1

Getting students ready for learning

(3 mins)

Class activity

1.Greeting.

2.Check the homework.

1.Greeting.

2.Report their homework.

2

Revision

(5 mins)

Individual work

Guide students to review attributive clauses and functions.

1.Read through Section A-C and choose the correct words in Grammar.

2.Translate the sentences in Functions into Chinese.

教师也可以让学生再复习前面的谚语，加深印象，为写作积累素材。

3

Pre-reading

(5 mins)

Class activity

1.Show the video or pictures about the Four Great Inventions. Ask students to know about something about them.

2.Guide students to look at the pictures and match the Four Great Inventions with them.

1.Watch the video and know about something about the Four Great Inventions.

2.Look at the pictures of the Four Great Inventions and match their correct names with them.

激活语境。

培养学生在学习中善于利用图画等非语言信息理解主题的能力。

4

While-reading

(17 mins)

Individual work

1.Guide students to fill in the blanks with the names of the Four Great Inventions.

2.Ask two students to check the answers.

3.Let students read through the questions of 1b.

4.Let students read the passage paragraph by paragraph and answer the questions.

5.Check the answers with the students. Explain anything students can’t understand.

1.Look at the pictures and fill in the blanks with the names of the Four Great Inventions.

2.Check the answers with the teacher.

3.Read through the questions of 1b.

4.Read the passage carefully and answer the questions.

5.Check the answers with the teacher. Understand the difficulties with the help of the teacher.

提醒学生根据时间进行叙述会使文章的脉络更清晰。

阅读时做养成做笔记的好习惯。

鼓励学生遇到问题时能主动请教，勇于克服困难。

5

Post-reading

(10 mins)

Group work

Divide the class into three groups: the Politics Group, the Science Group and the Culture Group, and then guide students to finish the Project.

1.Each group chooses a famous person in the field from their collection.

2.Talk about information about him/her.

3.Write a short introduction under each picture using two or three sentences. (It’s the best to use attributive clauses.)

4.Display them on the wall and introduce their own heroes.

此环节的准备工作要提前布置，在学生讨论和书写时教师可给予必要的指导。在展示环节后教师要表扬最优秀的小组，同时鼓励其他小组。

6

Summarizing and assigning homework

(5 mins)

Individual work

1.Ask students to sum up the key points.

2.Repeat the key points.

3.Assign homework. Offer a passage and its tasks to students.

1.Sum up the main content of this class.

2.Read through what they have learnt after the teacher.

3.Complete the homework after class.

1) Complete the reading practice.

2) Preview next section, and search some information about the places of interest all over the world.

教师给学生提供课前准备好的题材相近的短文，要求学生在课后完成阅读任务，学以致用。