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Unit 1 Women of achievement Warming Up and Listening Ⅰ. Teaching objectives

1. Ability aims (1) Skimming and scanning to find information about the six great women in order to train students’ reading ability.. (2) Develop students’ ability to cooperate with others. (3) Develop students’ ability of judgment.

(4) Train students’ speaking ability by talking and discussion. 2. Knowledge aims (1) Get students to know the basic knowledge about the six great women in warming up. (2) Get students to know some important words and phrases: specialist, connection, campaign, landmine, dress...as..., drive...out of, concern oneself with, welfare projects.

3. Emotion aims (1) Let students know the achievements made by women, and respect women. (2) Let students know that women encounter unfair treatment in society by listening, and establish a correct concept of gender. (3) Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.

(4) Develop the students’ moral quality.

Ⅱ. Teaching important points 1. Develop students’ reading ability by skimming and scanning. 2. Get students to learn about the basic knowledge about the six great women in warming up.

3. Get students to know about the qualities a great person should have. 4. Enable students to know some important words and phrases. Ⅲ. Teaching difficult points 1. Let students learn how to give their opinions. 2. How to train students’ (especially girls) self-confidence and the sense of responsibility. Ⅳ. Teaching approaches 1. Task-based teaching method 2. Inspiration, questioning and discussion 3. Pair work and group work. V. Teaching aid Multi-media Ⅵ. Teaching procedures Step 1 Greetings and lead-in 1. Greetings T: Good morning, boys and girls. T: Good morning, teacher. 2. Learn the important words and phrases. specialist, connection, campaign, landmine, dress...as..., drive...out of, concern oneself with, welfare projects. 3. Lead-in (1) Nelson Mandela.

(We have learnt Nelson Mandela in last semester, so students can recognize him and also tell something about him.) (2) Great people William Tyndale, Norman Bethune, Sun Yat-sen, Mohandas Gandhi (We have learnt something about the four people in last semester, so students have a brief knowledge about them.) (3) What do they have in common? Students may say they are all great, selfless, brave and so on, when some students say they are all men, then teacher can move on to the next part.

Step 2 Warming up A Chinese saying goes: Women can hold up half of the sky. Do you know any great women?

(Students may have different answers) 1. Some famous great women: Madame Curie, Empress Wu Zetian, and Tu Youyou. 2. Guessing game: Who is our guest? T: Today, I have invited six guests to our class. They are the six women in warming up. I asked you to preview the warming up, so now you have known something about them. Let’s have a guessing game, and guess who our guests are. (Six students pretend to be the six great women and let other students guess who they are) 3. Pair work T: Now, we have welcomed our guests. I want to ask you two questions.

(1) Are they great or not? (2) What makes them great? T: You have got a piece of paper, there is more information about our guests, please discuss with your desk mate and fill in the blanks, some of the answers have already given to you. Name Joan of Arc Elizabeth Fry Song Qingling Lin Qiaozhi Jane Goodall Jody Williams Devotion Problems Sacrifices

T: OK. Time’s up. I’ll ask six of you to fill in this form. Who can fill in the blanks? (Teacher asks 6 students to fill in the form and then shows the suggested answers on the screen.) Suggested answers: Name Joan of Arc Devotion She drove out English France. Problems Sacrifices the Women were not She was caught of allowed to fight like a and put to death. man.

She Elizabeth Fry improve conditions. helped She was criticized She had to spend prison for neglecting her less time with her family and enjoying husband fame. family. and She concerned Her relatives held After her husband opinions died, she lived herself with welfare political Song Qingling projects. She completely different alone. worked for civil from hers. rights, democracy, and peace. She devoted all her Women had greater She never got life to medical work difficulties getting married or had a Lin Qiaozhi for women children. She Chinese into medical college family of her own. and and getting further training. to She lived a hard life She gave up the comforts of life to study the chimps. to It isn’t easy to work She lost her own groups in private time. works Jane Goodall protect chimps in the wild. everywhere. She tried prevent the making with and Jody Williams use of different and countries persuade landmines. governments to stop the making and use of landmines. 4. Great people

T: Now we have know more about the six women. Are they great? (Great person is someone who devotes his/her life to helping others.) 5. What qualities do they have? (responsible, selfless, brave, determined, hard-working, independent, considerate, generous, reliable, etc) These are good qualities that we should learn from. 6. Discussion. T: Some people believe that men have been making greater achievements than women. Do you agree? Students discuss this question in their group. After discussion, ask some students to present their ideas. Step 3 Listening T: It is more difficult for a woman to be successful. Do you think so?

Let’s listen to a personal opinion on why women are not given the same chances in their careers as men. 1. Listen to the tape, and decide whether the following statements are true or false. (1) If there is little money in the family, girls will get the first chance to go to school. (2) Most people who run companies are male. (3) Women have more chances to show how good they are at running business. (4) Taking care of children is considered men's work. (Before listening ask students to read the statements all together.)

(Suggested answers: FTFF) 2. Listen to the tape again and fill in the blanks. (1) This way of thinking _________ some girls from training for a _________. (2) Unless women are given the ___________, they will never be able to show that they can run __________ successfully. (3) These are women's ______________ while men do not have this problem. They can work long ________ and go on__________ __________. (Suggested answers:

prevents, career; opportunity, companies; responsibilities; hours, business, trips) 3. Listen to the tape once more and take notes on the three problems given in the listening.

(Before listening, ask students to pay attention to the word first, second, and third.) (Suggested answers: (1) Girls have more difficulty getting an education than boys; (2) Women have more difficulty getting to the top of their chosen career; (3) Women are more likely to give up their careers to look after children or run the house.) Step 4 Summary and homework 1. Summary T: In this class, we have known the experiences of the six great women mentioned in Warming up and realize the fact that it is more difficult for a woman to be successful. 2. Homework (1) Preview the reading: A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE

(2). Look up the new words and phrases of the reading in the dictionary. Ⅶ. Blackboard design

Unit 1 Women of achievement Qualities: selfless

kind

helpful

brave

generous

hard-working