Learning about Language名师教学视频（文字实录）

A Teaching Plan for Writing about a person

汕头澄海华侨中学

王惠曼

Knowledge Goals: Expressions and sentence structures to describe a person Ability Goals:

Enable the Ss to know to write about a person, using the expressions and sentence structures talked about in this period. Emotional Goals: Pursue a higher goal in life to learn from persons of great achievements and make a contribution to the society. Teaching Important Points: 1.

The skills to write about a person 2.

Some useful expressions and sentence structures Teaching Difficult Points: How to put the expressions and sentence structures into use. Teaching Methods: Cooperative learning; brainstorm Teaching Procedure: Step 1: Revision Review the expressions and sentence structures used to

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describe an athlete in the reading passage that the Ss learned in the last period. Date of birth/ Place of birth：

…was born in (…place)on (…date)

Achievements：

1)set a record/ break a record 2)become the world’s number one (in…) 3)win a gold medal (in…/ for…) 4)become the youngest Olympic…

champion 5)become the first man(woman) to…

6)make…history Family/ education background：

1)was born in a …family 2)graduate from…

university 3)receive a …degree 4)be admitted to…

college Evaluation：

1)be considered as one of the best/ most important/ most excellent…

2)speak/ think highly of…

3)be honoured as…

4)…is the pride of…

Step 2: Drills of expressions: 2

Get the Ss to translate some simple sentences about athletes, using the expressions talked about in the previous step. 1)姚明1980年9月12号出生于上海。

(YaoMing was born in Shanghai on September 12 ,1980.) 2)邓亚萍毕业于剑桥大学，并获得博士学位。

(DengYaping graduated from Cambridge University and received a doctor’s degree.) 3)田亮在2000年悉尼奥运会上获得10米跳台(10-metre platform)的冠军。

(TianLiang won a gold medal in 10-metre platform in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.) 4)李宁成为体操史上第一个获得6枚金牌的运动员。

(LiNing became the first athlete to win six gold medals in gymnastics.)

Step 3: Oral Practice Get the Ss to introduce FuMingxia by discussing with their partners, using the expressions. 伏明霞于1978年8月16号出生于河北省。在1992年奥运会上，她获得10米跳台的金牌。她是最年轻的奥运会跳水冠军。在1996年奥运会上，她夺得两枚金牌。在2000年悉尼奥运会上，她又夺得了她的第四枚金牌，创造了奥运会的历史。

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Step 4: Extention—How to write about a person of other occupation? 1.

Brainstorm: What expressions can be used to talk about a person’s big events in his/ her life? 2.

Four steps to write about a person. 1)date of birth/ place of birth 2)family/ education background 3)big events in his/ her life (in order of time ) 4)evaluation(评价) Step 5: Writing Write a short passage introducing Stephen Hawking 史蒂芬·霍金(Stephen Hawking)1942年1月8号在英国出生。他曾经毕业于牛津(Oxford)大学和剑桥(Cambridge)大学，并获得博士学位。作为一个残疾人，霍金克服各种各样的困难，在对宇宙进行研究之后，他提出了黑洞理论(the Theory of Black Hole)，并把自己的一生贡献给科学。1988年，

霍金出版了《时间简史》(“A Brief History of Time”)，成为全球最畅销的科学书之一。霍金被称为现今最伟大的和最杰出的科学家。

Step 6: Homework 1.

Do the writing exercises on P119. 2. Check the writing with partners before handing it in.

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Useful expressions: Date of birth/ Place of birth 4

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was born in (…place)on (…date) Family/ Education background •

was born in a …family •

graduate from…

university •

receive a …degree •

be admitted to…

college Big events in his/ her life:

work hard at…

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devote himself/ his life to…

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do research into…

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receive the Noble Prize for…

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put forward…

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be crazy about…

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overcome difficulties •

go through hardship •

write/ publish a book called…

Evaluation: •

be considered as one of the best/ most important/ most excellent…

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speak/ think highly of…

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be honoured as…

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...is the pride of…

Writing Task 史蒂芬·霍金(Stephen Hawking)1942年1月8号在英国出生。他曾经毕业于牛津(Oxford)大学和剑桥(Cambridge)大学，并获得博士学位。作为一个残疾人，霍金克服各种各样的困难，在对宇宙进行研究之后，他提出了黑洞理论

(the Theory of Black Hole)，并把自己的一生贡献给科学。1988年，

霍金出版了《时间简史》(“A Brief History of Time”)，成为全球最畅销的科学

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书之一。霍金被称为现今最伟大的和最杰出的科学家。

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