Unit 17 Great Women
Teaching Aims and Demands
Words and Phrases
Four Skills: inspire admire generous mean threaten bottom optimistic regret extreme extremely climate value pianist bother promise graduation   around the corner  die down   come to terms with
Three Skills: cheers tense dull dishonest champion mile stormy workday somehow shelter kindergarten hardship scholarship bear fame
Spoken English:
Describe people
She seems tome to be the kind of woman who …
The impression she makes on me is …
I think she is the kind of person who …
She could be …          She looks as if …
She might be …          You can see that …
People like her…         She doesn’t seem …
Grammar:
Subject-verb agreement
(1) The boy’s team has some good players, but the girl’s is a better team.
(2) My dog team weren’t with me to pull the sled.
But changes were just around the corner.
Use of Language:
Help the students to finish the tasks of listening, reading, writing, speaking presented in the book and the exercise book through using what the students have known. Learn the text Alone in the Antarctica and Oprah Winfrey. And get the students to fell the power within women, therefore, form the idea of respecting women.
Important points: to get the students to learn something about Subject-Verb Agreement.
Difficult points: The use of Subjective agreement
Teaching aids: Computer, tape-recorder
Way of Teaching: 交际法教学

Lesson1
Step 1 Warming Up
First ,say something about women in the world.
Women from all nations have made outstanding contributions to the world. Some of them have proved to be excellent scientists. Artists, explorers ,even generals. Although muce has been done to give women equal rights and opportunities, women still face a lot of difficulty carving out a place for themselves. Now we will get to know some great women, whose qualities and characteristics can inspire us.
Step 2 Presentation

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Show the students pictures on the text. Ask some questions about those women, or give some clues for them to guess who they are.
Note: Song Qingling (1893-1981) married Dr Sun Zhongshan in 1915. she was the vice-president of the People’s Republic for many years. She busied herself with various welfare activities, ranging from heading the Women’s Federation to a number of committees involving children.
Maria Curie (1867-1934) was born in Poland, moved to Paris and studied chemistry and physics there. She married Pierre Curie and together they studied radio-active materials and discovered radium. In 1911 she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her death in 1934 was almost certainly due to radiation in her work.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) was born in the USA but grew up in Zhejiang Province after her parents moved to China in 1895. she first learnt Chinese and was later taught English. From 1910 to 1914 she studied in America and then returned to China. In 1931 she wrote her best-known novel, The Good Earth. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) was a world-famous Catholic nun. For more than 30 years she took care of people who were often mentally or physically disabled. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. In 2003, she was honoured with the name of Blessed Teresa.
Step 3 Listening
Listen to the tape and answer the questions.
Step 4 Speaking
Tell your opinion that you think what women should do ---stay at home or go to work.
Step 5 Homework
Prepare a short passage for tomorrow as an oral report.
Lesson2
Step 1 Revision
Get one or two students to give their reports.
Step 2 Presentation
First show the students some pictures of Antarctica in order to arouse the student’s interest there.
Then ask some questions about the lonely continent.
1. Imaging if you are traveling alone to the South Pole. What will you take with you? Why?
2. Can you name out some typical animals or plants there?
3. tell out the animals on the picture which animals live on the North Pole? And which on the South Pole?
Step 3 Reading
Students read the text fast to find the answer to the questions in the part --- Post-Reading.
The answers are: 1. B  2. B  3. B  4. D  5. C
Step 4 Language points
Explain the language points in the text.
Be about to 正要;
Find sb. doing发现某人做某事
Threaten to do sth 威胁要做某事
Somehow 以某种方法
Step 5 Interview
Ask the students to work in pairs --- one plays as the writer, one as the reporter.
The reporter may ask the following questions:
1. why do you plan a trip to Antarctica?
2. what’s the weather like there?
3. how do you celebrate your birthday?
4. have you had any bad accident?
5. what do you think of your trip to Antarctic?
Step 6 Homework
Finish the exercises in the Post-reading part.

Lesson 3
Step 1.Revision
Check the homework.
Step 2 Word Study
Finish the exercise in the Language study part.
The answers are:  cheerful   inspires/inspired   mean   miserable   threatened   slopes    optimistic   shelter   solo   value
And then finish the similar exercises in their workbook.
Step 3 Grammar
First introduce the content about subject-verb Agreement. Then finish the exercise in the following part.
The answers are: 1 is 2 do 3 is 4 is/are 5 is 6 have 7 has/have  8 have/has
Step 4 Practice
Check the answers to exercise 2:
1. They/We are preparing for a party.
2. Yes, they seem to enjoy themselves./ Yes, everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.
3. Yes, if they finish the work today.
4. Tell them there will be a meeting this morning.
5. Tell them to phone this number.
Step 5 Workbook
Finish the two exercises in the workbook.
Step 6 Homework
Prepare some information about Oprah Winfrey.

Lesson 4
Step 1 Revision
Get the students to give their reports about Oprah Winfrey.
Step 2 Presentation
First, give an introduction about  Oprah Winfrey:
Oprah Winfrey is a black woman. In her youth her family was very poor. She came from a small village in the US. Despite difficulties in her life, she worked hard and went on without giving up hope. Eventually, she earned a scholarship that allowed her to go to university. At university she continued working hard on her studies film stars.
Step 3 Reading
Read the short passage about Oprah Winfrey and be prepared to answer the questions 1 and 2 in the following part.
Step 4 Writing
First give some basic features about a letter to some famous person that you admire very much.
Step 5 Homework
Read the passage in the workbook.