Making a difference（The Second Period）

the second 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 greetings
   greet the whole class as usual.
step ⅱ lead-in and pre-reading
t: yesterday we learnt some quotes from some famous scientists like albert einstein, thomas alva edison…
   look at the picture in our books.
   do you know who the person is?
ss: the person is stephen hawking.
t: yeah. very good. he is stephen hawking, one of the greatest physicists of our time. do you know what book he published in 1988?
ss: yes. a brief history of time, which is very popular.
t: ok. i think maybe you know something about hawking. do you want to know something more about him?
ss: yes.
t: ok. today we are going to learn a passage about stephen hawking. it will tell us hawking’s determination, thoughts and some theories. before we read the passage, first let's learn some  new words and phrases in this unit.
  (teacher deals with the new words on page 105 with the whole class.)
t: now open your books and turn to page3. look at the questions in pre-reading quickly and then scan the text as quickly as possible and find the answers to them.
  (teacher gives the students three minutes to scan the passage. later, ask three students to answer the three questions.)
t: (three minutes later.)have you finished?
ss: yes.
t: wang xi, the first question: why did stephen hawking need a phd?
s: because he wanted to get a job.
t.. right. the second question. when did hawking become famous? who'd like to have a try?