Communication Workshop
中大附中三水实验学校 李娟
Teaching Aims:
①. Learn to use the linking words to make a anecdote more compact.
②. Learn to paraphrase words and phrases in the passage.
③. Get some knowledge about the novel and the writer
Teaching Important and Difficult Points:
To understand the story and master the linking words
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warm up
Enjoy some pictures and introduce the plot and the writer of the novel
Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput.
Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag.
Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubdubdrib, Luggnag and Japan.
Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.
Summary of Gulliver's Travels
Pt. I: Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, is shipwrecked at Lilliput where the inhabitants are six inches tall, except their emperor who is taller by almost the "breadth of my nail" than…
Pt. II: In Brobdingnag, the natives are as tall in proportion to Gulliver as the Lilliputians were short. He engages in lengthy discussions with…
Pt. III: In Laputa, men abandon all common sense and concern themselves with speculative…
Pt. IV: Gulliver visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, where intelligent horses are the masters and the…
Ⅱ. Reading
Task1: Read the story and match the headings (1-8) with the Paragraphs (A-G). There is one extra heading.
A 2 B 4 C 8 D 5
E 6 F7 G 3
Task2: Complete the story with these linking words:
Suddenly, at first, then, when, In a little time, before, In the meantime, after, as soon as, immediately, at last
Task3: Find words and expressions in the text which mean the same as the words or phrases below.
journey—voyage
able to stand in water—rise
way—manner
move forward—advance
type—kind
amazed—surprised
pick up—grab
climb onto—mount
dead from lack of food—starve
admit—confess
not a surprise—no wonder
medicine--drug
Ⅲ. Listening
Listen to this TV programme and complete the sentences. Choose the correct answers: a, b, c, d
Ⅳ. Sum up
Ⅴ. Homework

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