Module 7 Great books Unit 1 教案

Module 7 Great books
Unit 1 We’re still influenced by Confucius’s ideas.
一、教学目标
I. 知识目标：
1. 能正确使用下列单词和短语
discuss, thinker, wise, review, influence, sense, make sense, by the way,
suppose, well-known
2. 交际用语
1) What’s up
2) Well, maybe…
3) I suppose…
4) Why don’t you…
II. 技能目标：学习一般现在时的被动语态的用法。
III. 通过对话学习，对孔子、莎士比亚、马克吐温这三位伟大的人物有基本的认识，在交流中鼓励不同层次的学生敢于发表自己的观点。
二、教学过程
Step 1 Warming up
When we talk about “Great books”, what words will come to your mind
Show some pictures and introduce the writers and their books to the students.
Step 2 Listening
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures.
2. Say who they are and why they are famous.
3. Play the recording and ask the students to listen carefully.
4. Now listen and check your answers.
5. Listen again and complete the sentences.
1) Confucius is well-known in _______________.
2) Shakespeare wrote ______________________.
3) Mark Twain’s stories are set __________________ of the US.
6. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
Presenter: Hello, today our guests will each introduce an important person from their countries, and we’ll discuss why they are famous.
Chinese person: Confucius was a great _________________ in ancient China. He lived over 2,000 years ago and he is ____________ in many countries.
British person: William Shakespeare was English and wrote ________________. Although he died about 400 years ago, his ______ are still seen, and his _______ are still read by many people.
America person: Mark Twain was an American writer. His works __________ in schools. His stories ________ in the south of the Us over 100 years ago, and readers still enjoy them very much.
7.Check the answer with the class.
Step 3 Listen and read
1. Ask the students to read the conversation silently.
2. Play the recording and ask the students to listen and read the conversation.
3. Answer the questions.
1) What are they mainly talking about
2) Why do they talk about this topic
3) What does Betty have to do for the discussion
4. Match the people with the descriptions.
1) Ask the students to read the conversation again.
2) Read the information in Activity 3.
1) Confucius 2) Shakespeare 3)Mark Twain
a) He was a very wise man.
b) He is not as well-known as the other two people, but his works are still popular.
c) His plays are read by millions of people.
d) He was more a teacher and thinker than a writer.
e) People are still influenced by his ideas.
5. Now match the people with the descriptions.
6. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
7. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
8. True or False
1) Both Betty and Mr Jackson think that Confucius and Shakespeare are great writers.
2) Confucius and Shakespeare lived hundreds of years ago, so people are influenced little by them now.
3) Mr Jackson and Betty thinks Mark Twain is as great as Confucius.
4) Betty wants Mr Jackson to join the Internet group to discuss great books.
Step 4 Work on Activity 4.
1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.
accept discuss influence review sense thinker wise
2. Ask the students to read through the passage in Activity 4.
Mr Jackson and Betty are (1) ____________ great writers. Betty explains that in her Internet group, each person reads a favourite book and then write a(n) (2) ____________ of it. Mr Jackson (3) ____________ that Confucius and Shakespeare are great because their works are still read by people today, but he thinks Confucius was more a teacher and (4) ____________ than a writer. He says that Confucius was a very (5) ____________ man. Mr Jackson thinks that we are still (6) ____________ by Confucius’s ideas and that Shakespeare’s plays still make (7) ____________ to people today.
3. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 5 Everyday English
What’s up
Well, maybe…
I suppose…
Why don’t you…
Step 6 Pronunciation
1. Play the recording once without stopping.
2. Play the recording again and ask the whole class to repeat.
1) We’re still influenced by Confucius’s ideas.
2) Shakespeare’s plays also make a lot of sense to us today.
3) He was important, but I suppose he isn’t as well-known as Confucius or Shakespeare.
3. Ask the students to listen and underline the words the speaker stresses.
4. Now listen again and repeat.
Step 7 Group work
1. Work in groups. Do you agree with the following opinions Give your reasons.
1) Teahouse is one of the greatest plays in China.
2) Everyone should learn some Tang poems.
3) We should only read books by great writers.
I accept…
I agree / don’t agree with…
I suppose…
I think…
2. Now report the ideas of your group to the whole class.
Most of us think…We think we learn…
3. Work in groups.
Step 8 Language points
1. What’s up 怎么了？
What’s up 是一种非正式的用法，意思是“怎么了 出什么事了？”
e.g. What’s up You look very worried
怎么了？你看上去很焦虑。
2. I want to join an Internet group to discuss great books by great writers.
我想加入一个互联网群组来讨论一些伟大作家的巨著。
discuss v. 讨论；谈论
常用短语：discuss sth. with sb. 与某人讨论某事
discussion n. 讨论；商讨
【语境应用】词汇运用
1) I have ___________ (discuss) this problem with my parents.
2) They had a ___________ (discuss) with their teacher about the differences between travelling by air and travelling by train.
3. But I think I’d describe Confucius more as a teacher and thinker than a writer.
但是我更愿意把孔子描述为一位教育家兼思想家，而非作家。
more…than…在本句中表示“与其说是……不如说是……”, 其后常接名词、形容词或副词等。
【链接】
more than还有以下几种常见用法：
more than + 数词, “大于, 多于”，表示超出该数。
more than + 名词 “不止, 不仅仅是”，表示超出该名词所指的含义。
more than + 形容词, “非常, 十分”
【语境应用】选择黑体词语的恰当翻译。
A. 大于，多于 B. 不止，不仅仅是 C. 非常，十分 D. 与其说是……不如说是……
1) Mr Lin is more of a friend than a teacher. ______
2) This meeting room can hold more than 100 people. _____
3) I’m more than happy to drive you to the station. _____
4) Jason is more than a teacher. He is a writer too. _____
4. We’re still influenced by Confucius’s ideas.
孔子的思想仍然在影响着我们。
influence v. 影响；作用于
常用结构：influence a decision/choice 影响决定/选择
influence sb. to do sth. 影响某人做某事
e.g. Don’t let me influence your decision / you.
不要让我影响你的决定/你。
influence n. 影响（力），作用
常用结构：have an influence on ... 对……有影响
e.g. The invention has a great influence on humans.
这项发明对人类有很大的影响。
【语境应用】完成句子。
1) 通常孩子们受他们的父母影响很大。
Usually children ________ _____________ greatly _________ their parents.
2) 我爷爷对我的人生有重要影响。
My grandpa _________ _________ __________ ___________ ___________ my life.
5. … and Shakespeare’s plays also make a lot of sense to us today. …
……莎士比亚的戏剧现在对我们来说也仍然很有意义。
sense n. 道理; 意义; 合理性
make sense易理解; 合情理; 有意义
e.g. No wonder how I tried to read it, the sentence still did not make any sense to
me.
怎么努力地读，我还是不懂这个句子的意思。
Why did she do such a thing It does not seem to make sense.
她为什么做这样的事？似乎没有道理。
6. By the way, what do you think of Mark Twain, …
顺便问一下，你觉得马克吐温怎么样，……？
by the way顺便说；附带说，用于转入新的话题
e.g. By the way, has everybody arrived
顺便问一句，大家都到了吗？
7. He was important, but I suppose he isn’t as well-known as Confucius or
Shakespeare.
他是位重要的作家，但我觉得他不像孔子和莎士比亚那么有名。
1) suppose v. 猜想；推测；相信；认为
其后可接动词不定式的复合结构或that从句。
e.g. Many people suppose him to be over 50.
I suppose that you can finish the work.
be supposed to 应该；理应；大家认为
e.g. He’s supposed to be very kind.
注意：
在句型I suppose (that) ...中，suppose与think, believe等动词的用法一样，若从句为否定句，应该否定前移。
e.g. I don’t suppose I’ll trouble you again.
我想我不会再麻烦你了。
【语境应用】
根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词(含缩略形式)。
1) 你不应该在教室里踢足球。
You ________ _________ ________ ________ football in the classroom.
2) 放学后他们应该做什么？
What ________ they __________ ________ ________ after school
3) 我认为周杰无法在四点前赶到。
I ________ __________ that Zhou Jie can arrive before 4 o’clock.
2) well-known adj. 众所周知的；著名的
be well-known to ... 为……所熟知
be well-known as ... 作为……而著名
be well-known for ... 因……而闻名
【语境应用】用well-known完成句子
1) 中国因丝绸和茶而闻名于世。
China ________________ its silk and tea in the world.
2) 这位歌手为年轻人所熟知。
The singer _______________ young people.
3) 孔子是一位著名的思想家。
Confucius _______________ a thinker.
Step 9 Exercises
Ⅰ. 根据语境从方框中选择恰当的单词填空，有的需要变换形式，每词限用一次。
review, wise, discuss, influence, thinker, suppose, well-known
1. It's a very _________ choice to join our club. You'll have fun here.
2. National Day is coming. Let's _________ where to go on holiday.
3. Please write a short _________ after you watch the movie.
4. Lei Feng's story has _________ a lot of Chinese people.
5. Both Confucius and Plato were great _________ in the world.
6. Chen Daoming is a(n) _________ actor in China.
7. —What about my plan
—I _________ it's not bad.
Ⅱ. 根据上句完成下句，使两句意思相近或相符，每空一词。
1. Why don't you keep a pet
_________ _________ keep a pet
2. How do you like this book
What do you _________ _________ this book
3. Maybe she is from Shanghai.
She _________ _________ from Shanghai.
4. I think physics is more difficult than maths.
I think maths is _________ _________ difficult _________ physics.
Ⅲ. 根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词（含缩略形式）。
1. 怎么了？
_________ up
2. 我想加入你们的游戏。
I would like to _________ _________ your game.
3. 顺便问一下，你为什么喜欢这座城市？
_________ _________ _________, why do you like this city
4. 那位作家出生在19世纪。
That writer was born _________ _________ _________ _________.
5. 与其说她是我的老师，不如说她是我的朋友。
She is _________ my friend _________ my teacher.
6. 她看过这部电影了，可她理解不了。
She has watched this movie, but it doesn't _________ _________ to her.
Step 10 Homework
1. Share your opinions about great writers.
1) In your opinion, who is a great writer
2) What is his/her famous book
3) Why do you think he/she is great
2. Preview Unit 2.