Unit 5 Great people (lesson 33--lesson 40)

冀教版九年级上册Unit 5教案（英文版）
Unit 5 Great people
Lesson 33：What Does Life Mean
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: life
Teaching Aims:
Know about the great people in the world.
Learn the high spirit of the great people.
Teaching Important Points:
Introduce people.
Passive voice.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Passive voice.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aid: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.
Divide the class into groups of three or four. Talk about the questions. If they think the topics are too difficult for them, the teacher can add the content: “What do you want to be in the future Why ”
This question is easier than the others. They can talk a lot about the topic. Now lead them talk about the future, the dream and the life. It seems easier now.
Step2.Listen to the tape and then let the students say the main idea about the text.
S1: It deals with the future.
S2: They talk about the life.
S3: What is success
S4: Why are people different from animals
Then the teacher sum what they say. It tells us the life’s meaning. It leads us to think about the life. Now we are living on the earth. Some of us are happy. Others are sad. When we are free, we can think about these questions.
Step3. Read the text. Let they underline the language points of this text. Ask the students to solve the problems. They can use dictionaries and ask the teacher if necessary. The teacher helps them some on the blackboard.
Encourage the students to make sentences with the following language points:
succeed in doing sth.; more; make one happy
S5: He succeeded in finding a new way to do with the rubbish.
S6: We all know he will succeed in the future.
S7: Would you like some more
S8: We need ten more people.
S9: Don’t make them too happy.
S10: The students must keep the classroom clean.
e to “PROJECT”.
Divide the class into several groups. Let every group write the questions that they want to know on a piece of paper. Then they exchange the paper with another group. They can ask the questions in class.
Take your questions home. Ask your family members about the questions. First ask your parents and write their answers down. Then ask your grandparents the questions and write their answers down.
Bring the answers to school. Discuss their answers in groups. Let’s see if they have any differences between their answers. Discuss why these differences exist.
Now in the group discuss the last question: What did you learn from this project.
In this project, we try to find the secret of life. When we are in different age, we have different realizations to life. When we are older, we will know much about the life.
Step5: Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Don’t you think life is a strange thing Discuss the questions Li Ming and Wang Mei asks in groups. Then encourage them to ask more questions about life. Give them time to search on the Internet to know the secret of the life. Group activities are good styles of discussing. More practice will give the students more chances to practice their spoken English.
Lesson 34: A Universe of Thought
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: mind, century, anyone, death
Oral words and expressions: universe, Albert Einstein, lifetime, solve, relative, Theory of Relativity, Nobel, Nobel Prize, Princeton University, unclear, weapon, divorce
Teaching Aims:
Know the stories of the great people.
Learn more about the foreign culture.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Know Einstein’s life and contributions to the world.
2. Grasp some words and expressions on physics.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Einstein’s life and contributions to the world
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Ask the students the following questions:
What do you know about Einstein
Why did Einstein succeed
If Einstein wants to make more research on physics, what difficulties must he come over
Discuss the questions in groups, and then let them report in front of the class. If you think their answers are not completely, you can let them research on the Internet to get more information.
Step2. Come to “THINK AOBUT IT”.
Continue to talk about the questions in formal groups. When one student in one group can’t give the complete answer the others can add what they want to say.
The importance is what you think is the most important thing for a student. Let’s discuss what we can learn from Einstein.
Step3. Read the text and find the answers of the following questions:
What is he most famous for
Where and where was Einstein born
What did Einstein think the most important thing was
Let the students skim the text and give the right answers.
Step4. Read the text further and underline the language points in this lesson. Then ask the students to present the questions in the class. Let the others try to find the answers. The teacher needs to give them right answers and explain the language points to them patients.
Make a list of the language points in this lesson:
famous; mind; stop doing sth.; sign; give up
Now make sentences with the help of the flashcards.
S1: China is famous for the Great Wall.
S2: Einstein is famous for his Theory of Relativity.
S3: Do you mind my opening the window
S4: Think hard with your mind, you will succeed.
S5: The teacher came in. Let’s stop talking.
S6: Don’t stop searching. I think we will know the truth at once.
S7: Please sign here.
S8: Do you remember the sign
S9: Don’t give up working hard.
S10: Giving up smoking is good for your health.
Step5. Listen to the tape and read after it in order to get perfect pronunciation. Play the tape again. Let them read with the books closed. Can they do it well
e to “LET’S DO IT”.
Let some students give a report in front of the class. If the others have the same opinion with him, he can stand up and add the necessary content.
Step7. Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
From the text, we learn not only Einstein’s stories, but also his spirit of researching. The most important thing of success is the spirit of hard work. If we want to succeed and have a meaning and colourful life, we must study hard. Now our learning situation is much better than before. We must make more progress and research more.
Lesson 35: China’s Most Famous “Farmer”
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: farmer, so that, southwest, research, honour, technology, produce, besides, share, develop, super
Oral words and expressions: peanut, shadow, hybrid, graduate, agriculture, devote to, development, variety, worldwide, benefit, crossword, puzzle
Teaching Aims:
Know a great man of China who has made great contribution to the world.
Learn the spirit of the successful man.
Teaching Important Points:
Grasp the words and expressions about the agriculture.
Learn the development of the rice.
Teaching Difficult Points:
The words and expressions in the fields of rice.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Show the new words with the flashcards. Let the students read the words and expressions after you. Read more times to the difficult words.
Play a game to see if they have read them fluently. Divide the class into two groups. One group asks the words, the other answers. Then change their roles. They get one score if they can read a word correctly. At last, let’s see who has the higher score. The winner is the group who gets more scores.
Step2.Skim the text and tell us the main idea of this lesson.
Give the students three minutes. Let’s see how many students can finish the reading task in the limited time.
Ask some students to demonstrate their opinion. If others think isn’t complete, they can add others in the opinion. If the teacher thinks their answers are not perfect, he or she can pay more attention to the part in the next steps.
Step3.Read the text and ask questions.
Finish the task in groups. Find questions about this part. Then ask the other group to answer them. If someone wants to add his own opinion, he can stand up and say his suggestion.
The questions are like these:
What’s Professor Yuan’s childhood dream
When was he born
What did he succeed in developing
Did foreigner countries use Professor Yuan’s technology
They can ask more questions as they like.
Step4. Make sentences with the language points with the help of the flashcards.
graduate from
I graduate Beijing University in 1998.
Where did he graduate from
come up with
At last, he came up with a good idea.
When we are in trouble, he always comes up with good ideas.
devote…to…
Lu Xun devoted himself to the Chinese literature.
Would you like to devote yourself to the Chinese physics
because of
Because of the rain, they didn’t go to Beijing.
He didn’t pass the exam because of his carelessness.
Step5. Play the tape for several times. Let the students listen carefully and have the correct pronunciation.
Let some students read important paragraphs.
e to “PROJECT”
Finish the puzzle. Make another in groups, and then let them exchange their puzzles. When a group finishes it, present it to the other group’s members to see if they are correct.
Exchange the puzzles with the groups until all the groups have the puzzle’s answers. Then check the answers in class.
Step7. Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
It is necessary for us to study the performance. What have the old scientists done for us How great they are We must work hard at all our subjects. Whatever you do when you grow up, we must devote ourselves to the society. We must be a useful person to the world. If someone is very interested in rice, too, we can get more information on the Internet.
Lesson 36: Make the World a Better Place
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: day after day
Oral words and expressions: dentist
Teaching Aims:
Tell the students to study hard to make the world a better place to live in.
More familiar to the foreign culture.
Teaching Important Points:
We can become heroes when we care about everything about us.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to sing a foreign song well
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1.Listen to the tape and sing after it. Play the tape for two times. Let the students sing after it.
Step2. Read the text loudly as a poem.
The teacher can divide the class in two groups and read the text loudly and slowly.
Step3. Listen to the tape again and let the students sing together after it. If some students can’t sing them well, let’s begin the next step.
Step4. Ask the students sing after the teacher line by line. Then try to sing again.
Step5. Let some volunteers to sing in front of the class.
Step6. Make some more words. Add them to the song. Now let’s try the new song written by ourselves.
e to “LET’S DO IT”.
Divide the class into groups and finish the task. Talk about how to make our school a better place. Let them give suggestions and write them on a piece of paper. Then report to the class. Sum the good opinions and present to the class again.
Write the good suggestions on a piece of paper. Then make a poster and put it up on the wall.
Step8. Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Learning to sing foreign songs is difficult for some students. We must practice more in the class. Let the students feel the atmosphere. If they can’t sing well after listening several times, the teacher must sing the song line by line and the students sing after the teacher. This demands the teacher must practice more before class.
Lesson 37: Touch the World
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: blind, deaf, sight, courage, greatly
Oral words and expressions: Planetary Post, Helen Keller, writer, educator, hearing, Sullivan
Teaching Aims:
Learn the spirit of Helen Keller.
Know the important thing of being a great man.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn about Helen Keller’s whole life.
2. How did she come over the difficulties
Teaching Difficult Points:
Know about the world of the blind and deaf.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Play a game.
Now let’s play a game. Who wants to come to the front The teacher prepared a piece of cloth to cover one student’s eyes. Some others come to the front.
The student with cloth covered touches the others who come to the front and guess who they are.
After the game, the teacher asks the questions:
Do you know them well Is it difficult for you to guess who she or he is Why
But there is a so great woman. She is blind and deaf, but she wrote many books and made speeches around the world to encourage the blind and deaf. Her death is a great loss to the world.
Do you know who she is
Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
Who is she What’s wrong with her
Step3. Read and Retell sth story with the flashcards and the pictures.
Her mother is very patient. When there are guests, her mother often lets her sit beside her and made her hands into her mouth to feel the moving of the tongue.
Step4. Activities.
Now let the students work in groups. Write questions about the text on a piece of paper. Ask another group the questions.
Step5. Language Points:
Show some pictures to the students. Let them make sentences with the language points.
Make a list of the language points:
do one’s best
S1: Let’s do our best to get the first place in the exam.
S2: Do your best to catch up with the others.
one ….the other
S3: I have two sisters. One is a doctor, the other is a nurse.
S4: They have two animals. One is a cat, the other is a dog.
e to “LET’S DO IT”.
Finish this task with the help of the flashcards.
Ask every student to write one person’s name who is very famous on a piece of paper. Then hand in the paper on the teacher’s desk.
Let one students come here to choose one from these. Then let him or her say something about the great man.
If they don’t know the person very well, the teacher uses the flashcards to help them. Show them much information, and then let them say it in English.
Step7. Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
The teacher tries to create more chances for the students to speak in the class. Activities are the main presentations of the class. We organized all the grammars and language points in the activities. Let them grasp the knowledge in the activities. Thus, they will think English is fun and easy.
Lesson 38: To China, with Love
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: war, northern, situation, operate, peace, kill, blood, wounded, solider
Oral words and expression: Norman Bethune, tuberculosis, anti-Japanese, aid, bury, poison, accidentally
Teaching Aims:
Peace and development is the world’s forever subject.
Learn Bethune’s international spirit.
Teaching Important Points:
Learn the whole life of Bethune.
Know more about the Anti-Japanese War.
Teaching Difficult Points:
some knowledge about the medical treatment and Anti-Japanese War.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.
Divide the class into groups of three or four. Discuss the questions for a while. Then let some students report in front of the class.
Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
When and where was Bethune born
Did Norman Bethune meet Mao Zedong
Step3.Read the text and check the answers. Then try to say what the main point of this lesson. Ask some students say, the others add their suggestions.
Ask them to ask questions about this text. The questions can be like these:
Why is Bethune famous
When did he go to Northern China
What did Chinese do to remember him
Are Canadians proud for Bethune
Step4. Deal with the language points with the help of audiotape.
Make a list of the language points:
be famous for
S1: China is famous for the Great Wall.
S2: Song Zuying is famous for her songs.
be famous as
S3: Binxin was famous as a writer.
S4: Jay Chow is famous as a singer.
e to “LET’S DO IT”.
Divide the class into groups to finish the task. If they are in trouble, they can look up the new words in the dictionary. They can ask the teacher for help.
After a while, let some students give a talk in front of the class.
Step6. Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Bethune was very great, because at that time, China was very poor and weak. Chinese had hard time, but Bethune, a Canadian helped us a lot. He saved many people’s lives in the war. Unluckily, he died in the war. We will remember him forever. We will learn his spirit forever. He will live in our hearts forever.
Lesson 39: Guess My Hero, Danny!
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: whom
Oral words and expressions: make an example
Teaching Aims:
Learn to make a word puzzle.
Know more about the foreign culture.
Teaching Important Point:
How to demonstrate one thing clearly.
How to write an e-mail
Teaching Difficult Points:
passive voice
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1.Sum up what we learn in this unit. Let some students talk in front of the class. Let’s see who has the best answer. If one can’t give a complete answer, the others can say their suggestions.
S1: This unit is about the great men in the world. What we must learn is their spirit.
S2: We must work hard from now on.
S3: It tells us the happiness that we have today isn’t got easily. We must value it.
Step2. Read the first e-mail. Ask some students retell the story, but not word by word. If they can’t express correctly, give them time to read the text again.
Step3. Activities.
Divide the class into groups and ask questions about the text. Then exchange the questions and answer them. Then present their main questions and answers in class.
Step4.Language Points
Read the text again. Ask the students to find the language points that they can’t understand well. Then ask the others to answer. They can say what they know about this language points. Then the teacher sums the answers and explains again to the class.
Make sentences with the language points.
Make a list of the language points:
try
S1: I don’t know whether I could succeed, but I will try.
S2: Why not try doing the experiment
the same as
S3:His mother’s hair is the same colour as my mother’s.
S4: I like the same music as you.
e to “LET’S DO IT”.
Finish the task in groups in formal groups. They can introduce others that they are interested in. Give them tips when they are in trouble.
Step6. Make a puzzle. It is a difficult task. All the students must work hard to do it. The teacher can prepare one before class and let the students do in class. This will be very interesting.
Step7. Homework
Finish the activity book.
Go on to do the exercises in the next lesson.
Summary:
It is easy to write an e-mail for the students in Grade 3. Let’s try again to see their abilities. Some lazy students may speak or write less than others. Leave written homework, so all the students must finish it.
Lesson 40: Unit Review
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions from Lessons33-39.
Oral words and expressions from Lesson33-39.
Teaching Important Points:
Introducing important people.
Passive voice.
Teaching Difficult Point:
Passive voice
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: review lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Sum what we learn in this unit.
Ask some students to talk about the subject in class. If you think one student’s answer is not complete, you can go on asking others.
Step2. Practice passive voice with the help of flashcards.
Let some students write some students on the blackboard to see how much on earth they about this.
Explain to them in details if necessary. Practice more by the students themselves.
We can let some students write questions, the others to answer them. We can finish the task in groups if you think it is necessary.
Step3. Do the exercise in this lesson. Find the problems and let’s solve them together. Write the importance on the blackboard and ask for the right ways to solve them.
Step4. Activities
Divide the class into groups to finish the task in the third part, speaking the language.
The teacher lets all the students write the persons’ names that they want to know. Then ask students to come here and choose one from them. At last say something about the person that he chooses.
e to “Work in groups”.
Work in groups of four. Each group member describes a classmate. The other group members guess who he or she is.
Finish the task in formal groups.
Step6. Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Review the unit that we learned just now.
Summary:
It is necessary to review the main grammars and language points in this lesson. There are eight lessons in one unit. Some students may forget some important knowledge. The teacher must remind them in time. Finish the tasks in groups and games. We must attract their interests.