人教英语必修四Unit1Womenofachievement教案7

1 Unit 1 Women of achievement

Period 2 Learning about Language

The General Idea of This Period

This period help will consolidate the words and expressions the students learnt in the reading

part and deal with the grammar part:word formation and subject-verb agreement.Systematic

explanation shall be given and some exercises shall be assigned for the students to complete to

consolidate their knowledge on them.

Teaching Important Points

Noun suffixes in word formation.

Subject-verb agreement rules,especially of collective nouns.

Teaching Difficulties

Noun suffixes in word formation.

Subject-verb agreement rules,especially of collective nouns.

Teaching Method

Recognize the rules independently and practice.

Teaching Aids

A multi-media computer.

A blackboard.

Three Dimensional Teaching Aims

Knowledge and Skills

Enable the students to recognize and learn by heart the useful words and expressions learnt in

the Reading part.(behave,behavior,respect,achieve,achievement,connect,connection,inspire,

worthwhile,observe,observation,condition,argue,entertainment,communicate,communication

etc.)

Enable the students to grasp some rules of word formation to enlarge their vocabulary or

guess the meanings of some new words by recognizing some suffixes such as

-tion,-ion,-ment,-ist,-er and -or etc.

Enable the students to apply the subject-verb agreement correctly.

Process and Strategies 2 Systematic explanation to make the students know how to apply the subject-verb agreement

correctly.

Feelings and Value

Through the study of this period the students are sure to have a better understanding of the

subject-verb agreement.

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Revision

1.Revise the content of the reading passage by asking the students some questions.

T:Good morning,boys and girls!Last class we talked about some great women in the

world,remember?

Ss:Yes.

T:If I want to become a great woman,what is most important?

Ss:You should be unselfish and willing to sacrifice and make contributions to the society.

T:Good.Yesterday we talked about one of the great women and her life.Who is the great

woman?

Ss:Jane Goodall.

T:What did she do?

S:She protected the wildlife in Africa.

S:She studied chimps and helped people understand chimp behavior and respect the lives of

chimps.

T:Right.Did she have to spend a lot of time achieving her goal?

Ss:Yes.She has been doing that for forty years.

T:With hard work,what did she discovered?

S:She discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat.

S:She discovered how chimps communicate with each other.

S:She worked out their social system with the help of their body language.

T:Wonderful job.Do you admire her?

Ss:Of course.We will all follow her example and make ourselves useful persons.

2.Check the assigned homework.

T:Yesterday,you were expected to complete the exercises independently in Discovering useful 3 words and expressions.Have you finished?

Ss:Yes.

T:Good.Now let’s check the answers.Please turn to Page 4.Let’s have a look at exercise 2 first.

Now let’s check the answers.

(Ask some students to the blackboard to write down their answers,then ask the other students to

correct.)

In the same way,check exercises 3 and 4.

Step 2 Noun suffixes in word formation

1.Brainstorm word formation

T:We know that Jane Goodall has done a lot for the chimps.She has argued for the chimps to be

left in the wild.That is to say,what has she made for the chimps to be left in the wild?

Ss:Arguments.She has made arguments for the chimps to be left in the wild.

T:(writes argue and argument on the blackboard and underlines -ment) Good.She did a lot and

finally achieved her goal.That is to say,she made...?

Ss:She made achievements.

T:(writes achieve and achievement on the black board and underlines -ment) Good.

Now let’s have a look at the blackboard.Can you see anything in common in the two pairs of

words?

S:Yes.The noun “argument” comes from the verb “argue”,adding “-ment”.The noun

“achievement” comes from the verb “achieve”,adding “-ment” too.We can see “-ment” can be

added to a verb to make a noun.

T:Very good.You have very keen eyes.This way to form a new word is called word

formation.Here,“-ment” is called a suffix,which can be added to another word to form a new

word.Do you want to know more about suffixes?

Ss:Yes.

T:OK.Today we will talk about suffixes which can make another word into a noun.We call them

noun suffixes.

2.Introducing more noun suffixes.

T:Now please have a look at the screen.Here are some groups of verbs.Say their

meanings,please.