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　　Unit 5 Great people
　　Lesson 33：What Does Life Mean?
　　Teaching Content:
　　Mastery words and expressions: life
　　Teaching Aims:
　　Know about the great people in the world.
　　Learn the high spirit of the great people.
　　Teaching Important Points:
　　Introduce people.
　　Passive voice.
　　Teaching Difficult Points:
　　Passive voice.
　　Teaching Preparation: pictures
　　Teaching Aid: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
　　Type of lesson: new lesson
　　Teaching Procedure:
　　Step1. e to “THINT IT”.
　　Divide the class into groups of three or four. Talt the questions. If they think the topics are too difficult for them, the teacher can add the content: “What do you want to be in the future? Why?”
　　This question is easier than the others. They can talk a lot about the topic. Now lead them talt the future, the dream and the life. It seems easier now.
　　Step2.Listen to the tape and then let the students say the main idea about the text.
　　S1: It deals with the future.
　　S2: They talt the life.
　　S3: What is success?
　　S4: Why are people different from animals?
　　Then the teacher sum what they say. It tells us the life’s meaning. It leads us to thint the life. Now we are living on the earth. Some of us are happy. Others are sad. When we are free, we can thint these questions.
　　Step3. Read the text. Let they underline the language points of this text. Ask the students to solve the problems. They can use dictionaries and ask the teacher if necessary. The teacher helps them some on the blackboard.
　　Encourage the students to make sentences with the following language points:
　　succeed in doing sth.; more; make one happy
　　S5: He succeeded in finding a new way to do with the rubbish.
　　S6: We all know he will succeed in the future.
　　S7: Would you like some more?
　　S8: We need ten more people.
　　S9: Don’t make them too happy.
　　S10: The students must keep the classroom clean.
　　Step4. e to “PROJECT”.
　　Divide the class into several groups. Let every group write the questions that they want to know on a piece of paper. Then they exchange the paper with another group. They can asestions in class.
　　Tar questions home. Asr family members about the questions. First asr parents and write their answers down. Then asr grandparents the questions and write their answers down.
　　Bring the answers to school. Discuss their answers in groups. Let’s see if they have any differences between their answers. Discuss why these differences exist.
　　Now in the group discuss the last question: What did you learn from this project.
　　In this project, we try to find the secret of life. When we are in different age, we have different realizations to life. When we are older, we will ch about the life.
　　Step5: Homework
　　Finish off the activity book.
　　Go on the next reading in the student book.