Unit1 Women of achievement
Reading
By Qingyunxuefu Song Liqun
Step One Leading-in
Some pictures of great women all over the world.
A Chinese saying goes:
Women can hold up half of the sky.
Step Two Fast-reading
Read the text to get the general idea
Task One
Choose the best answer
1. What did the group do first in the morning? They ______. A. went into the forest slowly
B. left the chimp family sleeping in a tree C. observed the family of chimps wake up
D. helped people understand the behaviour of the chimps
2. Why did Jane go to Africa to study chimps in the wild? Because she wanted _____.
A. to work with them in their own environment
B. B. to prove the way people think about chimps was wrong C. C. to discover what chimps eat D. D. to observe a chimp family
3. Jane was permitted to begin her work after_____. chimp family woke up B. she lived in the forest
C. her mother came to support her D. she arrived at Gombe
4. The purpose of her study was to ________ A. watch the wild chimps in cages B. gain a doctor’s degree
C. understand and respect the lives of chimps D. live in the forest as men can
5. The chimps show love in their family by______each other. A. touching B. feeding
C. feeding or cleaning D. feeding or touching
Task Two Match the main idea with each paragraph
Para 1: A. Jane’s achievemen
Para 2: B. what Jane discovered about chimps Para 3: C. a day in the forest
Para 4: D. her attitude to the animals
Step Three Detailed-Reading
The first paragraph
a family of chimp ________
_________ the forest (feed, clean each other)
The whole day The mother chimp and her babies ______________ ________together in their nest
The second paragraph
The first thing She discovered that chimps ___________________.
She observed chimps as a group ___________________________.
The second thing She also discovered how Chimps __________________.
The third paragraph True or False questions
hopes that chimps can be left in the cages.
supposes that people should not use chimps for entertainment.
has spent more than forty years helping people understand her work. has built many homes for the wild animals to live in
The fourth paragraph The achievements of Jane
Step Four A short conclusion
Jane Goodall has studied chimps for many years in Africa to help people (understand) how much they behave like humans. (watch) family of chimps wake up is our first activity. We are very tired after a whole day’s work but the evening makes worthwhile because we can see the mother chimp and her babies play together in the tree. Jane spent years (observe) and recording their daily childhood she had wanted to work with animals in own environment.
Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project. For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should not be used for (entertain) and she has helped to set up special places they can live safely. She (lead) a busy life now . She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of
women.
Step Five Brain storm
There are lots of lists of great there many women in the list ? Do you think it is fair? What qualities do you think a great woman should have、
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Step Six Homework
Try to retell the text according to the summary
2017人教版高中英语必修四Unit1Womenofachievement5
