Unit 13 Abraham Lincoln

Lesson 49教学设计方案

Teaching Aims

　　1 To learn the following words and expressions.

　　fight against/for, in the end, set free, end v., What’s on….?, That sounds interesting.

　　2.To train the Ss’ ability of telling stories.

　　3.10 train the Ss’ ability of making up dialogues.

Teaching procedures

Step I Warming-up

　　1.Get the Ss to talk about the films or the TV plays they have seen/watched recently. The teacher may start asking.

　　1).Do you know that many years ago in America, there were a lot of slaves?

　　2). Do you know where these slaves came from? and who knows how they came to America?

　　3). Do you know what life they were living?

　　4).Do you know who let the slaves become free men?

　　2.Show the pictures find the right sentence for each of the pictures on Page 49

Step II Listening

　　1.The SB Lesson 49 Part 2. Say to the Ss:

　　T: A new film “Fight for Freedom” is on at the cinema this week. Explain: “on” here means “being shown” and “freedom” is the noun form of “free”. And now two friends are talking about it. Listen to the dialogue and try to find the answers to the following questions.

　　1) What’s the new movie about?

　　2) When did the story take place?

　　2. Play the tape for the Ss to listen to with their books closed. Then get some Ss to answer the above questions.

Suggested answers:

　　1) About black slaves’ fighting for freedom and the great leader, Lincoln.

　　2) The story took place in a time when there were black slaves in North America.

Step III Practice

　　1.Get the Ss to practise the dialogue in pairs. Then ask some pairs to act it out.

　　2.Ask the Ss to talk about their favourite films or TV plays. Encourage them to use the expressions like:

　　What’s on...?

　　What's it about?

　　It s about a time when. . .

　　That sounds interesting.

　　In the newspaper. . .

　　3. After a few minutes, get some pail's to act theirs out in front of the class.

Step ⅣLanguage points

　　1. The SB Lesson 49, Part I. First get the Ss to learn the new words by explaining them.

　　slave －a person who is the property of another and is made to work hard for his owner.

　　slavery － the custom of having slaves

　　set free － liberate, give freedom to

　　in the end － at last, finally

Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions.

　　1. The workers are fighting ____ their rights.(　　)

　　2. You should be ready to fight ____ the difficulties.(　　)

　　3. England fought ____ France ____ Germany.(　　)

　　4.Two dogs fight ____ a bone, and a thud inns away with it.(　　)

　　5. This morning I read an interesting story____ the newspaper.(　　)

　　6. We will have finished the project ____ the end of this century.(　　)

　　7. Go down this street and you will find the hospital ____ the end of the road.(　　)

　　8. When he was young, he used to help his father ____ the farm.(　　)

StepⅤStory telling

　　1. Before doing the exercises, the teacher may give more information about the pictures. The following may help them.

　　1) First, the black people were captured in their hometown, Africa, then they were shipped to the new continent － America, where they were sold or bought like the animals. This is known as the slave trade.

　　2) Most black people were sold to the southern part of America, where they were made to work hard in the big plantations for the slave owners. They lived a miserable life there. They had to work long hours, hadn’t enough food to eat and were whipped or even killed by the slave drivers freely. A great number of the blacks died.

　　3) Later on, Lincoln was elected as President of the U. S. . He fought fiercely against the slavery and tried to set the slaves free. But the slave owners wanted to keep the slavery. Thus the fitting broke out.

　　4)At last, the North won. the slavery was banned. The blacks gained their freedom, broke up their irons and cheered for their freedom.

　　2.Get the Ss to tell the story according to the pictures and the above information given by the teacher. Divide the class into small groups, let them do it one by one. After a while, ask some representatives to tell the story to the class.

Step VI Exercises

The Wb Lesson 49, Ex. 1 and 2.

Ex. 1 can be done first in pairs. Then check the answers with the whole class. After completing the dialogue, get some Ss to read and act it out.

In Ex. 2, the Ss should do it alone first. Then ask them to read the passage and check the answers themselves. The teacher should make sure that they understand the story and fill in the right answers.

Step VII Homework

　　1. Write down the story according to the pictures in Part I in their exercise books.

　　2. Making up a dialogue about a new film or a TV play.

Lesson 50教学设计方案

Teaching Aims

　　1. To learn the story about Abraham Lincoln.

　　2.To learn the writing － in time order.

　　3. To learn to retell the passage with their own words.

　　4. To master the useful expressions.

Teaching procedures

Step I Revision

　　1. Check up the homework exercises.

　　2. Get some students to tell their stories according to the pictures given in the last period.

Step II Warming-up

Show some pictures and ask the questions

　　1.What do you already know about Abraham Lincoln?

　　2.What do you expect to learn more about Abraham Lincoln from this passage?

Step III Listening

　　Listen to the text carefully and then answer what happened in the following years .

　　1809:In Kentucky, the U.S.A. , on February 12^th.

　　1818:__his mother__died_________

　　1860:__He became President_______

　　1864:__He became president for the second time

　　1865:_He was shot at a theatre___

Step V Reading

Read the passage in Lesson 50 again and then answer the questions.

　　1.What did he use to do when he was a child?

　　2.Where did he work as a young man?

　　3.What did he work for in all his political life?

　　4.What happened after the war ended in 1864?

　　5.Why was Abraham Lincoln killed after the war ended?

Answer:

　　1)He used to work hard and help his father on the farm.

　　2)In a store and later in a post office.

　　3) Because the Southern States wanted to set up a country of their own, where they would be free to keep the black slaves.

　　4) Lincoln was killed at a theatre in Washington, D. C.

　　5) Because the slave owners in the South and the rich people hated him.

Step VI Language points

　　Explain the new words and expressions, so that some of the new language items will be familiar to the Ss when they read the passage.

　　1)as a child as/when he was a child

　　2) no more than － only

　　3)in all － in total, totally

　　4)set up － start/found

　　5) break out － (war, fire, etc.) appear, start suddenly

　　6) break away from － go away from

　　7)consider. . .as － regard. . .as/look on. . .as

Fill in the blank with the following the words

　　1. Lincoln became very interested in ____. In all his ____ life, he worked hard to build a free state for all the people, (political; politics)

　　2. Lincoln worked hard against ____, because he wanted to free all the ____. (slavery; slaves)

　　3. After the ____ woman was taken away, all the villagers were in deep sorrow (悲痛) for her ___. (dead; death)

　　4. A ____ businessman is a man who has made a big ____ in his business, (success; successful)

　　5. I think German is the roost ____ for me, because I have a great ____ in learning German grammar. (difficult; difficulty)

　　6. I’m going to join in the games to ____ for medals. Use the words in the box to ____ the dialogue. (complete; compete)

　　7. What’s the ____ of the meat? The winners will get a good ____. (price; prize)

　　8. The ____ which was agreed on last month will be put into operation soon. Children’s ____ on TV is usually shown at 4 o’clock in the afternoons, (programme; project)          

Step VII Workbook

　　1. Go over the explanations of the words and expressions in this lesson.

　　2. Do Part 2 on Page 119. Complete the passage with the verbs in the right form. Let the Ss read through the passage and put in the missing words. They may discuss with their partners. Don’t refer to the text. Then check the answers with the whole class.

Step VIII Practise

Complete the passage with verbs in the right forms.

　　In 1860, Abraham Lincoln ________President of the united States. Then he ________still harder for the freedom of the slaves. But the Southern states wanted to _____up a state of their own, where they could be free to ______black slaves. Lincoln said that it was not right for the South to ______away from the Union. Fighting _______out between the North and the South. This was the American Civil War, which _____four years. In the end the North _______. Northern and Southern states _______up again as one country and the slaves were _______free.

Key: became, set up, keep, break, broke, lasted, won, joined, set

Step Ⅸ Homework

　　1. Retell the story about Abraham Lincoln.

　　2. Write the story of Li Dazhao in their exercise books.