人教版高中英语必修四
Unit 1 Women of achievement Teaching aims
1.Knowledge aims
Get to know the new words and expressions; have a general understanding of the achievement of Jane
2.Ability aims
a.to talk about some women of great achievement, their experiences, and their special qualities.
b. practise describing people and master some words and sentences about describing people.
c. to learn to use the Subject-verb agreement.
d. to learn about communication skills.
3.Emotional aims
Improve the students’ reading a bility - guessing words, searching for information.
Learn the information about great people.
Develop Ss’ sense of cooperative learning.
teaching important points and difficult points
Teaching important points:
1. to know about something about Jane Goodall
2. master some words and expressions.
Teaching difficult points:
Develop Ss’ reading ability.
Enable Ss’ to talk about women of achievement.
Part 1: Warming up
_________ can hold up half of the sky.
Enjoy a piece of video about Jane
Part 2: Reading
Step 1: Skimming（快读）the text, then answer 3 questions. 1: Who is the student?
2. What animals are observed?
3. When did Jane Goodall arrive at Gombe？How old was she?
Step 2: Scanning the text, then finish 3 tasks.
Task 1: Match the main idea of each paragraph.
Task 2: Choose the correct answers.
1. What did the group do first in the morning? They ____.
A. went into the forest slowly
B. left the chimp family sleeping in a tree
C. observed the family of chimps wake up
D. helped people understand the behaviour
of the chimps
2. Why did Jane go to Africa to study chimps in the wild? Because she wanted _____.
A. to work with them in their own environment
B. to prove the way people think about chimps was wrong
C. to discover what chimps eat
D. to observe a chimp family
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4 1. Jane ’s way to study chimps and her achievements. 2. Jane has achieved everything she wanted to do. 3. A day in the park. 4. Jane ’s attitude and feeling to the
animals.
3. The purpose of her study was to ___.
A. watch the wild chimps in cages
B. gain a doctor’s degree
C. understand and respect the lives of chimps
D. live in the forest as men can
Step 3: The details of each paragraph
Para 1:
1.At 5:45: our group are all going to visit the _____ in the
forest.
2.First activity: __________________
3.We sit and wait ______the animal begin to ______and move.
4.Then we follow __________________into the forest.
5.______________: Jane ______us that everything will be
tired and dirty.
6.But the evening ___________________.
7.The evening: we _____them _____________in their nest. Para 2: Discoveries
Para 3: True or False
_____1. She hopes that chimps can be left in the forest.
_____2. She supposes that people should use chimps for entertainment.
______3. She has built many homes for the wild animals to live in.
Para 4: The achievement of Jane Goodall
(1)
(2)
(3)
Step 4: Discussion
1.What made Jane Goodall a great success?
2.What should we learn from Jane Goodall?
Part 3: Homework
Choose one woman that you think great and try to describe her to your classmates and tell why you think she is great.。