1、Period 1ReadingThe General Idea of This PeriodThis period includes Warming up,Reading and Comprehending of the Reading.It introduces a day of Jane Goodall and her colleagues in the forests,observing the chimps.After reading the passage the students can know about Jane Goodalls working methods,her gr
2、eat achievements and her attitude towards wild animals.Reading the passage,the students can also learn some reading strategies such as predicting,skimming and drawing conclusions.Teaching Important PointsHelp he students to comprehend the story of Jane Goodalls protecting the African wildlife.Get th
3、e students to learn from Jane Goodalls story and come to the idea that great personality is of importance to ones success.Learn and master some important words,phrases and sentence patterns in this period.Teaching Difficult PointsGet the students to comprehend the story and understand what Jane Good
4、all has done to gain the achievements.Get the students to believe that ones personality as well as luck and ability is important to ones success.Teaching MethodsPredicting to guess the content of the passage.Skimming to get the general idea of the text.Scanning to get detailed information and get to
5、 understand the passage better.Task-based activities to get the students to comprehend the passage and be able to debate about whether women can do a better job than men.Teaching AidsA tape recorderA multimedia computer Three Dimensional Teaching AimsKnowledge and SkillsEnable the students to compre
6、hend the story of Jane Goodalls protecting the African wildlife.Enable the students to learn from Jane Goodall to treat animals in a human way and come to the idea that great personality is of importance to ones success.Learn some useful words and expressions:achieve,achievement,condition,welfare,co
7、nnection,behave,behavior,worthwhile,specialist,observe,observation argue,inspire,support,devote . to,etc.Learn some sentence patterns:Watching a family wake up is our first activity of the day.Only after her mother came to help her for the first months was she allowed to begin her project.Process an
8、d StrategiesGroup work to encourage the students to participate in class activities.Fast reading to make the students get the main idea of the passage.Feelings and ValueFor forty years Jane Goodall has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals.People will do
9、 something that can satisfy their feelings and make a better world.Teaching ProceduresStep 1 Lead-in1.Greet the students.2.Introduce the topic of great women.1)Show some pictures of women for the students to guess who they are and tell whether they are great women or not.Show some pictures of some f
10、amous people.The students might be very excited to see the pictures.They will tell their names and the reasons why they are so famous.But they will have the same point of view that they are famous and important but they are not great women.2) Get the students to have a discussion about the qualities
11、 needed to be a great woman.Step 2 PredictingGet the Ss to read the title and predict the main content of the passage.T:Today we are going to learn about one of the great women.Before that I would like to show you some pictures. Step 3 Skimming to get the general ideaGet the Ss to read the passage a
12、nd find the answers to the four questions (two minutes) and try to sum up the general idea of the passage.1.Who is the protector?2.What animals were observed?3.When did Jane Goodall arrive in Gombe？ How old was she?4.What was the purpose of her study?Step 4 Main ideasGet the students to read the who
13、le passage and sum up the main idea of each paragraph.At the same time,instruct them the way of finding or summing up the main idea.Step 5 Scanning Get the students to read the whole passage to get some detailed information.T:Now we have formed an overview of the whole passage.Next I would like you
14、to read and get more information about Jane Goodall.Please try to find out the answers to the following questions.If there are some sentences that you cannot understand,put them down and we shall solve your problems later.1.What did the group do in the morning in the forest?2.Where did Jane Goodall
15、suggest that the chimps be left?3.What did she achieve?T:(four minutes later) Now who can answer the questions?S:1.They watched the chimps wake up in the morning in the forest.S:2.She suggested the chimps should be left in the wild.S:3.She discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat,how chimps communic
16、ate with each other and worked out their social system.(Not all the students can find the answer to the third question,or some of them can only find part of the answers.The teacher should instruct them the way of finding them accurately.First get them to find the possible sentences where the answer
17、lies“For example,one thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat.She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.” Remind them to pay attention to the transitional words like“one thing”,“also” and “and
18、”.)Step 6 Competition (True or False consolidation exercises)Divide the students into four groups.Each student tries to tell whether the statements are true or false as soon as possible in order to gain points for their group.If he tells the right answer,he shall get one point.If the statement is wr
19、ong and he can tell the reason,he gets double of the point.The group that get the highest points shall be the winners and get some prizes.1.With university training,she has achieved what she wanted.2.The chimps show love in their family by talking with each other.3.She hopes that chimps can be left
20、in the zoo.4.She supposes that people should not use chimps for entertainment.5.She has spent more than forty years helping people understand her work.6.She has not built homes for the wild animals to live in.KeyS:1.False.Because she did not study at a university to get any university training.She a
21、chieved what she wanted without getting any formal university training.2.False.The chimps show love to each other by either feeding or cleaning each other.3.False.Jane Goodall has argued for the chimps to be left in the wild and not used for entertainment.4.True.5.True.6.False.Because she has set up
22、 special places where the chimps can live safely.We should show true love to others,as well as to animals.Everything is equal,no matter what they are.It isnt because we are human beings that we are superior to the animals.We dont have the right to control the other living things on the earth.They ar
23、e our friends and relatives.The only difference is that we have different appearances and different intelligence.Only if we show true love towards them can we make the world a better one.S:I admire her for her belief and personality.Step 7 Story retellingDivide the students into groups of four and g
24、et them to choose a slip of paper on which their characters are designed( for example,suppose you are Jane Goodall/ Jane Goodalls colleague/ Jane Goodalls mother etc.).Get them to discuss and retell the passage.Try to describe what she thinks.Among the four students,one should be chosen to make a re
25、cord and give a report.Step 10 Summary and homeworkT:Time is running out.Today we learned about Jane Goodalls story and we have learnt a lot from her.Our world will become a more beautiful one if we all treat the animals equally and show our love to them.We will succeed in overcoming any difficultie
26、s and achieving our goals if we can be as strong-willed as her.Homework:1.Read the passage fluently and recite the key sentences in the text.2.Retell the story of Jane Goodall.3.Finish the word exerciseS:Ex 1,2&3 on Page 4 and Ex 4 on Page 5.The Design of the Writing on the BlackboardRecord after Te
27、achingLearning about Jane GoodallJane Goodall was appointed peace messenger of the United Nations（联合国和平使者） on April 16,2002.She was famous for her creative work started 42 years ago in protecting chimpanzees in Tanzania.Goodall went to Tanzania and studied chimps from the 1960s.She went with three A
28、frican helpers (and her mother for the first month) to live in the Gombe National Park in East Africa.She made friends with the local African people after setting up a clinic to help cure minor illnesses.Her life was spent following and recording the social life and relationships of the chimps.Her s
29、upplies and the care of her base camp were managed by her African helpers.Jane uncovered many aspects of chimpanzee behaviour during her first years in the Gombe National Park.Because of her research,we now know that chimpanzees hunt for meat,use tools,and have different personalities.In 1965,Jane e
30、arned her PhD in Ethology from Cambridge University.Soon she returned to Tanzania to continue her research and to establish a research center.Later,she became the Scientific Director of the Gombe Stream Research Centre,Tanzania.In 1977,Jane founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research,Education and Conservation,USA to provide support for field research on wild chimps and encourage wildlife research.
