高中英语 unit1 Women of achievement using language教案 新人教版必修4

Unit 1 Women of achievement Using Language: Why Not Carry on Her Good Work Teaching Aims: Knowledge Aims: To be able to fully understand the passage. To learn more about Lin Qiaozhi. Ability Aims: To be able to use the reading skills, such as skimming and scanning. To be able to talk about Lin Qiaozhi and the women they admire. Emotional Aims: To learn to show love and respect for great women and learn from them. To develop their sense of group cooperation and teamwork. Key Points: To be able to fully understand the passage. Difficult Points: To be able to use the reading skills efficiently. To be able to write a composition about a person who you admire. Teaching methods: Task-based teaching and learning. Summarizing and practicing. Teaching Procedures: Step1. Lead in Last period, we have learned about a great woman called Jane, who is British. And today, we are going to learn another great woman, who comes from China. First, let’s enjoy some pictures of her. Now, you must be wondering why she is great. Well, we will learn more in the passage. We mainly have 2 tasks today. First, we will finish the reading part in the using language. Then, we will talk about some similar great women like her and write a composition to show us your result. Step 2. Reading 1. Fast reading Ask the students to read the passage quirkily and find out the answers to the following questions: (1) Who is the main character and what was her job? (1’) (2) Who was her small book intended for? (1’) (3) What did the writer decide to study at university? (1’) Suggested answers: (1) Lin Qiaozhi, a specialist in women’s disease. (2) Women in the countryside. (3) Medicine. 2. Careful reading Ask the students to read the passage carefully and then answer the following questions: (1) Write down three of Lin Qiaozhi’s achievements. (3’) (2) Find out the six words in the text used to describe Lin Qiaozhi?(6’) Suggested answers: (1) She got a medical training for her career; She became a specialist in women’s diseases. She had made sure that about 50,000 babies were safely delivered. (2) busy, hard work, determinate, gentle, kind, considerate. 3. Summary Fill in the blanks with proper words. I didn’t know which subject to study at university until I did some ________ on great women of China through the Internet where by chance I ____ _____ an article about Lin Qiaozhi , a ________ in women’s diseases. Lin Qiaozhi wrote a small book which was ______ for women in the _________. If they had an _______, the book was to help them to look after their babies properly. Qiaozhi lived in the early ________ century. That was a generation ____ education was for men first and it was difficult for a woman to get ______ ______. However, she chose to study at medical college because she wanted to help other women. She ______ her whole life ___ her patients and had chosen not to have a family ___ her own. Instead, she made sure that about 50,000 babies were safely _______. I learned a lot from her and I’d like to _____ ____ her good work. Suggested answers: research, came across, specialist, intended, countryside, emergency, twentieth, when, medical training, devoted to, of, delivered, carry on. Step 3. Speaking and writing 1. Discussion Lin Qiaozhi was a special woman who made a successful career. Do you know any women like her? Now, discuss it with your partner and you can use the following words and sentences. Words: hard-working, energetic, active, considerate, determined, intelligent, generous, kind, helpful, modest, confident, honest, devoted, warm-hearted. Sentences: What does she look like? What is she like? Why do you admire her? How would you describe her? Why did she choose to…? What are her strengths? Can you give an example? 2. Writing Everyone should write a description of the woman you have talked about. In para.1, you should introduce the woman, for example, what she looks like and what she often does. In para.2, you should describe her characters and explain what she did to help people. You can write more paragraphs if it is necessary. And in the last paragraph, you should explain how other people view her. 3. Correction and evaluation After you have finished your composition, exchange your composition with you partner and correct it. After your correction, I’ll ask some of you to present your composition here and read it out aloud to your classmates. Step 4. Homework Rewrite your passage again.