Unit 2 Great minds优秀教学设计

The Nobel Prize Teacher: Cui Ying Date: April 2,2013 Place: Class 1, Senior 1

Teaching objectives:

◆Knowledge objectives: To help students have a better idea of the meaning of new words

To help students learn some basic facts of the Nobel Prize ◆Competent objectives: To develop the students’ reading skill To develop the students’ ability to express ideas in an organizational way ◆

Emotional objectives: To help students understand the influence the Nobel Prize have on the inventions and discoveries, and then on human life.

Teaching key points: To help students learn some basic facts of the Nobel Prize To help students understand the influence the Nobel Prize have on the inventions and discoveries

Difficult points in teaching To help students use expressions they have learnt to express ideas in an organizational way

Teaching aids: Multi-media (PPT), blackboard

Teaching procedures: I. Pre-reading:

A quiz about the Nobel Prize

II. While-reading

1.

Word bank- Name the pictures

2.Fill out the table by listening to the tape recording. Focus on the numbers!

Numbers 1896 9 million 1901 Dec. 10 1,300 250 What happened/happens

3.

III. Post-reading

Activity -- Suppose you are in the committee of the SF Prize, choose from the following

creative inventions and award the most useful one

IV. Assignment

Finish ex.B1 on page 29 Surf the Internet to learn more about Alfred Nobel, the Nobel prize and the prize winners!

Find the answers to the specific points in the text What would make the world a better place in Nobel’s opinion?

How often is the prize given? Why is the prize presented on 10 Dec.? What does each winner received from the King of Sweden? What kind of people attend the banquet after the ceremony? 4.

Brainstorming-- the benefits of the inventions and discoveries