九年级英语上册Unit5 Great People冀教版.doc

Unit5 Great People
Lesson 37: Touch the world
一、教材分析
1、 教材简析
本单元的主要话题是谈论伟人，此课为本单元的第五节课，主要讲述一位名字叫Helen Keller 的残疾人战胜病魔的经历，是一篇阅读课文，通过阅读，使学生明白她是怎样战胜病魔和困难并获得成功的。
2、 教学目标
⑴ 知识目标：
① What would your life be like?
② How did Anne Sullivan teach Helen Keller?
③ What can you learn from Helen Keller’s?
④ At the age of… / It made her blind and deaf. / feel sb do sth
⑵ 能力目标：
发展学生的听、说、识记及阅读能力，培养学生语言综合运用能力。
⑶ 情感、态度和价值观：
通过本节课的学习，使学生对生活充满积极向上的态度，培养学生要用健康的心理对待生活和学习，使学生形成积极的情感态度，主动思维，大胆表述，提高语言的实际运用能力。

3、 重点和难点
⑴重点句子：
It made her blind and deaf.
She became difficult and wild.
She felt one mouth move, and the other mouth move.
She was famous for her courage and hard work.
She will be greatly missed.
⑵难点：Let’s do it!
Who do you most admire? What is his or her job? What great or interesting things has he or she done? What can we learn from him or her?
原因是学生词汇量有限，口语表达能力欠缺，设置为小作文的形式让学生自由表达，以降低难度。
4、教学辅助工具：多媒体
二、学情分析
枯燥的话题很难提高学生的学习兴趣。在这节课，通过一个有趣的假想的话题——假如你看不见听不着，你会怎么做，来激起学生的兴趣，让学生主动谈自己的想法和看法，学有所得。

三、教学方法
本课采用任务型阅读教学法，用If you are blind and deaf, how do you do everything ?这个问句，引出谈论假想情况的话题。 采用提问、启发、讨论和归纳的教法，让学生易于接受教材内容，理解阅读内容，培养学生的语言运用能力。

四、教学过程
Step Ⅰ. Lead in
Play a game. Touch things by hands with closed eyes (objects: chopsticks, comb, coins, paper cups, books, ping pong, keys, markers, a box of medicine, glasses…) and guess what it is and what it is made of. Lead in the topic Touch the World
Step Ⅱ. Warming-up questions:
T: Do you know Helen Keller?
S1: Yes, I know.
T: Can you say something about her?
S1: I only know she is a very famous writer, but she is blind.
T: Yeah. You are right. She is a disabled person. Thank you. Sit down, please.
(To the whole class) Now class, do you know another disabled people? Can you give me their names?
S2: Zhang Haidi and Sang Lan.
T: Thank you.
(To the whole class) Now class, you know Zhang Haidi Sang Lan and Helen Keller are all disabled people, but do you know what is their attitude toward life? Suppose:
l If you don’t have arms or legs, what do you do?
l If you can’t see anything, what do you do?
l If you can’t hear anybody say something, what do you do?
S3: I’ll buy a wheelchair to help me.
S4: I’ll be very sad and cry all the time.
S5: I’ll try my best to touch everything in the world.
T: OK, stop here. Please listen to me carefully, that is my answers:
l If I were a blind person, I would use my ears to listen to the sound of the world carefully.
l If I were a deaf people, I would use my eyes to see the beauty of the world.
l If I don’t have arms or legs, I can use my heart to feel the world, and try my best to enjoy the life.
Step III. Reading
Have the class read the form. Learn the new words in this lesson and let the students know something about Helen Keller and her teacher:
Helen Keller’s File
Name: Helen Keller
1887: came to help her.
Date of birth: June27,1880
1904: With her teacher’s help, She graduated from a university
Place of birth: The United States
1954: The film “Helen Keller in her story” was on show.
July,1882: A high fever damaged her sight and hearing. She became blind and deaf.
1964: She was very well-known for her courage and hard work. She became a greatest educator and writer
Date of death: June1, 1968
Step IV. Watching and listening
Watch a part of video frequency. Have the class watch and listen. Then try to answer the following questions:
① Who teach Helen Keller to read and write?
② How did she teach Keller?
Step V. Reading 、doing exercises:
1. Do exercise in activity book (according to the text choose the best answer).
2. Read the text again, underline the important sentences, and then join the sentences together
Step VI. Discussing:
Conclusion: (The character of Helen Keller)
n She is very tough and strong.
n She loves life.
n She keeps trying, never gives up.
n She is hard-working.
n She tries to realize the value of her life.
Step VII. Learning some mottoes of Helen Keller and choose the right Chinese meaning
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
(受教育最高的成效就是学到宽容。/生命不是勇于冒险；就是荒废生命。
/只有朝着阳光，便不会看见阴影。)
Step VIII. Free talk
Who is your hero?
Say something about him/her.
What can you learn from him or her?
Step IX. Homework
1. Do exercises in the activity book.
2. Write a composition: Who do you most admire?