人教新课标高一英语必修四 Unit 1 Women of achievement 全单元教案

Unit 1 Women of achievement
Brief introduction to the unit
The topic of this unit is women of achievement. It briefly introduces several great women from different countries, talks about women’s important role in different fields and speaks highly of women’s achievement.
Teaching goals
1. Talk about great women’s achievements and their characters.
2. Be familiar with the word, phrases and expressions describing a person especially a great woman.
3. Learn sth about agreement.
4. Learn to write about a woman by giving an example and then drawing a conclusion.
Period one Reading
Teaching aims:
Get the students to be familiar with Jane Goodall and know the importance of protecting wildlife , and get them to realize the important qualities a person should have to be successful.
Get the students to understand the structure of the reading material and learn to summarize the story.
Get the students to learn some phrases and structures and try to use it freely.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Warming up
Before class ask the students to look for information about a kind of animals, including their habits, food, marriage, etc. and report it in class as a warming-up exercise.
There are a variety of animals in the world. How much do you know about wildlife? Please introduce some to the whole class.
Let’s enjoy a video about chimps.
Show a video clip of a chimp trying to crack a nut and get them to think.
What do you know about the chimps?
It helps us to understand how much they behave like humans.
Do you think it necessary to protect wildlife?
Yes, because they are our friends…
Step 2 Skimming (individual work)
There is a woman called Jane Goodall who is protecting chimps in Africa. What do we call her?
Show the topic A Protector of African Wildlife.
What do you know about her?
Jane Goodall博士于2002年4月16日被任命为联合国和平使者。她因其在保护坦桑尼亚黑猩猩方面所做的开拓性工作而享有盛誉，这一工作在42年前就开始了。为表彰其在环保研究、环保教育、环保倡议等方面所作出的贡献，联合国秘书长任命她为可持续发展峰会顾问小组的成员，协助峰会达到预定目标。
Jane Goodall is more than just the "chimpanzee lady". Her work gives new insight to our own humanness and humaneness. We now have the knowledge to explore our own behaviors and emotions in a new light. Jane was born in London, England on April 3, 1934. When she was a younggirl, Jane spent as much time outdoors as she could , exploring various creatures. She had a very good relationship with her mother. Their good relationship continued, even as she fought her way to Africa, spendingmuch time outside as she could.
When Jane was 18 months old, Vanne found her with a bunch of earthworms in her bed. Jane has been doing research at Gombe for 38 years now.
At the age of eleven, Jane decided that she wanted to go to Africa, maybe even live there.
Altogether there are three paragraphs in the text. Read through the passage and tell us the main ideas of each paragragh
Para1 A day in Gombe National Park
Para2 Jane’s 40 years’ work on observing chimps
Para 3 Her attitude to animals and her achievements
What’s Jane Goodall’s daily work like? Try to describe it as if you are Jane and telling the story to your students. After that, ask the students to fill in the blanks.
She is really a great woman, what does she think of the animals, can you guess? Try to read her diary in the third paragraph, and tell us her attitude to animals. And what’s her great achievement ?
Since she has spent almost 40 years in the forest studying chimps. Let’s have a look at what she has done and has seen in the past forty years.
Step 3 Scanning (pair work)
Why did she not study in college but determined to go to the forest?
To Study the animals in their environment.
A day and 40 years are a great contrast . What difficulties would she met when going to African forests and live there?
Opposition from her family and friends, hard conditions in the forests, fear of staying alone, inconvenience for a woman to travel and do her studies, her child…
Divide the class into two parts, one part looking for what Jane Goodall has done to achieve her goal, the other part looking for her research on chimps in the forests. Each part deals with different goal.
What did Jane do in the past 40 years to achieve her goal of studying chimps?
Ask the students to read the text carefully this time and try to find out the sentences describing her action , then work in groups of four and report their findings in class, She did not study at a university but she was determined to work with animals in their environment. (determination)
Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months, was she allowed to begin her project. (support from family)
She has argued for them to be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements. (great love and sympathy towards wildlife)
Has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. (belief in equality between human and animals)
She has set up special places where they can live safely.
Gain a doctor’s degree for her studies (diligence )
and choose one of them to make a speech about Jane Goodall by beginning like this : I think Jane Goodall is a great woman…
Humans and animals should live in peace. Jane helps us to understand wildlife better.
Her characters /her love towards nature /her awareness / her support from her mother …
What did Jane observe in the African forest?
Ask the other part of the students to read through the text at the same time and find out more information about chimps, then make a comparison between humans and chimps.
a. Either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family
b. The mother chimp and her babies play in the tree and, after they come into her arms, we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night.
c. chimps hunt and eat meat.
d. how chimps communicate with each other and her study of their body language
helped her work out their social system.
the similarities and differences between humans and chimps and make a conclusion about what we should do to chimps since humans are capable of anything.
We share many things with chimps:
We share 98% of DNA with chimps, they often use facial expression that look uncannily human, they greet each other with a kiss, a hug and a gentle touch, they can make tools, etc. We are sharing one earth , we staying together, and what humans are doing to wildlife will later affect human’s life.
Step 4 Discussion (group work)
Jane Goodall is so determined to continue such a hard job. She is surely a woman of great determination as well as a great heart. Do you want to know more about her. Let’s read her diary together, let the students read the italicized part in para3 together and suppose you are Jane Goodall, you are also writing a diary about one day’s observation in the forest, ask them to work in pairs and report their diary according some key words.
What do you think is the best way to protect wildlife?
Organize a team to publicize the importance of wildlife
Put on a performance to add to the importance of protecting wildlife
Have a lecture about wildlife
Photogragh these rare animals
Go to the forest to meet chimps
Each group choose one possible solution and work out the details about the programmes
Step 5 Homework
Ask the students to write a short passage about Jane goodall and her contributions to our world.
Period two Learning about language
The Subject-Verb Agreement
Teaching aims:
1. Learn the rules of the Subject-Verb Agreement.
2. Help the students master the way of using the proper form of verbs in the Subject-Verb Agreement.
Teaching important points: The rules of the Subject-Verb Agreement.
Teaching difficult points: How to use the proper form of verbs in the Subject-Verb Agreement.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1: Lead-in
Give students two pictures and four incomplete sentences and then ask students to fill in the blanks.
The group _is_ made up of nine students.
The group _are dancing happily.
The team has some good players. (have)
The team _are_ handsome. (be)
Step2: Group discussion
1. Ask students to have a group discussion and find out the grammar rules in the above four sentences.
Grammar rules: Collective nouns can have a singular or plural verb. If the noun refers to a whole unit, the verb is singular. If it refers to the different members of a unit, the verb is plural.
2. Ask students what words are collective nouns.
Collective nouns: group, family, class, government, team, public, enemy, crowd, company, audience, club, party, police，army, band, minority and so on.
由集体名词，如group, family, class, government, team, public, enemy, crowd, company, audience, club, party, crew等作主语时,如果看成一个整体，谓语动词用单数形式,如果看成其中各成员，则用复数形式.
注意：集体名词为 people, police, cattle，谓语动词用复数形式
E.g. The police are searching for the thief.
3. Ask students to do some exercises.
Step3: Learning the rules of the Subject-Verb Agreement
一、代词作主语
Give students four examples.
(1). Neither dog _ A__ big. ( A. is B. are )
(2). Neither of them _ A / B__ big. ( A. is B. are )
(3). Neither rabbit __A_ handsome. ( A. is B. are )
(4). Neither of the rabbits _ A / B__ handsome.( A. is B. are )
2. Ask students how to use none and neither.
neither + n.(singl.) →V.(singl.)
neither of → n.(C) →V. ↗singl.
↘plural.
none of → n.(C) →V. ↗singl.
↘plural.
n. (U) →V.(singl.)
3. Ask students to do some exercises.
(1).None of these people __C_ doctors.
A. has B. is C. are D. was
(2).Neither of them _B__ a good singer.
A. are B. is C. were D. is used to be
(3).Neither of us _ was/were _ (was/were) ready when the party began.
(4). None of them __ has/have _ (has/have) watched the talk show.
4. Ask students what words are indefinite pronouns.
Indefinite pronouns: everybody, anybody, everyone, nobody, somebody, everything, anything, nothing, something.
当这些词做主语时，谓语动词用单数，在句中我们可以用they 来代替它们，有时我们可以用he/she来代替。
5. Ask students to do some exercises.
(1). Nothing _is difficult in the world if you set your mind to it .
(2).Nobody thought they/he/she_ would have to pay for _their/his/her own ticket(s).
二、用作主语的两个名词或代词由or, either… or, neither… nor, both… and或not only… but also连接
Give students six incomplete sentences and ask them to fill in the blanks.
(1). Bob __is__ a worker.
(2). Mike and Bob __are__ workers.
(3). Both Mike and Bob _are__ workers.
(4). Neither Mike nor Bob __is__ a teacher.
(5). Neither of them _knows/know______ (know) how to teach English.
(6). None of them ___knows/know _________ (know) how to teach English.
2. Give students the rules.
A or B ←Verb
Not A but B ←Verb
Either A or B←Verb
Neither A nor B←Verb
Not only A but also B←Verb
Here +verb →A and B
There+verb→A Band C
3. Ask students to do some exercises.
(1). Not only you but also he _is_ wrong. (is/are)
(2). Neither you nor he _is__ right. (is/are)
(3). There _are__ two shops and a cinema beside the railway station. (is/are)
(4). Here _is_ a map and a handbook for you. (is/are)
三、由and连接的两个并列主语指同一个人或物，谓语动词用单数，这时后面的名词没有冠词。
Give students two pictures.
The singer and dancer _is__ on the stage.
A knife and fork is used to have meals.
2. Ask students to do some exercises.
(1).The worker and writer __visits__ our school today. ( visit )
(2).The worker and the writer __have come____ to the meeting. (have come / has come )
(3)Each man and woman __A__the same rights.
A. has B. have
　C. had D. is having
由each, every, no, many a所修饰的名词，即使用 and连接作主语，谓语动词一般用单数。
四、当主语后面跟有as well as, as much as, no less than, along with, with ,like, rather than, together with , but ,except, besides, ,including等引导的词组时，其谓语动词的单、复数由主语的单、复数而定。
Give students two examples.
(1). The teacher with two students __was__ at the meeting . (was / were)
(2).E-mail, as well as the telephones, __A___ an important part in daily communication.
A. is playing B. have played C. are playing D. play
2. Ask students to do some exercises.
(1) A library with five thousand books _A__ to the nation as a gift. A. is offered B. has offered C. are offered D. have offered
(2)Nobody but Jane _B__ the secret.
A. know B. knows
C. have known D. is known
五、分词、量词作主语
1.由分数或百分数或a lot of, lots of, plenty of, half of, the rest of, some of, most of, all of , (a) part of +名词作主语时，谓语动词的形式与of 后面的名词的数一致
2. Give students some examples.
Lots of damage was caused by fire.
Some students are planting trees. The rest of them are watering them.
Tom is one of the students who are good at playing football.
Tom is the only one of the students who is good at playing football.
[注意]在“one of+复数名词+关系代词”的结构中，定语从句中谓语动词用复数形式；但是若前有the only, 将其限定为只有一个时,谓语动词用单数形式.
六、名词化的形容词作主语
Give students some examples.
The rich are to help the poor.
The wounded was a young boy.
以定冠词the + adj.（或过去分词）结构作主语，谓语动词常用复数形式，如the brave, the poor, the blind, the sick, the unemployed等，但有少数过去分词与定冠词连用时指个体，用单数形式。
七、当主语由不定式、动名词或疑问词引导的句子充当时，谓语动词用单数。
Give students some examples.
(1).To hold the Olympic Games _is__ a rich prize for a country. (be)
(2). Choosing what to eat _is_ no longer as easy as it once was.
(3). What we need is more time and more materials.
由what, who, why, how, whether等引导的主语从句，谓语动词通常用单数，(但所指的具体内容为复数意义，则可以用复数形式. What we need are teachers.)
八、表示时间、金钱、距离、重量等复数名词，在表示单位数量用作主语时，通常被看作整体，谓语动词用单数。
Give students some examples.
A million dollars _is_(is/are) really a lot of money.
Sixty years is a long time.
Three thousand miles is a long distance.
Fifty kilogrammes is not too heavy to be carried.
Step4: Practice and exercises
Step5: Homework
Finish workbook page 43 using structures 1 and page 44 using structures 2.
Period three Using Language
Teaching Aims:
1. Improve Ss’ reading and listening abilities.
2. Get Ss to know more about the great woman “Lin Qiaozhi”
3. Know some words and sentences. eg. Strike, deliver a baby, etc
Teaching important and difficult points:
Improving Ss’ integrating skills of reading and listening.
Teaching procedures
Step1.Greating and Lead-in
1. Greet the Ss
2. A guessing game “who is she?”
( T reads some sentences and get the Ss to guess who she is ).
Sentence 1: She is a great woman and famous doctor.
S2: She was born in the early 20th century.
S3: She remained single (didn’t get married) all her life.
S4: She wrote a book for country side women…
…
Students will work out she is Lin Qiaozhi.
Step2. Reading
T: Lin Qiaozhi is not only a great woman, but a good example for us. After reading, you will have the same feeling.
(1)Fast reading (Listen and answer)
Q1: Which period did she live in? She lived in the early 20th century.
Q2: True or false:
After reading about Lin Qiaozhi, the writer was moved by what she did, so she decided to study medicine. (T)
(2)Careful reading
Para1.
Q1.from para.1,what can we infer?
A. The writer’s home work was to change her life.
B. The writer liked biology and chemistry.
C. The writer was a middle school student.
D. The writer was studying at university.
Para2.
Q2: Why did Lin Qiaozhi write a small book?
A. It explained how to cut the death rate from having and caring for babies.
B. She wanted to make money.
C. It was intended for women lived in the country side and could not read a doctor.
D. Both A and C.
Para3.
Q1: Was it easy for a woman to get medical education at that time? Why?
No, it wasn’t. Because women’s education was always placed second to men’s at that time.
Q2: What made Lin Qiaozhi famous?
It was not her success at university that had made her famous. It was her kindness and the consideration she showed to all her patients.
Para4.
Q1:What were her sacrifices?
She devoted her whole life to her patients and chose not to have a family of her own.
Setp3. Consolidation
Can you write down three of Lin Qiaozhi’s achievements?
⑴ She became a specialist in women’s diseases.
⑵ She got a medical training.
⑶ She made sure that about 50,000 babies were safely delivered to their mother.
What do you think are the important qualities a good doctor should have?
(students may have different ideas)
Suggested answer: A doctor should be kind, friendly, Skillful, helpful, considerate, and so on.
How many words can you find in the text used to describe Lin Qiaozhi?
Suggested answer: busy, hard word, determination, good nature, kindness and consideration.
Setp4. Language points.
⑴ strike v. 击，打；袭击，突然想起
Eg: 1.It suddenly struck me how we could improve the situation.
2.The stone struck me on my head.
A good idea me, let’s go swimming.
A. hit B. bit C. happened D. struck
⑵ deliver a baby
have a baby
deliver 传送；送交；为??????接生，助产；
信件是每天递送的。(translation)
Letters are delivered every day.
2. She ______ three babies every day on average.
A. have B. has C. delivers D. delivered
3. She ______ her baby in hospital.
A. had B. has C. delivers D. delivered
⑶ choose to do宁愿；偏要；决定；
Eg: He would rather fly than drive. （同义句）
He _________fly rather than ______.
Step5. Pre-listening
T: It’s hard for female to be successful in her business or career.
Can you give me any reason? May be listening is helpful for you to answer this question.
Step 6. Listening
⑴ True or false
1. Girls often leave school earlier for family reasons.
2. When there is very little money, the school often prevents girls from training.
3. Girls don’t have a chance to run a company.
4. When women have children, they have to stop work.
5. Men have more chances to get to the top of their career than women.
6. Men can do whatever they like.
⑵ Answer the following question.
What three problems do women have which do not apply to men?
⑶ Fill in the blank.
1. This ________ girl from training for their chosen__________.
2. Most of the __________ and running the house is the _________ of the mother. Men do not have this pressure.
3. Think about what __________ they have had to face.
Step7. Summary.
We know, in the past, people thought little of women and their education, But now, women play more and more important part in our daily life even in the international position. I wish all girls in our class can also be great women in the future.
Period four Workbook
Teaching aims:
Improve students’ listening ability
Learn about three great women.
Difficult points:
Learn to describe people freely.
Learn to respect women.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead –in
When we talk about women, which words will you think of?
2.Will you think of wars, politics and welfare?
Today, we’ll learn three stories about women and wars, women and politics, women and welfare affairs.
First let’s read a story about women and wars.
Step 2 Listening I
Show a picture of Joan. “Who’s this?” “What happened to her?”
1. Listen to the tape and get the main idea of he passage.
It is about a woman called Joan helped the French Army to fight against the English Army.
2. Listen to the tape again and do True or False.
T 1.Joan dressed up as a man soldier because she wasn’t allowed to be soldiers.
F 2.The church didn’t like Joan acting as a man because Joan had not behaved as a woman should.
F 3.Before Joan became a soldier France had won the war.
T 4.Joan helped the French army to fight better even after her death.
F 5.After her death she was honored a saint.
Step3 Listening II
Now let’s learn a story about “women and politics”.
1. Show a picture of Jody Williams and introduced her.
2. What’s the main idea for the passage?（D）
A. Jody Williams is not interested in the work for the International campaign to Ban Landmines.
B. Jody Williams received an even great honour for her work.
C. Jody Williams is talking about many wars in West Africa.
D. Jody Williams is explaining about her work for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
3. Listen to the tape again and fill in the form.
Research notes on ICBL
1Its leader
2Its aims
3Its method of working
4Its area of working
5Jody William’s role
6Her relationship with governments
7The Oslo Agreement
8The new honor
Step4 Reading
Now let’s read s story about “women and welfare affairs”.
Show a picture of Elizabeth Fry
Can you say something about her?
Skimming
Read the text quickly and find out four “not” about Elizabeth Fry.
(1) Para1 But Elizabeth was not content with her easy life and her growing family.
(2) Para2 But Elizabeth was not afraid.
(3) Para3 Of course she did not do all the work on her own.
(4) Para4 Her ideas did not disappear after her death…
3. Careful reading
(1) How was the life in prison in 19th century?
(2) What did she do to help prisoners?
(3)What were the results?
Current situation Her help
No beds, clean clothes, food or heating Provided food, clean clothes and straw for beds
No chance of education Began a school
No money Taught …to sew, knit and make goods to sell
No status Discussed how to improve the conditions for prisoners with the leaders
Results:
For women prisoners:
(1)They could make money and gain self-respect.
(2)They began to try to improve their conditions for themselves.
For Fry herself:
(1)She gain the friendship of the prisoners.
4. Understanding
What can we learn from her story?
Offer help to others, and you’ll get favour as well.( 予人玫瑰，手留余香)
Step5 Sum-up
Today we’ve known about three great women. They’re Joan, Jody and Elizabeth.
Which word can we describe Joan best? Brave
Which words cannot describe Jody? Young, selfish.
What do you think of Elizabeth? Helpful, kind, generous
Discussion
1. Should modern women spend more time on families or on careers? Why?
2. What is more important for women, beauty or wisdom?
3. What kind of woman do you appreciate? Why?
Homework:
Up to now, we have learned five great women in this unit, which of the five women inspires(激励) you most? Describe her and explain why you admire（敬慕） her.
Period five Speaking and writing
Teaching goals:
1. Learn to talk about famous women and get familiar with the words, phrases and sentences describing a person’s quality and personality.
2. Learn to write about a famous person with enough details to show his good qualities.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
1.Up to now, we have learned five great women in this unit, which of the five women inspires you most? Describe her and explain why you admire her.(Get the Ss to talk about what they did and their qualities)
Elizabeth Fry: help improve prison conditions, warm-hearted, helpful, generous,
unselfish …
Jane Goodall: study and protect chimps, determined, strong-willed, diligent, knowledgeable,
loving, sympathetic …
Jody Williams: prevent the making and use of landmines, responsible, determined,
peace-loving…
Joan of Arc : drive the English from France, brave, patriotic, faithful…
Lin Qiaozhi : help women and children with their illnesses and health, kind, hard-working,
caring, devoted…
2.What do they have in common?
Step 2 Speaking
Speaking 1:Ask the Ss how much do they know about Madame Curie and Mother Teresa, then ask them to give an oral report about Madame Curie and Mother Teresa according to the key words.
Connecting words
Illustration I think, I believe, In my opinion…
Addition Secondly…And then…Besides…In addition…
Contrast But, However, On the other hand
Summary In a word, In short, Therefore, So
(1)Madam Curie(1867-1891): discovered polonium and radium, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903,won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911
(2)Mother Teresa (a nun): born in Albania in 1910, devoted herself to working for the poor in India, won Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, died on September 5, 1997
Speaking 2: Talk about the great women they know in groups of four with the help of some useful expressions.
She sees to me to be the kind of woman who …
I think she is the kind of person who …
The impression she makes on me is …
Her character is honest, hard-working, energetic, determined,…
Her personality is modest, kind, considerate, quiet, lively, friendly, helpful,…
Step 3 Writing
Write a short passage. The title is “A woman I admire”. You can choose one or two
interesting examples to show her character, describe what difficult situation she faced and how she solved the problem.(Provide the Ss with the structure and connecting words)
Show the picture of Soong Chingling, ask the Ss who she is and why is she a great woman.
She concerned herself with welfare affairs. Then show the example of Soong Chingling.
Soong Chinglin
Soong Chinglin, one of the top leaders in our history, was respected as the mother of China because she had devoted her life to our happiness.
In her early political life, she followed Dr Sun Yat-sen to realize “ the three principles”. Although she suffered from her husband’s death and cruel wars in the following years, she stuck to fighting with all the Chinese. Since the PRC was founded, she had concerned herself with welfare projects, especially for women and children.
Loving, ambitious, determined, intelligent and hardworking, she was one of the great women in our history.
Step 4 Homework
Go over the whole unit and try to read more about other great women.