Module 9 Life history
Unit 1 He left school and began work at the age of twelve.
设计说明
本单元设置节日的场景，教授学生有关日期表达的相关句型。通过听力练习，进一步巩固所学句型；通过对话表演，让学生在真实情境中进行学习，同时也为第二、三单元的学习扫清语言障碍。
教学目标
通过本单元的教学，让学生达成以下目标:
1.知识目标：
掌握单词和短语：March, April, June, Women’s Day, National Day, Children’s Day, July, August, September, October, November, December, writer, find out, real, at the age of, newspaper, exact, date, become, in the 1860s。
2.能力目标：
(1)能谈论历史名人；
(2)能通过不同目的的听力训练，迅速提取有用的信息；
(3)能听懂、读懂、理解和复述对话。
3.情感目标：
通过听说训练，学习名人刻苦钻研和勤奋学习的精神。
重点难点
重点：动词的过去式。
难点：询问和回答过去的事情和经历。
教学准备
PPT 课件；有关节日的图片；活动2、3、6的录音。
授课时数
2课时
教学过程
Step 1 Warming up
1. Ask the following questions and let students answer according to the pictures.
2. Ask the students to look at the words in the boxes of Activity 1.Match the festivals with the months.
Answers:
a)—9 b)—3 c)—12 d)—10 e)—6 f)—1 g)—5 h)—2/1
3. Ask the students to talk about when the festivals are.
Step 2 Listening
Listen and choose the correct answer in Activity 2.
Answers: 1.was 2.1935 3.America ,October
Step 3 Listening and reading.
1. Ask the students to listen to the dialogue and choose the correct answer of the following questions.
1 Where was Mark Twain from?
A. England. B. America. C. China.
2 When was Mark Twain born?
A. In 1835. B. In 1845. C. In 1855.
3 When did Mark Twain begin work?
A. When he was 11.
B. When he was 12.
C. When he was 13.
4 When did Mark Twain become famous?
A. In the 1840s. B. In the 1850s. C. In the 1860s.
Answers:1-4 BABC
2. Let the students find out some phrases and the difficult points.
3. Explain the difficult points.
4. Play the tape once again and ask the students to complete the table about Mark Twain on Page 55.
Answers:
5. Let the students find the past form of the verbs in the conversation in Activity 4.
Answers: be—was/were; become—became; begin—began; do—did; get— got; go—went; know—knew; leave—left; read—read; take—took; write—wrote
Step 4 Practice
Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 5. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words from the box.
Check the answers together.
Answers: 1. age 2. real 3. newspaper 4. became 5. Europe 6. writer
Step 5 Language points
1. Hey, we can find out about him on the Internet. 嘿，我们可以在网上查明有关他的资料。
辨析：find out与find
find out
发现；查明；弄清
强调过程，通常指通过各种手段或方式探清、查明具体的东西或抽象的数据或道理等
find
发现；找到
强调结果，通常指找到或发现具体的东西
We tried to find out the answer to the question.
我们尽力弄清楚了这个问题的答案。
I looked for my pen everywhere. At last I found it in my bag.
我到处寻找我的钢笔，最后在我的书包里找到了。
2. He left school and began work at the age of twelve.
他在12岁时离开学校开始工作。
at the age of意为“在……岁时”，后接基数词。表示在某人多大时，也可以直接用“at +年龄”。
My sister began to learn dance at the age of three.
= My sister began to learn dance at three.我姐姐在三岁时开始学习跳舞。
[拓展] at the age of在功能上相当于一个when引导的时间状语从句。
The famous scientist died at the age of 86.
= The famous scientist died when he was 86 years old.
这位著名的科学家在86岁去世。
3.He wrote for a newspaper. 他为报纸撰稿。
newspaper是可数名词，意为“报纸”。表示读书看报通常用动词read。
My grandfather reads newspapers every night.
我爷爷每天晚上看报纸。
4.But he took the name Mark Twain and became very famous in the 1860s. 不过他在19世纪60年代取名马克·吐温，并变得非常有名。
(1) become连系动词，意为“变得；变成”，过去式是became，后面通常接形容词或名词作表语。
She became happy soon. 很快她变得高兴起来。
The weather becomes hot when summer comes.
夏天到来后天气变得炎热起来。
He became a writer at the age of 26.
他在26岁时成为一位作家。
(2) in the 1860s意为“在19世纪60年代”。“in +the +整十年份+s”或“in+ the +整十年份+’s”表达年代。
in the 1980s = in the 1980’s 在20世纪80年代
Step 6 Pronunciation and speaking
1. Play the recording once without stopping.
2. Play the recording again and stop at the end of each line. Ask the whole class to repeat.
Let the students work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions about Mark Twain in Activity 7.
Answers: 1. No, it wasn’t. 2. Yes, she did. 3. No, he didn’t. 4. Yes, he did. 5. No, he didn’t.
Step 7 Homework
1. Recite the conversation.
2. Talk with your partner about a famous writer you know.
当堂达标
I.根据句意从括号内选择合适的词填空。
1. — Is D__________ the last month of the year?
—Yes, it is. That?is?not?________?box.?That?box?is very small, but ______is very?big.?(?I?)
2. The boy says he is Mike. But I know Mike isn’t his r______ name.?
3. I remember it happened in March, but I can’t remember the ________（确切）date.
4. Is there anything interesting in today’s ____________（报纸）?
5. Our National Day is on 1st O__________.
II. 用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. We celebrate __________ (teach) Day on September 10th.
2. Mr Green isn’t here. He ________ (leave) for the library just now.
3. My father __________ (become) a doctor at the age of 26.
4. —What do you want to do in the future?
— I want to be a ________ (write).
5. I ______ (know) nothing about the great man when I was young.
6. She left school and ________ (begin) work at 16.
答案：I. 1. December; my; mine 2. real 3. exact 4. Newspaper 5.October Ⅱ.1. Teachers’ 2. Left 3. became 4. writer 5. knew 6. began
板书设计
教学反思
Module 9 Life history
Unit 2 He decided to be an actor.
设计说明
本单元借助一些图片场景，教授学生用一般过去时描述自己或他人过去的经历。通过练习进一步巩固所学知识；通过讲解课文让学生在具体情境中进行学习，进一步为后面学习扫清语言障碍。
教学目标
通过本单元的教学，让学生达成以下目标:
1.知识目标：
掌握单词和短语：play, poem, marry, successful, work, build, on, fire, die, rich, language, around the world, young。
2.能力目标：
(1)能用一般过去时描述自己或他人过去的经历;
(2)学会写描写人物传记的文章。
3.情感目标：
通过今夕对比，学会珍惜自己所拥有的；通过学习伟人事迹，激发学习热情。
重点难点
重点：使学生理解课文内容。
难点：让学生学会写关于伟人的文章。
教学准备
PPT 课件；有关莎士比亚及其作品的图片；活动1的录音。
授课时数
2课时
教学过程
Step 1 Warming up
Show some pictures or PPT of William Shakespeare and his works. Ask and answer.
Who is he?
Can you tell me the name of the following works？
Step 2 Pre-reading
Ask the students to work in pairs. Read the passage and decide what William Shakespeare wrote in Activity 1.
Check the answers in pairs.
Answers: plays, poems
Step 3 Listening and reading.
1. Listen to the tape.
2. Read the passage by themselves and put the sentences in the correct order on Page 56.
Answers: a-f 4 5 3 1 6 2
3. Ask the students to read the passage again and complete the timeline for Shakespeare with the correct form of the words and expressions from the box in Activity 3.
Answers:
4. Get the students to work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about Shakespeare. Use the information in Activity 3.
5. Get the students to find out the difficult language points and have a discussion in groups. Share them with the whole class.
6. Read the phrases in the passage and put them into Chinese.
Answers: 1.几个；一些 2.在学校 3.决定做某事 4.开始做某事 5.在20世纪90年代 6.在……岁时 7.全世界 8.用英语 9.在忙人的一生中
Step 4 Language points
1. William Shakespeare was a famous English writer of plays and poems. 威廉?莎士比亚是英国著名的剧作家和诗人。
play在此作可数名词，意为“戏剧；剧本”。
We all like the TV play. 我们都喜欢这部电视剧。
There will be some good plays on at the theatre.
在这个剧院将上演几部优秀戏剧。
[拓展] play作动词，意为“玩；打球；演奏”。
play games 做游戏
play football 踢足球
play the piano 弹钢琴
2. Like many people 400 years ago, Shakespeare’s parents didn’t learn to read or write. 像400年前的许多人一样，莎士比亚的父母不识字。
(1) like 此处作介词，意为“像”，后接名词、代词或动词-ing形式。
Like many other children, Wang Lingling enjoys reading story books.
像许多其他孩子们一样，王玲玲喜欢读故事书。
[拓展] like作动词，意为“喜欢”。
Do you like collecting stamps?
你喜欢收集邮票吗？
(2)or连词，意为“也不”，用于否定句中连接并列的成分。
I don’t like bananas or apples. 我不喜欢香蕉，也不喜欢苹果。
3. He married in 1582 and had three children. 他于1582年结婚，并有了三个孩子。
marry的常见用法有：
(1)作不及物动词，意为“结婚”。
When did your parents marry? 你父母什么时候结的婚？
(2)作及物动词，意为“娶；嫁”。marry sb.意为“娶/嫁某人”。
Last year, Tom married Linda. 去年，汤姆娶了琳达。
(3) get married意为“结婚”；get married to sb. 意为“与某人结婚”。
He got married to a beautiful girl at the age of 28.
他28岁时与一位漂亮的女孩结了婚。
4. He became a successful actor and began to write plays.
他成为一名成功的演员，并开始写戏剧。
successful形容词，意为“成功的”，可位于名词之前作定语或位于连系动词之后作表语。
I think Wandering Earth is a successful film.
我认为《流浪地球》是一部成功的电影。
Nancy was successful in finding a good job.
南希成功地找到了一份好的工作。
5. Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed his works very much.
女王伊丽莎白一世很喜欢他的作品。
work此处作可数名词，意为“作品；著作”，复数形式是works。
There are some works of art in the museum.
在这个博物馆中有一些艺术品。
I enjoy reading works by Lu Xun. 我喜欢读鲁迅的作品。
[拓展]
(1) work作不数名词，意为“工作”。
He usually has a lot of work to do every day.
他通常每天有大量的工作要做。
(2) work作不及物动词，意为“工作”。
She works in a big company.
她在一家大公司工作。
Step 5 Practice
Ask the students to complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box in Activity 5.
Answers: (1)married (2)languages (3)poems (4)successful/rich
(5) rich/successful (6)fire (7)died
Step 6 Writing
1. Let the students look at the sentences in Activity 6.
2. Let the students write sentences about events in your life using sentences“I was born…”“At the age of…”
3. Ask some of the students share their work with the whole class.
4. Let the students work in pairs.
Student A: Show the map to Student B and read your directions.
Student B: Mark Student A’s home on the map.
Step 7 Homework
1. Read the passage.
2. Talk with your partner about William Shakespeare and his works.
当堂达标
Ⅰ.单项填空。
1. She can speak many ______, such as Chinese and English.
A. parts B. languages
C. clothes D. products
2. They built a new building ______ the river.
A. on B. of C. at D. from
3. Mary got married ______ a supermarket manager last month.
A. with B. in C. to D. for
4. She can’t sing ______ dance.
A. and B. with C. to D. or
5. My English friend Lucy can tell ______ Chinese stories. She’s so cool.
A. few B. a few C. little D. a little
Ⅱ. 根据句意及汉语提示完成单词。
1. Don’t play with ______（火）. It’s dangerous.
2. Last year, I read some of Mark Twain’s _______（著作）.
3. Tom was a _______（富有的）man. He often helped the poor.
4. —What do you think of the two _______（戏剧）?
—They are a bit boring.
5. They are going to _______（建造）a new library over there.
答案：Ⅰ. 1-5 BACDB
Ⅱ.1. fire 2. works 3. rich 4.plays 5. build
板书设计
教学反思
Module 9 Life history
Unit 3 Language in use
设计说明
本单元通过让学生朗读Language practice中的句子，总结一般过去时的用法，通过图表总结动词过去式的规则和不规则变化，通过活动1-4练习，强化学生运用一般过去时的能力，达到学以致用。
教学目标
通过本单元的教学，让学生达成以下目标:
1.知识目标：
(1)复习一般过去时的用法;
(2)复习巩固本模块的生词、短语及句型。
2.能力目标：
(1)能读懂有关伟人事迹的文章；
(2)完成本单元重要词汇的填空。
3.情感目标：
了解邓亚萍的生长轨迹，学习她努力拼搏的精神。
重点难点
重点：一般过去时。
难点：不规则动词的过去式。
教学准备
PPT 课件；课本。
授课时数
1课时
教学过程
Step 1 Grammar
1. Ask the students to read the sentences in Language practice. Pay attention to the words in bold type.
Summary：一般过去时(不规则动词)
一、复习：含实义动词的一般过去时的基本句型
肯定句
主语＋实义动词的过去式＋其他．
否定句
主语＋didn’t＋实义动词原形＋其他．
一般疑问句
Did＋主语＋实义动词原形＋其他？
肯定回答：
Yes，主语＋did.
否定回答：
No，主语＋didn’t.
He began work at 15.他15岁开始工作。
He didn’t begin work at 15. 他15岁时没开始工作。
—Did he begin work at 15?
他在15岁时开始工作的吗？
—Yes, he did. / No, he didn’t.
是的，他是。/不，他不是。
二、复习：规则动词过去式的构成
变化规则
原形
过去式
一般直接在动词结尾加-ed
listen
finish
listened
finished
以“不发音的字母e”结尾的动词直接在结尾加-d
live
notice
lived
noticed
以“辅音字母+y”结尾的动词，变y为i，再加-ed
study
hurry
studied
hurried
以“元音字母+一个辅音字母”结尾的重读闭音节动词，先双写后面的辅音字母，再加-ed
stop
step
stopped
stepped
三、不规则动词的过去式
不规则动词的变化没有严格的规律可遵循，但其中也有一些变化可以进行分类：
(1)i变a型
begin — began give — gave
swim — swam sit — sat
sing — sang drink — drank
(2)ow/ aw变ew型
know — knew grow — grew
throw — threw draw — drew
(3) i变o型
ride — rode drive — drove
write — wrote win — won
(4) d变t 型
build — built spend — spent
send — sent
(5) ee去e，末尾加t型
sweep — swept sleep — slept
(6) 不变型
let — let put — put
read — read
(7) 以ought或aught结尾型
teach — taught catch — caught
think — thought bring — brought
buy — bought
Step 2 Language practice
1. Ask the students to do Activity 1.
Answers:1.was born 2.went 3.was 4.had 5.didn’t come
2. Get the students to do Activity 2.
Answers: 1. didn’t have 2. began 3. left 4. got 5. read 6. went
7. had
3. Ask the students to do Activity 3.
Answers: 1. leave 2. left 3. get 4.got 5. do 6. did 7. begin 8.began
4. Ask the students to do Activity 4.
Answers: 1. started 2. joined 3. became 4. left 5. worked 6. went
5. Get the students to read Around the world.
Step 3 Discussing and doing
1. Ask the students to do Activity 5. Pay attention to the given questions.
2. Let the students make notes.
3. Do the Activity 5. Write an email to a friend and say what to do on a one-day tour of your home town.
4. Get the students to write a paragraph about their parents’ or grandparents’ lives .
5. Ask some students to show their paragraphs to the whole class.
Step 4 Homework
1. Go over what you’ve learnt in Unit 3.
2. Preview the new words and expressions in Module 10.
当堂达标
I.单项填空。
1. —What does your brother do?
—He is ______ actor.
A. a B. an C. the D. /
2. ______ many other students in my class, I have lunch at school.
A. Like B. For C. From D. About
3. ______ is in March. I want to buy a present for my mother.
A. National Day B. Children’s Day
C. Women’s Day D. Teachers’ Day
4. The policemen are trying to ______ how the building caught fire.
A. get up B. look at
C. get off D. find out
II. 用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. — Who ________ (teach) you to cook, Linda?
— My mother did, of course.
2. After hard work, he _______ (win) the table tennis match at last.
3. It is a _______ (success) product in his company.
4. Mike _______ (begin) to write poems when he was young.
5. My mother likes reading _______ (newspaper) after dinner.
6. Lu Xun’s ______ (really) name is Zhou Shuren.
答案：I. 1-4 B A C D
II. 1. taught 2. won 3. successful 4. began 5. newspapers 6. real
板书设计
教学反思
