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Teaching Plan for New Senior English for China Student’s Book 1 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela--- a modern hero

Learning about language

About the Teaching Material

New Senior English for China Student’s Book 1 is published by People Education Press. Nelson Mandela is the fifth unit of this book. The students will learn about the story of Nelson Mandela and his life story.

Division of the whole unit Part One:

Vocabulary Part Two:

Reading Part Three:

Learning about Language Part Four:

Using Language In this lesson, I’ll deal with the Learning About Language part, guiding the students to learn how to add a suffix to a root to form a new word and how to use when/ where/ why/ prep.+ which/ prep. +whom to introduce an attributive clause.

Module 1 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela--- a modern hero Learning about Language

I. Teaching Goals: Knowledge the usage of suffix objectives the use of relative adverbs, prep+ which, prep +whom in attributes clause Ability objectives ability to get the meaning and part of speech of a word according to the way it is formed ability to decide which prep use in the structure of prep+ which, prep +whom in attributes clause Emotion objectives perseverance in achieving one’s dreams

II. Teaching Focus: 1. To add suffix to a root to form a new word 2. To use when/ where/ why/ prep.+ which/ prep. + whom to introduce an attributive clause

III. Teaching Procedures: Step I: Preparation(1’)

Reading a tongue twister

An able angel enabled a disabled bull to disable a selfish fish and cause its disability in the eye and inability to see color in this colorful world. Activities Intentions Time Present an interesting 1. warming up aimed at getting the tongue twister for the students to turn to today’s first students to read and subject——suffix. 3 mins.

enjoy.

2. Arouse students’

interest in the suffixes to be learned about T: Before we start our lesson, I would like to share a tongue twister. Please read it as quickly as you can. Ss: …. ★【创新点1】Create an interesting tongue twister, which if an interesting

and popular way of “playing with words”to motivate that students’ desire for more information about suffix. Step II: Presentation and exercises(31’)

T: Look at the colored words. They have something in common, right? They all have…

T: Very good. All the words here originate from the word “able”, so “able” is called the “root”. Then you see the letters added before them. They are called “prefix”. The letters added after them are called “suffix”. Do you know any other suffixes? Ss: …

T: Wow, you know so many of them. Now let’s do a little practice. Please match the words on the left with the suffixes on the right. Ss:…

Match the words with the suffixes Activities Intentions Time Match the words on the left To lead the students to review the with the suffixes on the words with suffixes they have 2 mins. right. learnt.

Practice One Activity Intentions Ask the students to finish Practice To enhance Time what 3 mins.

One they have learnt

about suffix Practice One Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of words in the brackets(括号). My name is Nelson Mandela, a black________ (law), who used to be a peace ________ (love), believing that all mankind is created equal. The reason why I hated ________ (violent) was that I believed people should get their rights in legal and ________ (peace) ways. However, to fight for freedom of the black, I was attacked by the officials and kept in prison for 27 years when I suffered a lot from ________ (ill) and __________ (lonely). As time went by, the quality of life for black people got even worse. It was so ________ (pain) and I worried about the future. To be honest, I was no longer _________ (hope). So I had to decide to answer violence with violence. However, I do wish our world would be a place where it is full of love and ________ (kind).

Activity Two Intentions Time Read the passage in To introduce the second subject --- practice One again attributive clause with relative 90 and underline all the adverbs. seconds. attributive clauses in it. T: Time is up. Please show us the sentences you have found. Ss: …

T: You have done a good job. Well, since we have learnt about how to use relative pronouns to introduce attributive clauses in the previous unit, today we will focus on how to use relative adverbs to introduce attributive clauses.

Activity Three Intentions Time Enjoy an example of

to equip the students with a way of attributive clause and thinking in solving problems 1mins. analyze why a relative concerning relative adverbs.

adverb is used.

Activity Four Intentions Time Play a little game To make it easier for the students to 3mins.

learn about introducing an attributive clauses with “why”

T: Well, let’s play a little game so that you can practice using “why” to introduce an attributive clause. Here is how to play the game.… Please choose a topic and work in groups. You have two minutes to prepare. Ss: …

★【创新点2】Students in grade one often have a problem with “why” introducing an attributive clause especially in the sentence structure “The reason why… was/ is that …”. This game is designed to make it easier and more interesting for them to get the hang of this structure.

Activity Five Intentions Time Enjoy an example of

To make it easier for the students to attributive clause and learn about introducing an 1min analyze why a relative attributive clauses with “when”

adverb is used.

Activity Six Intentions Time Play a little game To make it easier for the students to “Time Travel”.

learn about introducing an 1mins. attributive clauses with “when”

“Reason Chains”.

★【创新点3】Ask the students to practice using “when” to introduce an attributive clause in the form of time travel, which is very interesting, so as to arouse their interest. At the same time, the stories of the great people will inspire the students, giving them awareness of how important dreams are.

Activity Seven Intentions Time Skill transfer To enhance the method learnt before and learn how to introduce 1mins. an attributive clause with “where”

Activity Eight Intentions Time Observe and conclude 1. To enhance the method learnt before and learn how to decide which prep. to use. 2. To help the students understand

2mins.

the exchange rules between relative adverb and prep. + which/ whom

Practice Two Activity Nine Intentions Time Ask the students to finish Practice To enhance what Two and check the answers. they have learnt

about how to use 5 mins. when/ where/ why/ prep. + which/ prep. + whom to introduce

attributive clauses

Practice Two Fill in the blanks with when, where, why or proper prepositions. ( 2X10 ) 1. The customers waited until October, ______ they could buy the new laptop computer. 2. The reason ______ the song Little Apple is so popular is that it sounds bright and can be learnt easily. 3. We are living in a city ______ the air quality is the worst in China. 4. Do you know the reason ______ Lanxiang Senior Technical School in Shandong province is so famous? 5. The richest person in China, Ma Yun, set up 1688.com, ______ companies from around the world can trade with each other. 6. Water, ______ which we can’t live, is being wasted every day.

7. China is a beautiful country_______ which we are proud. 8. The man ______ whom you shook hands just now is our headmaster. 9. There isn’t a person ______ whom she could turn for help.

10. The superstar ______ whom we had been waiting finally came.

Review what we have learnt today 1. To add suffix to a root to form a new word 2. To use when/ where/ why/ prep.+ which/ prep. + whom to introduce an attributive clause 3. Stories about great people

Step III: Appreciating and Reading

Activity Intentions Time Call back the great To inspire the students to stick to contributions some great their dreams and never give up. 3 people have made.

mins. Appreciate a short video and read a poem.

Step Ⅳ: Assignment

T: First, please add up the marks you have got in your practice paper. Ss: …

T: Now please take out your homework paper and finish Homework Level One or Level Two according to the marks you have got Assignment: Homework Paper Add up your marks for the practice. 1. If you get 80%+, finish Homework Level One;

2. If you get 60%-80%, finish Homework Level Two and talk about the problems with the teacher and your classmates. 3. If you get 60%-, come to Joan for help. Level One：

①Write a short passage about Nelson Mandela with the given informaiton using attributive clauses.

hometown, Xhosa(科萨) welcomed like a king his mother died when he was in prison

celebrities around the world admire him

his wife, Winnie did a lot of work in place of him while he was in prison South Africa Father of South Africa

②

Find out and underline the roots, prefixes, suffixes in the words below. Then look them up in the dictionary and learn them.

valuable

suitable

responsible traditional

practical

musical

generous

various

religious

identify

simplify

purify widen

redden

whiten backwards

afterwards

westwards

Level Two: ①

Add suffixes to the following roots to form as many new words as possible. care______________________________________________________________ hope______________________________________________________________ self_______________________________________________________________ invent_____________________________________________________________

②

Fill in the blanks with when/ where/ when/ that/ which/ who/ whom/ prep.+ which/ whom 1. Yesterday we went to visit the house ________ the great writer used to live. 2. The house ________ they built in 1987 stayed up in the earthquake. 3. This is the mountain village ________ I visited last year. 4. I won’t forget the river ________ you often swim and the valley _______ you often walk. 5. I will never forget the days ________I stayed with you. 6. The film Jurassic Park is about a park ________ a very rich man keeps different kinds of dinosaurs(恐龙).

7. I will never forget the days ________I spent in the countryside 8. Please give me the reason ________ you made such great progress. 9. I know you are taking the sunshine _________ has lightened my pathway a while. 10. You are the girl ________heart is so lily（纯洁的）. 11. You are the girl ________ we love so much. 12. When you go you will take all the rain _________ has watered my heart all the nights.

③

Fill in the blanks in the following passage with the right prep Born in Xhosa, Nelson Mandela was the greatest leader in South Africa. He had a dream 13._____ which he was devoted for many years. That is to build a world 14._____ which there is no racial discrimination(种族歧视) but democracy(民主). He was attacked and kept in prison for 27 years 15._____ which time he suffered a lot. He was a person 16._____ whom all African people are proud. He was also a kind person 17._____ whom many people could turn for help even in prison. Mandela was released in 1990, 18._____ which the era(时代) of racial discrimination came to an end. Even today, many people pay visits to the prison 19._____ which he was kept. They say, “He is a great man 20._____ whom there would not have been the new South Africa.”

创新尝试4：Providing assignments of different levels to the students,

considering their individual ability and needs