Teaching and learning plan for
M11U3 The secret of success
The first period----Welcome to the unit
Teaching aims:
1. Train the students’ ability of speaking.
2. Get the students to discuss success.
Teaching Important Points:
Finish the task of talking about how to become a successful person to train the students’ speaking ability.
Teaching Difficult Point:
How to help the students finish the task of speaking.
Teaching Methods:
1. Free talk, discussion and speaking to train the students’ ability to use English.
2. Individual, pair or group work to make every student take an active part in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. the multimedia
2. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings and Lead-in
Many people Work very hard to become successful in their chosen career. Look at the following pictures of successful individuals and discuss the questions below with a partner.
Step II Listening
Step III talk about welcome to the unit:
1. What qualities do you think each person above has that made them successful
2. Do you know any successful people What did they do
3. Do you want to be successful How do you think you could achieve success
Step V: Homework
Preview the reading text.The third period----Word power
Teaching Aims:
Review the words related to qualities for success.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Help the students master the words.
2. Help the students finish each exercise correctly.
Teaching Difficult Point:
Master the uses of words.
Teaching Methods:
1. Review method to consolidate the words learned in the last two periods.
2. Practising to make the students master the words correctly.
3. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. the multimedia
2. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step Ⅱ Brainstorm
Please say some words of qualities related to success.
Step III Word power
Read the profile on page 38 and find out Victoria Brown’s ten qualities for success.
1. perseverance 2. ambition
3. confidence 4. motivation
5. energy 6. enthusiasm
7. interpersonal skills 8. organization
9. sense of humour 10. help
Perseverance
What does “perseverance” mean according to the text
Answer:
This means I never give up, even when things go wrong. However much I get knocked back, I just try again.
Adj: perseverant
Examples:
Perseverance is a good quality to success. I am perseverant.
Ambition:
Adj: ambitious
Example
He had great ambition when he was young.
As he grew old, he wasn’t that much ambitious.
Confidence:
adj: comfident
I wasn’t good at English at first. Then I got confidence from my English teacher. And now I am very confident.
Motivation:
adj: motivated
Examples:
The president told us that we needed
motivation if we wanted to do things well. After his lecture, I got motivated.
Energy:
adj: enegetic
Examples:
John is full of energy. He is energetic.
enthusiasm:
adj: enthusiastic
Examples:
When I met him, I was very much touched by his enthusiasm.
She takes an enthusiastic attitude towards life.
Interpersonal skills
Examples:
A good manager needs high interpersonal skills.
Organization
Examples:
Our monitor is a man of organization. He can do most of the things that our head-teacher should do.
Sense of humour
Adj: humorous
Examples:
The politician has a good sense of humour.
He is a humorous man.
Help
Adj: helpful
Examples:
If you often give others help, you are a helpful person.
Step IV A game
Who can get the most peaches
Try to find the opposite of the given words. You can get one peach for your tree for each correct word.
careless lazy
mean aimless
dishonest unkind
friendly impolite
unfriendlyThe sixth period ----Project
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn and master the words and expressions in the text:
2. Train the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Important Points:
1. How to help the students to master the words and expressions:
2. How to get the students to train the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. How to help the students understand the text exactly.
2. How to get the students to making a speech.
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text.
2. Careful reading to get the detailed information.
3. Asking-and-answering to help the students understand the text exactly.
4. Pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1.the multimedia
2.a tape recorder
3.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step II Lead in
Questions:
1. Is Vincent van Gogh a successful man
2. Was he famous of rich in his time
3. How do you understand “successful”
Who cares you most in your family
What do you think of him or her
Step III Read the transcript of a speech “ My father, my hero” and match column A with column B.
A B
Part 1 A. My father’s constant care about me and my brother
Part 2 B. My father’s hard childhood.
Part 3 C. My father made the best Christmas for us.
Part 4 D. What I value about my father.
Part 5 E. My father helped his friend’s son go on study.
Part 6 F. My father’s good qualities of success.
Part 7 G. My father helps in our local community.
Part 8 H. My father’s optimism.
Step IV Reading
1. What makes a successful father Money, fame or love
2. How does the father help the community
Step A game
Find out as many good qualities as you can in the transcript. You will get one pear in your basket for each merit you find.
Step V Answer the following questions
1. Who will you write your speech about
2. Why is the person successful
3. What qualities does the person have that make him or her successful
4. Will you interview this person
5. How long will you speech be
6. How will you practise your speech The second period----Reading
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn and master the words and expressions in the text:
2. Train the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn to use the words and expressions in the tex t:
2. Train the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to help the students understand the text exactly, especially the following sentences:
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text.
2. Careful reading to get the detailed information.
3. Asking-and-answering to help the students understand the text exactly.
4. Pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. the multimedia
2. a tape recorder
3. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step II Lead in
1. When was Clive Sinclair born
2. What was Clive’s first job
3. What society was Clive chairman of
Step III Skimming
Read the text quickly and decide which of the following can best express the main idea of the text.
A. Sir Clive’s stories.
B. Sir Clive’s mini inventions.
C. How Sir Clive ran his company.
D. Sir Clive Sinclair’s life and inventions.
Read Para One and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British businessman and inventor.
B. Clive’s brilliant Childhood.
C. Clive got a job at 17.
D. Sinclair invented the calculator and was saddened.
Read Para Two and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sinclair was unfortunate.
B. How Clive’s ran his first company.
C. Sinclair produced his pocket radio in bulk.
D. Sinclair registered his own company.
Read Para Three and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sinclair was the first to make pocket-sized things in the world.
B. Sinclair’s computer cost only 100 pounds.
C. Sinclair’s company expended rapidly.
D. Clive was very talented at making little things.
Read Para Four and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sinclair studied Economics atCambridge University.
B. The advantage of Sinclair’s new inventions.
C. Sinclair’s new invention was laughed at in the newspaper.
D. How Sinclair’s career underwent a downward slide during the 1980s.
Read Para Five and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sinclair became chairman of British Mensa.
B. How Sinclair saved Mensa as a chairman.
C. Sinclair paid personally for an annual Mensa conference at Cambridge.
D. Sinclair has been an inventor and a business man.
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Step V Language points
1. —the man who brought technology to the man in the street.
句中the man in the street意思是“普通人”, “常人”, “大众”, 也可为“man on the street”。
2. Sinclair was blessed with brains and spent much of his time educating himself.
短语“be blessed with”意思是“赋有（能力等）”，“享有（幸福等）”。比如：
Though in his eighties, he is blessed with good health.
尽管他八十多岁了，身体却很好。
Sinclair’s big picture was to produce in bulk and to sell cheaply so that everyone could afford electronic goods.
短语in bulk意思是“大量地”，比如：
She prefers buying things like tissues in bulk.
她喜欢批量购买东西，比如面巾纸。
4. As soon as he advertised, the company was flooded with demands for the little, cubic-shaped radios.
“was flooded with” 如洪水般涌至，比如：The office was flooded with companies.
5. The company expanded rapidly, and he even had to open a new center in the USA to cope with the increased demand.
“cope with” 对付，应对，比如：
There was too much work for our computer to cope with.
我们的计算机要干的事情太多，简直应接不暇。
名词“demand”在这里是“需求”，比如：There is a growing demand in
China for enviromentally-friendly cars.
中国对环保汽车的需求量越来越大。
6. When Sinclair joined in 1959, membership was falling, and the society was on its last legs.
短语“on its last legs”意思是“奄奄一息”
比如：
The company was on its last legs after the manager retired.
公司在经理退休后到了快解体的地步。
7. He was honoured in 1983 with a knighthood from the Queen of England in recognition of his efforts and achievements.
recognition在这里意识是“承认”，“认可”，比如：
He was rewarded with a pay increase in recognition of his contribution to the company.
他被奖励加薪，作为他为公司所做贡献的肯定。
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Step V Homework
Answers:
dedicated; mistake; walk; neck; visitors; positive; journalism; programe
Finish Exercise in the work book..The Fourth period----Grammar and usage
Teaching Aims:
1. Review the words appearing in the last period.
2. Learn the grammar and usage: Euphemism.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Help the students master the grammar and usage: Euphemism.
2. Help the students finish each exercise correctly.
Teaching Difficult Point:
the grammar and usage: Euphemism.
Teaching Methods:
1. Practicing to make the students master the grammar and usage: Euphemism.
2. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. the multimedia
2. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step Ⅱ lead in
Show pictures to students.
Step III Grammar
Euphemism
1. We often use euphemism to express taboo or very sensitive subjects.
His grandfather passed away last week. The funeral will be held this Friday. “pass away” means _______.
When Sinclair joined in 1959, membership was falling, and the society was on its last legs.
“On one’s last legs” means ________________________________.
Last year, my father set up a club for Senior Citizens. Once a week, they meet up and play cards.
“Senior Citizen” means ____________.
The school is for people who are physically challenged.
“physically challenged” means _____________________________
He was only 14 years old and was already a juvenile delinquent. He would spend his next 10 years in prison.
“a juvenile delinquent” means _______________________________________.
2. We often use euphemism to raise the status of someone or something.
The sanitary workers cleaned the hospital. “Sanitary worker” means _____________________________.
Clive Sinclair is the man who brought technology to the man in the street.
“the man in the street” means ___________________________.
My father has a lot of free time because he is between jobs at the moment.
“between jobs” means ___________.
3. We often use euphemism to indicate situations not fit to express directly in public. I am just going to wash my hands. “wash one’s hands” means ________________.
The film was famous for having the highest body count of any war film. “body count” means_____________ ____________________________.
The murderer would spend the rest of his life in The city’s correctional facility.
“Correctional facility” means _______.
Step IV More euphemism for you to enjoy
I'm goin’ to answer the natural call.
I'm goin’ to make some water .
I'm gonna pee.
The boy is a bit slow for his age. (The boy is stupid.)
He is a bicycle doctor. He mends bicycles.
Nowadays many weight-watchers would like to go to the gym.
如今有不少胖人喜欢到健身房去锻炼.
Social diseases are on the increase in Hong Kong.
香港的性病比以往增多了。
Step V More doublespeak
He is not a grave man until he is a grave man.
grave有两个含义, 一个是“严肃的” (形容词), 一个是“坟墓” (名词), 因此这句话的意思是: 他不是一个严肃的人, 除非他躺到坟墓里, 才能严肃起来.
They pray for you today and prey on you tomorrow. 他们今天为你祈祷, 明天就会加害于你.The fifth period -----Task
Teaching Aims:
To train the students’ ability of writing.
To practise writing a recipe for success
Teaching procedure:
Skill building 1:
Listening to announcements.
When you are listening to an announcement, you need to listen for important content or details. Fill in the blanks with the information you get from the book.
1. _________________________________.
2. _________________________________.
3. _________________________________.
4. _________________________________.
5. _________________________________.
6. _________________________________.
7. _________________________________.
8. _________________________________.
Step 1: taking notes about a speech competition.
A. Listen to an announcement for a speech competition and fill in the blanks in your book.
Answers:
B. Listen to the conversation and fill in the blanks in your book.
Answers:
1.______________________________.
2.______________________________.
3.______________________________.
4.______________________________.
C. Read the text “success” and find out tips for being successful.
Skill building 2: responding to advice.
Find out the three tips when responding to advice.
1. Listen actively.
2. Ask questions for clarification.
3. Express thanks.
Step 2: responding to advice about the speech competition. A sample dialogue:
S: Hello, sir. I’d like very much to take part in the speech competition. Could you give me some advice
T: Sure.
S: I want to choose a poem. But I don’t know how.
T: You can read some poetry books or look on the internet. There are a great many good poems there.
S: Thank you, sir. Which story should I write about
T: That’s a good question. You’d better choose something interesting that happened in your life.
S: You mean the real thing in my life
T: That’s it. Real experience brings about real feelings. People tend to be easily touched by this kind of stories.
S: Thanks a lot. Now I know what to write about. How much practice do I need
T: A lot. It’s useful to practise in front of a mirror or record your voice. You can listen to it and improve yourself.
S: I do feel a bit nervous when thinking about the speech competition. How can I overcome my nerves
T: Take it easy. Stay calm. You may take deep breathing exercises before your speech. When you come to the stage, you may just look at one point of the audience. Just look at those who smile to you.
S: Oh, I see. That’s very kind of you. But I still don’t know how to act on stage.
T: You should choose your clothes carefully. Your speech not your clothes will catch the audience’s eyes. You should be confident, stand up straight and most important of all, be natural. Whatever you say or do should be natural. Just open your mouth and act as usual. It’s easy to do. Remember, this is the key to success.
S: Thank you so much. You are very experienced . Now I am very confident. Any other advice
T: Oh, listen carefully to the instructions. Go to the stage when it is your turn. Don’t miss it.
S: OK. Thank you. Bye!
T: Bye!
Act out the sample dialogue first and then make up your own ones to act out in class.
Step 3: Writing your recipe for success.
In order to be successful at something, it is important to have a plan. Which aspects would you think about
1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4.________________________________
My recipe for success
Overall aim.
My aim is to win first place in the _____________________________________________________________________
Qualities I need to develop.
Qualities that are important include being motivated, creative _____________________________________________________________________
Research
In order to succeed, I need to work hard at my English skills, particularly
_____________________________________________________________________
Advice
If I am to be successful, I need to remember to have confidence and look _____________________________________________________________________
