Unit 1  Women of achievement

                       The First Period Reading

 

Teaching goals 教学目标

1． Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇

achievement, welfare, project, institute, specialist, connection, campaign, organization, behave, shade, worthwhile, nest, nod, observe, outspoken, respect, argue,

b. 重点句子

Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day.

2． Ability goals 能力目标

a. Learn Warming Up, and know how to tell the great women and the famous women.

b. Learn the way to describe a person from what the person did, what she/he looks like and so on.

3． Learning ability goals 学能目标

Teach Ss how to describe a person.

Teaching important points 教学重点

a. By reading A protector of African wildlife, students can learn from Jane Goodall in at least two aspects: one is what is the humane way to study animals; the other is that it was her great personality - universal love and mercy（博爱与慈悲 ）that made her successful. If everyone had such kind of heart, they would give everything benefit for all living things. Then our world will be full of love and peace, without any war and starvation.

b. Ask students to answer these questions:

1) What made her a great success?

2) What should we learn from Jane Goodall?

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Let everyone believe that all of us can become Jane Goodall.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Inspiration, Questioning and Discussion.

Teaching aids 教具准备

A computer, a projector and a recorder.

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

 

StepⅠLead-in

T: Good morning, everyone! Haven’t seen you for a long time. Did you have a good time in your holidays? What did you do during the holidays?

S1: Yes, I had a good time. You know I enjoy movies, sports and other types of entertainment. I saw several favorite films and every afternoon, I would play basketball with my friends.

S2: I would die of boredom. I didn’t know what to do but read. I didn’t know how to relax myself. I just hoped that the new term began. The sooner, the better.

T: That sounds interesting. In fact, boredom is a kind of feeling. There is a good way to be away from it. Believe it or not, that is to help others, no matter who they are, human being or animals. Have a try, Ok? Today we’ll learn Unit 1. It introduces several women to us and tells us how they live and work. Now let’s turn to Page 1. Look at these pictures and the brief introductions, then work in pairs to discuss which of these women you think is a great woman. You need to give your reasons for your choice.

A sample summary:

As great women, they don’t care for themselves at all, and at some point or rather, they must give some sacrifices, just like Lin Qiaozhi, she devoted all her life to medical work for Chinese women and children and had chosen not to have a family of her own. Instead, she made sure that about 50,000 babies were safely delivered to their mothers. Not all people can do this. Once they have chosen their careers, they would carry on with them without any withdrawal. What they did is encouraging thousands of people to continue their careers. Those who are only famous but not great can’t be matched.

 

StepⅡSkimming

1. Who is the protector?

2. What animal are observed?

3. When did Jane Goodall arrive Gombe？How old was she?

4. What was the purpose of her study of the chimps?

 

Step III Get the main idea of each paragraph

A student of African wildlife

1. How the group followed Jane’s way of studying chimps in the wild

2. What Jane discovered about chimps

3. How Jane tries to protect the lives of chimps in their natural habitat

4. Jane’s achievements

 

Step IV Analyze each paragraph

见课件

 

Step V Language Points

T: By now, we have mastered the main idea and the details. Do you have some difficulties in the language?

S1: Yes. What does this sentence mean: “Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day”?

T: Who’d like to help her?

S2: The subject of the sentence is a “V-ing form”, and the Predicate is “is” not “wake up”. So the meaning of the sentence is: 今天我们的第一件事是观察一个猩猩家庭的早起。

T: That’s right. Sometimes we should depend on the structure of the sentences to help us understand the meaning.

S3: Miss Wu, the sentence: “This means going back to a place where we left the chimp family sleeping in a tree the night before.” is beyond me.

T: This sentence is a little difficult. First, it includes an Attributive Clause. The clause is: where we left the chimp family sleeping in a tree the night before. Second, there are two structures in the sentence. One is “to mean doing”; the other is “leave ... doing”. For the first one, we can refer to the Appendices in Page 76. Now let’s look at the second one. In fact, there are several same structures in this text. Please look at these sentences.

Show the sentences on the screen:

1. ... where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before.

2. ... we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night.

3. however the evening makes it all worthwhile.

4. Jane Goodall has been outspoken about  making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals.

Step VI Finish the COMPREHENDING on page 3.

 

Step VII General idea

The passage is mainly about how Jane Goodall worked with ___________ and help people ___________________ ______ of these animals.

 

Step VIII Discussion

1. Do you think Jane Goodall was brave to go and live in the forest?

2. Would you have done what she did if you had the chance?

3. What made Jane Goodall a great success? What should we learn from Jane Goodall?

 

Homework

T: I’m very glad to hear what you said. You have learned what you should learn from Jane Goodall. And I believe you will be Jane Goodall, if you treat everything around you equally and show your love to them. Now time is up. Today’s homework is to finish the exercises in Page 4 and 5. Make some preparations for the next class. See you next time.

Ss: See you.