Teaching aims:
Knowledge aim:
a.Get students to learn the following useful new words and expressions: consideration, deliver,
kindness, etc.
b.Get students to learn how to describe a person and how to make the person come to life by
using adjectives, etc.
Ability aim:
Let students grasp how to write a passage by memorizing basic procedures and necessary expressions.
Emotional aim:
a.Let students have a better understanding of great women’s good qualities and learn from
them
b.Develop students’ sense of group coo peration and teamwork.
Key points:
a. Have students master the meanings and usage of important new words and expressions in this part.
b. Develop students’ writing skills
Difficult points:
How to get the students to guess the meaning of words in a context and paraphrase them
Teaching methods:
a.Task-based teaching approach
b.Question-and-answer activity teaching method
c.Pair work and individual work method
Teaching procedures:
Step I. Lead-in
Two activities:
a. A short video
b. Review adjectives to describe a great person
Step II. Reading
Task 1:
a. How many questions did the author ask in the passage
b. What are they and did she find out the answers
Task 2:
Find her answers
Passage:
I enjoyed English, biology and chemistry at school, but which one should I choose to study at
university I didn’t know the answer until one evening when I sat down at the computer to do some research on great women of China.
Why did she write that Who were the women that Lin Qiaozhi thought needed this advice I looked carefully at the text and realized that it was intended for women in the countryside. Perhaps if they had an emergency they couldn’t reach a doctor.
Was she so much cleverer than anyone else Further reading made me realize that it was hard work and determination as well as her gentle nature That got her into medical school What made her succeed later on was the kindness and consideration she showed to all her patients. Task 3:
Words to describe her
Step III. Speaking and writing
1.Interview
D: Miss Jiang, I know your birthplace is in Lishui and worked in Beijing as a Doctor, but why did you give up your good job and choose to help in dangerous Areas
J: I learned that people suffered a lot in Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially pregnant women. I have mercy on them and made up my mind to help them.
2.Writing
a.Write a composition of the woman you have talked about.
e the adjectives and phrases we have learned in the first class and this class.
Step IV: Post-writing:
Exchange writings with partners and find mistakes according to a check list.
Check list:
1). Content
Does it cover different aspects of Lin Qiaozhi
2). Language
spelling mistakes
linking words
correct tense
advanced vocabulary
good sentence patterns
3). Others
