Using LanguageⅡ第二课时教案

Module 4 Unit 1 Women of achievement 高一备课组

Topic Sociology: important women & great women

Describe people from their life, personality and character achieve achievement condition welfare institute connection campaign organization specialist

devote behave behavior worthwhile nest observe observation respect argue entertainment

inspire support communication strike upon article explain rate medical kindness Vocabulary considerate consideration

deliver modest

Human beings, move off, lead a …life, crowd in, look down upon, refer to, by chance, come across, carry on Word-formation: noun suffix devote ... to look down upon on care for deliver a baby Describing people What does she look like?

What do you think about...? What are her strengths?

What are her weaknesses? How would you describe her?

How do her friends describe her? She is intelligent/determined /generous/ kind / helpful / honest / unselfish / hard-working / brave /confident / energetic / modest / considerate / .... Subject-verb agreement

Function Grammar

Analyzing the teaching materials

This unit is revolves around the topic of great women,

through the content of warming up，

reading and listening, there are all together six women of achievements being introduced.

The most important affective object is to let students know what kind of qualities a great person should possess. The discussion can be illuminating. In a society that is becoming more and more fame and fortune oriented, it is very important to have our young students realize that great people are not necessarily rich people or celebrities.

But they must be spiritually fulfilled and be beneficial to the people and society. And the teacher should seize the chance to lead students to take these great people as examples and to set up their own ideals for life. This would be beneficial for the formation of their values, which would be more than teaching English. Besides that, in this unit particularly the problem of equality between men and women is brought up.

Through the study of this unit, students should be able to understand that a person’s achievement should not depend on his/her sex.

Period one

Warming up and reading I

The material in Warming up is a brief introduction to six great women home and abroad. Before we introduce them and have students discuss what qualities should a great woman possess. It is necessary to activate students’

previous knowledge as well as to provide them with necessary relative vocabulary in the form of a brainstorm. Step 1 lead-in Show students some pictures of great women home and abroad throughout history. Have them tell what they know about these women as much as possible. She was the only female monarch of China, and remains the most remarkable, influential and mysterious woman in Chinese history.MulanMulan'sfather is drafted into the Emperor's army, but he is old and ill. He has no sons to stand in for him. His only child is a girl and girls are forbidden to enter the army. Mulan, disguised as a boy, volunteers for service in place of her father.Empress Wu Zetian in Tang Dynasty

a Discussion about the qualities needed to be a great woman. Elicit possible answers from students after a brainstorm.

hard-workingknowledgeableconfidentintelligentresponsiblemodestbraveconsiderateperseverantgenerouswarm-heartedunselfishenergeticpatientdeterminedcareful

Personally, I think the discussion is very meaningful for it activate and should be reserved in the teaching design. (If students, due to proficiency levels, are unable to produce meaningful idea in English within short period of time, it is suggested that they organize their idea before class.)

(optional activity/project)The standard for assessing great people

In module one, we have already learned something about great people. In this unit, we need to explore further. Surfing the Internet, we may find many ranking list for celebrities or important people. We can present students with several such lists and have them discuss.

For example, at this website ----http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/ 20 cvip.html, there is an interesting point about how to choose the most important people in the 20th century:

The best way to do this is to check. the index to their books (books written by historians). If the book spends twice as many pages discussing Winston Churchill as it does discussing Margaret Thatcher, then it's safe to say that this historian thinks Churchill is the more history worthy of the two.... All we have to do is count the index entries for the 20th Century VIPs in several history books, average them all out, and we've got our list .... Rank 1 2 3 Name Adolph Hitler Joseph Stalin Mao Zedong Rank 11 12 13 Name Ch’iang Kai-shek Dwight Eisenhower Ronal Reagan greatwomenpassionate

4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Nikita Khrushchev Winston Churchill Franklin Roosevelt Lenin Benito Mussolini Mikhail Gorbachev Charles DeGaulle 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Richard Nixon Woodrow Wilson John F Kennedy James Carter Fidel Castro Gamal Nasser Mohandas Gandhi We can elicit opinions from students on this kind of evaluation method as a preparation for oral English practice. Or we can assign this as a after class project/writing task.

Step 2 Predicting

Get the Ss to read the title and pictures, and have them predict the main content of the passage.

Step 3 Skimming to get the general idea

Get the Ss to read the passage and find the answers to the four questions (two minutes)

The title A PROTECTOR OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE tells us that there are two main threads through the passage: PROTECTOR and WILDLIFE

We can have students scan the passage and answer the following questions:

1) Who is the protector? (Jane Goodall) 2) What animals are observed? (chimps) 3) Where did Jane Goodall arrive at Gombe? What did Jane do in the forest? 4) What is the writer doing in the forest? (watching the chimps wake up) ,

Step 4 Main ideas

Get the students to read the whole passage and sum up the main idea of each paragraph. At the same time, instruct them the way of finding or summing up the main idea.

T h e f i r s t p a r a g r a p hThe whole dayWatching a family of chimps wake upWander off into the forest(feed,clean each other)The mother chimp and her babies play in the treeCome into mother’s chimp arms,go to sleep together in their nest

Step 5 Comprehension

use multiple choice questions to test students’ comprehension of the passage within limited period of time.

Step 7 Summary and homework

T: Time is running out. Today we learned about Jane Goodall’s story and we have learnt a lot from her. Our world will become a more beautiful one if we all treat the animals equally and show our love to them. We will succeed in overcoming any difficulties and achieving our goals if we can be as strong-willed as her.

Homework: 1. Read the passage fluently and recite the key sentences in the text.

2. Retell the story of Jane Goodall.

3. Finish the word exercise S:Ex 1,2&3 on Page 4 and Ex 4 on Page 5.

Notes: The extract in reading introduces Jane Goodall, describing one of her daily routine with her coworkers in African forests and comments on her working method and achievements. In the process of reading, we need to train the students to get an idea of what a passage is about by glancing through titles and pictures.

This exercise is one of the many that can be used to show the students how, much' they can guess about a passage by simply looking at its title and the pictures. This will be useful to students later in their studies.

Period 2

Learning about Language The part of vocabulary learning mainly involves some systematic knowledge about word-formation as well as mastering important vocabulary and phrases.

In grammar learning we focus on subject-verb agreement and help students discover the rules to decide the number for a collective noun. There are accompanying exercises. Systematic explanation shall be given help consolidate the knowledge acquired.

Step 1 Noun suffixes in word formation

1.

Brainstorm: word formation

T: We know that Jane Goodall has done a lot for the chimps. She has argued for the chimps to be left in the wild. That is to say, what has she made for the chimps to be left in the wild? Ss: Arguments.

T: (writes argue and argument on the blackboard and underlines -ment) Good. She did a lot and finally achieved her goal. That is to say, she made...? Ss: She made achievements.

T:(writes achieve and achievement on the black board and underlines -ment) Good.

Now let’s have a look at the blackboard. Can you see anything in common in the two pairs of words?

S: Yes. The noun “argument” comes from the verb “argue”,

adding “-ment”. The noun “achievement” comes from the verb “achieve”,

adding “-ment” too.We can see “-ment” can be added to a verb to make a noun.

T: Very good. You’ve got very keen eyes. This way to form a new word is called word formation. Here, “-ment” is called a suffix, which can be added to another word to form a new word. Do you want to know more about suffixes? Ss: Yes.

T: OK. Today we will talk about suffixes which can make another word into a noun. We call them noun suffixes.

2.

Introducing more noun suffixes.

T: Now please have a look at the screen. Here are some groups of verbs. Say their meanings, please.

(Ss say the meanings of the verbs.)

VerbconnectNounconnectionorganizationinspirationargumentpermissionorganizeinspirearguepermit

T:Good.What about their nouns?Can you tell me?

Ss:(say the nouns)

T:What is in common among these words?

Ss:Suffix “-ion”,“-tion”,“-sion” or “-ation” is added to the verb to make a noun.

T:Very good.So we can see “-ion”,“-tion”,“-sion” and “-ation” are some of the noun suffixes.Do you know more suffixes? Can you give me some examples?

S :Let me have a try. If I feel bad, that is to say,I have a feeling which is bad.If the word means right, that is to say the word have the meaning which is right. So we can see,“-ing” is also a noun suffix.

T:(writes “feel”,

“feeling”,

“mean” and

“meaning” on the blackboard and underlines “-ing”)Terrific job.

Are there any other nouns with “ -ing”?

Ss: Warning, finding etc.

3.Practice

Check exercise 1 on Page 4.Show the table on the screen and get the students to say the answers aloud in chorus so that everyone will be aware of the suffixes. If they have any questions,give further explanation.

Key for Exercise 1:1. bond 2. nest 3. institute 5. childhood 4. crowd in 6. outspoken 7. move off 9. project8. welfare

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Summary

T:Now we can see it is not really difficult to remember words as long as we master some rules. With the knowledge of word formation, we can enlarge our vocabulary. Today,we focus our attention on the Noun Suffix. In fact there are much more suffixes in English,

Step 3

Discovering useful structures (Subject-verb agreement)

1.Brainstorm

Subject-verb agreement by giving simple examples.

T: Now watch me. What am I doing?(draws a picture on the blackboard)

Ss: You are drawing on the blackboard.

T: Yes. The teacher is drawing on the blackboard.(Writes the sentence “The teacher is drawing on the blackboard”.) What about you? What are you doing?

Ss: We are watching and listening to you.

T: (Writes the sentence “We are watching and listening to you.”)

The teacher is drawing on the blackboard.

We are watching and listening to you.

Now please have a look at these two sentences. Can we say the teacher are drawing or we is watching and listening to the teacher? Ss: No.

T: Why? Ss: There are some rules for us to follow when we write sentences.

T: You are right. When we write a sentence the predicate should agree with the subject, which is called subject-verb agreement. If we can not apply the rules correctly, we might not get ourselves understood.

2 Instruct the students to discover the rules for subject-verb agreement.

T:There are three main principles for us to follow.语法一致

就近一致

意义一致

Show the students some sentences and get them to complete the sentences by filling in the predicate. Get them to observe the sentences and sum up the rules.

Finish the following exercises:The boy___ diving.isareThey____ diving.areBoth Jackand Tim___ diving.Neither Jack nor Tim___ iswalking.All ofthem ____ diving.are

3. Consolidation

1) Get the students to do exercises 2 on Page 5.

Dear Xiaoyu, I think everyone is (is/are) settled in London,although neither the weather nor the food is(is/are) good.Either rain or snow fell every day this week but everybody has (has/ have) tried to ignore it.My friends and my mother have(has/have) visited the theatre almost every night.None of them carries(carry/carries) an umbrella but nobody has(has/have) let that affect their activities.We are enjoying ourselves so much that I wonder if anybody wants(want/wants)to come home.This group of tourists love (love/loves) the culture and is (is/are) happy in England and would like to visit London every summer!

See you soon,

Dong Xianshun Step 4 Homework

1.Page 43 Ex 1 Choose the best answers for the blanks.

2.Page 44 Ex 2 Choose the right words and complete the short texts.

Period 3

Extensive Reading There are three purposes in this reading Period. One is to introduce a great and famous Chinese doctor—Lin Qiaozhi and her career. She was important for women in China because she was the first woman doctor to specialize in gynecology and obstetrics. Another purpose is to show the students a sample to describe a person. The other purpose is to direct the students how to choose their major and career. As the writer of the article is a student, and she said that it was Lin Qiaozhi’s achievement that encouraged her to study at medical college. Like the writer of the passage, the students may not have a clear idea about what they would like to do in the future. So the story might lead to the students’ consideration about their future major and career choices and how they may be arrived at.

Enable the students to learn and talk about Lin Qiaozhi’s story.

Enable the students to describe a person about her/his appearance, qualities and achievements.

Step 1 Lead in-Brainstorm about Lin Qiaozhi.

T:In this unit we focus on the great women home and abroad. Remember the one we talked about the day before yesterday? What qualities do you think a great woman needs? And do you still remember the six great women we have talked about? (Introduces Lin, show some of her pictures, and, if time permits, play a video about her life) Review and lead in:What qualities do you think a great woman needs?(Give some words to describe)intelligent determinedgenerous kind Modest unselfish hard-working braveconfident considerate….A doctor who became a specialist in women’s illnesses. She devoted all her life to medical work for Chinese women and children. Her work encouraged many other women to become doctors.Lin Qiaozhi(1901-1983) China

Step 3 Getting the general idea

Get the students to read the passage quickly and find out the three great achievements of Lin.

Three achievements of Lin QiaozhiShe got a medical training for her career.She became a specialist in women’s diseases.She had made sure that about 50,000 babies were safely delivered.

Step 4 Scanning and language focus

Have students read the passage more carefully and find out the answers to the following questions. 1.What made Lin Qiaozhi famous?It was not her success at university that had made her famous. It was her kindness and theconsideration she showed to all her patients that made her famous.2. Why do you think the writer chose to study at medical college?Before learning LinQiaozhi, the writer didn’t know which major she should to study in an university. After reading Lin Qiaozhi she was moved by what she did. So she decided to study medicine.

Than explain on some language points. (1) catch one’s eye 相当于attract/ catch one’s attention，如：All of a sudden something red caught his eye.突然，一个红色的东西引起了他的注意。The title of a poem in the book caught my eye.这本书里一首诗的题目吸引了我。

Step 5 Retelling

Get the students to retell the passage by filling in the blanks.

Retell the story.Lin Qiaozhi wrote a small book for _______ in the __________ who were countrysidemothers_________ get to a hospital easily. It not able towas to help them to _________ their look afterbabies properly.

Step 6 Homework

1.Read the passage fluently and learn by heart some important phrases and structures.

2.Read Elizabeth Fry’s story on Page 45 and finish exercise 1.

Period 4

Listening In this period the students are to listen to three listening materials about great women. One is about the particular problems women have when they want a career of their own.. The second is about the western Mulan, Joan of Arc, a brave and patriotic Frenchwoman who fought to free France from the English. The third and last is about Jody Williams and her ICBL(International Campaign to Ban Landmines).When doing the listening practice, the students should learn to predict the content of the listening material by reading the exercises beforehand. While listening, they should learn to grasp the gist by catching the topic sentences and some key words and at the same time make some notes when necessary.

Step 1 Listening on Page 7

1. Brainstorming

T: These days we have been talking about important and great women and their achievements. We know women are able to make the same achievements as men. But was it easy for them to make the achievements?

Ss: Of course not.

T:You are right. They have to overcome a lot of difficulties in achieving their goals. Even now if women try to get the same as men they will come across quite a lot of problems that men will not have. Today we’ll listen to the problems that exist.

Have students discuss what kind of problems women many come across in their career. Pre-listening----prediction (1m)Question:What particular problems do you think women have when they want a career of their own?

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Listening for the first time

T: When we listen to a certain material for the first time, we should not try to catch every single word,and that is impossible. We should try to catch the general idea. To catch the gist, catching the topic sentences is of great importance. The structure of this material is very clear.It is organized by the three paragraphs. So when you listen for the first time, try to get the topic sentence of each paragraph. Now let’s listen for the first time.

Play the tape for students to get the topic sentences of the paragraphs and finish the exercises.

Make a pause when necessary.

Then ask students to discuss with their partners and try to retell what they have heard.It doesn’t matter whether they get words or sentences because the purpose of doing this is to let students know how to get the main idea from the topic sentence.

Collect what they have heard and write down them on the blackboard.

Check the answers to Exercise 2 with the whole class.

3.

Listening for the second time

The purpose in this task is to let the students get some useful information to finish Exercises 1 and 3.Before playing the tape for the second time, ask the students to read through the two exercises and try to predict the answers.

Then the teacher plays the tape again.

4. Listening for the third time

This is a good chance for the students to check their answers. After listening twice,most students can have a good understanding about the material, and can write down most of the answers. So this time is for them to check and add their answers.

Then the teacher has the students check the answers in groups.

At last the teacher checks the answers with the whole class. If time permits, show students the listening text to check their comprehension.

Step 2 Listening on Page 41

This listening material is about Joan of Arc, a patriotic woman who fought to free France from the English. Because students may not be familiar with the content and background of the story, it is advised that we prepare them with the story in Chinese beforehand. Get the students to predict the content of the material and then listen to it for three times. For the first time, they don’t have to write anything. Instead they should listen to understand the whole material and get the general idea. As for the second time, they should be able to get all the answers to the questions. And the last time, check the answers.

Listening on P41西元1429, 英法战争如火如荼之际,法国偏远地区的一个小村落传开一个令法国人振奋的消息。该村落里一个十几岁的少女琼安(蜜拉乔娃维琪)对外宣称自己获得上帝的指示,将带领法国人击退来犯的英军,让法国恢复为一个自由的国家。原本流传于乡间的消息,逐渐为整个法国所知。

Step 5 Summary and Homework

In this class we again learn something about some important and great women. From their deeds we come to the saying that women are half of the sky. For girls we should believe that although we may face some difficulties，we are able to try our best to realize our dreams.And for boys we should not look down upon girls. Boys and girls or men and women should work together to make us a more beautiful world.

Period 5

Speaking and Writing In this period we have two aims. One is to encourage the students to think of a woman that they admire or like and make a description of her.The second is to organize their ideas into a well-organized composition.

Step 1 revision and Lead in

1.Show some pictures and get the students to describe them.

2. Words that can be used to describe persons.

Instruct the students to think of some words to describe persons. They can be classified as follows: Positive:strong,smart,honest,friendly,kind,cheerful,generous warm-hearted,hard-working,popular,intelligent,brave,modest,confident,considerate,determined,unselfish,hard-working,energetic etc.

Negative:weak,stupid,lazy,dishonest,cold,foolish,unkind,dull

Step 2 Speaking

Get the students to think of a woman who is impressive to them. Work in pairs to make up a dialogue about the woman, asking questions and describing her. Try to use some of the words above and the following aspects.

What does she look like/ What is she like/ How would you describe her?

What do you think about her?

Why do you like/love/ admire her?

What are her strengths/ weaknesses?

How do other friends/ others describe her?

Get two pairs to present their dialogue.

Step 3 Writing

1.

Making an outline

T: Now you have made your partner know the woman impressive to you. Would you like her to be known by more people? Yes? OK I would like you to write a composition to describe her. Before we write the composition we should make full preparations.

First what should you do?

Ss: We should make an outline.

T: How to make an outline effectively?

S: First we should collect as much information as possible and make an analysis so as to classify it

into different ideas, arranging which information is needed for the description of the appearance, which is for quality and which is for her advantages. Try to make each idea into a paragraph.

Brainstorming for writing (3m)How to write a good outline before writing a good article?Step 1 Organize ideasStep 2 Making an outlineStep 3 Writing a rough draftStep 4 Revising a rough draftStep 5 Editing your paragraph

2. Making a draft

T: Good. What about the next step? What should we do?

Ss: We should make a draft.

T: Yes. This step is very important. We should write down simple sentences, paying attention to the tenses and voices.

Most importantly, we should organize the sentences into topic sentence and supporting sentences. That is to say, the beginning sentence should be able to conclude the idea of the rest of the paragraph. If possible, give a concluding sentence.

Pre-writing (3m)This outline will help you:Topic sentenceSupporting 1For example,Supporting sentence 2For instance,Supporting sentence 3For example,Concluding sentence

Then ask the students to write a draft in consideration of the discussion. After they finish, exchange their drafts and find some mistakes for each other.

At last show some of their drafts on the slide, pointing out the mistakes and appreciating the beautiful sentences.

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Writing a description

If time permits, get the students to make the draft into a passage, adding necessary details. When they are trying to finish the assignment, go around and see their common strengths and weaknesses. After they finish, get them to check with each other. Then choose some to show on the slide and get the others to appreciate together, pointing out the strengths and weaknesses. At last show them a sample.

SAMPLEMy teacher, Ms Zhang ,is well past fifty. She is an ordinary-looking woman with a pair of bright eyes .She looks old for her age, because her hair is all white.She is a teacher well worth honor. She came to our school in 1990,and has always been one of its best and most popular teachers. She works very hard. She carefully prepares her lessons, delivers her lectures and corrects our homework. She has been a friend to her students as well as a teacher. Whenever I need help, She will pay extra attention to me both inside and outside of class. I shall always be grateful for the help and guidance she has given me.I respect my teacher very much. Every Spring Festival I pay a visit to him. I am proud of having a teacher like her. I like her very much.

Step 4 Summary and Homework

T: Time is running out. We have to stop here. Today we talked about the important or impressive women around. Again we can see showing love to each other is of great importance. If we love each other, we can make our life more interesting and colorful.