Angels in White

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn and master the new words and expressions in the period.

2. Talk about SARS, Angels in White to improve the student’s speaking ability.

3. Learn about SARS in 2003.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Talk about Angels in White to improve the students’ speaking ability.

2. Enable the students to grasp the main idea of each paragraph.

Teaching Difficult Points:

1. Help the students to improve their speaking ability.

2. Help the students to express their own opinions and ideas.

Teaching Methods:

1． Talking method to improve the students’ speaking ability.

2． Pair work or group work to make every students’ speaking ability.

Teaching Aids:

1. The multimedia

2. The blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Ⅰ.Greetings

T: Hello, everyone.

Ss: Hello, Miss Zhou.

Ⅱ. Pre-reading

T: What is it?

Ss: Mask.

T: Where can we see it?

Ss: Doctors and nurses.

T: Right. Sometimes, we call doctors and nurses health care workers or “Angel in White”. Are there any health care workers in your families? What’s your feeling about them? Can you use some adjectives to describe them?

(kind, diligent, beautiful, brave, patient/endurance)

T: Do you know her? Her name is Chen Zhen, a nurse of Beijing Ditan Hospital. She worked very hard when SARS period and received the Nightingale Medal this year. As we all known, Nightingale Medal is the highest honor for nurses.

Ⅲ. Reading

T: Today, we will learn a text about them. The title is “Angel in White”. Page 213. First, skim the text and try to answer my following questions on the screen.

1.How many of the SARS victims in China were health care workers?

2.How long did SARS last?

3.According to Wu Yi’s words, what’s the contribution of nation’s nurses?

Read the whole text with the tape and after reading, answer the 4 questions on the screen.

1.What does “mask” mean?

2.What steps were taken by the government to prevent the spread of SARS?

3.What difficulties and dangers did the health care workers have to face when they were treating SARS patients?

4.What lessons were learnt from the SARS epidemic?

Answers:

1. Symbols of the epidemic

2. Important safety rules, A new hospital, Schools, Funds, Doctors and scientists

3. Risked their lives to take care of the infected patients. In the beginning ,little was known .Worked under the great pressure

4. Risked their lives to take care of the infected patients. In the beginning ,little was known .Worked under the great pressure

Ⅳ.Post-reading

T: How about the Structure of the text. We can divide it into 5 parts. Talk with your partner and try to catch the main idea of each part.

ⅰ.(para.1) Backgrounds

ⅱ. (para.2) Measures

ⅲ. (para.3-5) Dangers and difficulties

ⅳ. (para.6) Shortcoming

ⅴ. (para.7) Conclusion

Task 1:Suppose you are Zhang Jihui, what would you say to your daughter when she calls you?

Task 2:If you were a SARS patient who was treated and saved by the “Angles in White”. While your partner is an “Angles in White”. Make a dialogue to show your feeling to him or her.

Task 3: As we known, SARS is on emergency, which showed several of the shortcoming of the countries medical and health care system.. Suppose you were Wu Yi, the then Health Minister of China, what measures will you take to protect our health?

Ⅴ.Homework

Write your measures on your workbook, about 100 words.