Unit1Womenofachievement教學設計與案例分析.doc

Unit 1 Women of achievementBackground information:School: Zhongheng Senior High SchoolTeacher: Chen HongyingStudents: About 60 senior high school students, Class 10, Grade oneMaterials: Women of achievement, Unit one, Book New Senior English for China Students Book 4Type of lesson: Reading Lesson duration: 40 minutes Date: April 2, 2014The General Idea of This Period:This period includes Warming up,Reading and Comprehending of the Reading. It introduces a day of Jane Goodall and her colleagues in the forests, observing the chimps.After reading the passage the students can know about Jane Goodalls working methods, her great achievements and her attitude towards wild animals. Reading the passage, the students can also learn some reading strategies such as predicting,skimming and drawing conclusions.Objectives:1. Knowledge and Skills1) Enable the students to comprehend the story of Jane Goodalls protecting the African wildlife.2) Enable the students to learn from Jane Goodall to treat animals in a human way and come to the idea that great personality is of importance to ones success.3) Learn some useful words and expressions: achieve,achievement,condition,welfare,connection,behave,behavior,worthwhile,specialist,observe,observation argue,inspire,support,devote . to,etc.Learn some sentence patterns:Watching a family wake up is our first activity of the day. / Only after her mother came to help her for the first months was she allowed to begin her project.2. Process and Strategies1) Group work to encourage the students to participate in class activities.2) Fast reading to make the students get the main idea of the passage.3. Emotional attitude & values1) Let students 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 Important Points1) Help he students to comprehend the story of Jane Goodalls protecting the African wildlife.2) Get the students to learn from Jane Goodalls story and come to the idea that great personality is of importance to ones success.3) Learn and master some important words, phrases and sentence patterns in this period.Teaching Difficult Points1) Get the students to comprehend the story and understand what Jane Goodall has done to gain the achievements.2) Get the students to believe that ones personality as well as luck and ability is important to ones success.Teaching Methods1) Predicting to guess the content of the passage.2) Skimming to get the general idea of the text.3) Scanning to get detailed information and get to understand the passage better.4) Task-based activities to get the students to comprehend the passage and be able to debate about whether women can do a better job than men.Teaching AidsMultimedia facilities, tape recorder, English book, blackboard, chalk,etc.Teaching ProceduresStep 1 Lead-in1.Greet the students.T:Good morning,boys and girls!Ss:Good morning,Miss.Chen2.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.T: Do you have idols? Now I would like to show you some pictures of women to see whether they are your idols and try to tell me whether they are great women.Show some pictures of some famous people.The students might be very excited to see the pictures.They will tell their names and the reasons why they are so famous.But they will have the same point of view that they are famous and important but they are not great women.2) Get the students to have a discussion about the qualities needed to be a great woman.T:Although they are so famous and important in a certain field,they are not great women.So what do you think is needed in order to be a great woman?(Give the students two minutes to discuss in pairs.)T:Now what do you think is needed in order to be a great woman?Who would like to share the opinions with us?S:Let me have a try.In my opinion,a great woman should be intelligent and hard-working,otherwise she will not achieve her goals.S:I think a great woman should be determined and consistent.Because sometimes she might come across a lot of difficulties before her idea and invention are accepted by the public or other specialists.If she cant stick to her opinion,she may fail in achieving her goals.S:According to me,I think a great woman should be modest and responsible.I dont think an arrogant and irresponsible woman will become a great woman.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 make great contributions to humans and our society.Do you think so?Ss:Yes.3) Talk about great women.T:Now can you name some famous women?S:I think Madam Curie is a great woman.She discovered radium(鐳)with her husband and made great contributions to the field of science and also our society.She won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Physics.T:Good.Who else would like to express your idea?S:I think Mother Teresa is a great woman.She worked in India to help the poor,took care of the disabled people and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.(Some other students express their opinions.)T:Now I would like to show you some more pictures to see whether you know them and their achievements.T:Who is she?Ss:Song Qingling.T:Who can say something about her achievements?S:She was the vice president of PRC and she worked for women and children welfare activities.T:Good.What about this one?Ss:She is Joan of Arc.S:She lived at the time when British and France fought“the Hundred Years War”.She encouraged the king crowned and showed the French army how to win the war.She was admired by the French people.T:Good.What about her?Ss:Jody Williams.T:What about her achievements?S:In 1972 she began to organize ICBL( the International Campaign to Ban Landmines) and Jody was Given the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work.T:And she?Ss:Elizabeth Fry.S:She spent most of her life helping to improve the prison conditions in Britain.She first visited Newgate Prison in London 1812 and in 1816 began her prison school in Newgate Prison.In 1818 she talked to the leaders of Britain about life in prison and persuaded them to make the 1823 New Prison Act,which agreed to spend more money on prisoners.Besides,she published a book about what she had seen in many prisons.She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.T:Good.What about this woman?Ss:She is Lin Qiaozhi.S:She is Chinese.She devoted all her life to gynaecology and obsterics.She remained single all her life.Even when she died,she left her body for medical research.T:So we are very proud of her.What about the following one?Ss:She is Jane Goodall.T:How much do you know about her?S:She spends her time protecting animals in South Africa.T:Good.They all made great contributions to our world and inspire us.So we should admire and learn from them.(Get the students to read the information of the six women together.)Step 2 PredictingGet the Ss to read the title and predict the main content of the passage.T:Today we are going to learn about one of the great women.Before that I would like to show you some pictures.T:What can you see in the picture?Ss:A woman and an animal.T:Who is the woman?Ss:Jane Goodall.T:What is the animal?Ss:Its 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?Ss:No.T:(smiles) What about this picture?Ss:She is shaking hands with a small chimp.T:Will you do that like her?Ss:No./ Yes.T:And this?Ss:She is hugging the chimp and imitating its way of talking.T:Will you do that?Ss:Yes./ No./ Maybe.T:What about these pictures? Ss:She is watching the chimp with great interest.T:What do you think when you see the pictures?Ss:Admire her for her courage.T:Do you know where the photos were taken?Ss:No.T:They were taken in Gombe National Park in East Africa.T:Now lets have a look at the titleA protector of African wildlife.After a glance at the title,what do you think the passage is about?S:I think the passage is about how Jane Goodall protected the wildlife in Africa and her achievements.T:Do do you agree with her?Ss:Yes/ No.T:Lets read and find out whether you are right or wrong.Step 3 Skimming to get the general ideaGet the Ss to read the passage and find the answers to the four questions (two minutes) and try to sum up the general idea of the passage.1.Who is the protector?2.What animals were observed?3.When did Jane Goodall arrive in Gombe？ How old was she?4.What was the purpose of her study?T:Now who can answer the first question?Who is the protector?S:1.Jane Goodall is the protector.T:Good.What about the second one?What animals were observed?S:2.Chimps were observed.T:The third one?When did Jane Goodall arrive in Gombe？ How old was she?S:3.She arrived in Gombe in 1960 when she was 26.T:Very good.And the last one?S:4.Her purpose was to help the rest of the world to understand and respect the life of the chimps.T:Good job.What about the general idea?S:The passage is mainly about how Jane Goodle worked with chimps in their environment and helped people understand and respect the life of these animals.T:Wonderful job.So did you get the right prediction?Ss:Yes.Step 4 Main ideasGet the students to read the whole passage and sum up the main idea of each paragraph.At the same time,instruct them the way of finding or summing up the main idea.T:Now we have a rough idea about the passage.How will the writer introduce Jane Goodalls story to us?How will she organize the passage?I would like you to read the story carefully and sum up the main idea of each paragraph.How can we sum up the main idea easily?S:Try to see whether there are any topic sentences,which are usually at the beginning or the end of a paragraph.If there are not any topic sentences,try to sum up the main idea according to the content of the paragraph.T:Good.Now read the passage and try to find out the main ideas.(after 4 minutes)T:How many paragraphs are there in the passage?Ss:Four.T:What are the main ideas of them?S:1.The first paragraph is about a day in the Combe National Park.S:2.The second paragraph tells us Janes way to study chimps and her achievements.S:3.The third paragraph tells us her attitude to the animals.S:4.The last paragraph is a short summary of the whole passage,telling us that she has achieved everything she wanted to do.T:Wonderful job.Step 5 Scanning Get the students to read the whole passage to get some detailed information.T:Now we have formed an overview of the whole passage.Next I would like you to read and get more information about Jane Goodall.Please try to find out the answers to the following questions.If there are some sentences that you cannot understand,put them down and we shall solve your problems later.1.What did the group do in the morning in the forest?2.Where did Jane Goodall suggest that the chimps be left?3.What did she achieve?T:(four minutes later) Now who can answer the questions?S:1.They watched the chimps wake up in the morning in the forest.S:2.She suggested the chimps should be left in the wild.S:3.She discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat,how chimps communicate with each other and worked out their social system.(Not all the students can find the answer to the third question,or some of them can only find part of the answers.The teacher should instruct them the way of finding them accurately.First get them to find the possible sentences where the answer lies“For example,one thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat.She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.” Remind them to pay attention to the transitional words like“one thing”,“also” and “and”.)Step 6 Competition (True or False consolidation exercises)Divide the students into four groups.Each student tries to tell whether the statements are true or false as soon as possible in order to gain points for their group.If he tells the right answer,he shall get one point.If the statement is wrong and he can tell the reason,he gets double of the point.The group that get the highest points shall be the winners and get some prizes.1.With university training,she has achieved what she wanted.2.The chimps show love in their family by talking with each other.3.She hopes that chimps can be left in the zoo.4.She supposes that people should not use chimps for entertainment.5.She has spent more than forty years helping people understand her work.6.She has not built homes for the wild animals to live in.Keys:1.False.Because she did not study at a university to get any university training.She achieved what she wanted without getting any formal university training.2.False.The chimps show love to each other by either feeding or cleaning each other.3.False.Jane Goodall has argued for the chimps to be left in the wild and not used for entertainment.4.True.5.True.6.False.Because she has set up special places where the chimps can live safely.T:Good job.So we can see you have a good understanding of Jane Goodalls life.Do you think Jane Goodall was brave to go and live in the forest?Ss:Yes.T:Would you have done what she did if you had the chance?Ss share their views.T:What can we learn from Jane Goodall?S:We should show true love to others,as well as to animals.Everything is equal,no matter what they are.It is not because we are human beings that we are superior to the animals.We dont have the right to control the other living things on the earth.They are our friends and relatives.The only difference is that we have different appearances and different intelligence.Only if we show true love towards them can we make the world a better one.S:I admire her for her belief and personality.Step 7 Story retellingDivide the students into groups of four and get them to choose a slip of paper on which their characters are designed( for example,suppose you are Jane Goodall/ Jane Goodalls colleague/ Jane Goodalls mother etc.).Get them to discuss and retell the passage.Try to describe what she thinks.Among the four students,one should be chosen to make a record and give a report.Step 8 Language points focus1.The students raise questions about the passage and the others try to answer the questions.When necessary,the teacher helps to illustrate.2.The students find the important words,phrases and structures from the reading and the teacher explains.Try to use effective examples to illustrate the points.After illustration,teacher can give the students some exercises to consolidate their understanding.Step 9 Debate After the explanation of the language points,the students have got the total understanding of the reading text.Then the teacher draws the students attention back to the text and puts forward a topic for them to discuss.Divide the students into two groups boys and girls and let them debate with each other about the topic:Women are able to do more than men.The girls are for the idea while the boys are against the idea.Each group tries to think of as many arguments as possible to defeat the other side.After their debate,get some students to give their report for their groups.Step 10 Summary and homeworkT:Time is running out.Today we learned about Jane Goodalls story and we have learnt a lot from her.Our world will become a more beautiful one if we all treat the animals equally and show our love to them.We will succeed in overcoming any difficulties and achieving our goals if we can be as strong-willed as her.Homework:1.Read the passage fluently and recite the key sentences in the text.2.Retell the story of Jane Goodall.3.Finish the word exercise S:Ex 1,2&3 on Page 4 and Ex 4 on Page 5.轉寫: T: Class begins.S(z): (.)stand upT: Good morning, boys and girls.Ss: (.)Good morning, Miss Chen.T: Sit down please. Today, Id like to talk about idols. Everyone has idols, right? Ss: YesT: To start with, Ill share my pictures with you. Now I would like to show you some pictures of women to see whether they are your idols and try to tell me whether they are great women. (.)You got it?(Show some pictures of some famous people on screen. Bingbing Fan, Angelina Jolie, Ziyi Zhang)T: well. Do you know who are they?Ss: Bingbing Fan, Angelina Jolie, Ziyi ZhangT: Good! All of them are very beautiful and famous , right? Do you like them?Ss: Yes.T: Well. Although they are so famous and important in a certain field, they are not great women. So what do you think is needed in order to be a great woman? I will give you two minutes to discuss with your partners, are you clear?(Give the students two minutes to discuss in pairs.)Ss: Yes.( )T: Now what do you think is needed in order to be a great woman? Who would like to share the opinions with us?S1:Let me have a try.(1.)In my opinion, a great woman should be intelligent and hard-working,(1.) otherwise she will not achieve her goals.S2:I think a great woman should be determined and consistent.(1.)Because sometimes she might come across a lot of difficulties before her idea and invention(2.) are accepted by the public or other specialists.(1.)If she cant stick to her opinion, she may fail in achieving her goals.S3:According to