题目

Senior English Module 4 Unit 1 Women of Achievement

Reading A student of African Wildlife

年级学科

高中英语

课型

信息技术与

学科整合课

授课教师

金晔

工作单位

浙江省嘉善中学

教学目标

Knowledge aims:

  1. to understand the main idea and something about Jane Goodall’s research.

          2. to scan and skim for the needed information and grasp the details as well as retell them.

·Ability aims:

  1. to improve the ability of self-learning and cooperative learning methods; and use such kind of ability to gain and deal with language information.

  2. to develop the students’ questioning spirit to improve the ability of analyzing and solving problems.

·Emotion aims:

  1. Strengthen the sense of wildlife protection and the importance of understanding and respecting wildlife.

  2. Learn Jane’s bravery and perseverance in achieving her goals, as well as two aspects: one is that it was her great personality-universal love and mercy that made her successful, the other is the human way to study animals.

教学重难点

关键

Important point:

To help students get the general idea and detailed information of the passage and understand the deep meaning of Jane Goodall’s spirits.

  Difficult points:

  1. Enable the students to use their own words to express their ideas.

  2. Let the students understand what’s important to achieve something.

教学方法

Communicative language teaching and Task-Based Language teaching methods will be adopted. The students will finish tasks in individual and coopertative activities.

运用的

信息技术工具

硬件：微格录制教室、多媒体电脑

软件：视频播放、音频播放、超链接

教学设计思路

In Senior English Module1, the students have learnt how to analyze a person in Unit5 “Nelson Mandela – A Modern Hero”. Therefore, it’s not difficult for them to understand the general idea of such kind of Reading passage, but they shall be given more opportunities to explore and convey logical thinking and reflect on their thoughts.

The Reading passage entitled “A Student of African Wildlife” mainly tells us the story of a great woman scientist named Jane Goodall and her colleagues in the forest of Africa observing the chimps, which extends the main topic “Women of Achievement”. Students will be curious and enabled to discuss what problems to overcome in order to achieve these ambitions, especially for girls.

设计意图

时间安排

Step I Leading in

Task 1: Video interaction

  First, let the students enjoy a piece of short video about African wildlife named “African Cats Kingdom of Courage”(1 minute). Then present 2 easy questions for them to answer quickly

Step II Pre-Reading

  Task 2: Predicting

Ask the students to glance at the title and the 2 pictures on Page 2 to predict the general idea of the Reading passage.

Step III While-Reading

Task 3: Scanning

The students are required to scan the passage as quickly as they can and find out specific information to the following questions

Task 4: Skimming

Divide the whole class into 4 groups to skim the whole text and underline the topic sentence of each paragraph:

Task 5: Close Reading

1. Have the students read the passage closely paragraph by paragraph, and find out detailed information to understand it better.

2. Then lead the students easily conclude the main idea of the passage by using blank-filling.

Task 6 Retelling (Individual work)

Ask the students to try to retell the story of Jane Goodall with the words given. Then welcome 2-3 students to present in front of the class.

Step IV Post-Reading (10 minutes)

Task 7 Discussing (Group work)

  Students are divided into groups of 4, and discuss with partners about the following questions:

Step V Homework

Write an introduction of Jane Goodall within 120 words, next class show it to everyone.

Task 1: Purpose of design: “Interest is the best teacher.” Therefore, at the very beginning I should arouse the students’ interest and thinking, naturally leading to the topic of this unit.

Task 2: Purpose of design: to inspire the students to read actively by using the reading skill—making prediction and encourage them to think and express thoughts in English.

Task 3: Purpose of design: the students can improve their reading skill—scanning. And they can get the two lines of the whole passage: the main line—student, and the hidden line—wildlife, which builds a base for reading comprehension.

Task 4: Purpose of design: to help students pay attention to the topic sentence of each paragraph, which is helpful for them to get the general idea of the passage.

Task 5: Purpose of design: to help the students catch the correct detailed information and have them do logical thinking in order to make them better understand the passage.

Task 6: Purpose of design: to further consolidate the Reading passage, and also train the students’ abilities of language organizing and oral expression to meet the demands of the new curriculum.

Task 7: Purpose of design: a way to inspire new ideas and an excellent chance to practice English in a cooperative learning atmosphere. The students will deepen their understanding of Ms. Goodall’s spirit and the intension and attitude of the author, which will encourage them to run after dreams.

Step I:

2 minutes

Step II :

2 minutes

Step III:

25 minutes

Step V :

1 minute

板书设计

Scanning

Q1: Who is the student?

Q2: What animals were observed?

Q3: When did she arrive at Gombe? How old was she?

Skimming

Para 1: Following Jane’s way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. (line 2, 3)

Para 2: Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behavior. (line 15)

Para 3: For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. (line 24, 25)

Para 4: She has achieved everything she wanted to do. (line 34)

Close Reading

Q1: What difficulties did Jane face?   

Q2: What's the purpose of her study do you know?

Thinking

Q: What's Jane's attitude towards the chimps?

Discussing

Q1: What good qualities do you think Jane has? Give your reasons to support. 

    Q2: What can we learn from her and her study?