Teaching Plan for Unit 10, Book Two
Section A (3 hours) : Reports on Britain Under the Bombs
Teaching Objectives :
a. to help students to form a picture of Britain when it was under the bombs from
German armies during World War II
b. to direct students to write a composition with the structure of a general statement
supported by specific details
c. to guide students to do some oral practice through doing the interview and
picture description and the routine pair work as well
d. to assist students to grasp some useful words and expressions: survival , endure ,
surrender , convince , on the air , historic , whichever , provide for , ect.
Teaching Procedures :
Step 1 Routine Pair Work ( eg. movie dialogues , dialogues made by students themselves
games presented by two students , songs singing , poems reading , ect. ) 5’
Step 2 Warming-up Questions on World War II 8’
When did the World War II begin and when did it end ?
Which countries were involved in the War ?
What caused the War ?
What was the result of the War ?
Step 3 Introduction of the War against Britain with the aid of some pictures which show the scene of the War as well as how the British people fought back bravely 10’
show the students the pictures one by one
encourage students to make full use of their imagination to guess what was happening in the War
Step 4 A Brief Summary by the Teacher 1’
Step 5 Information Extracting 30’
group work : one of the group members is to act as a journalist while the others will be Londoners who have survived the War . The journalist is going to interview the Londoners on the War .
Interviews between a journalist and some Londoners
J : When did the heavy raids begin ? And what was England’s response at that time ?
L1:The heavy raids began _______________________________________________ .
England’s Home Guard prepared to ____________________________________ .
J : When did the hardships of London really start ? Why ?
L2:The hardships of London really started __________________________________ ,
Because Hitler was __________________________________________________ .
J : How many German bombs hammered London on September 7, 1940 ? What was it like in
detail ?
L3: On September 7, 1940 , _______________________________________________ .
During the bombing , fires _______ , houses _______ , gas pipes _______ , and dark smoke
_______ . Men , women , and children _____________. Radar sirens __________ , ambulance
_________ , and the fire fighters _____________ .
J : Were people in the city discouraged to carry on the business of life ? How did the city endure ?
L4: No. Instead _________________________________________________________________.
J : Were the police in the RAF tired out ? But what did they do?
L5: Yes, the pilots in the RAF reached _________, but they __________________________.
J : Were people of London satisfied though they were in front lines ? What did they do then during
the War ?
L6: No, they weren’t . They had to dig ________. They had to put out _______ . And they had to stand ________ and take ________.
J : What were the probable reasons , in your opinion , that help London win the War ?
L7: (free) ___________________________________________________________________.
b. individual work : each group chooses one member to make a report on Britain under the bombs from Germans
Step 6 Language Points 25’
Step 7 Free Reading and Asking Questions 10’
Step 8 Recheck students’ understanding of the text by asking questions 10’
Who was Mr. Murrow ?
Why were the English more fortunate than the Poles and the Dutch ?
What does ‘carry on the business of life’ mean in Para. 8?
Why ‘skies’ is used instead of ‘sky’ in Para. 8?
What does the writer imply by using ‘quiet’ in the last sentence of Para. 10?
What do you learn from the reports or what do you feel after you read the reports?
Step 9 Text Structure Analysis 15’
Part I (Para 1-2) Summary
Para 1 It broadcast that London was __________________________________________ .
Para 2 No matter what London had to endure , it could not be ______________________ .
Part II (Para 3-14) Details
Para 4
A general statement : _______________________________________________________ .
Details : __________________________________________________________________.
Para 6-7
A general statement : _______________________________________________________ .
Details a. ________________________________________________________________ .
________________________________________________________________ .
________________________________________________________________ .
________________________________________________________________ .
________________________________________________________________ .
Para 9
A general statement : ______________________________________________________ .
Details a. _______________________________________________________________ .
b._______________________________________________________________ .
c. _______________________________________________________________ .
d. _______________________________________________________________ .
e._________________________________________________________________ .
Para 11-12
Murrow knew that Britain’s fate depended on the resolution of
the people ________________________________________ .
the Men __________________________________________ .
the housewives _____________________________________ .
the people _________________________________________ .
the handful pilots ___________________________________ .
Part III (Para 15) conclusion: ______________________________ .
Step 10 Writing Skills : 15’
What’s figurative language ? What are the three main types of figurative language ?
Give examples to each type from Text A
Step 11 Exercises in the textbook 20’
Step 12 Homework
write a report on Britain under the bombs
do structure writing on P273
preview Section B ( find materials about Hiroshima ; learn the new words ; answer the comprehension questions on P281 )
Unit 10 Section B ( 2 hours ) Forty-Three Seconds over Hiroshima
Teaching Objectives :
to cultivate students’ concept of self-study by looking for materials from the Internet ,
magazines , ect .
to help learn more about Hiroshima
to help students to better understand the figurative language of similes , metaphors and personification , thus to be able to make use of them in their own writing
d. to practice students’ oral English through discussion and routine pair work
e. assist students to master some practical words and expressions : explode , expose , fling to , want in , make for , give way to , ect .
Teaching Procedures :
Step 1 Routine Pair Work ( eg. movie dialogues , dialogues made by students themselves
games presented by two students , songs singing , poems reading , ect. ) 5’
Step 2 Group Work : make share materials on Hiroshima students collected 15’
Step 3 Title Learning 2’
Step 4 Information Extracting 10’
Questions
When did the bombing begin?
What happened to Kaz and her father when the air exploded ?
What was Kaz’s life like before the air explosion ?
What happened to what remained of life that Kaz’s father had made ?
What happened to Kaz’s brother ?
What was the result of the air explosion ( as far as Kaz’s family was concerned )
Has Kaz’s illness really left her finally ?
Step 5 Structure Analysis : study the three headings and divide the passage into three parts 5’
An atomic bomb
Kaz’s family’s life before the air explosion
Details of the bombing
Result of the bombing for the Kaz’s family
Step 6 Language Points 15’
Step 7 Words and for learning after class : layout,tower, blind, glimpse, etc . 2’
Step 8 Questions Time 10’
Step 9 Group Discussion 20’
How do you see wars? For example, what do you think of the bombing in Hiroshima . And what about the War against Iraq raised by the United States
Step 10 Reading Skills 15’
do exercises XIV on P281
do some extra learning of figurative language (take from ‘writing’ by Xu Jian and Yuan Hui )
Simile :
That man over there is like a pig.
A doctor must have the heart of a lion and the hand of a lady.
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy t corrupt and can not last … (by Bacon, Of Studies )
You might as well expect the sun to rise in the west as hope to move me .
A crowd of people pressed around him, touching his body , felt his legs , … and bid for him as if he had been a horse . ( by The Quadroon )
Metaphor :
Because of his wealth, he was a fountain of generosity to his relatives and friends .
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed , and some few to be chewed and digested . ( by Bacon )
Personification :
Love, free as air , at sight of human ties , spreads his light wings , and in a moment flies .
The buffalo, released at last in the evening from his monotonous circling round the water wheel , comes down to the bank and subsides with a groan of satisfaction into the mud . ( by Alan Moorhead )
Step 11 Homework 1’
review Section A and B , be ready for a quiz for this unit
finish the exercises of Section B
preview Section C : write a summary of Section C
Section C Narrow Escape ( 1 hour )
Teaching Purposes :
to help to learn to make a summary of a passage
to share a reporter’s experience in the airport during the War with the students
to help to learn English by students themselves by encouraging them to find out key or difficult words and expressions by themselves
Teaching Procedures :
Step 1 Summary reading by three students written by them
Step 2 Difficult and key items learning
Step 3 Difficult and key items pointed out by students
Step 4 Questions raised by students
Step 5 Questions raised by the teachers to check students’ understanding of the text
Step 6 Structure Writing of Section A
let exchange to check compositions
read the reference writing to the students
summarize the writing
Step 7 Homework
review Unit 10 and get ready for a quiz of it
preview Unit 1, Book3
write a review on what you’ve learned through Book2’s learning