Module 4 Unit 1 Women of Achievement.doc

Women of AchievementIm very glad to be here to talk about my teaching plan about A Student of African Wildlife taken from Unit1 in New Senior English for China Module 4. My presentation is made up of 4 parts: the analysis of teaching material, teaching methods, learning methods and teaching procedures.I. The Analysis of the Teaching Material:1. Status and Function:It is a reading passage, which plays a very important part in the English teaching of this unit. This passage talks about Jane Goodalls working experience in African forest from several aspects, such as her research, the difficulties she met, her achievements and so on. It not only embodies the theme of the whole unit, but also covers the important words and sentence structures of this unit. 2. Teaching aims: 1). Knowledge aims: To let Ss grasp the meaning of the mastery words and phrases. Catch the main idea of the passage and get some detailed information of Jane Goodall. 2). Ability aims: To develop Ss basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Of course reading is the centre of this lesson. Ill foster Ss abilities to collect information and deal with information. 3). Emotional aims: To understand the importance of Jane Goodalls research and arouse Ss sense of understanding, respecting and protecting animals. 3. Key points & difficult points in teaching:1). Develop Ss skills in reading, such as scanning, skimming and detailed reading2). Learn some mastery words and expressions according to context3). Retell the text & let the Ss express their thoughts using the words learned in the passage.II. About teaching methods: According to the characteristics of high school students and the theme of this unit, I will adopt teaching as a whole method, task-based method, and Ss-centered method. So in the teaching procedure, I will follow the rules of Ss recognition, conduct the Ss to begin with the title and then come to the general idea and the detailed information of the whole passage. let the Ss be the real master in class and foster their ability in cooperation. III: About learning methods: Ss in high school have had a degree of recognition. They have their own points of view. As is described in modern educational theory, “the process of obtaining knowledge is more important than obtaining knowledge itself”, we should not only teach Ss knowledge, but also lead them to cooperate with each other. In our teaching, we should make them willing to search for information, obtain information and deal with information. Ill try to arouse the Ss potential and make them obtain knowledge by way of cooperation, and at the same time form good learning methods to improve their reading, speaking and writing abilities.IV. About teaching procedures: As we all know, modern English teaching must follow the theory that Ss are the real master in class . According to this theory, I have designed five steps.Step1: Preparation: Give Ss a Task: Surf the Internet or refer to the books to find out information about Jane Goodall, such as her birthplace, her achievements and so on. Prepare a report.By doing this, I can develop Ss abilities to collect information, deal with the information and cooperate with others. Step 2: Pre-reading: Play a video about Jane Goodall. Then Ss do their reports as theyve prepared before class. My purpose of this step is to get Ss to think, speak and express in English.Encourage them to participate in the class activity .Step 3: While-reading:There are 4 tasks in this step.Task 1: Skimming the title:My purpose of giving Ss this task is to scatter their thoughts . And also I can cultivate their writing ability.Task 2: Scanning the passage:Scan the whole passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph. And then try to write down the main idea of each paragraph . Paragraph 1 : How our group studied chimps in the forest.Paragraph 2: What Jane discovered about chimpsParagraph 3: What Jane is doing now to help chimpsParagraph 4: Janes achievementsMy purpose of doing this is to foster Ss fast reading ability.Task 3: Intensive reading:For paragraph 1, Ill ask Ss to finish a diagram according to the groups research of the chimps activities:By finishing the diagram, Ss can understand this paragraph .For paragraph 2, Ill ask Ss some questions, for example:Where did Jane Goodall do her research?How did she do her research?Then the Ss can discuss the questions together. By this task, I can check if the Ss can understand this paragraph.For paragraph 3, Ill ask Ss to do some true or false statements:By these true or false statements, the Ss can understand this part better.Paragraph 4 is very simple, Ill ask Ss only one question: What did she achieve? Then I can train their ability to analyze information.The purpose of task 3 is to train the Ss for the skills of finding out the important facts and detailed information.Task 4: find out the difficult points and sentences by themselves. Then work in groups and exchange their understanding of the difficult points.My purpose is to develop Ss reading skills.Step 4:SummaryIn this step, what the Ss will do is to appreciate some pictures and music as well as listening to the tape so that they can revise what the have learned in class. Step 5: Homework:The homework is to write a letter to those parents who prefer boys to treat girls equally by telling them some stories of some women of achievement. I hope the S