Learning Plan for the Integrating Skills of Unit 16
By Lin Lijiang (2007-3-26)
I. Learning goals:
1. Get to know the lesson of killing the American bison and other creatures on the plains in history.
2. Further understand the history of the USA.
3. Learn and master some words and expressions
II. Learning important points:
To understand the passage
III. Learning difficult points:
To summarize the passage
IV. Learning methods:
V. Learning procedures:
Step 1. Revision
1. What does the READING passage tell us about the history of the South of the USA?
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2. What caused the suffering?
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Thinking: Those are the suffering of the people. The arrival of European settlers caused the killing of Native Americans. Then what about the creatures on the plains? Could they avoid being killed?
Step 2. Skimming
Now skim :the title, the pictures, and the first and the last of the passage and try to guess what is talked about in it.
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Step 3. Scanning:
Scan the passage and choose the best answers for the following questions.
1. The settlers treated Native Americans in the following unfair ways EXCEPT _______.
A. They killed them. B. They forced them to leave their hunting grounds.
C. They broke their agreements. D. They fought for food against Native Americans.
2. ______ caused a big change in the wildlife on the plains?
A. The killing of large numbers of bison B. The building of railways
C. The war between Native Americans and European settlers
D. Native Americans’ hunting many animals for food
3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Native Americans willingly gave up land to the settlers.
B. Settlers took possession of better land than Native Americans.
C. The first settlers on the plains were Europeans.
D. The bison had the same use to the settlers as to Native Americans.
4. It can be inferred from the text ___________.
A. native Americans should have raised more bison.
B. building railways stopped the killing of bison
C. we should keep the balance of nature.
D. the bison is the most important part of the whole wildlife chain.
5. The text is a _________.
A. an animal story B. an old story
C. a historical story D. an animal story as well as a historical story
Step 4. Skimming
Skim the passage and finish the following questions:
1. Tick the sentences that are true and correct the false one on page 47.
2. Complete the diagram on page 48
3. In what ways did European settlers treat the Native Americans unfairly?(tick the right ones)
a. The settlers killed the Native Americans.
b. They mainly spoke English.
c. They broke agreements they had made.
d. They forced Indians to leave their hunting ground.
e. They built railways across the plains.
f. They forced Indians onto poor land.
g. They killed most of the bison which Native Americans had relied on.
4. Where did the first settlers on the plains of America come from?
30,000 years ago
5. How did the Native Americans make a living?
6. What kind of animal is it ?
The adult of this animal grows to
7. Why were the bison very important to Native Americans?.
1) meat food 2) 3)
4) 5)
8. What happened later?
Large groups of natives were forced
Then the ______ of bison became more __________. They killed the bison, cut ___ the skins and left the bodies ______ to rot. The bison skins were sent by rail to cities to be sold. As a result, the bison _________ is thought to _________ from 60 million _ _ just a few hundred.
9. What result did the killing bring about?
It _______________________________________________________ on the plains.
Step 5. Learn the following words or phrases:
1. resist
I could hardly ________ _________(我忍不住要笑)
He tried to run away from the police and was charged with ____ arrest.
A. protecting B. defending C. resisting D. enforcing
2. be thought to have done
He _________________________________five books.(人们认为他已经写了五本书了)
_______ the harder you work, the better the result you will get.
A. It’s believed that B. What we believe that C. It’s fact that D. What the fact is
3. in turn/turn in/in return
That’s the bell. Please ________ your test paper ________.
A. turn in; in turn B. turn on; in turns C. turn in; by turn D. turn on; by turns
If you give me your photo, I’ll give you mine ________. (in turn/turn in/in return)
Step 6 Summarize the passage.
Step 7. Evaluation
What have you learned by reading this passage?