Using LanguageⅡ名师教学视频（文字实录）

《unit 1 Women_of_Achievement》示范说课稿

Women of Achievement

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My topic is Women of Achievement, that is, unit 1, in module 4. The reading passage “A Student of African Wildlife” is talked later and my talk consists of 4 parts. Part 1, my understanding of the material. Part 2, teaching approaches. Part 3, preparations before class. Part 4, teaching procedure.

Part 1 my understanding of the material

Knowledge aims: To learn how to use the mastery words, phrases and sentence patterns;

To learn sth about Jane’s research.

Ability aims: To cultivate the students’ autonomous learning ability, cooperative learning ability and investigative learning ability;

To develop students’ reading skills, such as making prediction and drawing inferences from the context.

Emotional aims: To encourage the students to participate in the class activities and cultivate their teamwork spirit;

I think they are to develop the students’ reading skills, such as making prediction and drawing inferences from the context; and to learn how to use the mastery words, phrases and sentence patterns.

Part 2 Teaching approaches

According to the analysis above, I’ll try to use the following theories: to make students the real master of the class while the teacher myself the director; to inspire the students, especially girl students to chase their dreams with great determinations.

Therefore, task—based teaching method, students—centered teaching method will be used.

Part 3 Preparations before class

I will ask the students to surf the Internet or go to the library to find some information about great women that they are interested in.

Part 4 Teaching procedure

I designed 6 steps to deal with this reading passage.

Step 1 lead—in

Activity: picture appreciation and question answering

I’ll show them some beautiful pictures of wild animals, such as lions, Tibetan antelopes, monkeys and chimps. Then one question will be asked: which animal has the closest connection with human beings? It’s not so difficult. Of course, chimps. Then the students can find more about chimps from the reading passage.

The purpose of this activity is to stimulate the students’ interest and naturally lead to the reading passage.

Step 2 pre—reading

Activity: look and guess

The students will be asked to just glance at the title and the two pictures in the book, and then guess what they will read in the text. And they’ll be divided into groups of four to have a discussion.

Step 3 reading

Activity 1 scanning

The students are required to scan the text quickly and find out specific information of the following questions.

1 who is the student?

2 what animals are observed?

3 when did Jane Goodall arrive at Gombe? How old was she?

By doing this activity, the students can improve their reading skill—scanning. And they can get the two lines of the whole passage, the main line—student, and the hidden line—wildlife. It builds a solid base for the latter reading comprehension.

Activity 2 skimming

The students are asked to skim the text quickly and summarize the main idea of each paragraph.

By doing this, I can train the students’ reading skill—skimming. And before their skimming, I’ll remind them to find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.

Activity 3 careful reading

For paragraph 1: Video watching and completing a diagram

For paragraphs 2-3: Retelling job

For paragraph 4: Question answering

Step 4 post—reading

I designed 2 activities.

Activity 1: multiple choice questions Activity 2: qualities and looking for relevant sentences

Step 5 Discussion

The students will be divided into several groups to discuss the following questions.

1 Jane was brave enough to live in the forest. What difficulties do you think she was facing?

2 If you have the chance, will you do what she did?

This activity is to cheer the students to think deeply about Jane’s research and to practice their oral English.

Step 6 HomeworkActivity : Thinking and Writing

The topic is “ though our grandmothers and mothers haven’t done something great like Jane, do you think they are great, too?” Give your reasons.

This activity is designed to train their writing skills and stimulate the students to become aware of the greatness of ordinary women. So greatness is close to the students’ daily life.

That’s all. Thank you!