Book 4 Unit 1 Women of achievement

most of the great people are also important people. but important people may not also be great people.
3)name some great women in chinese history. what are they famous for?
step 2. warming up
t: in pairs discuss the six women on page 1. which of these women do you think is a great woman ? give reasons for your choice. before you decide, think about the following questions.
1. did she follow her ideas and sacrifice anything so that her ideas could be realized? did she unselfishly give up anything to achieve her goal?
2. did she go through struggles and difficulties ?/ did she suffer for her ideas ?
name ambition problem sacrifices
elizabeth fry to help improve prison conditions she was criticized for neglecting her family and enjoying fame. less time was spent with her husband and family.

soong chingling to work for civil rights,democracy and peace. her relatives held political opinions completely different from hers. after her husband died, she lived alone.

jane goodall to work with animals in the wild. she lived a hard life in the wild. she gave up the comforts of life to study the chimps.

jody williams to prevent the making and use of landmines it isn’t easy to persuade governments to stop the making and use of landmines. she had lost her own personal time because of the demands of the job

joan of arc to drive the english from france women were not allowed ot fight like a man
she lost her life.

lin qiaozhi to help women and children with their illnesses an health women had greater difficulties getting into medical college and getting further training she never got married or had a family of her own

step 3 pre-reading
1. why do you think jane goodall went to africa to study chimps rather than to a university?
2. do you think her work is important? why?

period 2. reading
stepⅰreading
task 1 pre-reading

ss read the passage in four minutes and give the main ideas to each paragraph.
the first one is about a day in the park.
the second one is her way of doing her research and some achievement.
the third one is her attitude and feeling to the animals.
the last one is a short summary to her.
t: thanks. well, let’s draw a chart of the text together according to the main ideas we’ve found.
task 2 making a chart

a student of african wildlife
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a day in the park jane’s way to study chimps her attitude to and her achievement the animals

period 3 language points.
step 1.difficult sentences:
1.watching a family of chimps wake up is our… 今天我們的第一件事