Unit 1　Women of achievement
Period One　Warming Up & Reading
Period Two　Learning about Language & Using Language
Period Three　Grammar
Period Four　Writing
单元总结提升
Unit 1　Women of achievement
Unit 1 │ Great scientists
She has just released her second CD, Say the Words, and already Chinese­Canadian singer Wanting is NO.1 in China and several Asian countries.She is bridging the gap between Asian and Western cultures through her music.
Wanting(full name Wanting Qu) didn't start out to be an international pop star.The thin，delicately­featured Harbin，China native first touched a piano when she was five.
“I actually played the piano when I was five and that's when I played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star，” she said.“We were
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at my mum's friend's house and my mum asked, ‘Did you just play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star without any training or anything？’ So she found that I had some sort of musical talent and so she gave me a piano as a birthday gift on my sixth birthday.”
She studied classical piano for three years, but then stopped playing for more than a decade.Wanting moved to Canada when she was 16，learned English, and then studied business for four years.But she was unhappy.
“I was studying economics(经济)，” she said.“Eventually I graduated in business management(管理)．But I spent four
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years not loving my life. I hated it.So I know it was a lesson for me—it took four years to know that I don't want to do business.”
By 21，she had restarted her music，and began writing and composing(作曲) her own songs. She participated in a workshop conducted by Terry McBride，the founder of Vancouver's Nettwerk Records，which handled artists such as Sarah McLachlan and Avril Lavigne.
After four years of putting together CDs，Wanting sent one to McBride，who signed(和……签约) her to Nettwerk.She also returned to China where a friend Xiao Kui of the punk band Noodle Killers helped her start valuable connections in her homeland.
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Task: Judge the following True(T)or False(F)．
1. Wanting helps people from East and West to know each other's cultures through her music. (　　)
2. Her mother found Wanting had some sort of musical talent when she was sixteen. (　　)
3. After her sixth birthday, Wanting has been playing the piano for more than ten years. (　　)
4. Sarah McLachlan was an artist handled by Vancouver's Nettwerk Records. (　　)
5. Wanting Qu was an international pop star and sang English songs well. (　　）
T
F
F
T
F
Period One　 Warming Up & Reading
Period One
Period One │ 三维目标
Knowledge and skills
1．Learn and master the following words and phrases: achievement, campaign, behave, respect, worthwhile, observe, argue, inspire, support, move off, lead a…life, crowed in.
2．Practise reading comprehension with all reading skills, such as skimming, scanning, intensive reading and extensive reading, etc.
3. Train students' speaking ability and improve students' reading ability.
Process and methods
1．Review the main words and expressions in the Reading.
2．Skim the text to conclude the main idea of the passage, and finish the Comprehending Exercise 2 on Page 3.
3．Scan the text and finish the Comprehending Exercise 1 on Page 3.
4．Inspiration, questioning and discussion.
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Emotion，attitude and value
1．Get the students to know more about Jane Goodall and her scientific life.
2．Conclude the characters that Jane Goodall has to make herself successful.
3．Get the students to try to be successful.
Period One │ 三维目标
Period One │ 重点难点
【重点】
1．Read and understand the passage.
2．Know the details about Jane Goodall and her scientific research.
3．Grasp some language points in the text.
【难点】
1．Reading comprehension skills.
2．Comprehending exercises on Page 3, especially Exercise 2 & Exercise 4.
Period One │ 教学建议
Skim the text as quickly as possible to know the general idea of this passage and the main idea of each paragraph. And then do extensive reading or scanning to finish the Comprehending exercises on Page 3. At last，do intensive reading to catch the details in the text.
Period One │ 新课导入
【导入一】
Words—learning
Ask the students to read the new words out.
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【导入二】
Pictures—showing
Period One │ 新课导入
1．Show the students several pictures of great people such as Nelson Mandela or Henry Norman Bethune. Make the students find out the qualities a great person should have.
By quoting “Women can hold up half the sky.”， ask some students to list some great women.
2．Oral practice—Then according to the pictures on the text book, talk about these women with great achievements, especially Song Qingling and Lin Qiaozhi.
Period One │ 课前自主预习
Task One：Fast Reading
Ⅰ. The text mainly tells us about ________who has studied chimps in the Gombe National Park for many years and changed the way people think about ________．
Ⅱ. Read the passage and match each paragraph with its main idea.
(　　)Para.1 A．Jane has achieved many things through her efforts.
(　　)Para.2 B．Jane has done many things for chimps.
Jane
chimps
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(　　)Para.3 C．The group studied a family of chimps in the way that Jane did.
(　　)Para.4 D．Jane has helped people to have a better understanding of the behaviour of chimps.
[答案] C D B A
Task Two：Careful Reading
Ⅰ. Read the text carefully and judge the following statements True (T) or False (F)．
1. Jane hopes that chimps can be left in the forest. (　　)
2. Jane supposes that people can use chimps for entertainment. (　　)
3. Jane has spent more than forty years helping people understand her work. (　　)
4. Jane has built many homes for the wild animals to live in. (　　)
5. Jane with her friends has been observing the chimps in the forest. (　　)
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T
F
T
T
F
Ⅱ. Read the text and then choose the best answer according to the text.
1. What did the group do first in the morning?
A．They went into the forest slowly.
B．They left the chimp family sleeping in a tree.
C．They observed the family of chimps wake up.
D．They helped people understand the behaviour of the chimps.
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[答案]C
2. Why did Jane go to Africa to study chimps in the wild? Because she wanted________．
A．to work with them in their own environment
B．to prove the way people think about chimps was wrong
C．to discover what chimps eat
D．to observe a chimp family

3. Jane was permitted to begin her work after________．
A．the chimp family woke up
B．she lived in the forest
C．her mother came to support her
D．she arrived at Gombe
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[答案]A
[答案]C
4．The purpose of her study was to ________．
A．watch the wild chimps in cages
B．gain a doctor's degree
C．understand and respect the lives of chimps
D．live in the forest as men can
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[答案]C
As the disease spread quickly through the poor neighbourhoods，he began to 5. ________ the information. He 6. ________ (mark) on a map where all the dead people had lived. The map gave a valuable clue about the cause of the disease. That was，the water from the Broad Street pump seemed 7. ________ (blame)．Furthermore，he found the water came from the 8. ________ (pollute) river from London. With another two cases，John Snow 9. ___________ (announce) with certainty that polluted water carried the disease and suggested 10. _______________________________________
(所有水源应该被检查). Finally “King Cholera” was defeated.
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gather
marked
to blame
that the source of all water supplies be examined
polluted
announced
1 behave 　vt.& vi.举动；(举止或行为)表现
(教材P2)Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans.简研究这些黑猩猩家族已经很多年了，她帮助人们了解它们的行为跟人类的是多么相似。
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behave oneself 　　　举止规矩，有礼貌
behave (well/badly) towards sb
对某人态度(好/不好)
behaviour n. 行为，举止
◇ 词汇点睛 ◇
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behave yourself
behaves towards me
shade 　 n. 荫；阴凉处 vt. 遮住光线
(教材P2)Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while
the family begins to wake up and move off. 每个人都坐在树荫
下等待着，这时候猩猩一家睡醒了，准备离开。
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in the shade of… 　　　　　　在……的阴凉处
put/throw/cast…in the shade 使……相形失色
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shade
worthwhile 　 adj. 值得做的，值得的
(教材P2)However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. 不过，
到傍晚时分我们觉得这一切都是值得的。
Period One │课堂互动探究
It's worthwhile to do/doing sth. 做某事是值得的。
be worth＋n. 值得……
be well worth＋doing 很值得做……
be worthy of sth/of being done/to be done
某物/做某事有价值
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(3)worthwhile与worthy一样，既可作表语，又可作定语。表示某事因重要、有趣或受益大而值得花时间、金钱或努力去做，一般作“值得的”“值得做的”“有意义的”解。作表语时，可接动名词或动词不定式。
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(5)Helping old people is ________________________．
帮助老年人是一项很有意义的活动。
(6)The newly built house with three bedrooms ______________ being bought.
这个新建的有三个卧室的房子值得买。
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a worthwhile activity
is worthy of
observe 　 vt.& vi. 观察；遵守；庆祝；评述，评论
(教材P2) She spent years observing and recording their daily
activities.她花了多年的时间来观察并记录它们的日常活动。
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observed her talking
observed to enter
observe their customs
respect 　vt.尊敬，敬重；重视 n．尊敬，尊重
(教材P2)For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken
about making the rest of the world understand and respect the
life of these animals. 40年来，简·古道尔一直在呼吁世人了解
并尊重这些动物的生活。
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highly/greatly respected
respect yourself
show/have respect for或respect
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With respect to
respects
argue 　vt.& vi.争论，争辩；讨论；(常接从句)说服；主
张，认为
(教材P2) She has argued that wild animals sh