Unit 1 Women of achievement 学案

Reading

一、【学习目标】

1. Getting to know how Jane Goodall watched chimps and her achievements in the research and protection of chimps

2. Understanding the spirit of Jane to overcome all sorts of difficulties.

3. Improving reading skills of skimming, scanning, close reading and summarizing, learning how to find out the general idea and detailed information of the text, and learning how to express one's own ideas towards the problems in the text.

4. Key sentence structures:

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

(2) Watching a family of chimps wake up is out first activity of the day.

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

(4) Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories.

Once you have seen that, you can never forget...

二、【自主预习】

Step I. Fast reading

1. Answer the following questions:

1). Who is the protector?

_________________________

2). What animals are observed?

_________________________

2. Find out and write down the topic sentences of the four paragraphs.

Paragraph 1: ___________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2: ___________________________________________________________

Paragraph 3: ___________________________________________________________

Paragraph 4: ___________________________________________________________

Step II: Close Reading:. Answer the following questions:

1). What did the group do first in the morning? They _______.

A. went into the forest slowly B. left the chimp family of chimps wake up

C. observed the family of chimps wake up

D. helped people understand the behavior 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. to prove the way people think about chimps was wrong

C. to observe a chimp family

D. to discover what chimps eat