必修4 Unit 1 Women of achievement Warming up 课件（24张PPT）

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Unit 1 Women of achievement
Step 1: Warming-up
Thousand-handed Goddess of Mercy
Consists of 21 deaf performers.
They overcame lots of difficulties.
Gave amazing performances in more than 40 countries.
It showed disabled people’s pursuit of beauty
It is encouraging and inspired lots of people
Why chose it
Can you think of other women of achievement
Brain storming
Empress Wu Zetian (624 - 705)
the only female monarch
lived in Tang Dynasty.
ruled the empire for over half a century.
Guessing game-- Who is she
an inventor and a scientist
given the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.
the only woman scientist who was awarded Nobel Prize twice
Madame Curie (1867-1934)
from Poland.
Guessing game-- Who is she
Song Chingling
(l893 --l98l ), China
Guessing game-- Who is she
one of the top leaders in
modern Chinese history.
She concerned herself with
welfare projects
Dr Sun Yat-sen's wife
Blind and deaf
Three Days to See
Devoted to helping
the disabled
Hellen Keller
Guessing game-- Who is she
Jane Goodall
(l934-- ), Britain
She went to Africa and
studied chimps in the wild
for approximately 40
years.
She works to protect
chimps everywhere.
Guessing game-- Who is she
What do you think of Jane Goodall What qualities does she have
Will you give up comfortable life and go to the wild alone to study animals there
Pre-reading
Reading-- skimming
Jane Goodall is a woman of achievement. But what exactly are her achievements (later)
Skim the passage for 2 minutes and find out the main ideas for each paragraph.
Main ideas
Para 1:
Para 2:
Para 3:
Para 4:
Jane’s way to study chimps
and her discoveries
Jane’s attitude and feeling towards chimps
Jane has achieved everything she wanted to do.
A day in the park
Pair Work
What has she achieved
Working with animals in their own environment.
Gaining a doctor’s degree.
Showing that women can live in the forest as
men can.
Scanning (para.4)
Detailed reading(para.2)
Was it usual for a woman to work with animals in their own environment at that time Did she give up
What did she want to tell us, especially girls Or rather what did she want to prove
Why do most of the parents in China push their children to go to university so hard
Is going to university really that good
Critical thinking
What did she discover when she was working with the chimps in their own environment
Nobody before Jane fully understand chimp behavior. What did she do to fully understand chimp behavior
She spent years observing and recording their daily activities.
Detailed reading(para.2)
Para. 1
What are their daily activities What did chimps do every day
Daily activities of chimps
The first paragraph
______________together in their nest for the night
the mother chimp and her babies_____ in the tree
Either ______ or_____ each other as a way of showing love in their family
most of the time
a family of chimps_________
________
into the forest
first activity
then
evening
wake up
play
go to sleep
wander
feed
clean
Daily activities of chimps
Seeing these scenes, what did “we” realize
understanding
respect
protection
love
What did you realize
Jane and chimps
understanding
respect
protection
love
What did she do to protect these animals she loved
Do you agree that Jane Goodall is a woman of achievement
Para. 3
A Chinese saying goes:
Women can hold up half of the sky.
Proverb sharing
Discussion
How can you be a woman/man that holds up half of the sky
Who are more important, men or women
What can we learn from those performers in the dance thousand-handed Goddess of Mercy and Jane Goodall
Homework
Although women can hold up half of the sky, only a few of them succeeded. Why