Language Focus:

Words: allow, deep, explore, explorer, undersea, amaze, however, colourful, dead, society, since, cover, earth, ocean, pollute, group

Phrases: be amazed at, clean up

Sentences: This was because there was no machine allowing a person to breathe under sea for a long time.

He took pictures and videos of many things that people had never seen before.

He even made a TV show which ran for eight years.

Teaching Objectives:

1.  Read the passage and finish wb. Ex. 1

1.    Try to understand the whole lesson and read it fluently.

2.    Master the language points in teaching materials.

Properties: Recorder

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Organizing the class.

Talk about who make scuba diving possible

Ⅱ. Revision

Check homework

Practice the dialogue of lesson 21

Ⅲ. Pre-read

Let the students discuss the questions:

1. Who was Cousteau?

2. When was the scuba machine inverted?

3. Who invented the scuba machine?

4. What did Cousteau do under the sea?

Ⅳ. Presentation

Ask students to close their books and listen to the radio, and then answer questions. Then get the students to listen again and check answers.

Ⅴ. Reading

A.   

Part 1  Cousteau invented scuba machine and made scuba diving possible

anywhere else: any other places

This was because there was no machine allowing a person to breathe under sea for a long time.

by doing sth.

dive deep into the sea

explorer, explore

Part 2  Cousteau took pictures and videos of many things that people had never seen before.

as

take pictures and videos of

make a TV show

Part 3 Cousteau started the Cousteau Society to help protect life in the sea.

as (作为)

be amazed at sth. : be surprised at sth.

be amazed to do sth.

be amazed that+ a clause

cover…with…

clean up

take part in doing sth.

B.       Reading Practice

C.    Part 3 Group work

*be important for sb.

*pollute sth.

*in small groups; a group of…

D.       Conclusion

Be amazed at; cover …with…; clean up sth.

Ⅵ. Group work

Part 3. Discuss the importance of the water.

Then have the students speak out their ideas.

Ⅶ. Workbook

For exercise 2, get the students to discuss the questions in small groups, and write down their ideas.

For exercise 3, have the students do it orally, and check with the whole class.

Ⅷ. Homework

A.    Go over the whole lesson and try to retell it.

B.    Finish all the exercises in the workbook