高中英语：M4 Period 3 Extensive Reading,The General Idea of This period 教学设计

Period 3　Extensive Reading 

The General Idea of This period

There are three purposes in this reading Period. One is to introduce a great and famous Chinese doctor—Lin Qiaozhi and her career. She was important for women in China because she was the first woman doctor to specialize in gynecology and obstetrics. Another purpose is to show the students a sample to describe a person. The other purpose is to direct the students how to choose their major and career. As the writer of the article is a student, and she said that it was Lin Qiaozhi’s achievement that encouraged her to study at medical college. Like the writer of the passage, the students may not have a clear idea about what they would like to do in the future. So the story might lead to the students’ consideration about their future major and career choices and how they may be arrived at. So it may make them take their future more seriously.?

Teaching Important Points?

Enable the students to learn and talk about Lin Qiaozhi’s story.?

Enable the students to describe a person about her/his appearance, qualities and achievements.?

Learn some sentence patterns.?

Teaching Difficult Points?

To describe a person about her/his appearance, qualities and achievements.?

Learn some sentence patterns.?

Teaching Methods?

Skimming to get the general idea of the story of A Good Example for me.?

Scanning to get detailed information and get to understand the story better.?

Task-based methods to get the students to comprehend the passage and be able to retell the story in their own words.?

Teaching Aids?

A tape recorder?

A multimedia?

Three Dimensional Teaching Aims

Knowledge and Skills?

Enable the students to learn and talk about Lin Qiaozhi’s story.?

Enable the students to describe a person about her/his appearance, qualities and achievements.?

Learn some useful words and expression

S: do some research, article, chosen career, explain, care for, death rate，medical training, kindness, consideration, be second to，deliver a baby.?

Learn some sentence patterns:?

It was a small book explaining how to cut the death rate from having and caring for babies by following some simple rules for keeping babies clean and healthy.?

It struck me like lightening how difficult it must have been for a woman to get a medical training so long ago when women’s education was always placed second to men’s.?

It was hard work and determination as well as her good nature that had got her into medical school.?

It was not her success at university that had made her famous.?

It was her kindness and the consideration that made her famous.?

Process and Strategies?

Group work to carry out a heated discussion about their future career.?

Explanation to make the students understand Lin Qiaozhi’s spirits of dedication.?

Feelings and Value?

Through the reading of this passage the students are sure to learn a lot from Lin Qiaozhi. Meanwhile, the discussion will get the students to think a lot.?

Teaching Procedures?

Step 1 Revision?

Greet the class as usual.?

Step 2 Lead in-Brainstorms about Lin Qiaozhi.?

T: In this unit we focus on the great women home and abroad. Remember the one we talked about the day before yesterday? ?

Ss: Yes, of course.?

T: Who is she? ?

Ss: Jane Goodall.?

T: Why did she impress you so much? ?

S: Because she devoted all her love to the chimps.?

S: Because she was a woman full of determination and courage.?

S: Because she was so unselfish that she gave up the opportunity to go to university only because of the chimps.?

T: Good! What you said sounds reasonable. When we are growing up we need food to give us nutrition. But the most important thing that we couldn’t do without is the love from our parents, our friends and the ones we love. Similarly, a person’s success couldn’t leave the love to others. Knowledge is the food that a man should absorb; while love is the sunshine, a success should show love to others. When he or she is doing so the person is really a famous person or such a person can be a great person. Don’t you think so? ?

Ss: Yes. I agree with you.?

T: Today we are going to talk about another famous person. Please open your textbook and turn to Page 6. Let’s have a look at this picture. Who is in it? ?

Ss: Lin Qiaozhi.?

T: Wow, you can recognize her at first sight! You are wonderful. Who can say something about her? ?

S: Let me have a try. Lin Qiaozhi is our pride because she was Chinese. She was born in Xiamen in Fujian Province.?

S: I know something about her too. She was strong-willed. Lin Qiaozhi’s mother died when she was five but she was quite lucky because her father who worked at a university of Singapore believed in the education of women. That is why she as a woman in Old China got so much education.?

S: She once studied in the Peking Union Medical College, London University Medical School, Manchester University Medical School and the Chicago University Medical School.?

S: She studied diseases of women, especially women in the countryside.?

S: Last year I went to Beijing. In the Great Hall of the People, I saw a copper statue which was placed to honor her and her work.?

T: Good job. I can see that you took the homework serious and surf the Internet to surf for a lot of information.

Step 3 Getting the general idea?

Get the students to read the passage and get the answers to the following questions.?

T: Now let’s read an article about Lin Qiaozhi. Please read the passage and get the answers to the following questions. You have four minutes to go.?

1. What was the writer’s problem? ? 2. What did he decide to do at last? Why? ? 3. Which words can we find in the text used to describe Lin Qiaozhi? ? 4. What are Lin Qiaozhi’s achievements mentioned in the passage? ?

T: Time is up. Have you got the answers? ?

Ss: Yes.?

T: Now who can answer the first question? ?

S: 1.The writer did not know which subject to choose to study at university among English, biology and chemistry.?

T: Right. What about the second one? ?

S: 2.He decided to study medicine. Because he was moved by Lin Qiaozhi.?

T: Is he right? ?

Ss: Yes.?

T: Good. The next one? ?

S: 3.There are many words such as busy, hard work, determination, good nature, kindness and consideration that can be used to describe Lin Qiaozhi.?

T: It’s very careful of you to have been able to find out so many words. In these words some are about her character and some are about her personality. Character is how she behaved in her work or towards others; while personality is to describe what she is like. Do you understand? ?

Ss: Yes.?

T: What about the last one? ?

S: 4.She wrote some books and articles about women’s diseases.?

S: She got a medical training for her career.?

S: She became a specialist in women’s diseases.?

S: She had made sure that about 50 000 babies were safely delivered to their mothers.?

T: If we combine all your answers, they will make a perfect answer.

Step 4 Scanning and language focus?

T: We have got the general understanding of the passage now. Next I would like you to listen to the tape and read the passage again. After you finish reading, you should have got the answers to these questions:?

1. When the writer was surfing the Internet, what drew her attention? ? 2. Was it difficult for Lin Qiaozhi to get a medical training? ? 3. What had got her into medical school? ? 4. What made Lin Qiaozhi famous? ? 5. What were most of Lin Qiaozhi’s stories about? ?

T: Time is up. Who can answer the first question? ?

S: 1.When the writer was surfing the Internet, a small book explaining how to cut the death rate from having and caring for babies by following some simple rules for keeping babies clean and healthy.?

T: How did you know that it drew his attention? ?

S: He said the book caught his eye.?

T: So here “something catches one’s eye” means...? ?

Ss: It means “draw one’s attention某物吸引某人的注意,某人看到了某物”.?

T: Good.(writes “ sth. Catch one’ eye= sth. catch one’s attention/sb.see sth.” on the blackboard) ?

What about a book explaining how to cut the death rate from having and caring for babies by following some simple rules for keeping babies clean and healthy? What does it mean?

S: In Chinese, it means 一本介绍如何在妇女怀孕到护理婴儿的过程中通过一些使婴儿保持清洁健康的简单规则来降低死亡率的书。“explaining how to cut the death rate from having and caring for babies by following some simple rules for keeping babies clean and healthy” is the attribute.?

T: Good. (writes “v.-ing as attribute” on the blackboard and gives more examples with ing as the attribute) ?

Let’s see the second question.?

S: 2.Yes, it was difficult for Lin Qiaozhi to get a medical training.?

T: Yes or no? ?

Ss: Yes.?

T: How did you know??

Ss: The first sentence in the third paragraph.?

T: Can you understand the sentence? ?

Ss: Yes/ No.?

T: Who can explain the sentence? ?

S: Let me try. This is a complex sentence. The first “it” is an empty subject and the real subject is how difficult it must have been for a woman to get a medical training so long ago when women’s education was always placed second to men’s. The second “is” also an empty subject. It stands for “to get a medical training for a woman so long ago when women’s education was always placed second to men’s”. “When women’s education was always placed second to men’s” is a relative clause to modify “long ago”. In Chinese, the whole sentence means “在那久远的年代,当女性的教育总是低于男性的时候,一个女子去学医一定是相当困难的,这想法闪电般地闪过我的脑海。”?

T: Good.(writes and explains “modal verb + have been” and “place A second to B” on the blackboard, giving more examples) Let’s see the third question. What had got her into the medical school? ?

S: 3.It was hard work and determination as well as her good nature that had got her into medical school.?

T: The next one? What made Lin Qiaozhi famous? Was it her success at university that had made her famous? ?

Ss: No.?

S: 4.It was her kindness and the consideration she showed to all her patients made her famous.?

T: How did you get the answer? ?

S: I got the answer from the two sentences—It was not her success at university that had made her famous. It was her kindness and consideration she showed to all her patients. “It was...that” is a structure used to emphasize “not her success at university” and “her kindness and consideration”. So we can see the two sentences mean that not her success at university but her kindness and consideration had made her famous.?

T: Absolutely right. Very good job!(writes the structure “It is...that...” on the blackboard)?

It was not her success at university that had made her famous.? It was her kindness and consideration she showed to all her patients that had made her famous.

Now please pay attention to the boldface: It was...that...This is a structure used to emphasize some speech of a sentence. For example: John saw her in the garden yesterday afternoon. We may say:?

It was John that/who saw her in the garden yesterday afternoon.(subject)? It was her that/who John saw in the garden yesterday afternoon.(object)? It was in the garden that John saw her yesterday afternoon.(place adverbial)? It was yesterday afternoon that John saw her in the garden.(time adverbial)?

T: Please look at the sentences on the blackboard. Is there any connections between them??

S: Oh, if we take the structure away, the other parts of the sentence will make a simple sentence.?

T: Bingo. If fact, when we want to stress a person, we can use “that or who” while in other situations we can only used “that”. Do you have any questions about the structure??

Ss: No.?

T: So let’s do some practice to see whether you really grasp the structure.?

 (Get the students to do some practice by emphasizing the underlined part of the sentences.)?

At the supermarket I met my former classmate.?

My cousin turned home from Britain last year.?

I rather than you helped her out of the trouble.?

Keys: It was at the supermarket that I met my former classmate.?

It was from Britain that my cousin turned home last year.?

It was I rather than you that/ who helped her out of the trouble.?

T: Now let’s come to the last question. What were most of Lin Qiaozhi’s stories about??

S: 5.Most of her stories were about how she went late a night to deliver a baby for a poor family who could not pay her.?

T: Deliver a baby means... ?

S: It means give birth to a baby.?

T: Good job.(writes “deliver a baby= give birth to a baby” on the blackboard)?

Step 5 Retelling?

Get the students to retell the passage by filling in the blanks.?

Lin Qiaozhi wrote a small book for __________ in the __________ who were　__________ __________ get to a hospital easily. It was to help them to __________ __________ their babies’ properly.?

Qiaozhi lived in the early __________ __________.It was not __________ for women to get __________ __________ at that time. Education was for men __________ and women __________.She chose to study at medical college because she wanted __________ __________ other women.?

I think Lin Qiaozhi is a good doctor and __________ __________ __________.?

Keys: The 1st paragraph: mothers, countryside, not able to, look after?

The 2nd paragraph: twentieth century, easy, medical training, first, second, to help?

The 3rd paragraph: a great woman?

Step 6 Homework?

1.Read the passage fluently and learn by heart some important phrases and structures.?

2. Read Elizabeth Fry’s story on Page 45 and finish exercise 1.

Language Points?

1. It was a small book explaining how to cut the death rate from having and caring for babies...

这是一本小书介绍如何在妇女怀孕到护理婴儿的过程中降低死亡率……?

“explaining” 为-ing形式作定语修饰book。-ing 形式作定语常表示与谓语动词同时的行为，相当于谓语动词未进行时或一般时的定语从句,有时也可以表示与谓语不同时的行为。例如:?

Who is the man sitting (who is sitting) in the corner??

坐在角落的那个人是谁？?

Women caring (who care) for patients in hospitals are called nurses.?

医院里照料病人的妇女叫护士。?

The man wearing (who wears) a blue suit used to be a teacher.?

那个穿一身蓝的人从前当过老师。

2.One of them caught my eye.其中一本书引起了我的注意。?

catch sb.’s eye=sb.see sth.?

When I entered his new house,a beautiful picture caught my eye.?

当我走进他的新房子的时候,我看到了一幅漂亮的图画。

3.I looked carefully at the text and realized that it was intended for women who lived in the countryside.?我仔细阅读了文章,了解到那是为了生活在农村的妇女而写的。?

intend vt. 1）打算2）给?

What do you intend to do /doing next?接下来你打算干什么？?

He intends no harm to you.他并不是故意要伤害你的。?

Our dictionary is intended for the students.?

我们的字典是给学生用的。

4.It struck me like lighting how difficult it must have been for a woman to get a medical training so long ago when women’s education was always placed second to men’s.?在那久远的年代,当女性的教育总是低于男性的时候,一个女子去学医一定相当困难,这想法闪电般划过我的脑海。?

must/ may/ might/+ have +p.p 肯定/可能已经……?

can’t/ couldn’t + have +p.p不可能已经……?

They must have spent years and years building the Great Wall.?

他们肯定花了很多年建长城。?

The man you saw last night couldn’t /can’t have been Tom.?

你昨晚看到的人不可能是汤姆。?

place A second to B 使A处于次于B的地位

5. It was hard work and determination as well as her good nature that had got her into medical school.?

是苦干、决心和善良的天性使她走进医科院的大门。?

It was not her success at university that had made her famous.It was her kindness and the consideration she showed to all her patients.?

 强调句型:It is/ was...that/ who...?

It was at the supermarket that I met my former classmate.?

我是在超市碰到我以前的同学的。?

It was from Britain that my cousin turned home last year.?

我表弟去年是从英国回来的。?

It was I rather than you that/ who helped her out of the trouble.?

是我而不是你帮助他从困境中走出的。