1、Lesson 7: What Is the Meaning of Life?subjectLesson 7: What Is the Meaning of Life?The main preparation崔审Teaching Aims:Know about the great people in the world.Learn the high spirit of the great people.Teaching Important Points:Introduce people.Passive voice.Teaching Difficult Points:Passive voice.T
2、eaching Aidsaudiotape, flashcards, picturesTeaching Procedure:个性化设计Step1warming up:Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.Divide the class into groups of three or four. Talk about the questions. If they think the topics are too difficult for them, the teacher can add the content: “What do you want to be in the fu
3、ture? Why?”This question is easier than the others. They can talk a lot about the topic. Now lead them talk about the future, the dream and the life. It seems easier now.Step2Listen to the tape and then let the students say the main idea about the text.S1: It deals with the future.S2: They talk abou
4、t the life.S3: What is success?S4: Why are people different from animals?Then the teacher sum what they say. It tells us the lifes meaning. It leads us to think about the life. Now we are living on the earth. Some of us are happy. Others are sad. When we are free, we can think about these questions.
5、Step3Read the text. Let they underline the language points of this text. Ask the students to solve the problems. They can use dictionaries and ask the teacher if necessary. The teacher helps them some on the blackboard.Encourage the students to make sentences with the following language points:succe
6、ed in doing sth.; more; make one happyS5: He succeeded in finding a new way to do with the rubbish.S6: We all know he will succeed in the future.S7: Would you like some more?S8: We need ten more people.S9: Dont make them too happy.S10: The students must keep the classroom clean. Come to “PROJECT”.Di
7、vide the class into several groups. Let every group write the questions that they want to know on a piece of paper. Then they exchange the paper with another group. They can ask the questions in class.Take your questions home. Ask your family members about the questions. First ask your parents and w
8、rite their answers down. Then ask your grandparents the questions and write their answers down.Bring the answers to school. Discuss their answers in groups. Lets see if they have any differences between their answers. Discuss why these differences exist.Now in the group discuss the last question: Wh
9、at did you learn from this project.In this project, we try to find the secret of life. When we are in different age, we have different realizations to life. When we are older, we will know much about the life.Summary:Dont you think life is a strange thing? Discuss the questions Li Ming and Wang Mei
10、asks in groups. Then encourage them to ask more questions about life. Give them time to search on the Internet to know the secret of the life. Group activities are good styles of discussing. More practice will give the students more chances to practice their spoken English.HomeworkFinish off the act
11、ivity book.Go on the next reading in the student bookTeaching reflection： 课时subjectLesson 8: A Universe of ThoughtThe main preparation崔斐审核Teaching Aims:Know the stories of the great people.Learn more about the foreign culture.Teaching Important Points:1. Know Einsteins life and contributions to the
12、world.2. Grasp some words and expressions on physics.Teaching Difficult Points:Einsteins life and contributions to the worldTeaching Aidsaudiotape, flashcards, picturesTeaching Procedure:个性化设计Step1warming up:Ask the students the following questions:What do you know about Einstein?Why did Einstein su
13、cceed?If Einstein wants to make more research on physics, what difficulties must he come over?Discuss the questions in groups, and then let them report in front of the class. If you think their answers are not completely, you can let them research on the Internet to get more information.Step2Come to
14、 “THINK AOBUT IT”.Continue to talk about the questions in formal groups. When one student in one group cant give the complete answer the others can add what they want to say.The importance is what you think is the most important thing for a student. Lets discuss what we can learn from Einstein.Step3
15、Read the text and find the answers of the following questions:What is he most famous for?Where and where was Einstein born?What did Einstein think the most important thing was?Let the students skim the text and give the right answers. Read the text further and underline the language points in this l
16、esson. Then ask the students to present the questions in the class. Let the others try to find the answers. The teacher needs to give them right answers and explain the language points to them patients.Make a list of the language points in this lesson:famous; mind; stop doing sth.; sign; give upNow
17、make sentences with the help of the flashcards.S1: China is famous for the Great Wall.S2: Einstein is famous for his Theory of Relativity.S3: Do you mind my opening the window?S4: Think hard with your mind, you will succeed.S5: The teacher came in. Lets stop talking.S6: Dont stop searching. I think
18、we will know the truth at once.S7: Please sign here.S8: Do you remember the sign?S9: Dont give up working hard.S10: Giving up smoking is good for your health. Listen to the tape and read after it in order to get perfect pronunciation. Play the tape again. Let them read with the books closed. Can the
19、y do it well?Come to “LETS DO IT”.Let some students give a report in front of the class. If the others have the same opinion with him, he can stand up and add the necessary content.Summary:From the text, we learn not only Einsteins stories, but also his spirit of researching. The most important thin
20、g of success is the spirit of hard work. If we want to succeed and have a meaning and colourful life, we must study hard. Now our learning situation is much better than before. We must make more progress and research more.HomeworkFinish off the activity book.Go on the next reading in the student boo
21、kTeaching reflection： 课时subjectLesson9:Chinas Most Famous “Farmer”The main preparation崔斐审核Teaching Aims:Know a great man of China who has made great contribution to the world.Learn the spirit of the successful man.Teaching Important Points:Grasp the words and expressions about the agriculture.Learn
22、the development of the rice.Teaching Difficult Points:The words and expressions in the fields of rice.Teaching Aidsaudiotape, flashcards, picturesTeaching Procedure:个性化设计Step1warming up:Show the new words with the flashcards. Let the students read the words and expressions after you. Read more times
23、 to the difficult words.Play a game to see if they have read them fluently. Divide the class into two groups. One group asks the words, the other answers. Then change their roles. They get one score if they can read a word correctly. At last, lets see who has the higher score. The winner is the grou
24、p who gets more scores.Step2Skim the text and tell us the main idea of this lesson.Give the students three minutes. Lets see how many students can finish the reading task in the limited time.Ask some students to demonstrate their opinion. If others think isnt complete, they can add others in the opi
25、nion. If the teacher thinks their answers are not perfect, he or she can pay more attention to the part in the next steps.Step3Read the text and ask questions.Finish the task in groups. Find questions about this part. Then ask the other group to answer them. If someone wants to add his own opinion,
26、he can stand up and say his suggestion.The questions are like these:Whats Professor Yuans childhood dream?When was he born?What did he succeed in developing?Did foreigner countries use Professor Yuans technology?They can ask more questions as they like.Make sentences with the language points with th
27、e help of the flashcards.graduate fromI graduate Beijing University in 1998.Where did he graduate from?come up withAt last, he came up with a good idea.When we are in trouble, he always comes up with good ideas.devotetoLu Xun devoted himself to the Chinese literature.Would you like to devote yoursel
28、f to the Chinese physics?because ofBecause of the rain, they didnt go to Beijing.He didnt pass the exam because of his carelessness.Play the tape for several times. Let the students listen carefully and have the correct pronunciation.Let some students read important paragraphs.Come to “PROJECT”Finis
29、h the puzzle. Make another in groups, and then let them exchange their puzzles. When a group finishes it, present it to the other groups members to see if they are correct.Exchange the puzzles with the groups until all the groups have the puzzles answers. Then check the answers in class.Summary:It i
30、s necessary for us to study the performance. What have the old scientists done for us? How great they are? We must work hard at all our subjects. Whatever you do when you grow up, we must devote ourselves to the society. We must be a useful person to the world. If someone is very interested in rice,
31、 too, we can get more information on the Internet. HomeworkFinish off the activity book.Go on the next reading in the student bookTeaching reflection： 课时subjectLesson10: Touch the WorldThe main preparation崔斐审核Teaching Aims:Learn the spirit of Helen Keller.Know the important thing of being a great ma
32、nTeaching Important Points:1. Learn about Helen Kellers whole life.2. How did she come over the difficulties?Teaching Difficult Points:Know about the world of the blind and deaf.Teaching Aidsaudiotape, flashcards, picturesTeaching Procedure:个性化设计Step1warming up:Play a game.Now lets play a game. Who
33、wants to come to the front? The teacher prepared a piece of cloth to cover one students eyes. Some others come to the front.The student with cloth covered touches the others who come to the front and guess who they are.After the game, the teacher asks the questions:Do you know them well? Is it diffi
34、cult for you to guess who she or he is? Why?But there is a so great woman. She is blind and deaf, but she wrote many books and made speeches around the world to encourage the blind and deaf. Her death is a great loss to the world.Do you know who she is?Step2Listen to the tape and answer the followin
35、g questions:Who is she? Whats wrong with her?Read and Retell sth story with the flashcards and the pictures.Her mother is very patient. When there are guests, her mother often lets her sit beside her and made her hands into her mouth to feel the moving of the tongue. Activities.Now let the students
36、work in groups. Write questions about the text on a piece of paper. Ask another group the questions.Step3Language Points:Show some pictures to the students. Let them make sentences with the language points.Make a list of the language points:do ones bestS1: Lets do our best to get the first place in
37、the exam.S2: Do your best to catch up with the others.one .the otherS3: I have two sisters. One is a doctor, the other is a nurse.S4: They have two animals. One is a cat, the other is a dog.Come to “LETS DO IT”.Finish this task with the help of the flashcards.Ask every student to write one persons n
38、ame who is very famous on a piece of paper. Then hand in the paper on the teachers desk.Let one students come here to choose one from these. Then let him or her say something about the great man.If they dont know the person very well, the teacher uses the flashcards to help them. Show them much info
39、rmation, and then let them say it in English.Summary:The teacher tries to create more chances for the students to speak in the class. Activities are the main presentations of the class. We organized all the grammars and language points in the activities. Let them grasp the knowledge in the activitie
40、s. Thus, they will think English is fun and easy.HomeworkFinish off the activity book.Go on the next reading in the student bookTeaching reflection： 课时subjectLesson11: To China, with LoveThe main preparation崔斐审核Teaching Aims:Peace and development is the worlds forever subject.Learn Bethunes internat
41、ional spirit.Teaching Important Points:Learn the whole life of Bethune.Know more about the Anti-Japanese War.Teaching Difficult Points:some knowledge about the medical treatment and Anti-Japanese War.Teaching Aidsaudiotape, flashcards, picturesTeaching Procedure:个性化设计Step1warming up:Come to “THINK A
42、BOUT IT”.Divide the class into groups of three or four. Discuss the questions for a while. Then let some students report in front of the class.Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:When and where was Bethune born?Did Norman Bethune meet Mao Zedong?Read the text and check the answers.
43、 Then try to say what the main point of this lesson. Ask some students say, the others add their suggestions.Ask them to ask questions about this text. The questions can be like these:Why is Bethune famous?When did he go to Northern China?What did Chinese do to remember him?Are Canadians proud for B
44、ethune?Step2Deal with the language points with the help of audiotape.Make a list of the language points:be famous forS1: China is famous for the Great Wall.S2: Song Zuying is famous for her songs.be famous asS3: Binxin was famous as a writer.S4: Jay Chow is famous as a singer.Step3Come to “LETS DO I
45、T”.Divide the class into groups to finish the task. If they are in trouble, they can look up the new words in the dictionary. They can ask the teacher for help.After a while, let some students give a talk in front of the class.Summary:Bethune was very great, because at that time, China was very poor
46、 and weak. Chinese had hard time, but Bethune, a Canadian helped us a lot. He saved many peoples lives in the war. Unluckily, he died in the war. We will remember him forever. We will learn his spirit forever. He will live in our hearts forever.HomeworkFinish off the activity book.Go on the next rea
47、ding in the student bookTeaching reflection： 课时subjectLesson12: Guess My HeroThe main preparation崔斐审核Teaching Aims:Learn to make a word puzzle.Know more about the foreign culture.Teaching Important Points:How to demonstrate one thing clearly.How to write an e-mail?Teaching Difficult Points:passive v
48、oiceTeaching Aidsaudiotape, flashcards, picturesTeaching Procedure:个性化设计Step1warming up:Sum up what we learn in this unit. Let some students talk in front of the class. Lets see who has the best answer. If one cant give a complete answer, the others can say their suggestions.S1: This unit is about t
49、he great men in the world. What we must learn is their spirit.S2: We must work hard from now on.S3: It tells us the happiness that we have today isnt got easily. We must value it. Read the first e-mail. Ask some students retell the story, but not word by word. If they cant express correctly, give th
50、em time to read the text again.Step2Activities.Divide the class into groups and ask questions about the text. Then exchange the questions and answer them. Then present their main questions and answers in class.Step4.Language PointsRead the text again. Ask the students to find the language points tha
51、t they cant understand well. Then ask the others to answer. They can say what they know about this language points. Then the teacher sums the answers and explains again to the class.Make sentences with the language points.Make a list of the language points:tryS1: I dont know whether I could succeed,
52、 but I will try.S2: Why not try doing the experiment?the same asS3:His mothers hair is the same colour as my mothers.S4: I like the same music as you.Step3Come to “LETS DO IT”.Finish the task in groups in formal groups. They can introduce others that they are interested in. Give them tips when they
53、are in trouble.Step6. Make a puzzle. It is a difficult task. All the students must work hard to do it. The teacher can prepare one before class and let the students do in class. This will be very interesting.Summary:It is easy to write an e-mail for the students in Grade 3. Lets try again to see their abilities. Some lazy students may speak or write less than others. Leave written homework, so all the students must finish it.HomeworkFinish off the activity book.Go on the next reading in the student bookTeaching reflection：
