高中英语说课稿：《Unit 1 of PEP English Book 4》优秀说课稿范例

Teaching plan to “A Student of African Wildlife”
1. Teaching Contents Analysis
·Analysis:
This text named “A Student of African Wildlife” mainly tells us the story of a great woman scientist named Jane Goodall. This lesson is the first one of the unit, consisting of four parts: 1. Warming up, 2. Reading and Comprehension and 3. Discussion and Consolidation. The text is the most important teaching material in this lesson, which extends the main topic “Women of Achievement” and contains most of the vocabulary and grammar points that students should learn in this unit.
2. Teaching Aims
1. Knowledge and skill aims:
b. to improve the students’ organizing and using skills of English as the second language.
a. Strengthen the sense of environmental protection; let the students understand Jane Goodall’s career and interpret the importance of her career and achievements. let students understand and respect wildlife;
3. Learning methods aims:
b. foster the students’ questioning spirit to improve their ability of analyzing and solving problems.
3. Teaching Methods
Language is used for communication. It’s learner-centered and emphasizes communication and real-life situations.
A task resembles activities which our students or other people carry out in everyday life, Learners should be given opportunities to reflect on what they have learned and how well they are doing.
Language learning needs a context, which can help the learners to understand the language and then can product comprehensible output, so computer has the advantages to make the materials attractive.
4. Important and Difficult Points
b. Understanding the sense of “All men are created equal”. i.e. the equality of men and women.
subject-verb agreement; –ing form, the usage of “spend” and inversion.
5. Teaching Procedures:


2. Let students guess who they are and what they achieve.
After this, the students will be eager to know who Ms. Jane Goodall is and this is the very time to naturally lead the class into Step 2
Step 2. Reading for information: Skimming and scanning
Task 1 General idea
a.Read the title and enjoy the two pictures of Ms. Goodall on Page 2 to predict the general meaning of the text.
The passage is mainly about how Jane Goodle worked with chimps in their environment and help people understand and respect the life of these animals.
Cooperative learning can raise the students interest and create an atmosphere of achievement. Based on this theory, I divide the whole class into 4 groups to skim the whole text and get the main idea of each paragraph.
Para 2. What Jane discovered about chimps
Para 4. Jane Goodall’s achievements
Step 3. Reading for comprehension
Choose the correct answers after reading the passage.
A went into the forest slowly
C observed the family of chimps wake up
2). Why did Jane go to Africa to study chimps in the wild? Because she wanted ________.
B to prove the way people think about chimps was wrong
D to observe a chimp family
A the chimp family woke up B she lived in the forest
4) .The purpose of her study was to ___________.
C understand and respect the lives of chimps D live in the forest as men can

Step 4 Solving difficult language problems through reading
e.g. 1. Let students find out the “–ing” forms and translate the sentences
我们一行人准备按照简研究黑猩猩的方法去拜访他们。
我们当天的首项任务就是观察黑猩猩一家是如何醒来的。
这意味着我们要回到前一天晚上我们离开时黑猩猩一家睡觉的大树旁。
i.e. spend … on sth; spend … doing…
Our group aregoing to visit them in the forest.
4. Inversion:
Practice: translate the proverb into Chinese
众人拾柴火焰高。
Step 5 Consolidation
1. Summary: fill in the blanks without referring to the context and then retell the whole text.
For 40 years, Jane has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women.
Discussion or debate is an easy way to inspire new ideas and an excellent chance to practice English in a cooperative learning atmosphere. During the following two activities, The students will deepen their understanding of Ms. Goodall’s spirit and the intension and attitude of the author.
1. Why do you think Jane is called “a student of African wildlife”?
3. Do you think it is important to study chimps in the wild rather than in a zoo? Why?

Girls: Women are able to do more than men.
Conclusion: Men and women are equal because they have different specialties in different fields
1. Make a brief introduction to Ms. Jane Goodall orally.
The second assignment enables students to search various information resources, which can widen their view and continue to inspire their enthusiasm of learning.

In this lesson, I use cooperative leaning method and task-based teaching method to enable students to solve language problems, understand the meaning of the context and dig the deep meaning step by step. Meanwhile, through the discussion and debate, I, acting as a guide, lead the students to get their own correct value of gender and society. In a word, I believe the students can get much more than what is printed in the book after this lesson.