unit 1 women of achievement reading. a chinese saying goes: women can hold up half of the sky
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1. Retell the story about Jane Goodall. study chimps in Africa, showed the connections between chimps and human beings, protect chimps Pre-readingTRANSCRIPT
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Unit 1 Women of achievement
Reading
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A Chinese saying goes:Women can hold up half of the sky
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1. Retell the story about
Jane Goodall.
study chimps in Africa, showed the connections between chimps and human beings, protect chimps
Pre-reading
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2. Discuss in groups.
• Why do you think Jane Goodall went to Africa to study chimps rather than to u
niversity?
• Do you think she was right? Give your?
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3. Prediction
Look at the title and the pictures. Then answer the following questions.1) What do you think the passage will tell us?
2) What is Jane Goodall doing in the picture on the top
right?
3) What is Jane Goodall doing in the picture on the
bottom left?
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ReadingA Student of African wildlife
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Fast reading
1.Skim the passage and underline the basic information: what, who, why, where, when, h
ow.
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2.Find and Underline the topic sentence in each paragraph. Following Jane’s way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest.Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour.For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals.She has achieved everything she wanted to do.
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paragraph 1
How the group followed Jane's way of studying chimps in the wild
paragraph 2
What Jane discovered about chimps
paragraph 3
How Jane tries to protect the lives of chimps in their natural habitat
paragraph 4
Jane’s achievements
3. Summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
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Care-ful readingDescription of
a woman scientist
Explain her research
method
Describe her work
and achievements
Through the eyes of a visitor
Her discoveries
Her achievements
Her continuing
work
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4. Ask questions.
Make up questions within your group based on the reading. Each group chooses a best question and the other groups compete to answer it.
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What Qs?
What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?
When did Jane first arrive in Gombe?
What do we know about Jane’s personality from the second paragraph?
Which part is the summary of the reading?
General
Detailed
make an inference
Writing skills
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5. Answer my questions. In which way has Jane helped people? (behave)
What did we do before we followed the chimps wandering into the forest? (shade, move off)
What did the writer think of the evening?
(worthwhile)
What did the writer realize after a day’s watching?
(bond)
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How did Jane discover the society of chimps? (observe )
How did Jane try to protect the lives of chimps in their
natural habitat? (be outspoken about, respect, argue)
When did Jane want to work with animals in their own
environment? (childhood)
What about Jane’s life now? (lead a busy/meaningful
life)
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1. In your group retell the text using the following questions and words as a support.
What did the writer do? (behave, shade,
worthwhile, bond)
What did Jane Goodall do and find out about chimps? (observe, discover)
What did Jane Goodall do to protect the chimps?
(be outspoken about, respect, argue)
What about her achievements?
III. Post-reading
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2. Discuss in groups.
Reconsider the title. Do you understand it differently? Discuss with your partners.Do you think it is more important to study chimps in the wild rather than in a zoo? Give reasons.Do you think you would go if you are asked to study animals in the wild? Why or why not?
Post-reading
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IV. Summary and homework1. Remember the following words and
expressions.
behave, shade, move off, worthwhile, nest, bond, behaviour, observe, childhood, be outspoken about, respect, argue, entertainment, lead a busy life, crowd in, inspire
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2. Finish Exercises 1 and 3 ( p. 3) and Exercise 3 (p. 4).
3. Interview your mother or grandmother based on the questions on page 46.
the job she wanted
the job she did
why couldn’t she achieve the job
how did she achieve the job
other informa-tion
mothergrand-mother