牛津英语9BUnit4Greatpeople教案

牛津英语9B Unit4 Great people教案

The first period

Welcome to this unit

Teaching goals:

1. To match pictures to words

2. To recognize and understand vocabulary about famous people

3. To learn more about some famous people

Difficulties:

Who do you think is the greatest person that has ever lived?

He’s the person who invented my favourite food.

Teaching methods:

Listening , speaking, reading and writing

Procedure:

1.Lead-in: There are many great people in the world. Ask students to name some of

great people they know and say who they like best.

2.Welcome to the unit:

a.Present some pictures of famous people and ask students to guess what these

famous people were.

b.Present new vocabulary.

c.Ask students why they can be famous people and introduce what they did to

students.

plete “welcome to the unit” in class. Students can work in pairs to

complete the exercises.

3 . Comic strips:

a. Play the tape and students listen to the tape to get the main idea.

b. Students read after the tape twice.

c. Ask some questions about the conversation.

d. Students read it in pairs and act it out.

e. Why do people admire great people? Discuss and take down notes.

Homework:

Recite the conversation in the comic.

The second period

Reading (I)

Teaching aims:

1.To become familiar with and appreciate biographical writing.

2.To understand related details and information.

3.To infer general meaning from pictures ,title and context.

Difficulties:

1.at the age of

2.work as

3.it was better to be safe than sorry

4.order sb to do sth

5.cut sth / sb short

Teaching methods; Listening , speaking , reading and writing

Procedure:

1.Background information:

2.Explain the context. Simon is reading an article about a famous astronaut,

Neil Armstrong. Ask students whether they know when the first man walked on the moon. Also ask them if they know the names of the first two men who walked on the moon. Tell students that they will learn more about men visiting the moon in the reading passage.

3.Students listen to the recording for the first three paragraphs and then read

them after the tape again.

4.Do True or False questions to check understanding of the first three

paragraphs.

a.Neil Armstrong was born in the 1940s.

b.He flew in an aero plane when he was six.

c.The Gemini 8 mission is all about star signs.

d.Gemini 8 landed in the USA.

e.Neil Armstrong received his student pilot’s license when he was 15.

f.Neil Armstrong successfully brought the spacecraft down into the

western Pacific Ocean when Gemini 8 was out of control.

g.Ask students to scan the first three paragraphs and underline the new

words. Encourage them to explain the words to the class in English.

5 . Language points:

a. at the age of… =when sb was … years old

The boy could swim at the age of 5.

= The boy could swim when he was 5 years old.

b. work as…

He worked as a teacher when he finished school.

c. better safe than sorry

= it is wiser to be too careful than to act too quickly and do something

that may be regretted later.

d. order sb (not) to do sth

The commander ordered the soldiers to stand in line.

The doctor ordered me not to work for a long time and have a good rest.

e. cut sb/sth short

The interviewer cut short his guest in mid-sentence.

Homework:

1. Recite the paragraphs.

2. Preview the following paragraphs..