Great scientists（Period 3 Listening and Speaking）
t: look at the screen and let’s read the following new words firstly. (these words are presented on the screen: analyse, pure, foundation, symbol, sin, cosin, geometry, calculus, mechanics, practical, topology) t: can you guess which field the next scientist is in according to the new words? s: the next must be a mathematician. t: right. this mathematician is leonhard euler. john smith is discussing with zhao yang his research into the life and work of a mathematician called leonhard euler. listen to the tape and fill in the chart on the importance of euler’s work. euler’s achievementsexamplesnew symbols and termsold areas of mathematicsnew area of mathematicsimportance(after listening, ask some students to fill in it. if many students feel it difficult, let them listen to it again. while doing it, the teacher can also ask two students to come to write the answers on the blackboard. the teacher had better give them praise if they do it well. ) step 6 speakingtask 1 lead-int: boys and girls, from the listening material, we know about some scientists. do you have a dream to be a scientist in the future? ss: yes. /no. t: suppose you would like to work as a scientist, and you are discussing with your partner about your future job. what questions would you like to concern? s1: what job do you want to do? s2: how will you get the job? s3: what preparations will you make for the future job? t: right. apart from those, we can also talk about the following questions: 1 what education will you need? 2 what personality will be needed? 3 what work experience would be useful? 4 how long will the training take? 5 how will you prepare for this career? t: these expressions may help you: i always wanted to. . . because. . . the experience i will need is. . . i might find it difficult to. . . i need to practise. . . my greatest problem will be to. . . i will need to be/become. . . patient, creative, hard-working, co-operative, confident, brave, positive, pleasant, polite, determined, energetic, strict with. . . task 2 dialogue (pair work)t: now it is time to discuss what scientific job each of you would like to choose in the future with the help of the mentioned questions and expressions in pairs. i will give you five minutes to prepare for it. after that i will let some of pairs to come to act it out. sample: