人教新课标选修8 Unit Warming up& reading

选修8

黎巨森、蒋茹、罗培芳、罗丽霞

Unit 1 A land of diversity

Period 1 Reading

Teaching goals

Enable the students to talk about things about the USA.

Help the students learn the huge diversity of races and cultures in America, especially in

California.

Teaching important and difficult points

Learn the huge diversity of races and cultures in California.

Teaching methods

Fast and careful reading; asking and answering activity; individual, pair or group work.

Teaching aids

A map, a blackboard and a computer

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Warming up.

Ask the students to describe what they learn about the USA.

Ask the students to tell things about California including its location, size, population, economy,

history etc. What do you learn about California

Show the students some pictures and encourage students not only to say what each picture is about

人教版高中英语选修8Unit4《Pygmalion》word教案

【美文阅读】

Pygmalion Effect

A team can do as well as you and the team think they can.

This idea is known as “the self­fulfilling prophecy(预言)”．When you believe

the team can perform well，in some strange and magical way they can.And similarly，when you believe they can't perform well，they can't.

The self­fulfilling prophecy is also known as the Pygmalion Effect.This

comes from a story by Ovid about Pygmalion，who created an ivory statue of his ideal

woman.And he immediately fell in love with it.He begged the goddess to breathe life

into the statue and make her his own.She granted Pygmalion his wish，the statue came

to life and the couple married and lived happily ever after.

The story was also the basis of George Bernard Shaw's play

“Pygmalion”．In Shaw's play，Professor Henry Higgins claims he can turn a Cockney

人教版英语精品资料（精修版）

Unit 1 A land of diversity Period 1 Warming Up，Pre-reading

& Reading 同步精练（人教版选修8，课标通用）

Ⅰ.介、副词填空

1．Some of the president's advisers feared Hitler might declare war________the United

States.

2．We kept________our friendship for over twenty years.

3．The old people died but the young ones lived________.

4．He succeeded________means________perseverance.

5．________the time he was ten, Tom had built a chemistry lab himself.

6．She has two cars, and________addition, a motorboat.

7．We hope the garden to keep________the weeds.

8．Millions of people die________the illnesses caused by smoking.

答案 1.on 2.up 3.on 4.by of 5.By 6.in 7.down 8．from

Ⅱ.单词拼写

1. He drew a quite artificial________(差别) between men and women readers.

2．Whisky contains a large________(百分比) of alcohol.

3．Gradually she learned to make a joke of all these________(困难)．

Unit 1 第1课时Warming Up

Ⅰ.单词拼写

根据下列句子所提供的汉语提示或所给单词的首字母，写出各单词正确的完全形式(每空限写一词)。

1．The m________of the damage is easy to repair.

2．My mother suffered all kinds of h________throughout her life.

3．We cannot be t________enough to you for your timely and selfish help.

4．An fatal accident took place at this________(十字路口)three years ago.

5．You may a________for the job in person or by letter.

6．They had left the________(行李)at the station.

7．That plane crash o________only minutes after take-off.

8．The signpost i________the right way to go.

9．As the wages were low, there were few a________for the job.

10．She had to tidy the classroom as________(惩罚)for being late.

11．Everyone should be treated with j________.

12．The whole nation m________the death of a much-loved leader.

13．You don't have any a________for entering this house. It's private.