Lesson 50 Abraham Lincoln
ByShangLijuan 2003.12.18
[教学目标]
知识目标：
掌握下列单词和词组
四会：consider death enemy honest no more than in all break out
break away from join up consider…as
三会：law lawyer politics president war wise spare time of one’s own
二会：union civil Kentucky the Union
能力目标：帮助学生：
1、阅读并整体理解全文，培养学生快速获取信息的能力。
2、根据时间发展顺序，掌握文中重要信息。
3、找出中心思想和段落大意，训练学生把握主旨大意的阅读技巧。
4、借助关键词，叙述课文段落，并尝试根据课文内容进行采访活动。
5、运用所学语言，完成教科书和练习册中所规定的听说读写练习。
情感目标：
了解林肯的一生和他杰出的贡献，激励学生为国为民更加努力学习。
[教学重点]
整体理解全文，训练学生把握主旨大意的阅读技巧，培养学生快速获取信息
的能力。
[教学难点]
1、…she did all she could to help him.
2、He spent little time at school, perhaps no more than a year in all.
3、This was a time when there were still slaves in the USA.
4、The Southern states wanted to set up a country of their own, where they would be free to keep black slaves.
[教学准备]
学生：预习生词和词组；多种渠道收集有关林肯的信息。
教师：收集、整理与本课教学有关的图片，制作多媒体课件。
[教学过程]
StepⅠPreparation for reading (导)
1、Lead-in: Picture guessing
(T: What kind of the music did you hear? Yes, it’s American country music. Today we’ll learn a famous leader in America. First, please look at the picture. It is the famous Rushmore Mountain in America. There’re four great heads caved on the top of the mountain. They are all American presidents. Who are they? Can you guess? Yes the are George Washington, Thomas Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt and the last one is Abraham Lincoln. Today we’ll learn a text about Abraham Lincoln. Who can tell us sth. about him? )
2、Getting the students to talk about Abraham Lincoln
( 16th American president, poor, kind, humorous,
not handsome, a long face, seller, postman, lawyer
was shot by at a theatre )
StepⅡReading （读）
1、Video watching
(You’ve given us some information about Abraham Lincoln. Now let’s watch the video to know more about him. After watching, put the four pictures in good order and then talk about the general idea of the text.)
Keys: Lincoln’s childhood Lincoln’s Youth
16th American President His death
General idea: Lincoln was born in a poor family. As a child, he worked on the farm. As a young man, he worked as a storekeeper, a postman and a lawyer. He was strongly against slavery. And he was shot by his enemy. He was one of the greatest American presidents.
2、Fast reading
(T: Have you got the general idea about the text? Now open your books, read the text quickly and find what happened in the following years in the text.)
Possible answers:
1809: Abraham Lincoln was born
1818: His mother died
1860: Abraham Lincoln became President of the United States
1864: Abraham Lincoln became President for the second time
1865: Abraham Lincoln was shot death at a theatre
3、Further reading
( T: Now let’s get more information about the text. There are some true or false statements. Read through the text and then judge. If it is false, correct it.)
1) The text is about Abraham Lincoln’s early life in Kentucky.
2) The slaves had been set free when Lincoln was young.
3) In all his political life, he worked hard to build a free state for all the people.
4) The Southern states wished to set slaves free in their own country.
5) The American Civil War broke out between the North and the South,
and four years later, the Southern states won.
6) The slave owners became rich just because of the hard work of their slaves.
7) Lincoln was shot at a theatre in Washington D.C. and died the next week.
8) Abraham Lincoln is well thought of by the American people.
StepⅢOral practice （练）
Retell the text according to the given words.
born in Kentucky---Feb. 12th, 1809---helped---on the farm---
spent very little time---young---store---post office---lawyer---
1860--President---1864--for the second time---political life---
worked hard--had many enemies---was shot---is regarded as--
StepⅣConsolidation
1、Cloze test
Abraham Lincoln, the son of a ______ family, was born in Kentucky, in1809. As a child, his mother ________. But his second mother was ________ to him. However, He received ________ education. When he was young, he worked as a storekeeper, a postman and a ________. He was interested in _______. He was strongly _________ slavery. In 1860, he became ________of the United States. He worked hard for the ________ of the slaves, while the ________ states wanted to keep _________. In 1864, he was chosen President for the ________ time. But the slave owners _______ him very much. On April 14th, 1865 Lincoln was _______ at a theatre in Washington, D.C. Abraham Lincoln is considered as one of the _______ of all American presidents.
2、Interview
(T: Today we have learned something about Abraham Lincoln and you have understood the whole text. Now suppose you are a newspaper reporter, ask your partner as many questions about Abraham Lincoln as possible. After that, We will choose two to interview the whole class.)
（Possible answers: He is the 16th American president. He is one of the greatest American presidents. In my opinion, we should work hard and do more things for the people. If you think of others and do more things for the
other people than yourself, you will be respected by the people.）
Summery:
So Everyone of us consider Abraham Lincoln to be one of the greatest American presidents, just because he tried his best to build a government of the people, by the people and for the people, especially a government of freedom. So he is a freedom fighter, a freedom leader. He devoted all his life to the freedom of all the people especially to the black people. Do you think all the people of the world should have the equal rights? Do you think all the people of the world really have the equal rights now? Yes, not all the people are really equal. We’ll try our best to make everyone enjoy equal rights.
And as an ordinary person, I think, we should work hard, learn more science and technology, and do more things for the people. We should try our best to make our country become stronger and stronger, and to make our people become richer and richer. Today SARS is becoming very serious. So we’ll try our best to make the people around us become healthier and healthier. That’s our duty. Do you agree with me?）
StepⅤHomework
1、Retell the story about Lincoln to your partner.
2、Finish off Exx1, 2 & 3 in your workbooks.
3、Get some more information about Abraham Lincoln
by doing Internet surfing(上网).
