Period 1
（一）明确目标
1. Learn how to describe people in English.
2. Improve the students’ abilities of listening and speaking.
（二）整体感知
Step 1 presentation
People often admired great persons, especially great women. Why? It has often said that life is difficult as it is. For women it sometimes twice as difficult. That is, it is more difficult t for women to become famous or get jobs in high positions. What do you think?
（三）教学过程
Step 2 warming up
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures of the four great women and tell who they are?
2. Divide the students into small groups to discuss the questions given.
Step 3 listening
1. Listen to the tape and fill in the form.
2. Listen to the tape again and do true-or-false exercises.
Step 4 speaking
Look at the pictures and tell what kind of people they are by using the words and useful expressions given.
（四）总结、扩展
1. Work in groups and play a game of question-and –answer only by answering “yes” or “no”.
2. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.
3. Talk about a great women you admire and explain why.
（五）随堂练习
根据内容填空
1. That house is ____. There is nothing in it now.
2. Your uncle is not _____ about this money. He is very ____ to buy you that expensive car for your birthday.
3. The new employee was ____ and quick to learn.
4. He was so ____ that he can move such a heavy stone easily.
8. In the past, the Chinese people lived a ____ life.
参考答案
1. empty 2. mean; generous 3. smart 4. tense 5. hardworking 6. blind 7. strong 8. miserable
Period 2
（一）明确目标
1. Read about the great woman Helen Thayer.
2. Train the students’ abilities of reading.
3. Learn the subject –verb agreement.
（二）整体感知
Step 1 presentation
It is freezing cold in the North Pole and the South Pole. Few people, in the world have ever been there. However, there was a brave woman who had traveled alone to the North Pole and the South Pole. Do you know who she was? Right, Helen Thayer. She was the first woman who traveled alone there. Today we are going to read about the great woman the great woman, Helen Thayer.
（三）教学过程
Step 2 pre-reading
Get Ss to discuss the questions above the passage with their partners before reading the text.
Step 3 reading
Get Ss to read the passage fast and in silence.
Step 4 post reading
Ask the students to answer the questions given after reading.
Step 5 language study
1. Go through the passage together with the students and deal with the language points in it.
2. Dead with word study.
3. Learn grammar (the subject-Verb-agreement)
（四）总结、扩展
Step 6
1. Write a summary of the text.
2. Do the exercises in Wb.
（五）课堂练习
1. The teachers each _____ a computer (have, has)
2. The students ____ a Chinese- English dictionary. (Have, has)
3. Each of the students ____ a Chinese-English dictionary. (have, has)
4. ____ either of your parents written to you recently? (has, have)
5. Not only the father but also the children ____ sick.(are, is)
6. All the anxious to know the result of our English test.(are ,is)
7. All of the fruit ____ good. (taste, tastes)
8. Many a student _____ sure that our team will win.( is , are)
9. Six and six ___ twelve. (make, makes)
10. Everybody ___ what they have to do after the meeting. (knows, know)
11. The dollars ____ not enough for the ten –speed bicycle. (is ,are)
12. The rest of the speech ___ not very interesting. (sound ,sounds)
13. In that country the poor ___getting poorer and poorer .(is ,are)
14. She as well as her two sisters ____ music. ( like ,likes )
15. A professor with four children ____ in the lab this morning. (was, were)
16. The singer and dancer ___ come this afternoon. (has have)
17. The singer and dancer _____ going to give the performance this evening. (are ,is)
18. My family ____ not large.(is ,are)
19. My family all ____ music.(loves, love)
参考答案
1. have 2. have 3. has 4. has 5. are 6. are 7. tastes 8. is 9. makes 10. knows 11. is 12. sounds 13. are 14. likes 15. was 16. has 17. are 18. is 19. love
Period 3
（一）明确目标
1. Get the students to know about the great woman Oprah Winfrey.
2. Let the students know what is needed to e a successful man, especially a successful woman.
3. Train the student’s ability of writing.
（二）整体感知
Step 1 presentation
At the beginning of this unit, we’re got to know about several great women, such as Song Qingling, Madame Curie, and pearl S. Back, mother Teresa and Helen Thayer. Today we are going to read about another great woman named Oprah Winfrey; Oprah Winfrey is not just a very successful TV personality in the US but also a woman who has inspired millions of people.
（三）教学过程
Step 2
Read the text careful and then do the writing exercises below the passage.
Step 3
Learn to write a fan letter, read the tips about describing people before beginning to write.
Step 4
1. Tell the students again tips about how to describe people.
2. Finish the exercises in Wb.
（五）随堂练习
Write a letter to Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei in about 100 words.
Period 4
单元复习
一、语言要点
1. at the end of 在…末端；在….尽头
At the end of the street, you will see a Chinese restaurant.
The computer is widely used at the end of last century.
2. be about to do “即将….”表示更近的将来，不能和表示将来的具体时间连用，但be going to 可以同表将来的时间状语连用。如：
We are going to have a meeting tomorrow.（但不可说，we are about to have a meeting tomorrow.）
3. around the corner 同very near 临近
4. struggle through 挣扎着度过（难关）
Struggle with/against 同…做斗争
Struggle for …为…而挣扎
Struggle to one’s feet 挣扎的站起来
5. find oneself 发现自己在（某个地方、某种状态）
5. in crease 增加
Increase +to +n
Increase+ n.+to+n.
6. die down 同become less strong or violent指“风、火、光、兴奋等”渐弱，渐息；（声音）静下来。例如：
The fire is dying down. Please get more coal. 火快要熄了，请再弄些煤来。
It took a long time for the excitement to die down.激动的心情要很长时间才能平息下来。
比较：die out=（of families , races,costoms and ideas）to disappear completely.(家族、种族)灭亡，灭绝；（风俗、习惯等）消失，消灭。例如：
Die out =(of families ,races, customs and ideas) to disappear completely.
把长子教育成为牧师，这个习惯快要消失了。
The practice of educating the oldest son to be a priest is dying out.
7. threaten to do 吓唬说要……
8. be thankful for …感谢；庆幸。例如：
You should be thankful for your good fortune.你应该庆幸你的好运道。
9. value 同to consider(someone or something) to be of great worth 认为…很有价值。例如：
I’ve always valued your friendship very highly. 我总是把你的友谊看得很重。
10. come to terms with 同give in屈服
11. Bear （bore，borne/born ） 承担；支撑；忍受忍耐。（常与can could连用于疑问句及否定句中）例如：
I can’t bear the pain any more. 我痛得在也忍不住了。
I can’t bear living alone.(= I can’t bear to live alone)一个人独居我受不了。
二、重要句型
1. … and I found myself spending a whole day in my tent.
2. I had traveled only two hours one day. When the winds increased so much that I had to put my tent up before the winds became too strong.
3. A few days later, I was moving forward over a slope that seemed safe when suddenly without warning my world dropped out from under my skis.
4. In her television shows she makes it possible to talk about great moments and difficulties in people’s lives.
5. Being black and a woman made life even more difficult in American at that time.
6. For many women such hardship would be too heavy to bear.
三、交际用语
What was she like?
What was she good at?
What has become of her?
She seems to me be the kind of woman who…
I think she is the kind of person who…
She could be… people like her…
You can see that …
She might be …
She looks as if …
She doesn’t seem…
四、语法要点
1) Subject –verb –agreement
1. Anther journey of challenge and danger was about to begin.
2. But changes were just around the corner.
3. The boy’s team has some good players, but the girl’s was a better team.
4. My dog team were not with me to pull my sled.
2) Collective nouns
Band club company minority police party public audience