北师大版高中英语选修模块七 Unit19 Language Awareness精品教案

Unit19 Language Awareness参考教案

The Tenth Period

Teaching goals 教学目标

Enable students to learn the impersonal report structure in context. Teaching important points教学重点

It is / was hoped/ expected/believed/ known/ realized... that... Teaching difficult points教学难点 How to use the structure freely. Teaching methods教学方法

Reading, speaking, discussing and writing Teaching aids 教具准备 The Multi-computer

Teaching procedures & ways 过程与方式 Step I Revision Check the homework

T: Yesterday I asked you to find more idioms and proverbs. Who would like to share yours with us?

S1: Be the apple of someone's eye Picture:

Meaning:

Be loved very much by someone.

If someone is the apple of your eye, you think he/she is very important to you, and you love him/her very much.

This idiom is used especially when someone is loved by an older member of his/her family. Example:

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Erika is Mark's only granddaughter, and she's the apple of his eye. Sarah's only son was the apple of her eye.

S2: Couch potato Meaning:

A person who spends a lot of idle time sitting and watching television

If a person is a couch potato, he/she is not active and spends most of his/her time sitting and watching TV. He/she doesn't do anything productive. Example:

School children don't play outside as much as before. Many of them are overweight couch potatoes.

Don't be a couch potato! You're just wasting your time

T: There is a new idiom: Mouse potato. Who can guess its meaning?

S3: I guess it means a person who spends a great deal of time using a computer T: Good! Who would liker to introduce some proverbs? S4: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Meaning:

You use this proverb to say it is better to accept something that you have or you can use now than to try to get something better that you might not be able to obtain. Sometimes people just say, \is worth two in the bush,\you have than to risk losing it by trying to get something better you may not succeed in getting. Example:

If I were you, I'd accept the job. It might not be the best job for you, but a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

S5: Don't cross your bridges before you come to them. Meaning:

You use this proverb to tell someone not to worry about something until it actually

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happens.

People often say \not worry about the particular possible problem until it actually appears. Example:

A: Our proposal is ready, but what if the committee doesn't accept it?

B: Don't cross your bridges before you come to them. We will see what happens then. A (woman): I'll introduce you to my parents tonight.

B (the woman's boyfriend): Okay.., but they might not like me. A: Don't worry. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it S6: The early bird catches the worm. Meaning:

This proverb is used to tell you to act early or right now to be successful.

If someone says, \early bird catches the worm,\he/she means that if you do something early or before anyone else, you will have an advantage and be successful. Example:

The early bird catches the worm! Don't miss this year's best deal! The sale will start on Thursday, and the store opens at 5:00 a.m.

Though you have more than 6 months before you leave, start looking for good deals on airline tickets and reserve your seats early. The early bird catches the worm. T: Excellent! Please remember idioms and proverbs are part of the English culture. Learn as many idioms and proverbs as you can and you will have a good knowledge of English. Good luck to your English study.

Go over the reading strategies: Paragraphs and headings in Unit 19. Then deal with Ex 1.

T: What reading strategies have we learned in Unit 19? Ss: Paragraphs and headings.

T: Generally speaking, which sentence introduces the main idea of the paragraph? Ss: The first sentence is the topic sentence and often introduces the main idea of the paragraph.

T: Please remember headings often contain a words or a synonym of a word from the

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paragraph.

Ss: A heading is used to summarise the main idea of each paragraph. Step II Background

T: Good! We will use the reading strategies to read the article Lonesome Male of the Galapagos. Before you read, let’s learn something about the Galapagos Islands. Please look at the map of the Galapagos Islands.

Brief History of the Galapagos Islands

1835 The Beagle visited the Galapagos Islands. Charles Darwin studied and noted the similarities and differences of the flora and fauna. He concluded that the species, to survive, would gradually alter based on environmental conditions.

1859 After 20 years of his life gathering supporting evidence, Darwin published \Origin of the Species by Natural Selection\

1892 Galapagos is officially names \lago de Colón\Columbus's discovery of American 400 years earlier.

1959 100th Anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the Galapagos Islands became Ecuador's first National Park and the non-profit Charles Darwin Foundation was established to assist the in preservation of the islands. 1978 The Islands are declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO underlining its universal value for mankind.

T: Now let’s come to the text and look at the picture.

Region :

Galapagos

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