Making a difference（The First Period）

“i like life and i love life, my family and music give me the greatest happiness, ”smiled hawking, who can only move three fingers.
in the coming year, hawking said he is scheduled to write a new edition of a brief history of time for young children.
“a brief history of time is my first book for common people. but i later found that i could write it in a more simple way,” he answered. “so i decided to rewrite it so that all people can read it easily. ”

the first period
teaching aims:
1. learn and master the following words: inspiration, perspiration, undertake, analysics, 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 the 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 greetings
t : good morning/afternoon, everyone.
ss: good morning/afternoon, miss/ mr. x.
step ii warming up
t: there are many outstanding scientists in the world, who made great contributions to society and science. now please make a list of the names of some scientists and their contributions. write them down on a piece of paper. after a while, l’ll collect your answers.
 (teacher goes among the students. after a while, collect their lists of names and contributions. )
t: what great scientists do you know? and what are they famous for? wang bin.
s: maria curie is famous for her discoveries of radium and polonium and zhang heng is famous for his seismograph.
s: thomas alva edison is famous for the invention of the light bulb.
s:…  
(while the students answer the questions, teacher can write the names of some scientists and their discoveries or inventions on the blackboard. )
(bb: scientists   contributions   maria curie     radium/polonium   zhang heng     seismograph      charles darwin     the theory of evolution   thomas alva edison the light bulb  albert einstein   the theory of relativity …    … )