1、Unit4TheManintheWater上课时间上课节次课 型课 题Unit 4 The Man in the Water教学目的1. To build the students vocabulary power by learning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises.2. To lead the Ss to comprehend and appreciate the content of the text.3. To cultivate Ss ability of using their own words to summa
2、rize the main idea of the text.4. To use the text as the materials to develop the Ss speaking ability.5. To help Ss grasp the theme of the text and the language and style used in it.6. Based on the air crash, and the important words and expressions in the text, get students to know historical fact a
3、s well as techniques in writing a narration.教学方法Heuristic, Interactive, task-based teaching and learning, group discussion重点、难点1. Theme of the passage2. The usage of the new words and expression3.Writing devices4. Discussion about human nature, heroism and heroic deeds教 学 内 容Teaching proceduresStep
4、1. Warming up Step 2. Background informationStep 3. Learn the new words Step 4. Fasting reading of the text. (1) The main idea of the text (2) Passage structure Step 5. Detailed study of the text Step 6. Summarize the passage. Step 7. Grammar points in this unit. Step 8. Deal with the exercises in t
5、his unit Step 9. Assignment教学内容Step 1. Warming up: Sing a Song and Group Discussion 1. Sing a Song: Hero by Mariah CareyLyrics:Theres a heroIf you look inside your heartYou dont have to be afraidOf what you areTheres an answerIf you reach into your soulAnd the sorrow that you knowWill meit awayAnd t
6、hen a hero comes alongWith the strength to carry onAnd you cast your fears asideAnd you know you can surviveSo when you feel like hope is goneLook inside you and be strongAnd youll finally see the truthThat a hero lies in youIts a long roadWhen you face the world aloneNo one reaches out a handFor yo
7、u to holdYou can find loveIf you search within yourselfAnd the emptiness you felt will disappearAnd then a hero comes alongWith the strength to carry onAnd you cast your fears asideSo when you feel like hope is goneLook inside you and be strongAnd youll finally see the truthThat a hero lies in you2.
8、 Group Discussion: Do You Know?Q1. What makes a hero?Open answers.Q2. Can you name some heroes? What do you think that makes them heroes? Open answers.Q3. Have you ever tried to find a hero in yourself?Open answers.Q4. Do you think every ordinary person can be a hero if he wants to?Step 2. Backgroun
9、d Information The Author: Roger Rosenblatt Roger Rosenblatt is a journalist, author, playwright and professor. As an essayist for Time magazine, he has won two George Polk Awards, and awards from the Overseas Press Club and the American Bar Association. Roger Rosenblatt, an American playwright and e
10、ssayist, is the author of six books. This essay on an airplane crash in Washington, D.C., originally appeared in Time on January 25, 1982. Theme of the TextAsk students to read the text and then express their ideas about heroismHeroism: Heroism of course has been admired. But this mans heroism was u
11、nusual. People usually expect revolutionaries to die martyrs; true believers to be willing to die for their faith; people ready to lay down their lives in performing their duty; even people to show courage in their attempt to win power, influence, money or to save their loved ones. But the man in th
12、e water did not fit any of these descriptions.The man in the water did not have to give his rings to others; he did not even know these people. He was extraordinary precisely because he was ordinary. He showed what every one of us could do. The display of his heroism was a song to the beautiful huma
13、n character. This is true heroism. BackgroundThis is short essay about an air crash that took place in the capital of the US in the year 1982. A plane took off from the Washington National Airport and did not clear the bridge over the Potomac River because of the thick ice on the wings. It hit the b
14、ridge and fell right into the river, bringing all the passengers to instant death except six from the tail section who found themselves gasping and struggling in the icy water. Only five people survived, and they were able to survive because of four heroes. The author wrote this essay in praise of t
15、hese heroes, three of whom had risked their lives to rescue the survivors and were able to live to tell the story, but the man that really held the whole nations attention was the fourth man who had kept pushing his lifeline and floatation rings to others until he went under.The fact that this hero
16、happened to be an American should remind us that heroism is not a national trait. No nation has a monopoly of this human spirit. Over the years, however, there has always been prejudice against different races and ethnic groups. When some people talk about the American character for example, they some
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