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教学时间：45分钟。
学生概况：所带班级共69名学生,其中男生38名,女生31名,学生是特别爱学英语，爱说英语，再加之学生对旅行并不陌生

解析：Lesson 90 Bill Gates
Ⅰ. Teaching Objectives
Students should be able to read the text and answer questions correctly, and also grasp the new words and useful expressions.
Ⅱ. Language Focus
1. Background of Bill Gates.
2. New words and useful expressions: learn from sb.; be born; grow up; name…after…; in the future; start to do sth.; at that time; lots of/a lot of…
3. Object clause.
Ⅲ. Teaching Aids
Tape-recorder; Some pictures of Bill Gates
Ⅳ. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Revision
1. Dictate the words learnt.
2. Translate some sentences: （Chinese→English）
（1）他是年级中最聪明的学生之一。
（2）那些衣服每周被洗一次。
（3）看起来好像要下雨了。
（4）她曾经对故事书很感兴趣。
Keys: （1） He’s one of the cleverest students in the grade.
（2） Those clothes are washed once a week.
（3） It seems to be going to rain.
（4） She was interested in story books.
Step 2 Leading-in
Showing the pictures of Bill Gates to the students.
T: We’ve known something about Bill Gates. Who can give us a brief introduction of him?
Help students to give the correct information.
Divide the class into six groups to discuss the questions in Pre-read.
Step 3 Reading
Ask the students to read the article themselves and ask: What is the main idea of this text? （Bill Gates’ life）
Then play the tape for the students to read the text. Or play the video: Bill Gates
Answer the questions:
1. When was he born?
On October 28th, 1955.
2. What nationality is he?
American.
3.What was his ambition when young?
A scientist.
4. When did he work out the software programme with the old machine?
When he was 17.
5. How much did he earn from it?
He earned ＄ 4200.
6.When did he go to the university?
In 1973.
7. Did he finish his university education? What did he do then?
No. He worked for Microsoft.
7.When did he begin his own company?
In 1975.
9. What business did he do in his company?
They developed software for personal computers and improved it to make it easier for people to use computers.
10. Say something about his personal life.
He was married on January 1st, 1994, has a daughter and a son. He enjoys reading and playing golf and bridge.
Explanations of some language points:
1. grow up
When I grow up, I’ll be a tour guide.
2. name…after…
name…after…意为按照……的名字来命名，这是英国人常用的说法，美国常用name…for…，如：
He named his son after his uncle.
3. spend 在表示花费时，可以表示花费时间、金钱等。它可用于两个不同的句式中：
（1）spend…on… 在……上花费
The boy spent two hours on his homework.
（2）spend…in doing sth… 花费……做某事，其中的介词in 可以省略。
She didn’t spend all her time （in ） doing the work. 她没有把全部时间用在工作上。
4. work out
Work out的意思是制订出、编制出、想出。如：
The boy worked out the maths problems himself.
Ask the students to give the main idea for each paragraph.
The teacher showed the main words and phrases on the flashcard, and ask the students to retell the story according to the key words and phrases.
Step 4 Discussion in groups
Students talk more about Bill Gates and express their own ideas.
Here are some questions for discussion:
1. What do you think of him?
2. Do you want to be a person like Bill Gates? Why or why not?
3. If you were Bill Gates, what will you do?
Step 5 Homework
1. To make sentences with the phrases given and make it a short story.
grow up, in the future, start to, spend…doing, in the end, enjoy doing
2. To retell the article.
3. Finish the workbook exercises