Great scientists（Period 4 Reading and Writing）
period 4 reading and writing
the general idea of this periodin this period the teaching and learning will center on reading and writing.as usual, the teacher can begin the teaching with reviewing the former knowledge.the following part is the lead-in—talking about some scientists, because this unit talks about great scientists and this passage is about nicolaus copernicus and his theory. as to reading training, the teacher should still develop the students’ ability of scanning and skimming.so at the beginning, get the students to prepare some knowledge for reading. for that purpose, the teacher will firstly ask for information about copernicus according to what the students already know.then the teacher can have the students listen to the tape and find out whether the statements are true or false.it is designed to train the students’ listening and to check whether the students have previewed the passage well.later, the teacher will ask the students to skim it and find out the main idea for each part.the purpose of doing these is to help the students to form the good habit of reading with some strategy.when reading a passage, we had better first read it as a whole, that is, understand the structure of the passage and catch the main idea with the help of the structure and title.the following step is to read the passage for the details.the teacher can design some teaching activities to help the students to know about more and more information by taking part in the reading activities.as a result, the teacher should be careful, cautious and creative when designing the reading activities.the reading activities had better be various, which can catch more students’ attention.at the end of reading, some activities should be designed to check the students’ understanding by saying something about copernicus and making up a dialogue between copernicus and his friend.the practicing helps the students improve their speaking and arouse their creativity.the competition is held to make the students take part in the class activities actively.at the same time, let the students consider the writing purpose.besides reading, the students are also expected to learn and practise their writing skill.by studying the passage, the students should learn to do persuasive writing to change someone else’s decision.the teacher should give the students some advice on how to plan the writing and develop the writing—beginning, body and conclusion.teaching important pointshelp the students know about copernicus and his theory.