The government must set about finding solutions to the pollution problems.
　　2) According to the old stories of Iceland and Norway, Eric and Red was forced to leave Iceland because he had mitted a murder, for which he got into trouble.
　　根据冰岛和挪威的传说，埃里克雷德因为一起谋杀案而惹上麻烦，并被迫离开