北师大版英语高二选修6 Unit 16Lesson 2.doc

lesson 2 name storiesteaching aims: learn to talk about the origin and hidden story behind ones name. learn to make suggestions, assumptions and guesses. help to improve students listening skillsteaching difficult and important points talk about the origin and hidden story behind ones name improve students listening skillsteaching procedures:. warming uplook at the pictures of jackie chan and sun yet-sun then ask students:who is he?what about his chinese name?what about his original chinese name?task1: .compared their chinese names, do you know the history of their name. why did they change their name?. do their name have any specific meanings？his original name was chen gangsh（陈港生）,which tells his birthplace. in his acting career, he first had a stage name（艺名） chen yuanlong（陈元龙）. later, a film director gave him another stage name chenglong（成龙）, which has two aspects of meanings: the first one is to express the directors wish that cheng could become famous, just like a dragon- the symbol of china; the second it is hoped that cheng would follow the example of another well-known chinese martial star（功夫明星）, li xiaolong（李小龙）. . speaking1. whats your name? 2. what does it mean? 3. and why did your parents give you the name?. listening task1: listen to the three students talking about their names. which of them matches the following descriptions?1. this student has parents who wanted their child to be a “pillar of society”.( )2. this student has a grandfather whomoved from northern wales to manchester. ( ) 3. this student probably has an ancestor who made things from metal. ( )4. this student has parents who were inspired by a great violinist itzhak perlman. ( )5. this student is named a purple flower. ( )6. this student has parents who wanted their daughter to be as strong as any boy. ( )taks2: function file listen to the extracts from the monologues and complete the function file. expressing guesses, assumptions, beliefs. reading task1: lets read a name storycomplete the passage with these phrasal verbs, exercise 5task 2: culture linkingwestern names apart from their surname or last name or family name in britain or the us, most british and american children are given two personal names by their parents, a first name and a middle name. these names are sometimes called christian names or given names. some people have only one given name, a few have three or more. parents usually decide on given names for their children before they are born. in some families the oldest boy is given the same name as his father. in the us the word junior or senior, or a number, is added after the name and surname to make it clear which person is being referred to. many popular names come from the bible, e.g. jacob, joshua and matthew, mary, rebecca and sarah, though this does not imply that the people who choose them are religious. other people give their children the name of somebody they admire, such as a famous sports personality, or