The Fourth Period

Teaching Aims:

1.Read the text and grasp the main idea of it.

2.Do some exercises to master what they’ve learnt.

3.Learn to write an essay.

Teaching Important Points:

1.Improve the students’ reading ability by reading a text.

2.Improve the students’ writing ability by reading and writing.

Teaching Difficult Points:

1.How to improve the students’ integrating skills.

2.How to write an essay.

Teaching Methods:

1.Practice to make the students master what they’ve learnt.

2.Asking-and-answering method to help the students grasp the main idea.

3.Discussion to make every student understand the topic clearly.

Teaching Aids:

1.the multimedia

2.the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step Ⅰ Greetings and Revision

T:(Greet the whole class as usual.)In the last period,we’ve learnt some useful words and expressions.Now,let’s do an exercise to revise them.Look at the screen,please.You may have a discussion,if you like.

(Show the following on the screen and let the students prepare for a moment.Finally,ask some students to say their answers and correct their mistakes,if any.)

Choose the proper words to complete the following sentences,using the proper forms:

prison housing peaceful march murder forbid set a good example demand

1.Too many people are living in bad ______ conditions.

2.If some people are on a ______,they walk together in a large group through the street to express their ideas.

3.Black people in Alabama ______that the bus company should not separate blacks from whites.

4.Lei Feng ______ to us in serving the people heart and soul.

5.In the American history,two former presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F.Kennedy were ______.

6.Smoking is ______ in our school now.Our school is a non-smoke school.

7.The man who robbed a bank of our city was caught last Sunday and put in ______now.

8.When I arrived in Qingdao,the sea there was ______ and beautiful.Many people jumped into it and had a bath.

Suggested answers:

1.housing

2.march

3.demanded

4.set a good example

5.murdered

6.forbidden

7.prison

8.peaceful

Step Ⅱ Fast Reading

T:Well done!(Show the questions on the screen.)Now,we’ll begin a new text.Please turn to Page 30 and read the passage fast and find answers to the questions on the screen.)

Answer the following questions:

1.Which country was the first in the world to give women the right to vote?

2.Who wrote two chapters about the rights of animals and vegetables in a novel?And when?

(Three minutes later)

T:Who can answer the first question?

S:I’ll try.The answer is that New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote.

T:Do you agree with him/her?

Ss:Yes.

T:Good.Now,who knows the answer to the second question?

S:Let me have a try.Samuel Butler wrote two chapters about the rights of animals and the right of vegetables in a novel in 1872.

T:Very good.Please sit down.

Step Ⅲ Reading

T:(Show the questions on the screen.)Now please read the text again and discuss the questions on the screen with your partner.Later we’ll check the answers together.

Discuss the following questions:

1.“Each age has its own struggle for right.”What does the word “age” mean?

2.What were the main ideas of the famous books about the rights of men and women,which were published in the late 18th to the 19th century?

3.Please describe the rights to vote for women in the 19th and the 20th century.

4.What is the purpose of the organizations that fight for equal rights in modern times?

5.Do you think we should fight for the rights of robots and machines?

(The students read the text and discuss the questions.Then the teacher may ask some of the students to say their answers.)

Suggested answers:

1.The word “age” means “time”,for Chinese “時(shí)代”.

2.The main ideas of these books were that all people are brothers and sisters,and that all people should be equal.From then on,a struggle of more than 200 years for equal rights of men and women of all races began.

3.There was a time when women had no rights to vote.In the 19th century,women all over the world began to ask for equal rights.It is New Zealand that is the first country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1893.By 1920,the US,Canada and most European countries allowed the women to vote.

4.They fight for the rights of black people,women,children,people with AIDS/HIV and prisoners.Their purpose is that they ask to be treated with respect,share the rights to work,good housing conditions and education and to be treated equal to other people in all ways.

5.I don’t think so.We should protect all the living things,including plants and animals,because all of them are part of nature.If one of them is not well protected,the balance of nature will be destroyed.That will perhaps cause another living thing to die out.No matter which of them dies out,our nature will lose some of its color.Robots and machines are made by man.We can decide how many of them will be needed,according to their use.If we need more,we can make more.That will not affect the balance of nature.And I think we should protect our oceans and earth,too.

T:That’s a very good topic.You can continue discussing it after class,if you like.It will be very interesting.

Step Ⅳ Reading Aloud and Practice

T:Now,let’s listen to the tape.I’ll play it twice.The first time I play the tape,listen carefully.The second time I play it,you can read after the tape.After that,you read the text aloud,paying much attention to the pronunciation and intonation.

(Play the tape for students to listen and repeat.Then give them several minutes to read aloud.At last,ask a couple of students to read the text.)

T:Very good.(Show the phrases on the screen.)Now,please look at the screen.Make sentences with the phrases shown on the screen.You can do it in pairs.

Make sentences with the following phrases:

in modern times believe in

start with a time

have…in common with respect

in all ways ask for

Sample sentences:

in modern times:

In modern times many peasants are very rich.

believe in:

You can believe in him;he’ll never let you down.

start with:

The school started with 300 pupils;now there are double that number.

a time:

I don’t care for the place at first,but after a time I got to like it.

have…in common:

Real friends should have everything in common.

with respect:

We should treat everybody with respect.

in all ways:

All the people should be treated equally in all ways.

ask for:

She entered it,asked for a cup of tea,and sat down.There’s been a gentleman here asking for you.

Step Ⅴ Writing

T:Now,let’s do some writing practice.First look at the information on Page 31.Read it and then work out the details for King’s action in Birmingham after the example.Pair work.A few minutes later,we’ll check the answers.

(Students begin to prepare and after a while,the teacher says the following.)

T:Have you finished?

Ss:Yes.

T:Who would like to give us the answer?

S:I’ll try.King wanted new civil rights law to give blacks equal rights.What is wrong now:Only 25% of the blacks can vote.How should it be improved:All the citizens can vote,no matter what race they are.

S:King wanted the right of free marriages for blacks.What is wrong now:Mixed race marriages are forbidden by law.How should it be improved:All the people can choose their marriages by themselves.

S:King wanted the right of receiving equal education.What is wrong now:Black children are taught in separate schools,and the money spent on educating a black child is much less than that spent on a white child.How should it be improved:Black children and white children can in the same school to have their classes.

…

T:Well done!Now,read the second information and discuss what we should do with your partner.

(A moment later,check the answers.)

Suggested answers:

Rights People Animals/Plants Robots/Machines

Housing big enough house big enough room big enough room

Nutrition enough nutrition enough nutrition keep in good repair

Work eight hours can’t be made to work too long can’t work too long

Health and care keep healthy keep healthy take good care of

Respect treat with respect treat with respect ×

Vote have the right to vote × ×

Step Ⅵ Summary and Homework

T:In this class,we’ve learned a text “No voice,not heard…” and done some exercises.There are some useful expressions in the text.Can you remember them?Li Jian,can you tell us?(The student tells the useful expressions to the class and the teacher writes them on the blackboard.)Good.After class,you should make sentences with the expressions on the blackboard and finish Exercises 3,4 and 5 on Page 32.That’s all for today.See you tomorrow!

Ss:See you tomorrow!

Sample essay:

People,animals and plants are all living in one home-our earth.People are in charge of everything.They should live comfortable.That is to say,they should have big enough house to live in and have enough nutrition to keep them healthy.Besides,they should have regular medical care.People should respect each other and help each other.They should not work too long or too tired.They should have the right to vote.So it is with animals and plants,though they don’t need the right to vote.Our earth is beautiful and full of vigor,owing to all the animals and plants.We should take care of them,and let them live comfortable and freely.Some of the animals can help us work or do other things for us.We should treat them with respect.For example,we should not make them work too long or make them too tired.Let’s live together with our animals and plants happily!Suppose what a sad world our earth would be if there were no animals and plants at all!We should be friends with them forever.

Step Ⅶ The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard

Unit 14 Freedom fighters

The Fourth Period

Useful expressions:

believe in start with

ask for in modern times

have…in common with respect

in all ways

Step Ⅷ Record after Teaching