Warm-up
In this unit you will…
· Read about heroes and heroines and an interview.
· Talk about people you admire.
· Listen to dialogues and a radio programme.
· write a magazine story.
· Review the Past Simple, Past Continuous and Present Perfect tenses.
Warm-up
Do you know these people
1 Think of different kinds of heroes and heroines:
a) a sports or film star you admire
b) someone famous for being brave and good
c) the main character from a story
Example a) Yao Ming b) Mother Teresa c) Hamlet
Classify the adjectives in the Key Words box as positive or negative.
Key Words
brave, calm, cruel, dangerous, generous, honest, humorous, kind, pleasant, smart, violent
Answers:
Positive – brave calm generous honest humorous kind pleasant smart
Negative- cruel dangerous violent
Now write three sentences about some film heroes, heroines and villains that you know well and read them to your group. Use the Key Words to help you.
Example Scar is a cruel and dangerous character in Lion King.
2 Listen to descriptions of three film characters.
Match them with the following adjectives:
1 Nemo 2 Bright Jones 3 Dr Octopus
a) smart but cruel and violent
b) brave and humorous
c) pleasant and humorous
Answers: 1 b 2 c 3 a
Tapescript
1 Nemo is the main character in the movie Finding Nemo. He’s a little fish who is often frightened but he never runs away from danger. He also often finds himself in funny situations that make people laugh.
2 Bridget Jones is the main character of the book and movie, Bridget Jone’s Diary. She is a really nice person but is always doing funny things that cause her a lot of trouble and give people a lot of Joy.
3 Doctor Octopus is Spiderman’s enemy in the movie Spiderman Ⅱ.He’s very smart man but his invention makes him kill many people.
Writing
In groups, pleas write a character description of a well-known film or television actor without saying who he/she is.
Then exchange your description with another group and try to guess who is being described.
For example
He is a well-known film star. He is from Hong Kong. He is not very tall but strong and brave. His action is humorous and funny. He is famous as Chinese kung Fu. Who can it be
Mother Teresa was a nun
who devoted all her life
to helping the poor and
sick in India.
Yao Ming
Hamlet is the sensitive and indecisive hero of
Shakespeare’s play.
Finding Nemo
Nemo
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bright Jones
Spider-manⅡ
Dr. Octopus
Jackie Chan
History maker
Sun Zhongshan
History maker
Zhou Enlai
Soldier
Lei Feng
Soldier
Dong Cunrui
Soldier
Wang Cheng
Actor
Li Lianjie
Film Character
Spider-man
Athlete
Liu Xuan
Compere
Yang lianLesson 3 Sports Stars
Teaching aims:
To read a text for specific information
To provide a title appropriate for a whole text
To use the Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses appropriately
To practise using positive and negative opinion adjectives.
Teaching difficulties:
To use the Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses appropriately
Teaching Aids: computer and cassette
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warming up
First play the song “Pass the Flame”
T: Many people are familiar with the song. It was sung on Athens Olympics. It reminds us of many sports stars winning gold medals. Who are your sporting heroes / heroines
S:
T: you can use these words to describe them. awful, boring, lazy, slow, terrible, useless, weak, brilliant, fast, skilful, smart, strong, useful. Give them an example. The teacher show some Olympic athletes and guide students to talk about them. For example “ Is he your sports hero What does he do
S:
T: Finally show the picture of Williams sisters. Do you know them What do they take up
S:
T: They are sisters and both tennis champions. Do you want to know more about them read the text
Ⅱ Reading
First reading do the exercise true or false
1. The two sister plan to take up tennis career all their life.
2. In competitive matches the two sisters seldom played each other.
3. The two sisters have no common hobby except tennis.
4. In their childhood the people around Williams sisters often fought each other using gun.
5. Williams’ parents played an important part in their success.
6. The text refer to us the sisters’ father is good at tennis.
7. If one of them lose the game in their match, the other do the dishes.
8. The two sisters miss their childhood so they often go back to their hometown.
Answers: 1.F 2. F 3.F 4. T 5.T 6.T 7. F 8. F
Ⅲ Further understanding
Get student to guess the meanings of these words and check them while reading
Listen to the tape and check the answers
Read the text aloud and answer these questions(do the exercise 3)
Read the article again and suggest a title for the text( do the exercise 4)
Title: How to become a tennis star
Road to success
Tennis is my favorite sports
Tennis stars- Williams sisters
Ask student to choose one title. The answer is: Tennis stars- Williams sisters
Do you want to know more information about them Add new information about the two sisters
Name：Venus Williams
Sex ：female
Birthday :1980.07.17
Weight：72.7kg
Height ：185cm
Nationality: America
event：tennis
转入职业时间 1995
WTA当前排名 3
迄今职业成绩 304胜69负
迄今单打冠军 29
迄今双打冠军 10
2003战绩 17胜3负
迄今职业奖金总额 $ 12,462,628
征战法网纪录次数 6
单打最好成绩 2002亚军
双打最好成绩 1999冠军
Name ：Serena Williams
Birthday：1981.09.28
Height：178cm
Weight ：65.9kg
Nationality ：America
Event ：tennis
转入职业时间 1995
WTA当前排名 1
迄今职业成绩 224胜41负
迄今单打冠军 22
迄今双打冠军 11
2003战绩 23胜1负
迄今职业奖金总额 $ 11,284,079
征战法网纪录
次数 4
单打最好成绩 2002夺冠
双打最好成绩 1999夺冠
Show some pictures
Picture1 study design in college
Picture2. the friendly sisters
Picture3 The two sisters’ photo of childhood.
The topic of each paragragh
Para1 brief introduction
Para2 their childhood
Para3 training and study
para4 achievement and friendly relationship
Ⅳ Voice your opinion
What are the advantages of being sports stars
Ⅴ Language points
1. speak about谈论,讲述
We couldn’t get him to speak about his war experiences.
我们无法让他讲述当年战争的经历。
2. interest兴趣；可以和某些动词搭配
He has no interest in fine arts.
他对美术没有兴趣。
I’ve lost my interest in collecting coins.
我已经失去了收集硬币的兴趣。
The guests showed great interest in the new design.
客人们对这种新设计表示出极大的兴趣。
3.come to an end结束
The meeting came to an end at last.
会议终于结束了。
4. amazing adj. 令人惊异的， 指 物
amazed adj.感到惊异的 ， 指人
amaze vt 使…惊异
The amazing performance amazed me.
这种另人惊叹的表演让我吃惊
The amazing performance made me amazed.
Ⅵ Vocabulary
Do the exercise 6
Ⅶ Language in Use
Choose a star. Make notes about the important achievements or events in his/her life, and the dates they happened. Don’t worry if you are not exact.
Ⅷ Grammar
Guide students to study Grammar Summary 4, on page 93
Do the exercise 7
Students look at the sentences from the text and discuss when to use each tense.
Do the exercise 8 and 9
Ⅸ Homework
If time is limited ask students do the exercise 10, 11and 12 as homeworkLesson 2 History Makers
Teaching aims:
To practise listening for gist and for specific information
To express opinions and to agree or disagree with other people’s spinions.
To practise sentence stress
Teaching difficulties:
To practise listening for gist and for specific information
Teaching Aids: computer and cassette
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warming up
T: History makers mean people make great contribution to human and society’s development.
Now I give you some information and you guess who they are
Do the exercise 1.
First give four sentences and ask student guess who they are
If students have some difficulties the teacher give their photos to match these descriptions with the photos.
ⅡTalk
Add more information to make students interested( first ask students to talk about these famous people then teachers to add information)
Sun Zhongshan: He is a history maker. He led the 1911 revolution and founded the first Republic of China. we called the city “the city of Zhongshan” in honor of him.
Thomas Edison: invented the light bulb, the moving picture camera and many other things. He is a great inventor. He invented lots of things and changed the world a lot. His discoveries changed and improved our life.
Mother Teresa : worked to help poor people in India. She is one of the most successful women in the world. She won the Noble Peace Prize in 1979,said:"I touch the poor as touch the Jesus".
Martin Luther King: He is a black man. He was born in 1929. He fought for the rights of black people in the USA. He devoted his life to equality of the black. He won the prize of Nobel Peace.
Are they history makers Why
S:
Teacher draw a conclusion: Yes, they actions did much to advance society. They make things so important that it will be recorded in the history book. They set examples to us.
Ⅲ Listen to learn
How to express agree and disagree
First ask students to express agree and disagree then read these words
agree, think, you’re right, don’t agree, in my opinion, personally
Do the exercise 2
Play the cassette for students to listen first, before looking at the Function File. See how much students can remember from the first listening.
Students listen again, fill in the blanks with the key words .
Ⅳ Listening
Read through the Listening Strategies with the students and show students Key words to see if they can guess the meaning of these words.
Ask students to pronounce the Key Words. One of purposes is that can then check if their pronunciation is correct as they listen to the tape. The other purpose is to remember these words to understand the radio Programme better.
Do the exercise 5
Students read through the sentences and predict what the answers are.
Students listen to the cassette and see if their predictions are correct.
As you check students’ answers, ask them to correct the false sentences and make them true.
ⅤPronunciation: stress
Ask students to read the four sentences and predict where the stressed will occur in sentences. They listen to the cassette and see if they were correct.
Play the cassette again for students to repeat the sentences
Ⅵ Speaking
Give students time to read about some famous people. They take turns to choose a hero and ask and answer three questions about their hero. Encourage students to use an interview approach.
Ⅶ Homework
What can you learn from the heroes introduced in this unit
Write down your views and explain them to your partner.Lesson 4 Superhero
Objectives
To develop strategies for working out meaning when reading.
To develop word attack skills to cope with new vocabulary and phrasal verbs.
To practise asking for and giving personal information.
Pre-Reading
What do you know about Christopher Reeve
A superwoman in China. Do you know her
Reading
Look at the two pictures and answer the questions.
1 What was his most famous film character
Superman
2 What terrible thing happened to him in real life
He fell off his horse and broke his back.
3 What did he do afterwards
He promoted medical research and made speeches all over the USA about his experiences.
Match the topics with the parts of the article.
a) the riding accident (1)
b) his marriage ( )
c) his feelings after the accident ( )
d) his death ( )
e) his parents ( )
f) his belief ( )
g) how he get involved with charity work ( )
h) his work ( )
Answers: b 4 c 3 d 8 e 5 f 7 g 6 h 2
Post-Reading
True or False
1 After the accident, with his wife’s help, Christopher Reeve pulled through.
2 Christopher Reeve got involved with charity work because he wanted to improve the quality of his life.
3 Reeve was optimistic facing the fact that he couldn’t stand up any longer.
4 Both of Reeve’s parents loved their son.
Answers: TFTT
Language points
1 be famous for 以…而著名
He is famous for his songs.
be famous as 作为…而出名
Li Lianjie is famous as an actor.
2 on one's own
独自；靠自己
She lives on her own.
她一个人过。
3 experience
经验（不可数）
Experience is their preparation for giving advice.
经验为她们进行咨询作了准备。
Experience teaches.; Experience does it.
经验给人教训。;经验给人智慧。
经历，阅历（可数）
Please tell us your experiences in America.
请你告诉我们你在美洲的经历。
4 suffer from
忍受, 遭受
suffer from cold and hunger
饥寒交迫
suffer from floods
遭受水灾
5 come to
涉及；谈及
When it comes to politics I know nothing.
谈到政治，我一无所知。
获致；到达；结束
The car came to a dead stop.
汽车蓦地刹住。
The water came to my waist.
水已达我的腰部。
总共；共计
The bill came to $5.50.
账款共计5美元50美分。
突然想起
Suddenly the words of the song came to me.
我猛然想起了这首歌的歌词。
6 pull through
度过难关, 恢复健康
I believe that you can pull through. 我相信你能够度过难关。
7 give up 放弃
Don’t give up.
give in 屈服
give away 送掉, 分发
give out 发出(气味、热等)
8 get on 生活, 融洽相处, 进展
They are getting on well now. 他们现在相处融洽。
I believe that we can get on well with each other.
9 react to 与...起反应
The eye reacts to light.
眼睛对光起反应。
10 With the progress of new medical research, I’m confident that—
with 短语作状语
He stands there, with a book in his hand. 他站在那儿，手里拿着一本书。
With his head lowered, he came into the classroom. 他低着头，走进教室。
Exercises
Work out the meaning of these words from the text and use them to replace the underlined words in the sentences.
disaster, on his own, depression, injury, confident, get involved, divorced
1 A really bad thing happened in 2003. Our school burnt down.
2 Many people suffer from feeling very sad. It can be treated with medicine.
3 Don’t just sit there! Take part and help disabled people!
4 He won’t be able to walk by himself ever again.
5 She’s sure that her mother’s hurt will heal.
6 Many people’s parents are no longer married these days.
Answers: 1 disaster 2 depression 3 Get involved 4 on his own 5 confident, injury
6 divorced
Choose the correct meaning for the phrasal verbs.
1 come to a) to visit b) to reach a state
2 pull through a) to survive b) to walk
3 think of a) to carefully consider b) to have an idea
4 give up a) to be afraid b) to stop fighting
5 get on a) to have a friendly relationship b) to escape
Answers: 1 b 2 a 3 b 4 b 5 a
Use the phrasal verbs above to complete these sentences.
1 Understanding his wife helps Christopher well with her.
2 After the accident, doctors warned Christopher that he wasn’t going to and live.
3 Talking with his family and friends helped Christopher terms with his disabilities.
4 Christopher says there is so much happening in his life right now that he is too busy
to giving up and dying.
5 After Dana told Christopher that he had her support and love, Christopher decided
not to on living.
Answers: 1 get on 2 pull through 3 come to 4 think of 5 give up
Speaking
Write questions to ask your partner about changes in his/her life in the last three years.
Example
Have you started a new holiday or sport
Do you still like the same kind of music
Writing
Try to know more about Zhang Haidi, then write an essay to depict(描写) her. Let everybody know that she is a superwoman.Lesson 1 Modern Heroes
Teaching aims:
To practise extensive reading in order to understand the main idea of each paragraph and guess the meaning of new words from the context.
To use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctions
To revise the use of Past Simple and Past Continuous
To practise oral English
Teaching difficulties:
To use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctions
To revise the use of Past Simple and Past Continuous
Teaching Aids: computer and cassette
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warming up
T: Who can explain hero’s meaning in English Have a try.
S:
T: A person, especially a man, who is admired by many people for doing something brave or good.
Now think about who is hero in your mind
S: possible ansewers (Wen tianxiang, Yue Fei, Lin Zexu, Song Zhongshan, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlain and so on)
T: Yes. They are great heroes. They names have been recorded in history books. What character do you think heroes should have
S:
T: brave, selfless, calm, honest, generous, intelligent, warm-hearted, romantic…
Today we talk about Modern Heroes who do you think can be called modern heroes
S:
T: teacher can show students some pictures. Finally picture is Yang Liwei. Have you heard of Yang Liwei How do you feel about him
S:
T: show a slide about information Yang Liwei (Born: June 21, 1965, Liao Ning Height:168cm; Weight: 65kg; Training : 1998-2003; Crowned: Space Hero.
and say Yang Liwei is the first man to stand for Chinese to fly into space. He has become a spokesman of space industry. We can say he is national hero
Show some pictures about Shenzhou V
How did you feel about China’s first manned space flight
S:
T: The launch of Shenzhou V shows China is becoming stronger and stronger. As Chinese, we are proud of being Chinese.
Ⅱ Reading
Do you want to know about Yang Liwei Now let’s read the text and do the exercise to see how much you understand,
1. When the spaceship separated from the rocket, Yang could feel the high gravity.
2. Yang Liwei spoke with the ground control when the spaceship was circling the earth the sixth time.
3. Shenahou Ⅴcan change red because of the earth’s atmosphere.
4. When Yang Liwei was doing its sixth circle, he showed the flags of China and the US, expressing he wishes …
5. Yang Liwei felt the ship was shaking when Shenzhou V landed.
6. When he came back from space, he felt very excited.
Answers: 1.F 2.T 3.T 4.F 5.F 6.T
After reading the text the teacher ask “Can you say some words about space flight ”
Answers: capsule, spacesuit, spaceman (astronaut), spaceship, parachute, rocket, helicopter, launch.
In order to consolidate these words to show pictures and ask student to use these words to describe them.
Ⅲ Further reading
Do the exercise 3and the exercise 4
Read the article and you describe the course of ShenzhouⅤ
Picture1. The spaceship was lifting off, I could really feel the high gravity.
Picture2 The spaceship separated from the rocket I suddenly got a feeling of soaring into the sky
Picture3 The Shenzhou V circled the earth.
Picture 4 Yang Liwei was speaking with his wife and 8-year-old son
Picture 5 Yang Liwei showed the flags of China and the United Nations.
Picture6 Shenzhou V released its parachute.
Picture7 Millions of people all over China were watching TV when the spaceship touched down safely.
Do the exercise 5
Read through the questions with the class so that students know what information to look out when reading the text.
Students then read the text and answer the questions.
Ⅳ Free talk:
Why do you think Yang Liwei is a hero What can we learn from him
Ⅴ vocabulary
Do the exercise 5 and 6.
Ⅵ Grammar
Guide student to study Grammar Summary 3, on page 92
Do the exercise excise 8
Students look at the sentences and work out the differences( Past Continuous , Past Simple)
Do the exercise 9and 10
Ⅶ Language in use
Students prepare the questions for the interview in pairs. They may need to go back to the text and get more information. They may also use other information which they can collect from newspapers and the internet
Students roleplay an interview between Yang Liwei and a reporter with the reporter asking what happened, what Yang Liwei did and how he felt.
Ⅷ Homework
Read the article space heroes on page 32
