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Discovering Useful Structures
What important life choices are you faced with?
Brainstorming
一、Activity 1: Getting to know the topic of“life choices”
Q1:Did you make any simple and easy choices today?
T: As we know, every day we make choices. For example, this morning, I decided to wear this dress because I wanted to look smart in front of you. This choice was simple and easy for me. Did you make any simple and easy choices today?
Q2: What important life choices are you faced with?
T: Many choices are simple and easy. But life isn't always about simple and easy choices. Sometimes, we have to face difficult and important choices,especially important life choices. Have you been faced with any important life choices?
Activity 2:Finding out the main idea of the passage
1.Look at the title and talk about your first impression.
Q: Which part of the title caught your attention first?
Mother/Ten Thousand.
2.Look at the pictures and the first paragraph to find out the main idea of the passage.
The passage is about Lin Qiaozhi, an amazing woman,who was an important doctor/physician.
Activity 3:Finding the hard choices Dr.Lin was faced.
11..Match the main ideas with the parag
Paragraph 1 Dr Lin's studies and early career
Paragraph 2 Dr Lin's early life
Paragraph 3 Introduction
Paragraph 4 What Dr Lin did in new China
Paragraph 5 What Dr Lin did during the war
Paragraph 6 Dr Lin's last days
Activity 4.Discuss what hard choices Dr Lin was faced with during the different stages of her life.
Para Different stage Hard choices
2 early life
3 early career
4 during the war
5 in new China
to study or to marry
to return to China or to stay in USA
to keep working or to stop
to spend more time on a doctor's duties oron political positions
Activity 5: Read paragraphs 2-5 and answer the following questions.
Q1: Why was it hard for Lin Qiaozhi to study medicine?
Q2: Why did she reject the offer and choose to return to China?
What did she give up?
Q3: Do you think it was easy for Dr Lin to run a private clinic during the 1940s? Why?
Q4: Why did Dr Lin open a private clinic?
Q5:How did she travel to faraway villages to provide medical care?
Q6: Which sentences show that Dr Lin spent more time on her doctor's duties than on political positions?
Reading
Q1: Why was it hard for Lin Qiaozhi to study medicine?
At home, Lin's brother complained about the high tuition fees. In addition, the final goal for the majority of girls at that time was marriage andLin had to fight against the traditional path.
Q2: Why did she reject the offer and choose to return to China? What did she give up?
Because she wanted to serve the women andchildren at home. That means she gave up a comfortable life abroad.
Q3: Do you think it was easy for Dr Lin to run a private clinic during the 1940s? Why?
No. It was during the war time. Her patients were poor and some even lived in faraway villages.All these made it very dangerous and hard for her to run the clinic.
Reading
Q4: Why did Dr Lin open a private clinic?
Thinking of all the people still in need of help.
Q5:How did she travel to faraway villages to provide medical care?
Riding a donkey.
Q6: Which sentences show that Dr Lin spent more time on her doctor's duties than on political positions?
Her heart was elsewhere. She was more interested in tending patients,publishing medical research and training new staff. That means she cared more about her patients and less about her own fame.
Activity 6: Discussing the results of her hard choices
What were the results of her choices?(Group discussion)
1.She __________________________________________________________
2. She______________________________________________________________
3. She_________________________________________________________
4. She______________________________________________________________
1. Do you think it was easy for Dr Lin to make
these choices?
hard choices
2. Why were the choices hard?
二、Reading
hard choices sacrifices
to study medicine
to serve at home
to stay and open a clinic
to care more about patients
sacrificed her own marriage
gave up a good chance to stay in the US
put her life at risk
gave up good chances of promotion
2. Why were the choices hard?
3. What was the main principle guiding Dr Lin through the
hard choices in her life?
“Life is precious. ... To a person nothing is more precious than their life, and if they entrust me with that life, how could I refuse that trust, saying I'm cold, hungry, or tired?”
Her determined faith
Her sense of responsibility
……
guided Dr Lin through the hard choices
in her Life.
It was her ___________________________ that carried her through a life of hard choices.
moral values and good virtues
三、Thinking
What kind of person do you think Lin Qiaozhi was? Why?
·chose to study medicine
·served...at home
·stayed in the war-hit area
·donated her savings
·care about all the patients
·stuck to tending..., publishing..., and training...
·charged low, reduced costs, treated patients equally
·We should be responsible for the patients and treat them equally.
·Life is precious. …To a person nothing is more precious than their life, and if they entrust me with that life, how could I refuse that trust, saying I'm cold, hungry or tired?
·I'd rather stay single to study all my life! ·Thinking of all the people still in need of help, ......
·Even as she lay dying, her final thoughts were for others.
From what she did
From what she said
From what she thought
She was ___________ woman.
an amazing
…
Bing xin wrote: “With nimble (灵巧的) hands, Lin helped give birth to thousands of babies; she not only helped the babies see the world, but she also guided their parents on how to raise their children. She helped nurture numerous fighters of the nation!”
Guardian Angel of Mothers, Babies
What advice can we get from Dr Lin's life story?
Reflection
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
The type of the text
A.Exposition(说明文)
B. Narration(记叙文)
Think
B
C.Argumentation(议论文)
Admiration
Background
Chracteristics and Deeds
Evaluation
?
Scanning
Admiration: Lin Qiao zhi is an amazing woman.
Background: Lin Qiao zhi was deeply affected by her mother's death. Her brother wanted her to marry instead of study.
Characteristics and Deeds: Lin refused the offer in the US. She opend a clinic during the war to provide medical care for the poor. She is more interested in tending patients, publishing research and training doctors.
Evaluation: Lin is called the “mother of ten thousand babies”.
ABCDE Template
The characteristics of biography
the third person
birth and death time
family background
childhood
turning points in life
quotes their own or other people’s words
In time order
A+B+C+D+E+F+G
She was born.
study medicine;
marriage.
Her department was closed.
a private clinic
not to marry ; devoted her life to ....
left her savings ;kindergarten
be appointed director of…
tended ;published ;
1906
1927
a few years later
1941
1954-1983
22April1983
a few months later
1939
1928
1919
1901
How did she make her choices?
Her mother died.
majority of girls
the Wenhai Scholarship
study in Europe
study in the US
National People’s Congress Over…decades,
She didn’t retire until she died.
all her life
a chief resident physician
rejected the offer
In time order
Skimming
1906
1919
1901
She was born.
Her mother died.
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selfless ,kind and helpful
a person who devoted herself to serving and treating patients.
outstanding, hardworking(diligent), and dedicated.
Why did she make such choices?
Lin's main principle guided her through the choices.
Draw conclusions:
As you read, pay attention to facts and details mentioned by the author, and put them together to draw conclusions about the topic.
Learning tips
1. What’s the writing purpose of the article?
2. Where can you possibly read this article?
Pragmatic Analysis
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Think,discuss and Share
Lin Qiao zhi is only an ordinary doctor. There are many ordinary people like her in the world such as Li Wen liang, Wuhan people, Zhongnanshan, thousands of doctors and nurses. When they encounter moral dilemmas, they made their own choices and made great contributions to the society.
What do you think about their choices? How will their virtues affect your major, career and behavior in the future?
Share your idea with your partners.
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