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Unit 2 MORALS AND VIRTUES
Mother of Ten Thousand Babies
Learning objectives:
In this class, you will
1. sort out the life experiences of Lin Qiaozhi and the choices she made;
2. analyze the main principle guiding Lin Qiaozhi through her choices;
3.analyze what kind of person Dr Lin was. Teaching key and difficult points:
1. guide students to summarize the qualities of Dr Lin Qiaozhi;
2. help students understand the meaning of“hard choices” and the principle of Dr Lin’s choices.
Teaching procedure:
Step 1: lead-in
Before reading, ask students to discuss the following question:What are some important life choices?
Step 2: Activity 1 Prediction
Ask students to read the title Mother of Ten thousand Babies and look at the pictures below. Try to predict what the text is about.
From the title and the pictures. we can know that the text may be about a female doctor, Lin Qiaozhi.
Activity 2 Scan the text and find out the main ideas of each paragraph.
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Para.5
Para.6
To get a clear mind of what happened to DrLin, read and fill the blanks.
time events
at age 5 Her mother died.
at age 18 She chose to study .
8 year later She from PUMC and became a resident in it.
in 1939 She was sent to study in .
in 1941 She become director.
in 1954 She was to the first National People’s Congress
in 1983 She died.
According to the timeline and events we can infer this text belongs to
A. A news event B. A life story C. A science report
Activity4 :further reading
Answer the following questions:
Q1: What dilemmas was she faced with? What are her choices?
Q2: According to her choices, we can infer what are her good personal qualities, for example:
from: “Why should girls lean so much? Finding a good husband should be their final goal !”her brother complained,She responded, “I’ d rather stay single to study all my life!”(para 2line 8)
We knew that she was a strong