Women of achievement

Unit 1

兖州一中 曹兴华 Mar, 2015

Thomas Edison

Karl Marks

Shakespeare

Great men

Confucius

Sun Yat-sen

Premier Zhou

A Chinese saying goes:

Women can hold up half the sky.

Empress Wu Zetian (624 - 705)

She was the only female monarch ( 君主 ) of China.

She lived in Tang Dynasty.

She ruled China for over half a century.

She was born in the early 1890s and married to the great revolutionary Sun Yat-sen.

She was one of the top leaders in modern Chinese history.

She concerned herself in children and women’s welfare after her husband left the world. Song Qingling

（ 1893-1981 ）

Who is she?

Jane Goodall

Chimp behave like human beings.

She is shaking hands with a baby chimp.

She is kissing the chimp.

It seems that they’re talking with each other.

The passage is mainly about how

Jane Goodall worked with _______ in th

eir environment and help people ______

____ and ________ the life of these anim

als.

Step 1 Fast Reading

Reading Comprehension I

chimps

understand respect

Task 1 : What’s the main idea of the passage?

A student of African wildlife

Para 1

Para 2

Para 3

Para 4

Task 2 Match the main idea with each paragraph.

A day in the park.

Jane’s way to study chimps and her discoveries.

Jane’s attitude and feelings to the animals.

Jane’s achievement.

First, everybody sits and waits in the shade while the family

begins to _________and __________.

Finally we see them _________together

in their _____ for the night.

Then we follow as they _______ into the forest.

We watch the mother chimp and her babies

__________________.

Step 3:Careful reading. Task 1： Read papa. 1 and finish the following sentences.

The activities of the group went ahead like this.

wake upmove off

wander

sleep

nest play in the tree

Conclusion:_____________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

The bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family.

relationship n. 关系；联系

Task2 Read Para2 and finish the following tasks.

1. Jane was permitted to begin her project after_________.

A. the chimp family woke up

B. she lived in the forest

C. her mother came to support her

D. she arrived at Gombe

2. How did her work change the way people think about chimps?

Ways She spent years __________and ___________ chimps’ daily activities.

Her first discovery

Her second discovery

observingrecording

Her first discovery

She discovered that chimps________ and eat _________.

She actually observed chimps as a group ________________ and then eating it.

huntmeat

hunting a monkey

Her second discovery

She also discovered how chimps _________________________.

Her study of their body language helped work out their ______________.

communicate with each other

social system

1. She hopes that chimps can be left in the forest. （ ）

2. She has helped build many homes for the wild animals to live in. ( )

3. She has spent about twenty years helping people understand her work.

4. Once she stops working, all the scenes of chimps in the laboratories will appear in her mind.

Task3 ： Read papa 3 and decide whether the following st

atements are true or false.

T

( )

( )

T

T

F

Task 4. Read the last paragraph and summarize Jan

e Goodall’s achievement.

a._________________________________

________________________________

b. _________________________________

c. _________________________________

_________________________________

working with animals in their own environment

gaining a doctor’s degree

showing that women can live in the forest as men can

Step 4 Retell the story by filling in the blanks. Jane Goodall has studied the 1. ________ f

or many years in Africa and helped people 2.___________ how much they 3.________ like humans. Jane had wanted to work with animals in their own 4.____________. She spent many years 5._________ and 6._________ their daily activities. For 40 years, Jane has been 7.___________ about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She 8._______ those who want to 9._______ the achievements of women.

chimps

understand behave

environmentobserving recording

outspoken

inspirescheer

Step 4 Retell the story by filling in the blanks. Jane Goodall has studied the 1. ________ f

or many years in Africa and helped people 2.___________ how much they 3.________ like humans. Jane had wanted to work with animals in their own 4.____________. She spent many years 5._________ and 6._________ their daily activities. For 40 years, Jane has been 7.___________ about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She 8._______ those who want to 9._______ the achievements of women.

Step 5 ： Analyze the following sentence structures.

1. Following Jane’s way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest.

_______________________________________________________

2. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before.

_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

Following 短语为现在分词短语作伴随状语

where 引导的从句为定语从句，修饰先行词 the place

3. However, the evening makes it all worthwhile.

___________________________________

___________________________________

4. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project.

_______________________________________

_______________________________________

此句中含有 make + 宾语 + 宾语补足语，worthwhile 为形容词做宾补

本句子为 only + 状语（从句）置于句首构成的部分倒装句

【当堂检测】

Try to recite the above four sentences that we’ve just learned in this lesson.

Homework:

Recite the last two paragraphs.

Only if we understand can we care; only if we care will we help; only if we help shall all be saved.唯有了解，我们才会关心 ； 唯有关心，我们才会行动； 唯有行动，生命才会有希望。

—Jane Goodall 珍妮 · 古道尔