Unit 1 Women of achievementBackground information:School: Zhongheng Senior High SchoolTeacher: Chen HongyingStudents: About 60 senior high school students, Class 10, Grade oneMaterials: Women of achievement, Unit one, Book New Senior English for China Students Book 4Type of lesson: Reading Lesson duration: 40 minutes Date: April 2, 2014The General Idea of This Period:This 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 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.Objectives:1. Knowledge and Skills1) Enable the students to comprehend the story of Jane Goodalls protecting the African wildlife.2) 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.3) Learn some useful words and expressions: achieve,achievement,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 begin her project.2. Process and Strategies1) Group work to encourage the students to participate in class activities.2) Fast reading to make the students get the main idea of the passage.3. Emotional attitude & values1) Let students learn from great women, stimulate their love and respect for great women and develop their moral qualities.2) Develop students sense of cooperative learning. Teaching Important Points1) Help he students to comprehend the story of Jane Goodalls protecting the African wildlife.2) Get the students to learn from Jane Goodalls story and come to the idea that great personality is of importance to ones success.3) Learn and master some important words, phrases and sentence patterns in this period.Teaching Difficult Points1) Get the students to comprehend the story and understand what Jane Goodall has done to gain the achievements.2) Get the students to believe that ones personality as well as luck and ability is important to ones success.Teaching Methods1) Predicting to guess the content of the passage.2) Skimming to get the general idea of the text.3) Scanning to get detailed information and get to understand the passage better.4) 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 AidsMultimedia facilities, tape recorder, English book, blackboard, chalk,etc.Teaching ProceduresStep 1 Lead-in1.Greet the students.T:Good morning,boys and girls!Ss:Good morning,Miss.Chen2.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.T: Do you have idols? Now I would like to show you some pictures of women to see whether they are your idols and try to tell me whether they are great women.Show 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 discussion about the qualities needed to be a great woman.T:Although they are so famous and important in a certain field,they are not great women.So what do you think is needed in order to be a great woman?(Give the students two minutes to discuss in pairs.)T:Now what do you think is needed in order to be a great woman?Who would like to share the opinions with us?S:Let me have a try.In my opinion,a great woman should be intelligent and hard-working,otherwise she will not achieve her goals.S:I think a great woman should be determined and consistent.Because sometimes she might come across a lot of difficulties before her idea and invention are accepted by the public or other specialists.If she cant stick to her opinion,she may fail in achieving her goals.S:According to me,I think a great woman should be modest and responsible.I dont think an arrogant and irresponsible woman will become a great woman.Other students add their opinions.T:I agree with all of you.But in my opinion,most importantly a great woman should be unselfish and willing to sacrifice.Otherwise they will not overcome different difficulties and make great contributions to humans and our society.Do you think so?Ss:Yes.3) Talk about great women.T:Now can you name some