2022年高中英语必修二教案：Unit3 Welcome to the unit教案Teaching aims:1. Encourage the students to talk about some amazing people and their achievements and express their opinions about who they consider heroes/ heroines. 2. After learning, the students will get a better understanding of amazing people and e to know that they will succeed as long as they work hard. Teaching procedures:Step 1 Lead inA guessing game: Give the students a description of some people and let them guess who they are. 1. She is a superstar in Asia. (张静初)She is good at acting.2. He is one of the most famous basketball players in the Lakers. (Kobe Bryant)He is considered to be the next Jordan.3. He is a famous singer. (林俊杰)One of his famous songs is “Jiang Nan”.4. He is the most famous Chinese player in NBA. (姚明)5. A famous edian in Hong Kong. (Stephen Chou)One of his films is “Kung Fu”. 6. They are all Chinese. (翟志刚，刘伯明，景海鹏) They traveled in space in Shenzhou VII. One of them took a space walk out of the spaceship.T: Do you think they are as handsome as the film stars? (No)Do you think they are as cool as the basketball players? (No)But why are they still so popular among us? (Because they have made great contributions to the cause of space exploration of our country.)So we can call them amazing people. Besides them, what kind of people can be called “amazing people”? Thats what we are going to discuss today.Step 2 Presentation 1. Play a part of Fate Symphony/ the fifth Symphony posed by Beethoven. Qs: Have you ever heard of this music? (Yes.) Do you know in his middle age, something unfortunate happened? (Yes, he lost his hearing.) Did he give up his music? (No. Although he was deaf, he successfully finished the ninth symphony at last.)What do you think of him? (He was great/ successful, he had a strong will/ great determination, or he never gave up.)2. Give a brief introduction of Mother Teresa and ask the students to read it together. PPT: She is one of the greatest women in the world who made great contributions to the peace of the world. From the age of 18 she worked in India to help the poor. For more than 30 years she took care of people in need. She was awarded by the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. In 2003, she was given the name of Blessed Teresa. She was loved by people in India. Its said that after she died, about 400 important people paid final respect to her.Listen to a part of a speech by Mother Teresa and fill in the blanks according to it.Question: From her story, what can we learn from Mother Teresa? (We should show our love to others / always smile at others / do what we can to help others.) petition (group work): How can we show our love to others in daily life? Give as many examples as possible. 3. Show some pictures and ask some questions about Bill Gates.Qs: When you look at the puter, who will you think of first? (Bill Gates)What do you think of him? (He is rich, clever and handsome.)Do you think his achievements have had a great effect on our life? How? (Nowadays we can do shopping at home, borrow books from the library without leaving our home. These may have seemed strange ten years ago, but now puters have turned them into realities. puters bring a lot of convenience to our daily life. With puters, we can find information wed like to know; we can solve many plex calculations easily; we can always find solutions to difficult problems. Because of puters, a lot of time and effort have been saved. Work is done more efficiently and munication has bee much easier.)Bill Gates and his wife also set up a foundation focusing on improving global health. Is Bill Gates one of your heroes? (Yes/No.)4. Show the picture of Zheng He and ask students the following question: What contributions did Zheng He make for China? (He opened up relations between China and the outside world)Step 3 Sharing information1. Discussion (group work)Divide the students into groups of four and each group leader should collect the ideas on a piece of paper and report them later.Do you have a hero? What are the things he or she had done that make you feel that this person is amazing? (My hero is Thomas Edison. During his career, Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions, including the electric light, the phonograph and the motion-picture camera. These three inventions gave rise to giant industrieselectric utilities, phonograph and record panies, as well as the film industry. All these changed the work and habits of people throughout the world. During his lifetime, he received honors from all over the world.)What kind of people can be called “amazing people”? What do they have in mon?PPT: Amazing people are those who make great contributions in different fields and are usually loved and respected by people. Some of them even have changed our world for the better through their thoughts or actions. 2. Further thinkingHave you ever dreamed of being an ama