人教版高中英语课本必修四第一单元

Women of achievement (Teaching Design)

(人教版高中英语课本必修四第一单元)

贵阳三十七中 李长江

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 learn about some great women and their achievements. 2. Get students to learn different reading skills.

Teaching difficult points:

1. Develop students’ reading ability.

2. Enable students to talk about women of achievement.

Teaching aims:

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1. Knowledge aims:

1) Have students master the useful new words and expressions in this part. 2) Let students learn to use some adjectives to describe a great person. 3) Let students learn about some great women and their achievements in different fields in the world.

4) Have students learn something about law: \the People's Republic of China\

2. Ability aims:

1) Have students learn to use some reading skills such as predicting, skipping, note-taking, skimming and scanning.

2) 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.

4. Something about law:

Women protection law of the People's Republic of China

Teaching methods:

Cognitive approach, task-based approach

Teaching procedures:

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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 Warming up

Get students to look at the pictures on the screen and answer the questions:

1) Do you know these women? Who are they? 2) Are they great or important? Why?

3) What’s the difference between a famous person and a great person?

Step III Pre-reading

1. Let students discuss the following questions:

Why do you think Jane Goodall went to Africa to study chimps rather than to university? Do you think she is right?

2. Ask students to look at the title and pictures of the passage to predict what the text talks about.

Step IV Reading

Task 1 Skimming for the main idea of the whole passage:

(suggested answer: It talks about how Jane Goodall worked with chimps in their environment and helped people understand and respect the life of the animals.)

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Task 2 Read the text quickly again to find the general idea of each

paragraph. Para 1. A day in the park.

Para 2. Jane’s way to study chimps and her achievement. Para 3. Jane’s attitude to the animals.

Para 4. Jane has achieved everything she wanted to do.

Task 3 Let students read the text a third time and then work in pairs to discuss the following questions with partners:

1) What do you think Jane is called a student of African wildlife? 2) What did Jane have to give up when she went to live in the forest? 3) Do you think it is important to study chimps in the wild rather than in the zoo? Give reasons.

4) Do you think you will go if you are asked to study animals in the wild? Why or why not?

Task 4 Help students analyze some difficult, long and complex sentences. Encourage them to guess the meanings of some new words and phrases. Ask them to try to deal with the language points in the context.

1) Following Jane’s way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest.

2) She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. 3) Only after her mother came to help her for the first months was she allowed to begin her project.

4) For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals.

Step V Comprehending

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Complete the sentences according to the passage. 1. What did the group do first in the morning?

2. They___________. (suggested answer: observed the family of chimps wake up)

3. Why did Jane go to Africa to study chimps in the wild? Because she wanted _________.

4. (suggested answer: to work with them in their own environment) 5. Jane was permitted to begin her work after_________. (suggested answer: her mother came to support her)

Step VI Post reading 1. Discussion

Have students in small groups discuss the following questions: 1) What should we learn from Jane Goodall? 2) What made her a great success?

3) Do you agree with Jane’s idea? Why or why not? 4) What do you think is the best way to protect wildlife? 2. Debate

Divide students into two groups---boys and girls. Let them debate with each other about the topic: Women are able to do more than men. Right or wrong? Why ?

3) Something about law:

《中华人民共和国妇女权益保障法》第一章第二条： 妇女在政治的、经济的、文化的、社会的和家庭的生活等各方面享有同男子平等的权利。

Step VII Summary

1. Ask some students to retell the story of Jane Goodall in your own words.

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