Great scientists（Period 4 Reading and Writing）
develop the students’ reading ability.improve the students’ writing ability.teaching difficultydevelop the students’ reading ability.teaching aidsmulti-media classroom and other normal teaching tools.three dimensional teaching aimsknowledge aimsget the students to know about copernicus and his theory.learn about persuasive writing.ability aimsmaster the skill of gist reading.develop the students’ reading ability, such as skimming and scanning.improve the students’ writing ability.emotional aimsarouse the students’ interest in science and devotion to science.
teaching procedurestep 1 greetingt: hello, everyone.ss: hello, miss wang.step 2 reviewingt: last class we talked about qian xuesen and carl linnaeus.can you say something about them?s: qian xuesen is a famous chinese physicist.s: qian xuesen once studied in the usa and then returned to china.s: qian xuesen made great contributions to space research.s: carl linnaeus developed a system to classify plant species according to the male and female organs in the followers.s: carl linnaeus earned the title“father of classification”.ss: ...step 3 pre-readingt: you have done a good job.so we have learned about a lot about great scientists, such as john snow and qian xuesen.who else would you like to learn about?why?s1: i’d like to know something about madame curie, because she was one of the great women scientists.s2: i’d like to know about albert einstein, because he plays an important part in the development of physics.s3: stephen hawking because he has made great achievements although he is disabled.ss: ... t: i find you are interested in science and scientists.but today we are going to read about copernicus.do you know something about him?s1: he was born in poland.s2: he believed the earth moves around the sun.s3: it was said that he was burned to death because of his theory.ss: ...t: do you want to know more about him?ss: of course.t: so let’s come to the passage copernicus’ revolutionary theory.step 4 listeningt: first i’d like you to listen to the tape and find out whether the statements are t or f.(give the students one minute to read the statements and then play the tape.)( ) 1.when copernicus found that the earth was not the center of the solar system, he was very excited.( ) 2.some astronomers found it strange that some planets appeared brighter at sometimes.( ) 3.copernicus worked out the theory by observation and calculation.