Lesson 90 教學設計方案
Teaching Objectives: Students should be able to read the text and answer questions correctly, and also grasp the new words and useful expressions.
Language focus:
1. Background of Bill Gates.
2.New words and useful expressions: learn from sb. be born, grow up, name. . .after. . . , in the future, start to do sth., at that time, lots of/a lot of,
3. Object clause.
Properties: Tape-recorder, Some pictures of Bill Gates
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
1. Dictate the words learnt.
2. Translate some sentences: (Chinese→English)
1）他是年級中最聰明的學生之一。
2）那些衣服每周被洗一次。
3）看起來好像要下雨了。
4）她曾經對故事書很感興趣。
Keys: l) He’s one of the cleverest students in the grade.
2) Those clothes are washed once a week.
3) It seems to be going to rain.
4) She was interested in story books.
Step 2 Leading-in
Showing the pictures of Bill Gates to the students.
T: We’ve known something about Bill Gates. Who can give us a brief introduction of him?
Help students to give the correct information.
Divide the class into six groups to discuss the questions in Pre-read.
Step 3 Reading
Ask the students to read the article themselves and ask: What is the main idea of this text? (Bill Gates’ life)
Then play the tape for the students to read the text. Or play the video: Bill Gates
Answer the questions:
1. When was he born? On October 28th, 1955.
2. What nationality is he? American.
3. What was his ambition when young? A scientist.
4. When did he work out the software programme with the old machine? When he was 17.
5. How much did he earn from it? He earned $ 4200.
6. When did he go to the university? In 1973.
7. Did he finish his university education? What did he do then? No. He worked for Microsoft.
8. When did he begin his own company? In 1975.
9. What business did he do in his company?
They developed software for personal computers and improved it to make it easier for people to use computers.
10. Say something about his personal life.
He was married on January 1st, 1994, has a daughter and a son. He enjoys reading and playing golf and bridge.
Explanations of some language points
1.grow up
When I grow up, I’ll be a tour guide.
2. name. . .after. . .
name…after…意為“按照……的名字來命名”，這是英國人常用的說法，美國常用name…for.如：
He named his son after his uncle.
3.
spend 在表示“花費”時，可以表示花費時間、金錢等。它可用于兩個不同的句式中：
（1）spend…on… 在……上花費
The boy spent two hours on his homework.
Bill spent ￡3,000 on a new car. 比爾花了三千英鎊買了一輛新車。
（2）spend…in doing sth… 花費……做某事，其中的介詞in 可以省略。
She didn’t spend all her time (in ) doing the work. 她沒有把全部時間用在工作上。
I spent five days writing the essay.
4. work out
Work out的意思 是“制訂出、編制出、想出”。如：
The boy worked out the maths problems himself.
Ask the students to give the main idea for each paragraph.
The teacher showed the main words and phrases on the flashcard, and ask the students to retell the story according to the key words and phrases.
Step 4 Discussion in groups
Students talk more about Bill Gates and express their own ideas.
Here are some questions for discussion:
1. What can we learn from Bill Gates?
2. What do you think of him?
3. Do you want to be a person like Bill Gates? Why or why not?
4. If you were Bill Gates, what will you do?
Step 5 Exercises in class
1. Fill the blanket with the correct forms of the verbs.
1. In 2000, Miss Gao ________(write) a English book. It’s very popular.
2. In the book he _______(tell) people how _______(solve) business problems in new ways. It was one of the best-sellers.
3. She ________ (be) interested in Science. She often asks some strange questions.
4. Gates _______(name) William Henry after his father and grandfather.
5. They spent much time _______(buy( clothes in the Shopping Mall.
Keys: 1.wrote 2.told, to solve 3.is 5.was named 5.buying
2. Fill in the blanks with correct information.
Bill Gates was born on October 28,1955, in _________, Washington. When he was young, he always wanted to be a ________. At thirteen, he began to ________. At only seventeen, he worked out a ________, which sold for 4,200 dollars .In 1973, he went to ________. But only in his ________year, he left Harvard to work for a company called Microsoft. In 1975, he began his own ________. Now he is the ________ person in the world.
Keys: 1. was, grew, were, asked, spent, sold, left, began, thought, would, made, wrote, told, could, married, had
2.Seattle, scientist, play with computers, software programme, Harvard University, third, company, richest
Step 6 Homework
1. To make sentences with the phrases given and make it a short story.
grow up, in the future, start to, spend. . .doing, in the end, enjoy doing
2. To retell the article.
3. Do exercises on page 110.
4. Finish the workbook exercises.
Writing on blackboard
Lesson 90
Bill Gates
Language points
1. Learn from 96 7. spend... doing
2. be born 8. in the end
3. grow up 9. work out
4. name... after... 10. sell... for...
5. in the future 11 . enjoy doing sth.
6. start to do sth.
Ask and answer
1.What can we learn from Bill Gates?
2.What do you think of him?
3. Do you want to be a person like Bill Gates? Why or why not?
4. If you were Bill Gates, what will you do?