Unit 1 Making a difference
unit 1 making a difference
teaching goals:
1. talk about science and scientists
2. learn more about the infinitive
3. practise describing people and debating
teaching time: 6 periods
the first period
teaching aims:
1. learn and master the following words:
inspiration, perspiration, undertake, analysis, obvious, within, quote
2. talk about science and scientists.
3. listen to the description of some scientists.
4. do some speaking, describing people and debating.
teaching important points:
1. train the students’ listening ability by listening practice.
2. train the students’ speaking ability by talking about science and scientists, describing people and debating.
teaching difficult points:
1. how to improve the students’ listening ability.
2. how to help students finish the task of speaking.
teaching methods:
1. warming up to arouse the students’ interest in science.
2. listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through the listening material.
3. individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
teaching aids: 1. a multimedia 2.a tape recorder 3.the blackboard
teaching procedures:
step i warming up
1.t: there are many outstanding scientists in the world, who made great contributions to society and science. now look at the pictures on page 1, tell me what are these scientists famous for?
(bb) scientists contributions
maria curie radium /polonium
albert einstein the theory of relativity
…
2.t: well done. i think you are all interested in science and scientists. what do you think makes a successful scientist? have a discussion in pairs or groups of four. then report the results of your discussion.
(it is the way he uses his tools that makes a successful scientist.
a successful scientist must have much imagination and intelligence and he must be creative and hard-working.
a successful scientist must be confident, curious and careful. but what i like to know is what made him/her interested in science…)
t: now look at the quotes on page 1.do you know what they mean? and do you agree?
天才就是百分之九十九的汗水加上百分之一的靈感。
想象力比知識更重要。
生活中沒有什么可怕的東西，只有需要理解的東西。
分析明顯存在的事物需要非凡的頭腦。
你不可能把一切教給一個人，你只能幫助他在他自己的認知范圍內去發現和了解事物。