Period 3: more language input
Teaching goals
1. Help the students learn to get information by listening, and cultivate the listening ability.
2. Get the students to talk about their various opinions freely in English.
Step1. Reading (WB)
T: As we know, most of the great people are also important and famous, but are important people the great ones?
S:
(Show some pictures of Bill Gates, his software and his company). T: Do you know who he is?
S:
T: What else do you know about him?
S: CEO of software
T: Great, so many of you know him. He is really so famous. But is he a great man?
S1: I think Bill Gates is / is not _____________, because ________________________________.
S2:
T: You see, so you have different ideas. Let’s have a look at him in the two passages. Let’s read the passage quickly and fill in the information sheet.
| INFORMATION ON BILL GATES |
| Job |
Chief Executive Officer of a computer company |
| Achievements |
Produced software that is used all over the world |
| What did he give up for his beliefs? |
None |
| Generosity |
Gave money to causes for children’s education and health |
| Why does he have enemies? |
Other people are jealous of his success |
| Why attacked by the government? |
They thought he was too big and too powerful and that is unfair to his competitors |
T: What does the follower of Bill Gates think of him?
Why does he think Bill is great?
What about Bill’s competitor?
Why?
Please read the passage again more carefully and find out the evidence to support each point. Lets’ have a debate. The following chart may help you.
| Great Man |
Not a Great Man |
| He has his own company and software. |
No one can compete with his software. |
| He fits his software free in every computer. |
His software is not the best but used most widely. |
| He gives money to causes for children’s education and health. |
He tries hard to stop others making better software so that he may be a computer bully. |
(T can ask Ss to finish the chart first, and then ask them to give a short report to tell us the reason why Bill Gates is a great man or why not.) T: Thank you for your excellent report. In a word, a great man should be the one who has followed his/her ideas and sacrificed something so that they could be realized. If he/she has not gone through struggles and difficulties for their noble cause, they can’t be called a great person. From your report, we find that different people have different ideas, not only on this affair, but also on some common things in our daily life. Here is the same example which happened in our listening text.
Step 2. Listening (WB)
(Show Ss a picture of an accident) T: What happened in the picture? If you witness the accident, what will you do?
Ss: Call 120. / Tell policeman the truth. / …
T: If the policeman asks you to describe what you have witnessed, what will you say?
S1: …
T: What’s your point of view?
S2: …
T: You see, on this accident, you two have different views. Usually, after an accident, the police will not just ask one person. Can you guess why? What about listening to the tape to find out the reason?
(Ask the Ss to listen to the tape.) T: So why will the police not just ask one person?
S: …
T: Instead, what will the police do?
S: He will ask everyone present.
T: But sometimes, people will tell different stories after an accident, just as what you did just now. Do you know why? So listen to the tape again and find out the answers to these two questions:
Q1: Why will people tell different stories after an accident?
Q2: What does “a point of view” mean?
(Check the answers.) T: You see, when you look at people or things, you may have a different point of view from others. On this accident, two people have different points of views. Please listen to the tape once again, and take some notes of the information on the accident by person A and person B.
(Check the answers of exercise 2.) T: So why did the two speakers have different ideas about the cause of the accident?
S: …
T: After you get the information, who do you think caused the accident? Why?
S: …
T: What conclusion can you draw after the reading and the listening?
S:
T: So next time when you look at one event, will you just look on one side?
Standing on different fields will give you totally different views. So please don’t just judge an event from one side. Just like the topic we talked in this unit – great men. In this unit, we talked a lot about great men, and most of them are famous people. What about ordinary people? Are they just ordinary? Can they become great men?
Step 3. Further discussion
(Show a short video of “Move
China”)
T: Do you know him? Is he as ordinary as us? But is he a great man? Why?
(T can ask Ss to discuss some detailed questions and then show their ideas.) 1) Who is he? What happened to him?
2) Do you think he is a great man? Why do you think so?
(Ss may give a conclusion: he is really a great person. T can get Ss into a heated discussion, and let
them have a free talk.)
1) Can you list any other ordinary people who you think they are great?
2) Are there any teachers you admire a lot? Why?
3) And what about your friends? Your schoolmates?
T: Important people may be great. But when we think about a person or a situation in different respects, maybe we can open another window. We can describe a person we think is a great person because of what this person does for the community and others. Judging from these flashing qualities, they are loved and admired by the people around them. They are the great people in our heart.
Step 4. Homework
If we ordinary people can become great ones, will you want to be a great one? If so, how to be a
great person? Can you write your plan to reach the great goal?
附板书设计：（Blackboard Design）
| I think Bill Gates is / is not _____________, because ________________________________.
Great man?
Great ordinary |
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