Unit 1 That must be a record!教案
unit 1 that must be a record!教案
teaching aims:
1. learn and master the useful words and expressions in the period.
2. train the students’ reading ability.
3. help the students to know more about world records.
teaching important points:
1. master the following phrases and sentence pattern: set down, keep track of, stand out, in the first place, make for; impressive as the record is, it fades next to the story of armstrong’s struggle against disease.
2. improve the students’ reading ability.
teaching difficult points:
1. how to help the students understand the passage better.
2. how to help the students understand the sentence pattern and use it freely: adj. / adv./ n./ + as + s + v. + main clause.
teaching methods:
1. scanning the text to learn something about world records.
2. fast and careful reading to get the detailed information in the text.
3. individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
teaching aids
teaching procedures:
step i greetings
step ii lead-in and pre-reading
step iii reading
in 1951,the then① director of the guinness brewery ,sir hugh beaver, wanted to settle an argument about the fastest bird in europe.after talking to his friends, he concluded② that a book which answered such questions might popular. the guinness company hired③ a company to write what later became guinness book of world records④. the first edition was published in 1955 and has been a best—seller ever since. 在1951年，吉尼斯啤酒廠當時的廠長休-畢沃先生想要解決關于歐洲最快的鳥的爭論。和他的朋友們交談后，他認定能回答這樣一些問題的書可能會受歡迎。吉尼斯公司聘用諾里斯和羅斯-麥科沃寫了一本后來成為吉尼斯記錄的書。第一版在1955年出版，從那以后一直是一本最暢銷的書。
① then adv.用來修飾名詞，意為“那時的，當時的”
② conclude vt., vi. -cluded, -cluding ；conclusion n.
使結束，完畢:
"to conclude, i wish you all good health and a long life." "最后,祝大家健康長壽。”
訂立，締結: to conclude a peace treaty締結和平條約
議定，討論，推論，推斷出，斷定
the doctor concluded that the patient's disease was cancer. 醫生斷定病人患的是癌癥。
the judge concluded that the accused was guilty. 法官判定被告有罪。
conclude that….
come to the conclusion that... 所得結論是..., 斷定
draw the conclusion得出結論，推斷
leap / jump to a conclusion 冒然斷定， 過早下結論
in conclusion = lastly 最后,總之
in conclusion i’d like to say that you did it very well.
③ hire vt. 雇用（某人）,（同）employ /take on, (反) dismiss/fire ;租借（東西）＝rent