初二牛津课本课件(第7单元) (5).doc

Teaching plan of Chapter five Success stories Chapter topic overview: The main topic of this chapter is success stories. The main passage is a story about a famous pianist. The Listening section has a note-taking task in which students have to note down information from the telephone message. The Language section deals with the past continuous tense. The main task in the Speaking section is a survey activity about whether students help their parents with housework. The Writing section requires students to write a similar account of a fictional character. Finally, the using English section focuses on how to make pie charts.. Period One Teaching target To know some new words about the reading passage. 2. To have a warm-up to know about some historical stories. Cartoon talk Give students some time to look at the cartoon on SB B, page 57. Tell them to read the sentences carefully. 2. Meaning of the cartoon: This cartoon focuses on two possible aspects of success: being rich and being famous. It is funny because Hi wants both things, not just one. Teaching courses: a. Pre-chapter activities Look at the pictures and answer some questions. Who is she ? Is she very famous? How do you like her ? b. What do you know about…? You are going to read a success story. The people in the pictures below all have been successful. Match the names with their titles. William (Bill) H. Gates : the co-founder of Microsoft , a leader in the computer and Internet industry. Gates discovered his interest in computers when he was just 13 years old. He studies at Harvard University in the USA. In his junior year, he left Harvard to concentrate on Microsoft. He started the company in 1975 with one of his childhood friends. Paul Allen. Fu Mingxia: a remarkable Chinese diver who has achieved a lot of success in her field. She was born in Wuhan in Hubei Province, in 1978.She won her first world champion title in 1991,at the age of 12. At the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992, at the age of 13, s