Project(2): Making an action plan优秀教学实录

Project Teaching aims 1. Improve students’ ability and provide practice

2. Master and use some useful words and expressions 3. Making an action plan to express and support your opinions Procedures: Step 1 Leading in What do you know about Africa? Can you tell something about the beauty of Africa? Can you tell something about the life of African people? What problems is Africa facing now? What cause the problems in Africa? What can we do to help them? What has our country done to help them? Step 2 Fast Reading

1. Why did the MFS nurse go to Africa?

Because of the flood. 2. Where has the MSF nurse been to in Africa? Kenya and Sudan 3. Besides speaking English and French, how can Africans be communicated with?

By body language Step 3 Further Reading

1. Listening for further information 2. Questions: Para 1 1) How did she help? Set up feeding centers to ensure that people got food and we checked the health of babies to make sure they were putting on weight. We had a vaccination campaign to stop children dying from measles.

2) What dangers did she face?

Fighting in villages far from the city; looking out for bullets and running from one place to another became way of life; water borne diseases such as malaria and typhoid; mud and water everywhere, making it difficult to travel from place to place. Para 2-3

1) Where was the A temporary clinic? In a vacant health center in the north side of the town. 2) What problems can it solve? People who have regular medication cannot get hold of it in a disaster such as this. Minor injuries also need to be taken care of , especially as it is so wet. 3) What are other problems they must face?

In the rest of the city, shelter and access to food and clean water are big problems.

The fields and harvest have been destroyed and so malnutrition will be a problem in the future. People have started to worry about that they will not get enough food. Para 4-5 1. How do they communicate? By speaking English or French, or using acting skills. 2. What are horrible things for her? It is quite horrible to imagine losing everything, including some of your family. That was a really horrible job to bury the dead bodies as quickly as possible to stop disease spreading. Para 6 1. What is the main idea of this paragraph? About the MSF nurse’s feelings of working there. 2. Does she enjoy the experience of working there? Why? Yes. This experience makes her appreciate all the things she has and gives her the chance to see things from another side. Step 4

Language points in Project

Introduce and explain some language points to students.

1. Arrived here to find everything was in chaos.

= After I arrived here, I found everything was in chaos.

chaos

n.

e.g. The desk was a chaos of paper and unopened letters.

Now Iraq is reported to be in chaos.

2. Many of the people have fled to the mountains to escape the floods.

flee

vi./vt.

e.g. During the war many people in the village fled to neighboring countries.

Last night many tourists fled the burning hotel. 3. We also had a vaccination campaign to stop children dying from measles.

die from

e.g. The soldiers died from a wound.

die of

死于…(强调内因)

die out

绝种

die off

一个个死掉

die down/away

平息

die for sth./to do sth.

迫切要做某事

e.g. I am dying for a cup of tea. / I am dying to drink a cup of tea.

The fire is dying down. Please put more coal.

4. Meanwhile, in the rest of the city, shelter and access to food and clean water are big problems. access (to)

[U] n.

e.g. Access to the little village is across a small bridge.

The only access to the school is a muddy road. Only a few people have access to the full facts of the case.

accessible

adj.

Medicine should not be kept where it is accessible to children.

5. It reminded me of my time in Sudan, …

remind

v.

The photo reminds me of the days when I stayed with my students. (remind sb. of sth.) The sight of clock reminded me that I was late.

(remind sb. that…)

remind

v.

It is so kind of you to remind me of the interview with Mr. Li.

(remind sb. of sth.) The tourists are reminded that they must come back to the park gate at 3 pm. (remind sb. that…)

The teacher reminded the students to review the lessons for the coming exam. (remind sb. to do sth.)

6. …I can help here and there, and make a difference to people’s lives …

make a difference (to)

I admit that makes a difference to me.

step 5 Group discussion Divide the students into different groups and set a topic for discussion.

Topic: Imagine that you will work in your community and help old people and children there. What will and can you do for them? Discuss the topic with your group members and work out an action plan.

Then ask every group to write a plan about what they are going to do and how to put them into action.

Ask each group to present their plan to the whole class.

Step 6 Homework Finish Parts D1 and D2 on page 126 in Workbook.