Lesson 1 Modern Heroes

Teaching aims:

To practise extensive reading in order to understand the main idea of each paragraph and guess the meaning of new words from the context.

To use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctions

To revise the use of Past Simple and Past Continuous

To practise oral English

Teaching difficulties:

To use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctions

To revise the use of Past Simple and Past Continuous

Teaching Aids: computer and cassette

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

T: Who can explain hero's meaning in English? Have a try.

S:

T: A person, especially a man, who is admired by many people for doing something brave or good.

Now think about who is the hero in your mind?

S: possible answers (Wen Tianxiang, Yue Fei, Lin Zexu, Sun Zhongshan, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlain and so on)

T: Yes. They are great heroes. They names have been recorded in history books. What character do you think heroes should have?

S:

T: brave, selfless, calm, honest, generous, intelligent, warm-hearted, romantic...

　Today we talk about Modern Heroes who do you think can be called modern heroes?

S:

T: teacher can show students some pictures. Finally picture is Yang Liwei. Have you heard of Yang Liwei? How do you feel about him?