Great scientists（Period 3 Listening and Speaking）
a: what job do you want to do in the future? b: i always want to be a botanist. a: if you want to be a scientist, what education will you need? b: i will try my best to go to a key university to learn and study botany. a: what work experience would be useful? b: the experience i will need is to study wild plants in the wild when i am at school. now, i join the social natural club organized by our school. every time i make every effort to overcome difficulty to study plants in the wild. a: do you know what personality will be needed if you want to be a scientist in the future? b: i will need to be patient, creative, hard-working, brave, energetic and co-operative. a: yes, i agree with you. besides those personalities, we also should be determined, confident and positive. b: i will make efforts to own such good quality. a: how will you prepare for this career? b: i intend to go to college next year and then i will have a chance to be a scientist. but my greatest problem will be whether i will be able to go to university in the future. a: don’t worry about it and just get down to preparing for it. good chances always belong to the persons who have already prepared for them. i am sure you will succeed if you keep working hard. i am waiting for your good news. b: thank you for your encouragement. i will make full use of time to struggle for success. task 3 free-talkt: let us talk freely. you are allowed to move about to find a student you’d like to talk with. imagine you are going to meet a specialist about a newly-found flower. your partner will be the assistant for the flower specialist. you both need a description of the other so you can recognize each other when you meet. now ring the assistant to sort out the necessary information. (of course, following the above, the students may gather around or move around to find their own favorite partners to talk with. this is a half-controlled activity. teachers let them express whatever they want to on condition that there are some expressions on the theme. give them about five minutes to prepare for it. later, ask some pairs to act it out. as usual, the teacher won’t forget to give comments on what the students do, including the teacher’s words praising what they are doing in the first few stages. only in this way are the students encouraged to talk freely about what they want to say and why they think so. ) step 7 summary and homeworkt: in this period, we mainly focus on the speaking and listening abilities. if you feel listening or speaking poor, you had better practice more after class. practice makes perfect. today’s homework is to describe a scientist to your partner and let your partner guess who she/he is. then exchange.