一、Teaching materials:

Unit 1 What did Zhan Tianyou do? (Module 11 National heroes)

二、Targets for this period:

To understand conversations about Zhan Tianyou

To get special information from the listening passage

To talk about heroes with wh-questions

三、Key points:

Key vocabulary-bridge, build, engineer, foreign, government, museum, patriotic, railroad, tunnel, think of, work on, be difficult to, for, through, across, over, above, on

Key structures-wh-questions in the past simple

四、Teaching methods:

Bottom- up approach, task-based approach and interactive approach

五、Teaching aids

Tape recorder, blackboard

六、Teaching arrangements:

Step One Lead-in

1. Students repeat the new words and expressions after the tape.

2. Students talk about their national heroes.

1) Who is your national hero?

2) What is he/she famous for?

3) What is he/she like? ( kind, clever, friendly, strict, famous, popular…)

Step Two To complete the passage with the given words. (Activity 1)

1. Students finish it by themselves.

2. Students listen and check the answers.

3. Detail explanations:

1) He was the engineer of a railroad in the mountains with many bridges and tunnels.

Translation: 他是一條鐵路的工程師，該鐵路筑于山里，有許多橋梁和隧道。

with many bridges and tunnels為介短語作定語，修飾railroad。

2）want sb to do sth

want to do sth

want sb/sth

4. Students read aloud the passage.

Step Three Listening (Activity 2)

1. Students listen to the tape and answer the given questions.

1) Who was Zhan Tianyou? He was a national hero.

2) Say one thing about Zhan Tianyou according to the conversation.

---- He built a famous railroad from Beijing to Zhangjiakou.

---- He was a Chinese engineer of a famous railroad.

---- He died in 1919.

---- The Chinese opened a museum about his life in Badaling near the Great Wall.

2. Students listen again and answer the questions. (Activity 4)

1) What did Zhan Tianyou do? He built a famous railroad from Beijing to Zhangjiakou.

2) When did Zhan Tianyou die? He died in 1919.

3) Where did the railroad start? It started in Beijing.

4) What did the Chinese do when he died?

They opened a museum about his life in Badaling.

5) Where did it finish? It finished in Zhangjiakou.

6) Why didn’t the government want foreign engineers?

Because they wanted a Chinese to build it.

7) When did Zhan Tianyou work on it? He worked on it from 1950 to 1909.

3. Students choose the correct answer. (Activity 3)

Detail explanations:

1) A railroad is for trains.

for 供…用, 表示用途

e.g: The glass is for drinking.

2) A bridge goes over a river.

over 在…正上方; 超過 e.g: The sky is over our heads.

Cp: above 在…斜上方 e.g: We flew above the clouds.

Cp: on 在…上面 e.g: There is a book on the desk.

3) A tunnel goes through a mountain.

through 指穿過一物體的表面,強調“橫穿”

Cp: across 指從一個物體的內部穿過, 如穿過隧道、森林等

Cp: over 指越過障礙物

e.g: walk through the forest walk across the road climb over the fence(籬笆)

Step Four To practice reading aloud the conversation in groups of two.

Step Five Language points (Activity 2)

1. What did you think of the film about Zhan Tianyou on television last night?

= How did you like the film about Zhan Tianyou on television last night?

2. What does he do? = What is he? = What’s his job?

3. work on sth 從事某事

e.g: The nurse works on looking after the sick.

4. be difficult to do sth. 很難做某事

e.g: Russian id difficult to learn. 俄語很難學。

Step Six To read aloud the conversation again.

Step Seven To put the right stressed syllable into the correct columns. (Activity 5)

1. Students finish it after listening to the tape.

2. Check the answers.

1) two syllables, the first stress: foreign hero railroad tunnel

2) three syllables, the first stress: government national

3) three syllables, the second stress: museum

4) three syllables, the last stress: engineer

5) four syllables, the third stress: patriotic

3. Students read after the tape.

Step Eight The stressed words

1. Students listen and underline the stressed words (Activity 6)

2. Check the answers.

1) What did you think of the film?

2) What did he do?

3) When did he work on it?

3. Conclusion: In English, the stressed words in a sentence are usually verb, noun interrogative, adj. etc. The unstressed words are auxil.v. pron. prep. and art.

4. Students listen and repeat the sentences. (Activity 6& 7)

Step Nine To make dialogues about your national hero (Activity 8& 9)

Homework:

1. To recite the dialogue of Unit1, Module 11

2. To finish Unit1, Module11, 點中典

3. To find information about Yang Liwei

Blackboard designing

Unit 1 What did Zhan Tianyou do?

famous

1. Who is your national hero? strict popular

2. What is he/she famous for?

3. What is he/she like? clever friendly

Kind

1 What did you think of the film about Zhan Tianyou on television last night?

= How did you like the film about Zhan Tianyou on television last night?

2 What does he do? = What is he? = What’s his job?

3 work on sth 從事某事

e.g: The nurse works on looking after the sick.

4 be difficult to do sth. 很難做某事

e.g: Russian id difficult to learn. 俄語很難學

Dialogue: A: Who do you think is your national hero?

B: Deng Yaping.

A: When was she born?

B: She was born in 1973.

A: What is her job?

B: She is a table tennis player.

A: Why is she famous today?

B: She is good at playing table tennis.