人教必修4教案 Unit1 Women of achievement[Period 2&3]

人教新课标高一英语必修四教案 The Second and Third Period
(Reading & Comprehending)

Teaching aims:
1. to know about the experiences of Jane Goodall and her achievements.
2. to promote the Ss’ abilities of reading comprehension.
3. to grasp the language points in the passage.
Teaching key points and difficult points:
Let the Ss know more about Jane Goodall and know why she wanted to do research in the wild.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
1. Read the words in “Warming up” together.
2. Put the following sentences into English.
1)这会帮助我们实现现代化。This will help us achieve modernization.
2)他全身心帮助艾滋病患者。He devoted all his time to helping people with AIDS.
3)我们必须关心环境保护。We must concern ourselves with environmental protection.
4)超市把许多小商店赶出这个地区。The supermarket has driven many small shops out of the area.

Step 2 Pre-reading
1. Teaching the new words.
2. Show the pictures of Jane Goodall and introduce her and her achievements.

Step 3 Reading
1. Fast reading
  1)Read the text quickly and answer the following questions:
   ①Who is the protector?  ( Jane Goodall) ②What animals are observed?  (chimps)
  2) What’s the main idea of the text?
   The passage is mainly about how Jane Goodall worked with chimps in their environment and helped people understand and respect the life of these animals.
2. Careful reading
1) Read the text carefully and do Ex1 of Comprehending. (keys: C A C C)
  2) Find out the main ideas of each paragraph.
P1: a day in the park
P2: Jane’s way to study chimps and her achievements
P3: Her attitudes to the animals
P4: She has achieved everything she wanted to.
3) Read each paragraph in details while listening
●Paragraph 1: find out what Jane observed during a day.
      Watching a family of chimps wake up      Wander off into the forest (feed, clean each other)
      The mother chimp and her babies play in the tree
      Come into mother’s chimp arms, go to sleep together in their nest
●Paragraph 2: find out what Jane discovered.
The first thing She discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat
The second thing She observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it
The third thing She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other
●Paragraph 3: do Ex 2 on Page 3.  (All of them are true.)
●Paragraph 4: sum up the achievements of Jane Goodall.      Working with animals in their own environment
Gaining a doctor’s degree for her studies
Showing that women can live in the forest as men can

Step 4 Discussion
1. Do you agree with Jane’s ideas? Why or Why not?
  (Yes. The chimps should live in the wild or they may die out.)
2. What do you think is the best way to protect wildlife?
  (Do not eat them, do not use their furs to make clothes and try to love them and give help to them.)

Step 5 Language points
1. behave       behavior  n.
  1) vi. 行为；举止       The boy behaved very well last night. 昨天晚上那个男孩表现很好。
  2) vt. 守规矩；举止有礼 Did you behave yourself at the party?  你在聚会上举止得体吗？
2. mean doing sth. 意味着  mean to do sth.  打算做某事…
Doing such a thing means wasting time. 做这样的事情意味着浪费时间。Do you mean to go without money?  你打算不带钱就走吗？
3. leave +宾语+doing/adj.  让…保持某种状态或做某事
  They went off and left me sitting there all by myself. 他们离开了，留下我独自坐在那里。
  His illness has left him weak.  他的病使他身体很弱。4. worthwhile  adj. 值得做的；值得出力的
a worthwhile experiment   值得做的实验
It isn’t worthwhile going there now.  现在去那儿不值得了。5. spend  vt. to pay money or to use time, etc. 花钱；花时间
  spend sth. on sth.  花钱/时间在…上面  spend sth. (in) doing sth. 花钱/时间做…
  He spent all his savings on a new car. 他将全部积蓄花在一辆新车上。
  He spent his whole life looking after the poor. 他毕生的时间都花在照顾穷人上。
6. observe  vt. to see and notice; watch carefully  看到；注意到；观察；监视
  She observed his actions with interest.  她很感兴趣地观察他的行动。
7. …, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest.
  句型：It is / was + adj./n. + (for/of) sb. to do sth.
  It is necessary for you to read English aloud in the morning. 你在早上朗读英语是有必要的。
  It is very kind of you to help me.
8. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project. 她的母亲头几个月来帮过她的忙；这才使她得以开始自己的计划。
  “Only+状语/状语从句”放在句首，句子或主句部分要用倒装，即将助动词、情态动词或连系动词置于主语之前。
  Only in this way can we learn English better  只有这样；我们才能学好英语。.
  Only then did I remember that I had left my cell phone in the restaurant.

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