Learning about Language教学设计一等奖

Unit1 Women of achievement

远东二中

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高中英语必修4 Unit 1 the first period Brief introduction to the unit The topic of this unit is women of achievement. It briefly introduces several great women from different countries, talks about women’s important role in different fields and speaks highly of women’s achievement.

Teaching goals 1. Talk about great women’s achievements and their characters.

2. Be familiar with the word, phrases and expressions describing a person especially a great woman. 3. Learn sth about agreement. 4. Learn to write about a woman by giving an example and then drawing a conclusion.

Period one Reading

Teaching aims: Get the students to be familiar with Jane Goodall and know the importance of protecting wildlife , and get them to realize the important qualities a person should have to be successful. Get the students to understand the structure of the reading material and learn to summarize the story. Get the students to learn some phrases and structures and try to use it freely. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warming up

Before class ask the students to look for information about a kind of animals, including their habits, food, marriage, etc. and report it in class as a warming-up exercise. There are a variety of animals in the world. How much do you know about wildlife? Please introduce some to the whole class. Let’s enjoy a video about chimps.

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Show a video clip of a chimp trying to crack a nut and get them to think.

What do you know about the chimps? It helps us to understand how much they behave like humans. Do you think it necessary to protect wildlife? Yes, because they are our friends…

Step 2 Skimming (individual work)

There is a woman called Jane Goodall who is protecting chimps in Africa. What do we call her? Show the topic A Protector of African Wildlife. What do you know about her?

Jane Goodall博士于2002年4月16日被任命为联合国和平使者。她因其在保护坦桑尼亚黑猩猩方面所做的开拓性工作而享有盛誉，这一工作在42年前就开始了。为表彰其在环保研究、环保教育、环保倡议等方面所作出的贡献，联合国秘书长任命她为可持续发展峰会顾问小组的成员，协助峰会达到预定目标。

Jane Goodall is more than just the "chimpanzee lady". Her work gives new insight to our own humanness and humaneness. We now have the knowledge to explore our own behaviors and emotions in a new light. Jane was born in London, England on April 3, 1934. When she was a younggirl, Jane spent as much time outdoors as she could , exploring various creatures. She had a very good relationship with her mother. Their good relationship continued, even as she fought her way to Africa, spendingmuch time outside as she could. When Jane was 18 months old, Vanne found her with a bunch of earthworms in her bed. Jane has been doing research at Gombe for 38 years now. At the age of eleven, Jane decided that she wanted to go to Africa, maybe even live there. Altogether there are three paragraphs in the text. Read through the passage and tell us the main ideas of each paragragh

Para1

A day in Gombe National Park

Para2

Jane’s 40 years’ work on observing chimps

Para 3

Her attitude to animals and her achievements What’s Jane Goodall’s daily work like? Try to describe it as if you are Jane and telling the story to your students. After that, ask the students to fill in the blanks. She is really a great woman, what does she think of the animals, can you guess? Try to read

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her diary in the third paragraph, and tell us her attitude to animals. And what’s her great achievement ? Since she has spent almost 40 years in the forest studying chimps. Let’s have a look at what she has done and has seen in the past forty years. Step 3 Scanning (pair work) Why did she not study in college but determined to go to the forest? To Study the animals in their environment. A day and 40 years are a great contrast . What difficulties would she met when going to African forests and live there? Opposition from her family and friends, hard conditions in the forests, fear of staying alone, inconvenience for a woman to travel and do her studies, her child…

Divide the class into two parts, one part looking for what Jane Goodall has done to achieve her goal, the other part looking for her research on chimps in the forests. Each part deals with different goal. What did Jane do in the past 40 years to achieve her goal of studying chimps?

Ask the students to read the text carefully this time and try to find out the sentences describing her action , then work in groups of four and report their findings in class, She did not study at a university but she was determined to work with animals in their environment.

(determination) Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months, was she allowed to begin her project.

(support from family) She has argued for them to be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements.

(great love and sympathy towards wildlife) Has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals.

(belief in equality between human and animals) She has set up special places where they can live safely. Gain a doctor’s degree for her studies

(diligence )

and choose one of them to make a speech about Jane Goodall by beginning like this : I think Jane Goodall is a great woman…

Humans and animals should live in peace. Jane helps us to understand wildlife better.

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Her characters /her love towards nature /her awareness / her support from her mother …

What did Jane observe in the African forest? Ask the other part of the students to read through the text at the same time and find out more information about chimps, then make a comparison between humans and chimps. a. Either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family b. The mother chimp and her babies play in the tree and, after they come into her arms, we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night.

c. chimps hunt and eat meat. d. how chimps communicate with each other and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system. the similarities and differences between humans and chimps and make a conclusion about what we should do to chimps since humans are capable of anything.

We share many things with chimps: We share 98% of DNA with chimps,

they often use facial expression that look uncannily human, they

greet each other with a kiss, a hug and a gentle touch, they can make tools, etc. We are sharing one earth , we staying together, and what humans are doing to wildlife will later affect human’s life.

Step 4 Discussion (group work) Jane Goodall is so determined to continue such a hard job. She is surely a woman of great determination as well as a great heart. Do you want to know more about her. Let’s read her diary together, let the students read the italicized part in para3 together and suppose you are Jane Goodall, you are also writing a diary about one day’s observation in the forest, ask them to work in pairs and report their diary according some key words. What do you think is the best way to protect wildlife? Organize a team to publicize the importance of wildlife Put on a performance to add to the importance of protecting wildlife Have a lecture about wildlife

Photogragh these rare animals

Go to the forest to meet chimps Each group choose one possible solution and work out the details about the programmes

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Step 5 Homework

Ask the students to write a short passage about Jane goodall and her contributions to our world.

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