Unit Three Amazing People
1st Period Welcome to the unit
Teaching Aims:
1. Talk about famous people in the world.
2. Make the students know the fact that they will succeed as long as they work hard.
Teaching Important Point:
Make the Ss free to talk in and after class about the amazing people.
Teaching Difficult Point:
Help students finish the task of speaking.
Teaching Methods:
Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
The multimedia and the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
Ask and answer the three questions between T and the Ss.
Step 2 Speaking
Talk about the pictures in pairs or groups.
Step 3 Discussion
Discuss the given topic in groups of four.
Step 4 Consolidation
Fill in the blanks.
Step 5 Group Discussion
Carry on with another discussion.
Step 6 Writing
Write a short passage about their hero or heroine.
Homework:
Read the passage B in the Workbook.
the 2nd periods
Reading The curse of the mummy
Teaching Aims:
1. Help students improve their reading abilities.
2. Learn and master the following words and phrases
Teaching Important Points:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Enable the students understand the text better.
3. Get the students to master the tenses used in the passage.
4. Develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
Teaching Difficult Point:
1. How to improve the students’ reading ability.
2. The use of some useful expressions.
Teaching Aids:
The multimedia, the blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
Ask one or two students to read their hero or heroine.
Step 2 Lead-in
Help students recall their prior knowledge of Egypt by asking them a few questions.
Do you still remember something from our discussion on Egypt in Unit1 and Unit2 We talked about Toby traveling in Egypt and people’s curiosity about how the pyramids were built. Though we don’t know exactly how people at that time built them, we are quite sure of one thing, that is, all the pyramids were built for kings and queens. They expected to be buried there after their death. In spite of the harsh conditions, the Egyptians created this wonder of the world with their hands. It’s said the pyramids attired as magnificent as a palace inside. So have you ever read or thought about what is inside the pyramids Are there any people buried in them What do people nowadays call those buried in tombs Apart from mummies, ate there any treasures inside the tombs of the pyramids Have the tombs ever been robbed of treasures by people What happened to these people after they entered the tombs Were they rich overnight
Step 3 Reading Comprehension
1. pre-reading
Before asking students to skim the passage, direct their attention to the Reading strategy first. After they read it, ask them these questions.
What might be the connections between the title “The curse of the mummy” and the famous explorer Why does the writer choose “The curse of mummy” as its title here Do you think the title can draw students’ attention and arouse their interest Please discuss these questions. Then ask the students to read the first paragraph. After that, ask students these questions:
What is the first paragraph about Is it the beginning of a story What does the writer tell us abort the explorer in the first paraghph What words do you think are useful for you to predict the ideas included in the passage Can you predict the content of the following paragraphs with the help of the key word.
2. Fast reading finish Part A.
3. Detailed reading do C1&C2.
4. Fill in the form.
Characers Who was he What did he do How did he die
George Gould
Lord Carnarvon
Howard Carter (in 1891)_________(by the 1920s)_____(in 1922)_________
Richard Bethell
5.Finish D &E.
Step 4 Discussion
1. Do you think Howard Carter is an amazing explorer Why/why not
2. What kind of personality do you think an explorer has to possess
3. Do you think the personality of Howatd Carter has had a positive effect on his discoveries
Homework:
1. Write a summary about Howard Carter
2. Finish the relative exercises in the Workbook.
the 3rd period
language focus of the curse of the mummy
Teaching Aims:
1. Revise the reading passage by retelling it.
2.
2. Get the students to grasp the usage of some important words and expressions.
3. Get the students to practice two important drills.
Teaching Aids:
1. The multimedia
2. The blackboard
Teaching Procedures;
Step 1 Revision
1. Question:
What’s the relationship between the explorer and the title “ The curse of mummies”
3. Ask the students to retell the story of Howard Carter.
Step 2. Language focus
1. Learn and master the following words and phrases.
be curious about, during one’s life time, right away, set sail (for) as well as, search for, by the 1920s, by the time, be known as have something to do with, fall ill with a fever, go out, hereof, the following, the dead, result in, breathe in, die of
2. Understand the following sentences patterns.
1. In 1891, at the age of 17 , he_____________
Alexandria, Egypt. (travel to somewhere by boat)
Eg. The sun was sinking as we set sail for home.
Next week they will set sail for Europe.
2. By the 1920s, he had become an explorer, searching for the tombs of the Egyptian kings. (by: no later than or before;
search for: look for)
Eg. By the time (conj.) doctor arrived, the woman had given birth.
Mike must have made some friends in his school by now.
By the time (conj.) you get there, it will be dark.
3. “The tomb contained more riches, gold and jewels than
any of us had ever seen before, as well as the mummy of the king,” said Carter. (riches: wealth “财富”; jewels: “珠宝饰品”; as well as: “除了…之外(也),和”
Eg. All his riches are no good to him if he is ill.
She was too poor to buy jewels, so she borrowed some from
her friend.
Last month I visited Qingdao as well as Tianjing.
4. When a tomb is opened, fresh air _________the viruses. (change the usual or natural condition of…)
Eg. A light wind disturbed the surface of the water.
She has disturbed all his plans for going abroad.
He was disturbed to hear her illness. (make someone worry)
Don’t disturb the papers on my desk. (move something or
change its position
5. If breathed in, they can result in illness or even death.
=If (the viruses are ) breathed in, they can cause illness …
Eg. He will come if (he is )asked.
The illness will result in total blindness if (it is) left untreated.
If (it is) taken correctly, the medicine should work.
The accident resulted in the death of two passengers.
6. Within seven years, 21 people who ________the opening of the tomb died. (“与……有关”, “与……有联系”)
have something/nothing/much/little/a lot to do with
Eg. The suspect insisted that he had nothing to do with the murder. He said he was at home the whole night watching TV.
Step3.Workbook
Do Exercises A1 and A2.
Homework
Do Period 3 Language focus of Exercise Book
The 4th period
Word power
Teaching objectives:
1. Improve the students’ ability of mastering words
2. Enlarge the students’ vocabulary
3. Help students learn the structure of nouns about jobs
4. Get the students to know more about jobs
Important teaching Points:
1. Help students learn the structure of nouns about jobs
2. Learn the words by heart and try to use them
Difficult teaching points:
1. How to improve the students’ ability of mastering words
2. How to use the new words to solve problems
Teaching Methods:
1. Talking to improve the students’ speaking ability
2. Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt
3. Discussion to make every student work in class
Teaching Aids
the multimedia and the blackboard
Teaching Procedures
Step1 Revision and Lead-in
Brainstorming. Show some pictures and ask
Do you know their jobs What other jobs do you know
Step2 The structure of noun about jobs
①A. teacher writer singer baker explorer
B. doctor actor visitor editor sailor
C. assistant servant merchant accountant
D. student dependent president
E. typist
How do these jobs form
②A. scientist artist physicist pianist violinist
B. banker lawyer gardener cashier
C. musician beatutician
③A. journalist dentist artist
B. electrician politician
④actor actress prince princess host hostess
god goddess lion lioness steward stewardess
salesman saleswoman businessman businesswoman
man teachers woman doctors
Step3. Introduce suffix
Verb noun
+ er + or + ant + ent + ist
Noun noun
+ ist + ian + er
adjective noun
+ist +ian
How to show male or female
Step 4 Complete part B
Look at the pictures and give explanations to the new words
A principal is a person who is in charge of a university, college or school.
A composer is a person who writes music.
A sculptor is a person who has the talent of making solid objects representing people or animals out of stone, wood, day, etc.
An accountant is a person whose job is to keep and check financial accounts
Step5 Discussion
I’d like to be _________ because ________________________.
Step6 Further discussion
Qualities of being a good teacher, an accountant……
Step7 Homework
1. Remember the words learned
2. Find other ways to express jobs(cook, coach, captain, professor, pilot, guide, model, tutor……)
3. Preview Grammar and usage
The 5th period
Grammar and usage (the first period)
Teaching Aims:
Learn the past perfect tense
Compare the use of the past tense , the present perfect and the past perfect
Teaching Points:
How to use the past perfect tense.
Teaching Methods:
1 Inductive method
2 Comparative method
Teaching Aids:
1 a multimedia
2 a blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Revision Guessing game
Do you know any job words Use your body language to show your job and ask your partner to guess.
Step 2 Structure
Had done/had been done
The past perfect tense is often used with the simple past tense. If one action happens before another in the past, the past perfect tense is used.
Compare the simple past and The past perfect tense
What is The past perfect tense
More examples
By the end of last year, I _______for 15 years.
When I came back home, my favourite TV program __________.
He was not worried at all. He ____________ preparations.
The past perfect tense used in indirect speech
Here the past action didn’t happen a long time ago.
Used with time expressions such as when, after, before, as soon as, until, by, for and already
Step 3 A Complete the story of Amelia Earhart
(1)had seen (2)moved (3)had taken (4)had become
(5) had met (6)had begun (7)had started (8)had gone
Step 4 B Complete the story of Amelia Earhart
(1)surprised (2)was built (3)spent (4)was finished
(5) had wanted (6)had received (7)had arrived (8)had hit
(9)survived (10)had searched (11)use (12) had caused
Step 5 Question
How do you know you will use the past tense or the past perfect tense
How do you know you will use the past tense or the past perfect tense
Step 6 Compare Present perfect or past perfect
The present perfect tense is used when we are talking about a past event which relates to the present time.
Howard Carter is one of the most famous explorers the world has ever known.
The past perfect tense is used when we are discussing the past and want to talk about an even earlier event.
Not long after the tomb had been opened, people in Carter’s team began to fall ill and die strangely.
Step 8The inventor of paper
(1)had failed (2)had tried (3)had heard (4)had caught
(5) had showed/shown
Step 9 Summary
一、 主语+过去完成时
+①when引导的从句(注:从句谓语动词为过去式)
+②by短语
+③by the time引导的从句(注:从句谓语动词为过去式)
+④before引导的从句(注:从句谓语动词为过去式) 例如
二、 1. 主语+had+hardly(scarcely)+过去分词+when(before)+主语+一般过去时。
2.主语+had+no sooner+过去分词+than+主语+一般过去时
三、 根据上下文的时间关系来确定用过去完成时。
四、 表示过去未曾实现的愿望、打算或意图,用过去完成时。常用动词有:hope,think,expect,intend,mean,suppose,want等。
例如: They had wanted to help but couldn't get here in time. 他们本来是要来帮忙的,但未能及时赶到。
五、 It was+时间+since+主语+过去完成时。
Step 10 Practice
Fill in the blanks
1. There________(be)25 parks in our city up till 2000.
2. By the end of last term we ______(finish) the book.
3. They finished earlier than we __________(expect).
4. That was the second time that she _________ (see) her grandfather
5. It was 3 years since we ————(part)。
6. I ———— (hope) that I could do the job.
7. I ———— (intend) to see you but I was too busy.
8. When I arrived at the station, he had already left. We had learned about 4000 English words by the end of last term. I waited until he had finished his homework. We were surprised at what she had done. We ____our breakfast when an old man came to the door.
A) just have had B) have just had C) just had D) had just had.
9.Before the first nonstop flight made in1949, it ____ necessary for all planes to land for refueling. (CET-4 1996, 6)
A) would be B) has been C) had been D) would have been
The 6th period
A quiz about Grammar
Ⅰ. Multiple choices.
1.I lost the dictionary I ________.
A.have bought B.bought C.had bought D.had been bought
2.The train had gone when my brother _______ at the station.
A.have arrived B.arrived C.had arrived D.am arriving
3. Mary _______ of visiting her grandmother, but the bad weather made her change her mind.
A.has thought B.thought C.had thought D.had been thought
4.------Did you meet Tom at the airport?
------No,he _______ by the time I ______ there.
A.has left;got B.had left;arrived C.left;arrived D.left;had got
5.-------Why didn’t Tom attend the meeting yesterday?
-------He __________ Beijing.
A.has gone to B.had gone to C.went to D.had been to
6.-------I _______ to come to help you.
-------But you didn’t come.
A.have meant B.had meant C.meant D.will mean
7.Finally one of my friends _______ by Beijing University,for which she ___ five times.
A.were admitted; had tried B.was admitted; had tried
C.were admitted; has tried D.was admitted; tried
8.------I have bought you the books you want.
------Oh,good,I _______ afraid you had forgotten.
A.was B.am C.had been D.have been
9.We _________ four thousand new words by the end of last year.
A.had learned B.have learned
C.learned D.will have learned
10.Helen _______her keys in the office so she had to wait until her husband ______home.
A.has left;comes B.left;had come
C.had left;came D.had left;would come
11. My father _________ to the hospital when I hurried home.
A. had gone B. went C. had been taken D. had been sent
12. ----- Jim, ________ you _________ your homework
----- Yes, of course, but I ________ it late bed time.
A. do do; finished B. did do; had finished
C. have done; had finished D. have done; finished
13. You ____ football after school. Why not go home and do your homework first
A. always played B. are always playing
C. have always played D. have always been playing
14. Ever since Picasso’s painting went on exhibit, there ____ large crowds at the museum every day.
A. is B. has been C. have been D. had been
15. ---What do you think of my suggestion
--- Sorry. What’s that I _____ about something else.
A. was thinking B. thought C. am thinking D. had thought
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks according to the meanings of the sentences by using tenses of the verbs.
1. How many English songs ___________ she __________ (learn) by the end of last month
2. Hardly _______ I ______ (get) on the bus when it started to move
3. He __________________(read) the book before he was ten years old.
4. She said she ___________________ (see) the film before.
5. Our English teacher _________________ (teach) English in Guangxi for ten years before he came to No.113 Middle School.
6. By the end of last month, they _________________(complete)the bridge .
7. No sooner ________ I _______ (go) out than he came to see me.
8. He asked where I _______________ (go) during the summer vacation.
9. The classroom _______________ (clean) before we ___________ (get) there yesterday.
10. ________ the boy ___________ (finish) his homework before you saw him
11. When we got to the station, the train _____________ already _____________. (leave)
12. The book __________ by the end of last month. (finish)
13. When I got back to the shop , my bag _________________ (take) away by someone else.
14. When I arrived at the cinema, the film _________________ (be )on for ten minutes.
15. ---What’s that terrible noise
---The neighbors ______ (prepare) for a party.
16. The mayor of Beijing says that all construction work for the Beijing Olympics _________________ ( complete) by 2006.
17. The teacher, with 6 girls and 8 boys of her class, ______ (visit) a museum when the earthquake struck.
18. ---Mr. Johnson didn’t turn up at the meeting yesterday morning, did he
--- No. We __________ (wait) till twelve o’clock. A whole morning was wasted.
19. ---Why haven’t you asked her to come here
---She _______ (do) an important experiment when I found her and she ________ (not, finish) it.
Keys:
Ⅰ. 1-5 CBCBB 6-10 BBAAC 11-15. DDBCA
Ⅱ. 1. had learnt 2. had got 3. had read 4. had seen 5. had taught 6. had completed 7. had gone 8. had gone 9. had been cleaned, got 10. Had finished 11. had left 12. had been finished 13. had been taken 14. had been on 15. are preparing 16. will have been completed 17. was visiting 18. were waiting 19. was doing, hasn’t finished
The 7th period
Task(1)
Teaching objectives:
to help students review some kinds of figures and master the forms of figures as well as the way to listen to the figures.
Important and difficult points:
1. help students learn how to make a note of figures
2. help students how to organize information in a logical order correctly.
3. Make students learn how to conduct an interview, how to analyse statistics and how to write a biographical article based on the interview
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
Ask students some questions related to the figures:
1. How old are you
2. Which floor are you on at school
3. What is the date today
4. How old is your father
Step 2 Skills building 1: Listening for figures
A. Ask students to read directions on P52 to get a general idea of what is to be learnt.
B. Help students to understand the following:
1. Kinds of figures: Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers Plural form of numbers
Cardinal and Ordinal numbers
Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers
Onetwothreefive eightseventeenfortyninety two first (1st)second (2nd)third (3rd)fifth (5th)eighth (8th)seventeenth (17th)fortieth (40th)ninety second (92nd)
Plural form of figures
in the twentiesin the thirtiesin the fortiesin the fiftiesin the sixtiesin the seventies in the20s (20’s) in the 30s (30’s) in the 40s (40’s) in the 50s (50’s) in the 60s (60’s) in the 70s (70’s)
Practise reading some figures and Game-play
215
8,030
51,070
33,080,00
十六点二十三分
在他五十多年时
在19世纪六十年代
八十九万零四百一十五
2. Figures can refer to
age My dog will be two next week.
date David was born on 5th October 1946.
percentage Mary scored 86 percent in her maths test.
price Tom bought a shirt for $ 150.
street number Her friend lives at 337 Hunan Road
time Jane plays basketball at six o’clock.
telephone number Please call at 0515-6883376.
fax number My fax is 0517 69620035.
QQ number His QQ number is 567894123
3. Modifier of numbers: about , or so, around, more than, over, less than, under, below, at most, at least, more or less,
C. Do listening exercise on P 52.
D. Part A in step 1 and finish Part B according to Part A.
Step 3 Skills building 2 reading a CV.
A. Get students to read the guideline and understand what is a CV and what are included in a CV.
A CV includes:
Identification : name, address, contact information (phone number and e-mail address)
Objective : what kind of job you want to get
Education: the names of the schools at which you studied and graduation dates
Experience: your past jobs, company names, location and position held for past jobs
References: names of the persons who once worked or studied with you and their contact information
Other: honors you have got, hobbies and interests
B. Finish Exercise on P 54
C. Do Part A in Step 2 Introducing a speaker
Step 4 Skills building 3 : Organizing information
A. Ask students to read the guidelines and understand how to group information into different groups:
3 important sections
1. Introduction: Who we are going to write about and why we are writing about him/her
2. Body: Details about the person (what he/she did; what he/she said, his/her opinions, the facts, the statistics, etc.)
3. Conclusion: The important result of his/her deed and what people think about him/her)
B. Do part A On P56 and Part B on P57
C. Ask students to write a biographical article in accordance to what has been mastered.
Step 5 Project: Interviewing a professional
A. Help students review as many jobs as possible
B. Talk about astronauts: Yang Li wei and other China’s astronauts
C. Reading the text about Yang Liwei to accomplish some reading tasks, dealing with some language points.
D. Interview a professional and create a wall display
Step 6 Homework
Finish all the homework in Unit 3.
The 8th periods
Task(2)
Teaching objectives:
1.to teach students what information should be included in a biographical article and how to write one.
2. to help students improve their hearing abilities
3. to make students be aware of the appropriate ways of performing each individual procedure and master the skills
4. to make sure students have opportunities to combine the skills they have learned with reality
5. to aid students to choose and organize the information they have got and help them complete their products
6. to enhance students’ overall abilities and improve their integrated skills
7. the contents of skills building 2 and 3.
Important teaching points:
1. Help students get what is included in a CV.
2. Hearing practice.
3. Writing a biographical article
Difficult teaching points:
1. Hearing practice
2. Writing a biographical article
Procedures:
Step1. Revision
Step 2. Presentation
Do you know how to introduce yourself by using written language In which form
Step 3. Reading
Ask students to read and find out what a CV includes.
Step4. Listening for step1
Step5. Reading
Ask students to read and find out what three sections of a biographical article are.
Step6. Do part A and part B
Step7. Practice
Writing a biographical article
Step8. Workbook
The 9th and 10th periods
Project
Teaching objectives:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Enable the students understand the text better.
3. Develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
4. The contents of project.
Important teaching points:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Oblige students love our country, science and space.
Difficult teaching points:
Reading practice to get the main idea of paragraphs.
Procedures:
Step1. Presentation
Show students some pictures of three Chinese astronauts to arouse the students’ interest
Step2. Pre-reading
Ask students some questions:
Have you dreamt of traveling in space
What do you know about these explorers
What is required to be an astronaut mentally and physically
Do you admire them
Step3. Reading
1. Read the article and divide the paragraphs into the three sections
2. Then read the text again and try to find out the main idea of each paragraph.
3. Complete the information about Yang Liwei
Step4. Language focus
1. In October 2003, Yang Liwei went to space and returned, making the dream a reality. (P58 Line 2)
It made him China’s first astronaut and 241st person in space. (P58 Line11)
(1) 你认为是什么使他成为一位杰出的科学家的
What do you think_________________________
(2) Everyone worked hard, which _____ the 10th National Sports in Nanjing _________________ (使..非常成功).
2 . fun n.(un ) 乐趣 ; 有趣的事 (人)
(1) ______it is to have a talk with those humorous people!
A. What a fun B. What fun
C. How fun D. How funny
(2) have a lot of fun
make fun of
for fun 闹着玩的
funny adj.
How funny the tale is!
3. _______(bear) in 1965, Yang wanted to fly since he was a young boy.
(1) He was one of the only 14 _________(pick) from 1,500 candidates.
(2) They not only studied all the subjects ___________(require) to be an astronaut but also learned survival skills
4. Although Yang did not actually get the best scores on every single test, it was his high scores on the psychological tests that finally won him his position as China’s first astronaut. (P 58)
(1) Mary found a tiger in the corner last Sunday.
① ② ③ ④
① It was Mary that (who )found a tiger in the corner last Sunday.
② It was a tiger that Mary found in the corner last Sunday.
What was it that Mary found in the corner last Sunday
③It was in the corner that Mary found a tiger last Sunday.
Where was it that Mary found a tiger last Sunday
④ It was last Sunday that Mary found a tiger in the corner.
(2) It was what you do rather what you say______ matters
A. that B. what C. which D. this
(3) It was with great joy _____he received the news that her lost daughter has been found.
A. because B. which C. since D. that
(4) Why I have nothing to confess. _____you want me to say
A. What is it that B. What it is that
C. How is it that D. How it is that
Step5. Workbook
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