Book 4 Unit 1 Women of achievement Reading A Student Of African Wildlife

Book 4 Unit 1 Women of achievement
Teaching goals 教学目标
Understand the passage.
Use proper reading skills to find the required information.
Be able to describe great women.
Learn from the great women .
Teaching important points 教学重点
Use proper reading skills to understand the reading passage and find required information.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
Be able to use the information to describe great women.
Teaching methods 教学方法
Inspiration, Questioning and Discussion, describing
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程
Step1 leading in
Greet the students. We know that women can hold up half of the sky. Some women are very important in our history. Can you name some For example, Madam Curie, who was awarded the Noble Prize for two times. And in China wuzetian , who is the only Empress in our history. She was the most remarkable(非凡的), influential (有影响的)and mysterious(神秘的) woman in Chinese history.
Step3 predicton.
Predict the main content of the reading passage according to some given pictures and the title of the passage.
Step4 Fast reading
1.Ask the students to get the main idea of each paragraph. If students have difficulty, the teach can give some key words to help them.(in the moring… in the evening)
Para 1 A day in the park.
Para 2 Jane’s way to study chimps and her discoveries.
Para 3 Jane’s attitude and feeling to the animals.
Para 4 Jane has achieved everything she wanted to do.
2 Skim the text to answering the following questions.
1.Who is the “student”
2.What animal was observed
3.Where did she observe the animal
4.When did she first arrive there
Step5careful reading
Design a situation for students. Suppose now we’re going to make a documentary(纪录片) about Jane Goodall.
So we’ll go for a two-day trip with Jane!
The schedule for our trip:
First Day: follow Jane to the forest
（stay at Jane’s for the night）
Second Day: talk with Jane; have an interview at Jane’s
The first day in the forest
What did we do first in the morning
went into the forest slowly
left the chimp family sleeping in a tree
observed the family of chimps wake up
helped people understand the behaviour
of the chimps
2. Find out the chimps’ behaviour of the day.
The second day( we inteview Jane Goodle)
Para2 Jane’s way to study chimps and her discoveries.
Para 3 Jane’s attitude and feeling to the animals.
True or False
1. She thinks chimps can be protected by putting them in cages.
2. She considers it a good idea for people to use chimps for advertisement.
3. She has spent about forty years helping people understand her work.
4. She has helped to set up many special places for the wild animals to live in.
Para.4 : Jane’s achievements
What are her achievements
Working with animals_______________________
Gaining __________ degree.
Showing___________________________________
Step 6post reading(Evaluation)
Jane is a ______ woman, because she ___________________.
Step7 consolidation
Repeat the main idea of each paragraph.
Step8 Homework
Write down our own documentary of Jane.
1) her experience of observing chimps
2) the difficulties she met
3) her discoveries of chimps
4) her opinions of wildlife protection
5) her own achievements
6) your evaluation(评价) for her