Unit 17 Great Women

Teaching Aims and Demands

Words and Phrases

Four Skills: inspire admire generous mean threaten bottom optimistic regret extreme extremely climate value pianist bother promise graduation around the corner die down come to terms with

Three Skills: cheers tense dull dishonest champion mile stormy workday somehow shelter kindergarten hardship scholarship bear fame

Spoken English:

Describe people

She seems tome to be the kind of woman who …

The impression she makes on me is …

I think she is the kind of person who …

She could be … She looks as if …

She might be … You can see that …

People like her… She doesn’t seem …

Grammar:

Subject-verb agreement

(1) The boy’s team has some good players, but the girl’s is a better team.

(2) My dog team weren’t with me to pull the sled.

But changes were just around the corner.

Use of Language:

Help the students to finish the tasks of listening, reading, writing, speaking presented in the book and the e