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Unit 1 Relationships
Lesson 1 Teachers
Pre-reading
1. Teachers are the engineers of human soul.
2. Teachers are diligent gardeners.
3. Teachers are the spring silkworms (春蚕) that
spin silks (吐丝) till death.
4. Teachers are silent candles that burn themselves
but lighten others.
Some quotes about teacher
Warming-up
Zhang Guimei is a teacher fighting for girls’
education in China. She founded a high school
offering free education to girls in Huaping, a county
in Yunnan.
While she taught at Huaping Minzu Middle School, many
girls dropped out of school. Zhang Guimei knew the children’s
parents were poor and didn’t realize the importance of education.
Zhang realized she should improve the education level of the local girls, which made her set up a senior high school for girls for free.
Role Model of the Times: Zhang Gui Mei
Warming-up
Warming-up
Watch the video and answer:
What good qualities does she have?
Do you think she is a good teacher?
Pair Work
Talk about the qualities that you think teachers need. Use the phrases below to help you.
to understand students to be patient to be creative
to make friends with students to make students feel confident
to explain things with practical examples and in simple language
adj.实际的;实践的
Example:
I think teachers should understand their students as well as explain things with practical examples and in simple language. In addition, I think teachers should understand and support their students.
a good
teacher
While-reading
Fast-reading
Read the texts and answer the questions.
P8 2
Who wrote the texts?
What are they mainly about?
Why were they written?
They talk about the memories about each other.
The texts were written because the student was once Mr Jenkins’ student and they remembered how they influenced each other.
The text’s writer is Graham Lawrence and Brian Jenkins.
Task 1
Mr. Jenkins___________ Graham from a _____________student