1 人教版必修四人教版必修四 Unit 1 Women of achievement The First Period Reading Teaching goals 教学目标教学目标 1 Target language 目标语言目标语言 a. 重点词汇 achievement, welfare, project, institute, specialist, connection, campaign, organization, behave, shade, worthwhile, nest, nod, observe, outspoken, respect, argue, b. 重点句子 Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. 2 Ability goals 能力目标能力目标 a. Learn Warming Up, and know how to tell the great women and the famous women. b. Learn the way to describe a person from what the person did, what she/he looks like and so on. 3 Learning ability goals 学能目标学能目标 Teach Ss how to describe a person. Teaching important points 教学重点 a. By reading A protector of African wildlife, students can learn from Jane Goodall in at least two aspects: one is what is the humane way to study animals; the other is that it was her great personality - universal love and mercy（博爱与慈悲 ）that made her successful. If everyone had such kind of heart, they would give everything benefit for all living things. Then our world will be full of love and peace, without any war and starvation. b. Ask students to answer these questions: 1) What made her a great success? 2) What should we learn from Jane Goodall? Teaching difficult points 教学难点 Let everyone believe that all of us can become Jane Goodall. Teaching methods 教学方法 Inspiration, Questioning and Discussion. 2 Teaching aids 教具准备 A computer, a projector and a recorder. Teaching procedures or he only does thing for his or his groups interest. Moreover, sometimes what he made can do harm 5 to society, then he will be the most dangerous person in the world. The poem above is very easy to understand. If you do things as it tells us, you can turn out to be a wise man who will bring the world the happiness. Well, today we are going to do some reading. Please turn to Page 13. Well read this material first. Step Reading There are three tasks in this step. First, teacher can ask students to read the articles one paragraph by one paragraph. Ask them some questions about these passages. There are three paragraphs in the article. In each passage, there are one or two questions. When students finish these questions, they will find that the structure of the text has turned up. T: Wonderful! Homework check is over. In the last two periods we talked about agriculture. As peoples living condition improves, more and more people are concerned about what they eat. In fact more and more people become worried about the quality of the food they eat. Because more and more farmers use chemical fertilizer instead of natural waste from animals and they use poison to kill insects to protect their plants. So people now all want to eat green food which does no harm to their health. They are more concerned about organic farming. Now lets read the text and know something about organic farming. Task 1: Questions about the text. Show the questions on the screen: 1. What is the organic farming? 2. What is the advantage of using natural fertilizer? 3. What is the disadvantage of using chemical fertilizers? 4. Whats the main idea of paragraph 3? 5. Why do farmers grow their crops in such ways? T: Boys and girls, today well read the text one paragraph by one paragraph. Now 6 please read the first paragraph quickly, and find the answer to the first question: what is the organic farming? S1: Organic farming refers to crops growing with natural rather than chemical fertilizers. T: Good. Now read the second paragraph quickly and find the answer to this question: what are the advantage of using natural fertilizer? S2: Make the soil richer in minerals and so more fertile. T: anything else? S3: Reduce diseases in crops and help them grow strong and healthy. Besides, keep the air, soil and water as well as the food supply free from chemical. T: What is the disadvantage of using chemical fertilizers? S4: Let me answer it. There are three disadvantages. Firstly, leaving chemicals in the ground for a long time is not good for the soil or the water supply. Secondly, farmers often grow the same crop year after year. As a result, the soil gets exhausted. Thirdly, chemical fertilizers kill both helpful and harmful bacteria and pests. Main idea of the passage Chemical fertilizers can cause many problems, so organic farming is becoming more popular. Structure of the text I using chemical fertilizers for a long time can hurt the land and also peoples health II Problem caused by chemical fertilizers 1. Damage the land by killing the helpful bacteria and pests as well as the harmful ones 2. Lead to cancer or other illness. 3. Food grown with chemical fertilizers look beautiful, but inside there is usually more water than vitamins and minerals. Organic farming is becoming more popular with some farmers and many customers after these discoveries came out. IV Other methods to keep the soil fertile