Great scientists（Period 6 Language Focusing）
period 6 language focusing
the general idea of this periodthis is the sixth period of this unit.in this unit, we will mainly deal with the language points in the material that we have learnt, including some words, phrases and sentence patterns.because we have talked about, read and to the material, and the students are already familiar with them.the aims of this class are to let the students know the usage of these words, phrases and sentence patterns; help the students to use them correctly and finish some exercises about the words, phrases and sentence patterns.first check their homework.secondly, present the usage of the words, phrases and sentence patterns.in order to have a deep impression on them, you can ask the students to find them in the context and underline them, because on one hand, they have learnt them; on the other hand, that will help to develop the students’ ability of learning by themselves.to make them more familiar with the words, phrases and sentence patterns, the teacher can give them more practice, both oral and written.meanwhile, the teacher will help them to make up sentences, to improve their ability of using the language and imagination.as to consolidation, the students are supposed to make sentences by themselves, using the new words and phrases in this unit.at last, they are asked to finish some of the exercises on page 4 and page 42 and page 43 as their homework.teaching important pointsto learn the following words and phrases: put forward, know about, attend, expose, control, absorb, instruct, look into, in addition, prevent sth.from doing, lead to, make sense, punish sb.for, suggest, complete, reject, valuable, be to blame, link to, announce, deadly, cure, have sth. done, defeat, apart from, a cloud ofto study the following sentence structures: 1）but he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed to cholera.2）he got interested in two theories explaining how cholera killed people.3）so many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak.4）only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense.teaching difficultyhow to let the students learn to use these phrases and sentence structures in written and oral english.teaching aidsmulti-media classroom and other normal teaching tools.
three dimensional teaching aimsknowledge aimto learn the useful expressions and sentence structures in the unit.ability aim to enable the students to use these language points both orally and in the written form.