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:

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: "Wildlife protection law of 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:

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.)

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.