Great People教案-

① how long did you spend on your homework?
    ② mary spent too much time watching tv.
    ③ most of her life was spent in caring for others.
step 5. task
1. ask ss to discuss in pairs to get the idea how to write about a famous person from ancient china by answering the following questions:
q1. who was he?
    q2. when and where was he born? and when and where was he died?
    q3. what kind of difficulties did he have?
    q4. what was he famous for? (ideas, teachings, inventions etc)
    q5. what about his influence?
2. ask ss to find out the useful expressions in the text philosophers of ancient china.
3. ask ss to write a famous person from ancient china.
for your reference:
xun zi , one of the greatest philosophers who lived before qin dynasty (340-245 b.c.), was a great thinker who kept to the stand of the confucianism. his view was that human nature was evil at the beginning and that external factors such as confucian ethics and moral standard were particularly emphasized on human behaviors. he suggested that people should treat the world with impersonality and intellect. and his thought was carried forward in large scale in chinese long history.
step 6. homework
1. ask ss to review the text and then retell it in their own words.
2. ask ss to finish activities 1, 2 on page 42.
3. ask ss to finish reading activities on page 93-94.
4. ask ss prepare for grammar.
          period 4 grammar 1, grammar 2, function
teaching goals:
to enable ss to know about attractive clauses.
to enable ss to give reasons.
teaching procedure
step 1. grammar 1
1. leading-in
(1) ask ss to translate the sentences in activity 1 of grammar 1 into chinese.
(2) ask ss to look at the sentences in activity 1 to find out if the underlined phrases give essential or extra information.
(3) ask ss to choose the right answers to the exercises in activity 2. make sure that ss are clear about how defining relative clauses.
(4) ask ss to find out more examples in the text, and translate the sentences.
2. practice
(1) ask ss to complete sentences in activity 4.
(2) ask ss to match the two parts of the sentences in activity 3 and translate them into chinese.
3. explanation
   give ss some explanation to the grammatical points of attributive clauses.
(1) 有關術語：在英語中用來修是一個名詞或代詞的句子叫定語從句。定語從句須放在所修飾詞之后，定語從句所修飾的詞叫先行詞，引導定語從句的詞叫關系詞。