必修四-Unit-One-Women-of-achievement-Reading

more easily said than done. As a woman, she gave up everything, went to the forest to study the chimps and devoted all her love to these animals. It is really not easy. What we cannot understand is that how she has such great personality.
_c_o_m__m_u_n_i_c_a_t_e with each other and
then woy_s_t_em__.
Topic
Main contents
What Jane ◆ She has been _o_u_t_sp__o_k_e_n_ about
Reading A Student of African Wildlife.
We have known something about Jane Goodall. Let’s look at the video.
Work in groups to discuss the following questions.
A Chinese saying goes:
Women can hold up half of the sky.
What do you think is needed in order to be a great woman?
?
unselfish active
intelligent
hard-working
intelligent responsible
great woman

Period 1ReadingThe General Idea of This PeriodThis 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 Goodall’s 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.Teaching Important PointsGet the students to learn from Jane Goodall’s story and come to the idea that great personality is ofimportance to one’s success.Learn and master some important words,phrases and sentence patterns in this period.Teaching Difficult PointsGet the students to comprehend the story and understand what Jane Goodall has done to gain theachievements.Get the students to believe that one’s personality as well as luck and ability is important to one’s success.Teaching MethodsPredicting to guess the content of the passage.Skimming to get the general idea of the text.Task-based activities to get the students to comprehend the passage and be able to debate about whetherwomen can do a better job than men.Teaching AidsA tape recorderA multimedia computerThree Dimensional Teaching AimsKnowledge and SkillsEnable the students to comprehend the story of Jane Goodall’s protecting the African wildlife.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 one’s success.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 patter ns: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.Process and StrategiesGroup work to encourage the students to participate in class activities.Fast reading to make the students get the main idea of the passage.Feelings and ValueFor forty years Jane Goodall has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of theseanimals.People will do something that can satisfy their feelings and make a better world.Teaching ProceduresStep 1 Lead-in1.Greet the students.T:Good morning/ afternoon,boys and girls!Ss:Good morning/ afternoon,Miss./Mr...2.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 ornot.T:Do you have idols?Now I would like to show you some pictures of women to see whether they are your idolsand 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 greatwomen.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 isneeded 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 withus?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 can’t stick to heropinion,she may fail in achieving her goals.S:According to me,I think a great woman should be modest and responsible.I don’t think an arrogant andirresponsible 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 oursociety.Do you think so?Ss:Yes.3) Talk about great women.T:Now can you name some famous women?S:I think Madam Curie is a great woman.She discovered radium(镭)with her husband and made greatcontributions to the field of science and also our society.She won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Physics.T:Good.Who else would like to express your idea?S:I think Mother Teresa is a great woman.She worked in India to help the poor,took care of the disabled peopleand won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.(Some other students express their opinions.)T:Now I would like to show you some more pictures to see whether you know them and their achievements.T:Who is she?Ss:Song Qingling.T:Who can say something about her achievements?S:She was the vice president of PRC and she worked for women and children welfare activities.T:Good.What about this one?Ss:She is Joan of Arc.S:She lived at the time when British and France fought“the Hundred Years War”.She encouraged the kingcrowned and showed the French army how to win the war.She was admired by the French people.T:Good.What about her?Ss:Jody Williams.T:What about her achievements?S:In 1972 she began to organize ICBL( the International Campaign to Ban Landmines) and Jody was Given theNobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work.T:And she?Ss:Elizabeth Fry.S:She spent most of her life helping to improve the prison conditions in Britain.She first visited Newgate Prison in London 1812 and in 1816 began her prison school in Newgate Prison.In 1818 she talked to the leaders of Britain about life in prison and persuaded them to make the 1823 New Prison Act,which agreed to spend more money on prisoners.Besides,she published a book about what she had seen in many prisons.She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.T:Good.What about this woman?Ss:She is Lin Qiaozhi.S:She is Chinese.She devoted all her life to gynaecology and obsterics.She remained single all her life.Even whenshe died,she left her body for medical research.T:So we are very proud of her.What about the following one?Ss:She is Jane Goodall.T:How much do you know about her?S:She spends her time protecting animals in South Africa.T:Good.They all made great contributions to our world and inspire us.So we should admire and learn fromthem.(Get the students to read the information of the six women together.)Step 2 PredictingGet the Ss to read the title and predict the main content of the passage.T:Today we are going to learn about one of the great women.Before that I would like to show you somepictures.T:What can you see in the picture?Ss:A woman and an animal.T:Who is the woman?Ss:Jane Goodall.T:What is the animal?Ss:It’s a chimp.T:What is she doing?Ss:She is kissing the chimp.T:If you meet a chimp in the forest,will you do that like Jane Goodall?Ss:No.T:(smiles) What about this picture?Ss:She is shaking hands with a small chimp.T:Will you do that like her?Ss:No./ Yes.T:And this?Ss:She is hugging the chimp and imitating its way of talking.T:Will you do that?Ss:Yes./ No./ Maybe.T:What about these pictures?Ss:She is watching the chimp with great interest.T:What do you think when you see the pictures?Ss:Admire her for her courage.T:Do you know where the photos were taken?Ss:No.T:They were taken in Gombe National Park in East Africa.T:Now let’s have a look at the title—A protector of African wildlife.After a glance at the title,what do you think the passage is about?S:I think the passage is about how Jane Goodall protected the wildlife in Africa and her achievements.T:Do do you agree with her?Ss:Yes/ No.T:Let’s read and find out whether you are right or wrong.Step 3 Skimming to get the general ideaGet the Ss to read the passage and find the answers to the four questions (two minutes) and try to sum up the general idea of the passage.1.Who is the protector?2.What animals were observed?3.When did Jane Goodall arrive in Gombe？How old was she?4.What was the purpose of her study?T:Now who can answer the first question?Who is the protector?S:1.Jane Goodall is the protector.T:Good.What about the second one?What animals were observed?S:2.Chimps were observed.T:The third one?When did Jane Goodall arrive in Gombe？How old was she?S:3.She arrived in Gombe in 1960 when she was 26.T:V ery good.And the last one?S:4.Her purpose was to help the rest of the world to understand and respect the life of the chimps.T:Good job.What about the general idea?S:The passage is mainly about how Jane Goodle worked with chimps in their environment and helped people understand and respect the life of these animals.T:Wonderful job.So did you get the right prediction?Ss:Yes.Step 4 Main ideasGet the students to read the whole passage and sum up the main idea of each paragraph.At the same time,instructthem the way of finding or summing up the main idea.T:Now we have a rough idea about the passage.How will the writer introduce Jane Goodall’s story to us?How will she organize the passage?I would like you to read the story carefully and sum up the main idea of eachparagraph.How can we sum up the main idea easily?S:Try to see whether there are any topic sentences,which are usually at the beginning or the end of a paragraph.Ifthere are not any topic sentences,try to sum up the main idea according to the content of the paragraph.T:Good.Now read the passage and try to find out the main ideas.(after 4 minutes)T:How many paragraphs are there in the passage?Ss:Four.T:What are the main ideas of them?S:1.The first paragraph is about a day in the Combe National Park.S:2.The second paragraph tells us Jane’s way to study c himps and her achievements.S:3.The third paragraph tells us her attitude to the animals.S:4.The last paragraph is a short summary of the whole passage,telling us that she has achieved everything she wanted to do.T:Wonderful job.Step 5 ScanningGet the students to read the whole passage to get some detailed information.T:Now we have formed an overview of the whole passage.Next I would like you to read and get more informationabout Jane Goodall.Please try to find out the answers to the following questions.If there are some sentences that you cann ot understand,put them down and we shall solve your problems later.1.What did the group do in the morning in the forest?2.Where did Jane Goodall suggest that the chimps be left?3.What did she achieve?T:(four minutes later) Now who can answer the questions?S:1.They watched the chimps wake up in the morning in the forest.S:2.She suggested the chimps should be left in the wild.S:3.She discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat,how chimps communicate with each other and worked out theirsocial system.(Not all the students can find the answer to the third question,or some of them can only find part of the answers.The teacher should instruct them the way of finding them accurately.First get them to find the possible sentences where the answer lies—“For example,one thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat...She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.” Remind them to pay attention to the transitional words like“one thing”,“also” and “and”.)Step 6 Competition (True or False consolidation exercises)Divide the students into four groups.Each student tries to tell whether the statements are true or false as soon as possible in order to gain points for their group.If he tells the right answer,he shall get one point.If the statement is wrong and he can tell the reason,he gets double of the point.The group that get the highest points shall be the winners and get some prizes.1.With university training,she has achieved what she wanted.2.The chimps show love in their family by talking with each other.3.She hopes that chimps can be left in the zoo.4.She supposes that people should not use chimps for entertainment.5.She has spent more than forty years helping people understand her work.6.She has not built homes for the wild animals to live in.KeyS:1.False.Because she did not study at a university to get any university training.She achieved what she wantedwithout getting any formal university training.2.False.The chimps show love to each other by either feeding or cleaning each other.3.False.Jane Goodall has argued for the chimps to be left in the wild and not used for entertainment.4.True.5.True.6.False.Because she has set up special places where the chimps can live safely.T:Good job.So we can see you have a good understanding of Jane Goodall’s life.Do you th ink Jane Goodall wasbrave to go and live in the forest?Ss:Yes.T:Would you have done what she did if you had the chance?Ss share their views.T:What can we learn from Jane Goodall?S:We should show true love to others,as well as to animals.Everything is equal,no matter what they are.It isn’t because we a re human beings that we are superior to the animals.We don’t have the right to control the other living things on the earth.They are our friends and relatives.The only difference is that we have different appearances and different intelligence.Only if we show true love towards them can we make the world a better one.S:I admire her for her belief and personality.Step 7 Story retellingDivide the students into groups of four and get them to choose a slip of paper on which their characters are designed( for example,suppose you are Jane Goodall/ Jane Goodall’s colleague/ Jane Goodall’s mother etc.).Get them to discuss and retell the passage.Try to describe what she thinks.Among the four students,one should be chosen to make a record and give a report.Step 8 Language points focus1.The students raise questions about the passage and the others try to answer the questions.When necessary,the teacher helps to illustrate.2.The students find the important words,phrases and structures from the reading and the teacher explains.Try to use effective examples to illustrate the points.After illustration,teacher can give the students some exercises toconsolidate their understanding.Step 9 DebateAfter the explanation of the language points,the students have got the total understanding of the reading text.Then the teacher draws the students’attention back to the text and puts forward a topic for them to discuss.Divide the students into two groups—boys and girls and let them debate with each other about the topic:Women are able to do more than men.The girls are for the idea while the boys are against the idea.Each group tries to think of as many arguments as possible to defeat the other side.After their debate,get some students to give their report for their groups.Step 10 Summary and homeworkT:Time is running out.Today we learned about Jane Goodall’s story and we have learnt a lot from her.Our world will become a more beautiful one if we all treat the animals equally and show our love to them.We will succeed inovercoming any difficulties and achieving our goals if we can be as strong-willed as her.Homework:1.Read the passage fluently and recite the key sentences in the text.2.Retell the story of Jane Goodall.3.Finish the word exercise S:Ex 1,2&3 on Page 4 and Ex 4 on Page 5.The Design of the Writing on the BlackboardUnit 1 Period 1 A protector of African wildlifeLanguage Focus1.behave(1)vi.to act;bear oneself 行为;举止(2)vt.&vi.to bear (oneself) in a socially accepted or polite way举止适当或有礼(3)vi.(of things) to act in a particular way（指事物）有某种作用2.worthwhile adj.值得的可作定语和表语be worthy of +n.be worthy to be done3.花费spend Sb.spend sth.(on sth.)/ (in) doing sth.pay Sb.pay some money for sth.cost Sth.cost sb.some moneytake It takes sb....to do sth.4.observe(1)vi.&vt. to notice/ watch carefully 观察,注意到observe+n./pron.observe sb.doing/do sth.observe +that-clause(2)vt. to obey;to act in accordance with 遵守,顺从(3)vt. to hold or celebrate 举行（仪式等）,庆祝（节日等）5.Only+状语+ 部分倒装“只有……才”6.现在完成进行时have/ has been doing7.argue (vi.) +with sb.about/over sth.同某人辩论某事argue (vt.)+n./clause(从句)/sb.to be...8.support 1) 支持2）承受3）供养Record after TeachingActivities and ResearchThis unit is about important and great women.The students may not know a lot about them,which might make the talking of the topic quite boring and difficult.In order to arouse their interest and creation,one activityabout women of achievement is designed.Divide the students into groups of four.Assign each group to cooperate with their group mates to do some research on a certain woman of achievement.They are to find as much information as possible and as many pictures as possible by reading books,surfing the Internet or even doing an interview.They are to find out in theproject the woman’s appearance,qualities and achievements,etc.Get the students to arrange what they have found in a well-organized order and make the information into acourseware or a web page,with clear and vivid pictures and examples to illustrate each point.Have the students share their courseware or web pages.Have the students write a report (entitled with“...,a woman of achievement”) on how they have carried outthe research and what they have found.Show their reports on the walls,sharing them with the class.Reference for TeachingBackground InformationWomen of Achievement1.Mother Teresa(1910-1997)Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1948.Through it,she has dedicated her life to helping the poor,the sick and the dying around the world,particularly those in India.She founded the Kalighat Home for the Dying and a leper colony was established under her guidance.Her selfless work has brought her many awards,including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.2.Madame Curie (1867-1934 )Marie Curie,a great woman scientist,was born in Poland in 1867.From her early childhood Marie loved tostudy and hoped to become a scientist.Her interest in science was encouraged by her father,a teacher of physics.In 1891,she left Poland for France and entered the University of Paris.Four years later,she graduated with the highest grade in her class.After graduation she remained in the same university,doing scientific research work.In order to discover something that gave off a kind of radiation,she did experiments most carefully again and again.She failed many times,but she didn’ t lose heart.Finally in 1902,she,together with her husband,succeeded in finding the radioactive element—radium.Owing to their achievement,the Curies received the Nobel Prize inPhysics in 1903.In 1911,she won another Nobel Prize,this time all by herself in chemistry and thus she became the firstwoman scientist to win a Nobel awards.She died in 1934,obviously as a result of the effects of the radiations with which she worked for over 30 years.3.Elizabeth Fry ( May 21,1780-October 12,1845)Elizabeth Fry was a prison reformer,social reformer and philanthropist.She was born in a Quaker family on May 21,1780.She took an interest in her teenager years in the poor,the sick,and the prisoners.In 1812 she first visited Newgate Prison in London and was very shocked at the conditions she found there.From then on she began to work to improve prison conditions in Britain.She supplied the women of Newgate Prison with clothes and established a school and a chapel.In 1817 Elizabeth Fry and eleven others,formed the Association for the Improvement of the Female Prisoners in Newgate.The next year she was invited to give evidence to a House of Commons Committee on London Prisons.She described in detail the lives of the prisoners,and recommended that women prisoners should be looked after by women instead of men,and stressed her belief in the importance of useful employment.By the 1820s Elizabeth Fry and her work had become very well known in Britain.She faced criticism and problems at various times.Elizabeth Fry’s work was very important because it started the movement for prison improvement.Her idea was that people in prison could not change their ways and lead useful lives if you did not give them a legal way of earning money.She aimed at changing the prisoners by educating them and changing the way they were treated.Her work was mentioned as one of the reasons that the Quakers got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 and she was remembered in Britain by being put on the new five pound note in 2000.4.Soong Chingling (1893-1981)Soong Chingling was one of the Soong sisters,also known as Madame Sun Yet-sen.She was born into a rich Christian family which played an important role in Chinese politics in the first half of the 20th century.She and her two sisters had a good education.She went to study in Georgia,USA.In 1915 she married Dr Sun Yat-sen,founderof the Republic of China.After Sun’s death in 1925,she was elected to the Kuomingtang Central Executive Committee in 1926.After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China,she became the Vice president of the People’s Republic of China,head of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association and Honorary President of the All-China Women’s Federation.In 1951 she was awarded the Satlin Peace Prize.From 1968 to 1972 she acted jointly with Dong Biwu as head of state.On May 16,1981,two weeks before her death,she was admitted to the Communist Party and was named Honorary President of the People’s Republic of China.5.Jane GoodallJa ne Goodall was appointed peace messenger of the United Nations（联合国和平使者）on April 16,2002.She was famous for her creative work started 42 years ago in protecting chimpanzees in Tanzania.Goodall went to Tanzania and studied chimps from the 1960s.She went with three African helpers (and her mother for the first month) to live in the Gombe National Park in East Africa.She made friends with the local African people after setting up a clinic to help cure minor illnesses.Her life was spent following and recording the social life and relationships of the chimps.Her supplies and the care of her base camp were managed by her African helpers.Jane uncovered many aspects of chimpanzee behaviour during her first years in the Gombe National Park.Because of her research,we now know that chimpanzees hunt for meat,use tools,and have different personalities.In 1965,Jane earned her PhD in Ethology from Cambridge University.Soon she returned to Tanzania to continue her research and to establish a research ter,she became the Scientific Director of the Gombe Stream Research Centre,Tanzania.In 1977,Jane founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research,Education and Conservation,USA to provide support for field research on wild chimps and encouragewildlife research.6.Jody Williams (1950-USA)Jody Williams was born in the United States in 1950.After she got her Master’s degree of Arts,she went to work for two years as a language teacher in Mexico,where she for the first time saw the miserable life of the poor.She has worked for many years to help people in South America by organizing medical care (Medical Aid for El Salvador) and education (Nicaragua-Honduras Education Project).In 1992 she began to organize the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).As an ICBL coordinator,she has written and spoken extensively on the problem of landmines and the movement to ban them.She worked with groups in different countries.In 1992 she was working with six groups but by 1997 more than 1000 groups from over sixty countries had joined ICBL.Although the organization became very large,the friendly way of organizing ICBL continued and has proved very successful.Working in a unprecedented cooperative way with governments and other international groups,the ICBL achieved its goal of an international treaty b anning landmines during the diplomatic conference held in Oslo in September 1997.In 1997 ICBL was given the Nobel Peace Prize and the work of Jody Williams was recognized and rewarded.She still works for ICBL today.7.Joan of Arc (1412-1431)Joan of Arc was born in the small village of Domremy in France.She lived at the time when there was a war between England and France called “The Hundred Years War”.Joan of Arc was important because she encouraged the old French king’s son,the Dauphin,to be crowned in Rheims as the only King of France.The French people accepted him as the true king of France.Joan also showed the French army how to win battles and inspired them with the confidence to win.So Joan of Arc began the process by which the English left France and it became acountry in its own right.At the time Joan lived it was considered wrong for women to fight in the army.But Joan argued that God had spoken to her and sent her to help the French army.She said God had spoken to her through two messengers and they had encouraged her in her mission.When she was captured by the English,they did not believe her stories of the messengers from God and criticized her for fighting and wearing men’s clothes.After a trial she was put to death.She was very patriotic and did inspire the French to win against the English.She showed how brave she was by what she did just like Hua Mulan in China.8.Lin Qiaozhi (1901-1983)Lin Qiaozhi was born in Xiamen in Fujian Province.Her parents were Christians and her father worked at a university of Singapore.He believed in the education of women.Lin Qiaozhi’s mother died when she was five and she went to live with her brother and his family.They fulfilled their father’s wishes by supporting her education even when they could no longer support the education of their own children.At elementary school one of herteachers noticed how quick and neat her knitting was and encouraged her to become a doctor.1921 She entered the Peking Union Medical College.1929 She graduated from the University with a PhD degree in gynaecology.1932 She went to London University Medical School and Manchester University Medical School for furtherstudies.1933 She studied in Vienna and then returned to China to work for women and children’s diseases.1933 She studied abroad in the USA at the Chicago University Medical School.1940 She returned to China as the Head of Gynaecology and Obstetric S:the first female head of such adepartment.1941 War between Japan and the USA forced the hospital to close so she opened a private hospital in the hutongs for patients.After the war she returned to the hospital when it reopened.1949 After the Liberation she went to study diseases of women in the countryside and wrote a book to help them keep their babies healthy.She was very important in inspiring women to become doctors and was one of the founders of modern gynaecology in China.She did important research and used the methods she had learnedabroad to improve Chinese medicine.1983 She died leaving her body for medical research.Her work was recognized when on the 100thanniversary of her birth a copper statue to honour her was placed in the Great Hall of the People,Beijing. Language Points1.Jane has studied these animals for many years and helped people understand how much they behavelike humans.简已经研究它们很多年了,她帮助人们了解了黑猩猩跟人类的行为是多么的相似。

Her achievements
Reading
4. Ask questions.
Make up questions within your group based on the reading. Each group chooses a best question and the other groups compete to answer it.
Pre-reading
2. Discuss in groups. • Why do you think Jane Goodall went to Africa to study chimps rather than to university? • Do you think she was right? Give your reasons. • Can you think of the possible difficulties that Jane Goodall might meet doing her research without training?
Reading
3. Summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
paragraph 1
paragraph 2 paragraph 3
paragraph 4
How the group followed Jane's way of studying chimps in the wild What Jane discovered about chimps How Jane tries to protect the lives of chimps in their natural habitat Jane’s achievements

F
cages though they have done nothing
wrong, she would say to herself:
“ Aren’t they lucky?”
F
The fourth paragraph
The achievement of Jane:
• Working with animals in their own environment.
dressed as/fight for/drive…out of/put to death help improve
3) What did Song Qingling do?
concern herself with… a specialist in…/devote …to
4) What did Lin Qiaozhi do?
The second paragraph
Please find out the discoveries that Goodall found. List them.
The first thing The second thing
She discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat
• Gaining a doctor’s degree for her studies. • Showing that women can live in the forest as men can.
5) What did Jody Williams do? 6) What did Jane Goodall do?
went to Africa/studied …
A student of
African wildlife