Unit 2 Great People
Lesson 10
Teaching Aims
Knowledge
By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to read, understand and use the new words and phrases e.g. writer, blind, deaf, illness, ability, community, make a lot of progress.
Ability
To be able to talk about disabled people and the reason why they should be respected.
Emotion
To encourage them to be brave whenever meet problems.
Important and Difficult Points
To use the new words and phrases to talk about disabled people and the reason why they should be respected.
Teaching Procedures
Ⅰ．Teacher's activities
Ⅱ．Students 'activities
Ⅲ．Aims
Warm up
1．Show some pictures and teach new words and phrases in the lesson.
Learn new words and phrases in the lesson.
To motivate the Ss and prepare for the new lesson.
Lead-in
1．Ask: Huang Yang guang can touch the world without hands, Zhang Haidi can touch the world with feet. Do you know this lady? Can she touch the world?
2．Play the audiotape for the first two paragraphs.
Discuss the questions in every group.
The Ss Listen and answer the questions.
To motivate the Ss and lead in the new concept.
New Concept
1．Read the lesson and answer the questions.
（1） What's the name of Helen's teacher?
（2） Helen can't speak at all. (T/F)
（3） What was Helen famous for?
2．Read the lesson again and answer the questions.
（1）How did Anne Sullivan teach Helen Keller?
（2）What was the first word Helen Keller learned?
（3）Helen could learn at university by herself. (T/F)
（4）Who did Helen help?
（5）What can you learn from Helen?
Read the lesson and finish the exercises.
The Ss answer the questions independently and then discuss the answers in groups.
To get to know the key information about the lesson.
To get to know the details about the lesson.
Exercise
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.
The Ss try to fill in the blanks with the words and in the lesson.
To check if they grasp the main words in the lesson.
Group Work
1．Show some pictures of famous disabled people.
2．Talk about them with their group members.
Discuss it in groups and choose some of them to talk in class.
To give Ss time to practice their speaking abilities.
Writing
Ask the Ss to write a short passage about the disabled people.
Write a short passage about the disabled people.
To give Ss time to practice their writing abilities.
Homework
1．Finish off the exercises in the lesson.
2．Copy your passage on the exercise book.
Unit 2 Great People
Lesson 11
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 Procedures
（1）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.
（2）Listen to the tape and answer the following questions
When and where was Bethune born?
（3）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?
（4）Deal with the language points with the help of audiotape.
Make a list of the language points:
Be well-known for /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.
（5）Come 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.
（6）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.
Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on the next reading in the student book.
Unit 2 Great People
Lesson 12
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?
Important and Difficult Points
Passive voice
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids
Audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedures
（1）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.
（2）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.
（3）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.
（4）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 color as my mother's.
S4: I like the same music as you.
（5）Come 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.
（6）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.
（7）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.
Home-work
Finish the activity book.
Go on to do the exercises in the next lesson.
Unit 2 Great People
Lesson 7
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 Aids
Audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Teaching Procedures
（1）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.
（2）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.
（3）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.
（4）Discussion.
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.
In this discussion, 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.
（5）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.
Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on the next reading in the student book.
Unit 2 Great People
Lesson 8
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 Procedures
（1）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 Teaching Difficult Pointss 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.
（2）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.
（3）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.
（4）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.
（5）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?
（6）Come 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.
（7）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 colorful life, we must study hard. Now our learning situation is much better than before. We must make more progress and research more.
Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on the next reading in the student book.
Unit 2 Great People
Lesson 9
Teaching Aims
Knowledge
By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to read, understand and use the new words and phrases e.g. introduction, leader, produce, together with, since then.
Ability
1．To be able to talk about great people and their lives
2．To use their imagination boldly and talk about their inventions.
Emotion
To encourage them to have a great dream and work hard for it
Important and
Difficult Points
To use the new words and phrases to talk about great people and their lives and their inventions.
Teaching Procedures
Ⅰ．Teacher's activities
Ⅱ．Students' activities
Ⅲ．Aims
Warm up
1．Show some pictures and teach
2．New words and phrases in the lesson.
Learn new words and phrases in the lesson.
To motivate the Ss and prepare for the new lesson.
Lead-in
1．Ask:
（1）Did you have a dream when you were a child? What was it?
（2）Do you think great people work all the time and have no other interests at all?
4．Play the audiotape for the last paragraph.
Discuss the questions in every group.
The Ss Listen and circle the hobby about Yuan Longping that is NOT mentioned in the lesson.
To motivate the Ss and lead in the new concept.
New Concept
1．Play the audiotape for the lesson.
2．Read the lesson and write true (T) or false (F).
（1）He grew a new type of rice as a child. ( )
（2）He had an idea for hybrid rice in the 1960s. ( )
（3）He studied agriculture at university. ( )
（4）He is working hard on developing super hybrid rice now. ( )
（5）He plays the violin for half an hour before he goes to bed. ( )
2．Read the lesson again and fill in the blanks.
Listen and read after the tape.
Read the lesson and finish the exercises.
The Ss complete the exercise independently and then discuss the answers in groups.
In order to correct the students' pronunciation
To get to know the key information about the lesson.
To get to know the details about the lesson.
Retelling
Show some key words and help the Ss to retell the text.
Retell the text in groups.
To practice their speaking abilities.
Exercise
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.
The Ss try to fill in the blanks with the words and phrases in the lesson.
To check if they grasp the
Main words and phrases in the lesson.
Group Work
1．Show a picture about the interesting inventions.
2．Talk about an invention to make life better with their group members.
Discuss it in groups and choose some of them to talk in class.
To give Ss time to practice their speaking abilities.
Writing
Ask the Ss to write a short passage about their invention.
Write a short passage about their inventions.
To give Ss time to practice their writing abilities.
Homework
1．Finish off the exercises in the lesson.
2．Copy your passage on the exercise book.
