Module 4 Education

Unit 2 Project Hope has built many schools .

中山大学附中三水实验学校  张佳望

ⅠTeaching model

Reading and writing

ⅡTeaching method

  Top-down approach

ⅢTeaching aims1.

1.To understand what Project Hope has done.

2. To write about what one has achieved in English .

ⅣTeaching Objectives

New words: raise, describe, drop, important, ill, pay, countryside, train, electricity, perhaps, take part, drop out of school, look after, hear of

Key structures: have/ has + v.ed.

ⅤTeaching aids

video , OHP , multi-media

ⅥTeaching Steps

Step1 Warming-up

A. Watch the video of the text.

B. Help students to revise what was learnt in Period one of this module.

C. Show them some pictures about Project Hope. Have the Ss. talk about them.

D. Revise the Present Perfect Tense

1. Have you heard the latest news?

2. Some scientists have sent a spacecraft to Mars.

3. And have the astronauts discovered life on Mars?

4. But astronauts have already been to the moon.

5. We have just watched a programme on TV.

6. They haven’t discovered life on Mars yet..

7. Astronauts have already landed on the moon. etc.

Step 2 Presentation

Read the table and talk about Project Hope.

What Project Hope has done in a province in 2005
Money they have raised	15,500,156 yuan
Students they have helped	4,178
Schools they have built	56
People who have taken part	294,006

Step 3 Reading

A. Ask the students to read the passage and choose the main idea .

1. Helping poor children go to school .

2. Talking about education .

3. Describing life for poor families .

Keys: Helping poor children go to school .

B. Answer the questions .

1. Did Liu Sanzi finish studying?

2. Why did Li Yinming stop going to school

3. When did he stop going to school?

4. What has Project Hope raised money for?

5. Did Shen's school have lots of books last school year?

6. Who has given money to Project Hope?

Possible answers:

1. No, he didn't.

2. Because his parents were ill and he had to look after them.

3. (He stopped going to school) a few years ago.

4. (It has raised money) to pay for the education of poor children, build schools and libraries and train teachers.

5. No, it didn't.

6. People in China and from abroad.

C. Play the tape and have them read and follow .      

Step 4 Do exercises :

A. Match the words and phrases with their meanings.

drop out of school; help; pay for; train

1. to give money to buy something: _______________

2. to do something for someone: ________________

3. to leave before you've finished studying: ___________________

4. to teach someone to do something: __________________

Possible answers:

1. pay for. 2. help  3. drop out of school  4. train

B. Answer the questions about the words and expressions in the box.

abroad; countryside; electricity; look after; project; ill

1.Who looks after you when you're ill?

2. Where do people go when they go abroad?

3. Where is the nearest countryside to your school?

4. What kind of projects do you do at school?

5. What will happen without electricity?

Step 5 Explain the important and difficult points

1. Liu Sanzi is an eight-year-old boy from a village in Hunan Province.

   eight-year-old为合成形容词，一般要用连字符连接起来，而且year也不要用复数形式。

   an 90-page book一本90页的书

   a three-room apartment三室的套房

2. Now they can go to school with the help of Project Hope.  在希望工程的帮助下，他们现在可以上学了。

 With the help of the dictionary, we can read English newspapers.借助于词典，我们可以读英文报纸了。

 They worked out the maths problem with the help of the teacher. 在老师的帮助下，他们算出了那道数学题。

3. He stopped going to school a few years ago.他几年前不上学了。

 注意 ：stop doing sth. / stop to do sth. 的用法区别： stop doing sth把正在做的事情停下来；stop to do sth. 停下来去做另一件事情。

He stopped to have a cup of tea.他停下来去喝杯茶。

4．Because of Project Hope, thousands of children have better lives.因为有了希望工程，成千上万的孩子们过上了更好的生活。

because of表示“因为”，后面接名词或名词短语。如：

He didn’t go to the park because of the rain.因为下雨，他没去公园。

注意：介词短语because of后面需接名词或名词短语，而使用连词 because 时，后面就要接一个从句。如：

  He didn’t go to the park because it rained.因为下雨，他没去公园。

Step 6 Writing

A. Use words like and, or and but to join two sentences.

Example: Project Hope has built schools and trained teachers.

Project Hope hasn't built factories or trained doctors.

Project Hope has built schools but hasn't built hospitals

Now write more sentences.

Possible answers:

and: Project Hope has raised money in China and abroad.

but: Project Hope has helped 2.5 million children, but 40 million more still need help.

or: You can give money or help build the schools

B. Think about your education. Answer the questions.

1. Have you learnt a lot of English?

2. When did you start English classes?

3. Have you read any books in English?

4. What was the last book you read in English?

5. Have you learnt to play some sports?

6. How old were you when you played your first game?

Step 7 Do exercises :

达标学习

1. 单词拼写 根据下面各题首字母或括号里汉语的提示和句子的意思,写出恰当形式的英语单词，每空格只写一个单词。

1) L_________ , he ran out of the big fire safely .

2) VIP means Very I_________ Person .

3) He d__________ out of school two years ago because his family was too poor .

4) P____________ means maybe .

5) We have decided to r____________ some money for the Project Hope .

6) Have you _____________ (付款) for the meal ?

7) We have studied English for _________ (将近) five years .

8) Words can’t ____________ (描述) my job .

9) Mr White has __________ (教) English in China since 1998 .

10)3.14 reads three ___________(点) one four in English .

Keys :

1) each  2) else  3) mistakes  4) newspaper5) notebook

6) translating  7) repeat  8) excellent  9) advice   10) pronunciation

2. 完成句子:

1) 你听说过长江三峡工程吗？

Have you ______________________ the Changjiang Gorges Project ?

2）开学以来，他参加了三项比赛。

   He __________________ three competitions ___________ the new term started .

3）来这后，你学了多少英语单词？

   How many English words _____________________ since you ________ here ?

4）─ 她买了手表吗？─ 买了。

   ─ 什么时候买的  ─ 昨天。

   ─ __________ she ___________ a watch ? ─ Yes , she has .

   ─ When _____________ she _________ it ?   ─ She bought it yesterday .

5）─ 你学过日语吗？─ 学过，不过只是一点点。

   ─ 在哪学的？    ─ 在一所语言学校。

   ─ ___________ you __________ Japanese ?  ─ Yes ,but just a little .

 ─ Where ________ you __________ ?  ─ I learnt it at a language school .

Keys :

1. 1) Luckily  2) Important  3) dropped  4) Perhaps  5) raise 

6) paid  7) nearly  8) describe  9) taught  10) point

2. 1) heard of   2）has entered , since  3）have you learnt , were  

4）Has , bought , did , buy  5）Have , learnt , did , learn it

Step 8 Homework

Finish the exercises in the workbook Ex. 5 , 6 , 7 , 8&9