1、Unit 1 Women of achievementPeriod 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 Good
2、alls working methods,her great 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
3、the African wildlife.Get the 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 an
4、d understand what Jane Goodall 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 deta
5、iled information and get to 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 SkillsEn
6、able the students to comprehend 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,achie
7、vement,condition,welfare,connection,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 b
8、egin her project.Process and 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 t
9、hese animals.People will do 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.S
10、how some pictures of some famous 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 dis
11、cussion about the qualities 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 t
12、he Ss to read the passage and find the answers to the four questions (two minutes) and try to sum up the general idea of the passage.1.Who is the student?2.What animals were observed?Step 4 Main ideasGet the students to read the whole passage and sum up the main idea of each paragraph.At the same ti
13、me,instruct them the way of finding or summing up the main idea.The passage is mainly about how Jane Goodall worked with chimps are their environment and help people _understand and respect the life of these animals.Step 5 Scanning Get the students to read the whole passage to get some detailed info
14、rmation.T:Now we have formed an overview of the whole passage.Next I would like you 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
15、later.Close reading ：Summarizing what each paragraph told us .1. The whole day of a chimp family2. what is discovered?3. She hopes that chimps can be left in the forest. She supposes that people should not use chimps for entertainment.She has spent forty years helping people understand her work.She
16、has built many homes for the wild animals to live in.4. What did she achieve?(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 sente
17、nces where the answer 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
18、thing”,“also” and “and”.)Step 6 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 difficulti
19、es 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 T
20、eachingLearning 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
21、African 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
22、supplies 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
23、earned 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.
