Ask the students to read the text quickly and silently, find the answers to these three questions .
1 How did the writer celebrate her 60th birthday ?
2 When was the writer is 60th birthday ?
3 Why did she say it was an experience she would never forget and would value for the rest of her life ?
Step IV Careful-reading
Ask students to read the text again carefully and finish three tasks:
1 Finish Exercise 1 of post-reading on page 32.
2 Fill in the form on the screen .
Time | Weather | What did she do?/What happened to her? |
| | began her almost 200-mile journey |
3rd --11th | | |
| | celebrated her 60th birthday |
13th --21th | ---------------------- | |
22th | ----------------------- | |
23th | ---------------------- | |
3. Do some T/F exercises on the screen.
1). She celebrated her fiftieth birthday by traveling alone to the South Pole.
2). She went to Antarctica with the dog team pulling her sled.
3). Everything went all right during the first few days.
4). During the next week the wind grew so strong that it blew away her tent.
5). She had an accident after her birthday.
6). It was all her training that helped her out of danger
Step V Listening and Consolidation
Play the tape for the students and ask them to read the text after the tape in a low voice, paying attention to the pronunciation and intonation.
Step VI Discussion
1. What kind of woman is Helen Thayer ? Describe her in a few sentences.
2. Do you admire her? Why ?
Step VII Reading together.
"If you have a goal without a plan, it's only a dream. Once you set a goal, you have to keep going. There have been a lot of times where I was determined to just take the next step. Those who can take that next step are the successful people in the world."
-------Helen Thayer
StepVIII Homework
1. Reading the text again and again after class.
2. Finish the exercises of Grammar.
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