Learning about Language教学实录与评析

Women of Achievements

教学设计

张明月

Teaching goals 教学目标

1． Target language 目标语言

昌图二高中

a. 重点词汇

achievement, behave, shade, worthwhile, nest, 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. know how to tell the great women. b. Learn the way to describe a person. 3． Learning ability goals 学能目标

Teach students how to describe a person. Teaching Important points

By reading A student 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.

Teaching Difficult Points

Let everyone believe that all of us can become Jane Goodall to one’s success.

Teaching Methods

Predicting to guess the content of the passage. Skimming to get the general idea of the text.

Scanning to get detailed information and get to understand the passage better.

Task-based activities to get the students to comprehend the passage and learn something from Jane Goodall. Teaching Aids

A multimedia computer

Teaching Procedures教学过程与方式

Step1 Lead-in 导入

Introduce the topic of great women.

1)Show some pictures of women for the students to guess who they are and tell whether they are great women or not. 2) Get the students to have a discussion about the qualities needed to be a great woman T: Do you think they are great women? What they have in common? (Give the students two minutes to discuss in pairs.)

T: Now what qualities do you think is needed in order to be a great woman? Who would like to share the opinions with us?

S: In my opinion , a great woman should be

Other students add their opinions.

T:I agree with all of you. But in my opinion, most importantly a great

woman should be unselfish and willing to sacrifice. Otherwise they will not overcome different difficulties and achieve their ambitions. Do you think so? Step 2 prediction

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

T:Who is the woman?

Ss:Jane Goodall.

T:What is the animal?

Ss:It’s a chimp.

T:What is she doing?

Ss:She is kissing the chimp.

T:If you meet a chimp in the forest, will you do that like Jane Goodall? T:Now let’s have a look at the title—A student of African wildlife. what do you think the passage is about?

S:I think the passage is about how Jane Goodle worked with chimps in their environment T: Do you agree with her?

Ss:Yes/ No.

T:Let’s read and find out whether you are right or wrong.

Step 3 Reading 阅读

Task1–scan the text and talk about the main idea of each paragraph. Para1 How the group studied chimps in the forest Para2 What Jane Goodall discovered about chimps Para3 How Jane Goodall tries to protect the lives of chimps in their natural habitat. Para4 Jane’s achievements Task2- listen to the tape and answer the following questions. (1) Where did Jane do her research? (2) Why did Jane go to Africa to study chimps in the wild rather than at a university? (3) What did she discover in her research? Reference answers: (1) At Gombe National Park in East Africa. (2) To work with them in their own environment. (3) A chimps hunt and eat meat B how chimps communicate with each other. C their body language and social system. Task3 - Read the text carefully and answer the questions 1. What’s the purpose of Jane Goodall’s study? 2. What did Jane have to give up when she went to live in the forest. 3. What has Jane achieved? Reference answers: 1. She wants to understand and respect the lives of chimps.

2. She had to give up friends, a social life, boyfriend, fun, going to the cinema, seeing her friends, parties, shopping and so on. 3. Work with animals in their own environment, gain a doctor's degree and show that women can live in the forest as men can. She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women. True of False: 1. She supposes that people should not use chimps for entertainment. T

2. She has spent more than 30 years helping people understand her work. F

3. She hopes that chimps can be left in the forest. T

She has built many homes for the wild animals to live in. T Task-4 Have a discussion What should we learn from Jane Goodall? She is a great woman, she is very kind to animals especially chimps. She gave up the comfortable life to study the chimps and she calls on all the people to protect them. She is a selfliss, firm and helpful woman. Her courage, kindness, selflessness and so on, all these qualities should we learn. See two videos of Jane Goodall. Homework Retell the story of Jane Goodall in your own words.