book4unit1教案

Book 4 Unit 1 Women of achievement

I. 教学目标（Teaching aims）

1. Learn Warming Up, and know how to tell the great women and the famous women.

2. Learn the way to describe a person from what the person did, what she/he looks like and so on.

3. Enlarge vocabulary by learning word-formation.

4. Learn to use Subject-verb agreement correctly.

II. 教学重点和难点

I. Important points:

1. Have students learn useful new words and expressions in this unit.

2. Help students learn from Jane Goodall about how to study animals and what makes her successful.

3. Teach Ss how to enlarge vocabulary by word-formation and how to use subject-verb agreement.

4. Develop students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities.

2. Difficult points:

1. D evelop Ss’ ability of reading.

2. Learn the way to describe a person from what the person did, what she/he looks like and so on.

3. Let everyone believe that all of us can become Jane Goodall.

4. Enable students to use collective nouns correctly, by understanding their meanings in certain situations.

III．教学计划

本单元建议分七课时：

第一课时：听说课Warming Up& V ocabulary

第二课时：阅读理解课Reading & Comprehending

第三、四课时：Language points in warming up and reading

第五课时：语法课Discovering useful structures

第六课时：综合语言练习课Using Language

第七课时：综合评价练习课Learning about languages & Summing up and self-test/exercise;

The first period: Warming up & vocabulary

1. Lead-in

(1) Show the students a Chinese saying: Women can hold up half of the sky. Then ask Ss a question: Do you know some great and successful women around the world or in the history?

(2) Show Ss some pictures of great women and let them say out their names freely. Do you know these people? Who are they? Why are they famous?

(3) Ask Ss to turn to Page 1, look at the pictures and read the brief description.

2. Play a game to see whether the Ss can remember the description of the six great women.

The second period: Reading & Comprehending

Step I Pre-reading

1.Questions :1) How much do you know about chimps?

2). Would you like to live with chimps? Last time we learnt about a great woman who spent years studying chimps? Do you remember who she is?

2. Enjoy a short video about Jane Goodall and then predict what the text will tell us. Step II Skimming :

Read the text very quickly to match the main idea with each paragraph.

Step III Fast reading:

1. Match: guess the meaning of some new words according to the context.

2. True or False questions:

1). The chimps show love in their family by talking each other. F

2). She hopes that chimps can be left in the forest. T

3). Jane Goodall called on people to understand and respect chimps. T

4). She supposes that people should not use chimps for entertainment. T

5). She has set up many special places for the wild animals to live in. T

6). She hopes human beings can keep chimps in cages. F

Step IV Comprehending:

1. What did the group do first in the morning? They_______. C

A. went into the forest slowly