Unit 1 Making a difference
madame curie radium/polonium
edison the light bulb
einstein the theory of relativity
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record after teaching:
the second &third period
teaching aims:
1. learn and master the useful words and phrases.
2. train the students’ reading ability.
3. let the students learn from stephen hawking.
teaching important points:
1. master the following phrases and sentence pattern:
work on, go by, be engaged to, go on with sth, dream of, turn out
there is no point (in) doing sth.
2. enable the students to understand the text better.
3. improve the students’ reading ability.
teaching difficult points:
1. how to make the students understand the reading text better.
2. how to make the students understand the following sentence.
there didn’t seem much point in working on the phd.
teaching methods:
1. scanning the text to get some information about hawking.
2. careful reading to answer some detailed questions.
3. discussion after reading the passage to make the students learn how to use the scientific method to solve the problem.
4. individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
teaching aids: 1.a computer 2.a tape recorder 3.the blackboard
teaching procedures:
step i lead-in and pre-reading
t: yesterday we learnt some quotes from some scientists. now look at the picture on the screen. do you know who the person is?
( stephen hawking, one of the greatest physicists of our time, a brief history of time )today we are going to learn a passage about stephen hawking. it will tell us hawking’s determination, thoughts and some theories. first let’s learn some new words and phrases. then turn to p3. look at the questions in pre-reading quickly and then scan the text as quickly as possible and find the answers to them.
answers:1 because he wanted a job.
2 hawking became famous in the early 1970s, when he and american roger penrose made new discoveries about the big bang and black holes.
3 in , hawking visited china and spoke to university students in hangzhou and beijing.
step ii reading
t: well done. now read the passage once as carefully as possible. then answer some detailed questions on the screen. you may discuss them in pairs if necessary.
what did stephen hawking do when he was told that he had an incurable disease?
1. how would most people feel when they were told that they had incurable disease?
2. what did hawking write in 1988?