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Speaking and Writing Women of achievement (Teaching Design)

Teaching material analysis: The topic of the unit is “women of achievement”. It shows the achievements and contributions of six great women in different countries in different times, as well as the problems they had to overcome. It tells students the importance of respecting and protecting wildlife. More importantly, it helps students learn the roles that women play in the society and build up their confidence, responsibility and right views of society and gender. It encourages students to think about their own future plans and how to achieve them. Students should learn to use some adjectives to describe a great person and understand the reading passage. They should also be required to retell the text in their own words. The class aims to develop students’ different reading skills and self-confidence, and encourage them to learn from great women.

Teaching important points: 1.

Have students talk about some great women and their achievements. 2.

Get students to learn speaking and writing skills.

Teaching difficult points: 1.

Develop students’writing ability. 2.

Enable students to talk about women of achievement.

Teaching aims: 1. Knowledge aims: 1) Let students learn to use some adjectives to describe a great person. 2) Let students learn about some great women and their achievements in different fields in the world.

2. Ability aims: Enable students to talk about women of great achievement.

3. Emotional aims: 1) Enable students to learn from great women, stimulate their love and respect for great women and develop their moral qualities. 2) Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.

Teaching methods: Cognitive approach, task-based approach

Teaching procedures: Step I Leading in Have a free talk with students. Ask them the following questions: 1.

Do you know any great people or important people? 2. What makes a great person? (suggested answers :cleaver, brave, determined, confident, hard-working, unselfish, kind, active, generous)

Step II Guessing Get students to look at the information on the screen and guess who she is and discuss the following question. 1) Are they great or important? Why? 2) What’s the difference between a famous person and a great person?

Step III Discussing Divide students into several groups to discuss which great woman you admire most. Step IV Writing Get students to write what they discuss. Step V Showing Get some students to read their writing.

Step VI Homework Preview the second passage

Reflection after class: In the first two steps,the pictures and the questions aroused students’ interest in the lesson. The discussing and writing activities help to develop students’speaking and writing ability. More importantly,great women stories helps students realize the roles women play in the society and build up their confidence, responsibility and right views of society and gender. Students will develop moral qualities by learning from great women. The diverse activities in the class are good for developing students’ different skills and their sense of cooperative learning.