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2012-2013英语必修4人教版新课标Unit 1精品教案（第1课时）
Period 1 Reading
The 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 Goodall’s 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.? Teaching Important Points?
Help he students to comprehend the story of Jane Goodall’s protecting the African wildlife.? Get the students to learn from Jane Goodall’s story and come to the idea that great personality is of importance to one’s success.?
Learn and master some important words,phrases and sentence patterns in this period.? Teaching Difficult Points?
Get the students to comprehend the story and understand what Jane Goodall has done to gain the achievements.?
Get the students to believe that one’s personality as well as luck and ability is important to one’s success.?
Teaching Methods?
Predicting to guess the content of the passage.? Skimming to get the general idea of the text.?
Scanning to get detailed information and get to understand the passage better.?
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 Aids?
A tape recorder?
A multimedia computer ?
Three Dimensional Teaching Aims
Knowledge and Skills?
Enable the students to comprehend the story of Jane Goodall’s protecting the African wildlife.?
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 one’s success.?
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.?
Process and Strategies?
Group work to encourage the students to participate in class activities.?
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Fast reading to make the students get the main idea of the passage.? Feelings and Value?
For forty years Jane Goodall has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals.People will do something that can satisfy their feelings and make a better world.?
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in?
1.Greet the students.?
T:Good morning/ afternoon,boys and girls!? Ss:Good morning/ afternoon,Miss./Mr...? 2.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 can’t 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 don’t 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(镭)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
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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??
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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 Predicting?
Get 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??
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Ss:It’s 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 let’s have a look at the title—A 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.?
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