1、Unit 1 People ofAchievement Reading and Thinking 教学设计教学设计 科目：英语 课题：Reading and Thinking 课时：1 课时 教学目标与核心素养： 知识目标：掌握与人物描述有关的词汇和表达 能力目标：培养学生略读能力，以及按照逻辑顺序对文章进行总结的能力。 情感目标：通过了解屠呦呦这位杰出科学家的科研经历，学习如何面对困难和挑 战，如何为实现目标而努力，从而为国家作贡献；树立尊重知识、尊重科学家的 价值观。 教学重难点 教学重点：掌握人物传记类阅读的问题特点 教学难点：引导学生按一定的逻辑整理文章思路。 课前准备：多媒体，黑板，
2、粉笔 教学过程： 一、Pre-reading 1. Greeting 2. Leading-in 教师活动：Let students discuss following questions in groups. 1. What kind of person makes great discoveries? 2. Which is more important for making a great discovery, talent or effort? Examples: 1 I think if a person is careful, hardworking, patient, persi
3、stent, committed or talented, he/she is bound to make great discoveries. 2 In my opinion, effort is more important than talent for making a great discovery. It takes a long time for people to come to know things. If a person does not make effort, he does not have patience to carry on. Even if he is
4、very talented, he will achieve nothing. 二、While- reading 1. 教师活动： Explain the new words in the text, then let students scan the text and find descriptive words about Tu Youyou. 2. 学生活动：略读文本，完成以下问题，师生核对答案。 1、Where would you most likely find this passage? A. In a blog.B. In a bookC. In a letter.D.In a
5、 newspaper 2、Passages like this are most often written inand. A. the active voice/offer many opinionsB. the first person/talk about feelings C. both active and passive voice/mostly contain facts 3、Which two pieces of information were not included in the passage? A.Aquote from TuYouyou B. The details
6、 of how artemisinin was discovered. C. Tu Youyous important contributions other than the discovery of artemisinin. D. TuYouyous personal life. E. Tu Youyous road to discovering artemisinin. F. What TuYouyou was awarded. G. Why artemisinin is an important discovery. 3. 学生活动：精读文本，总结每段内容的主旨大意，在小组内讨论活动
7、4 的问题。 1 Why is the discovery of artemisinin important? 2 What was the key to getting a good extract from the wormwood、 3 What numbers are mentioned in the text? What do they suggest? 4 Why is TuYouyou considered a great person? Examples: 1 Because when it was tested on malaria patients, most of the
8、m recovered. 2 The key to getting a good extract from the wormwood was to use a lower temperature to draw it out. 3 In Paragraph one,“over 200 million”and “about 600,000”are mentioned, which show the number of the people who get malaria each year and the people who die from malaria respectively. In
9、Paragraph two, “over 2,000”“280,000” and “380” are mentioned, which show the efforts that Tu Youyous team made. In Paragraph four,“more than 190” is mentioned, which suggests the difficulties that Tus team once met and their determination to find out a cure for malaria. On the one hand, the numbers
10、suggest how severe malaria is. On the other hand, they also show how hard it was to find artemisinin and what efforts Tu and her team made in finding the cure for the disease.4 She makes great contributions to the cure of artemisinin and remains modest. She owes her success to her team and her count
11、ry. 三、After-reading 教师活动：Help students complete the chart in Activity 5. Then let students discuss how artemisinin was discovered. After discussion, invite some students to show their answers in the class. 四、Summary 生词：vital, committed, patient, evaluate, distinct, acknowledge, defeat, conclude, apparently, insist。 语法：过去分词作定语，不定式作目的状语，on/upon doing sth 的用法。 作业布置：复习文章涉及到的生词和短语。
