Period 1&2 Warming
up and Reading I
Unit 1
Women of achievement
A Chinese saying goes:
Women can hold up half of the sky.
Guessing game
I will describe two women to you, please guess who they are according to my description.
Warming Up
In the year1903, she and another scientist were awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics for their discovery of radium.
On July 4,1934, she died in Paris, killed by her own experiments.
She died of radiation poisoning.
Madame Curie (1867-1934)
Empress Wu Zetian (624 - 705)
She was the only female monarch (君主 ) of China.
She lived in Tang Dynasty.
She ruled the empire (帝国 ) for over half a century.
A PROTECTOR OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE
Reading
chimp
behave like human being
Where are the photos taken?
Gombe National Park in East Africa
What do you think of when you see the pictures?
Pre-reading
skimming
Skimming:
1. Who is the protector?
2. What animal are observed?
3. When did Jane Goodall arrive Gombe？
How old was she?
4. What was the purpose of her study of the chimps?
Jane Goodall.

Chimps.
She arrived in Gombe in 1960 when she was26.
Her purpose was to help the rest of the world to understand and respect the life of the chimps.
The passage is mainly about how Jane Goodle
worked with______________________
and help people ___________________
__________of these animals.
chimps in their environment
understand and respect
the life
General idea
Main ideas
Para 1:

Para 2:

Para 3:

Para 4:
A day in the park
Jane’s way to study chimps
and her achievement
Her attitude to the animals
She has achieved everything
she wanted to do
a family of chimps wake up
Wander off into the forest (feed, clean each other)
The mother chimp and her babies play in the tree
Come into mother’s chimp arms, go to sleep together in their nest
The first paragraph
The whole day
The second paragraph
She discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat
She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other
True or false
She hopes that chimps can be left in the forest.
She supposes that people should not use chimps for entertainment.
The third paragraph
She has spent more than forty years helping people understand her work.
She has built many homes for the wild animals to live in.
The fourth paragraph
Working with animals in their own environment.
The achievement of Jane:
Gaining a doctor’s degree for her studies.
Showing that women can live in the forest as men can.
Comprehending
What did the group do first in the morning? They_______.
went into the forest slowly
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
C
2. Why did Jane go to Africa to study chimps in the wild? Because she wanted_________.
to work with them in their own
environment
B. to prove the way people think
about chimps was wrong
C. to discover what chimps eat
D. to observe a chimp family
A
3. Jane was permitted to begin her work
after_________.
the chimp family woke up
B. she lived in the forest
C. her mother came to support her
D. she arrived at Gombe
C
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
C
Discussion
Who do you think is a great woman in the world?
Homework
1. Finish the exercises on Page 4 and 5.
2. Review the words.
Class is over
See you
Personal
qualities
of the great
people
determined
brave
confident
warm-hearted
responsible
unselfish
honest
intelligent
broad-and-open minded
generous
kind
modest
hard-working
considerate
helpful
active
independent
review: