Using LanguageⅡ名师教学设计

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions Using language Reading

Alexander Graham Bell

Teaching Belief 教学理念

1. 以学生为主体，激发学生的学习热情，

通过实践参与、交流与合作的学习方式，培养学生自主学习和创新思维的意识和能力。

2. 结合学生原有的知识经验，帮助学生构建对文章的理解，引导学生对于文章相关的社会问题进行探讨。

3. 帮助学生形成正确的的价值观和人生观，培养积极的生活态度。

Teaching Goals

教学目标

1. Knowledge & Abilities 知识和能力

1)

Develop the students' reading abilities (skimming, scanning and getting the main information of the passage) and learn to sum up the main idea of the passage. Help the students' to learn about how to achieve success 2)

Enable the students' to cooperate with other classmates to solve the problems 2.

Moral Education情感教育

1)

Get the students to think about the qualities a student should have when if they want to achieve success. 2)

Encourage the students to hold positive attitude towards studying and life. Teaching Important & Difficult points 教学重难点

Help the students analyse the qualities of Bell that contribute to his successful life

Target Language 目标语言

1.All really big discoveries are the result of thought 2.He found that by pressing his lips against his mother’s forehead, he could make the bones move in such a way that she could understand what he was saying.

3.He designed a machine that would separate different sound waves and allow different conversations to be held at the same time.

Teaching Method 教学方法

Task-based method: brain-storm;group discussion; role play

（任务型教学：头脑风暴，小组讨论）

Teaching Aids 教学用具

Multi-media and other normal teaching aids (多媒体以及其它常规教学用具）

Teaching Procedures 教学过程

Step 1 Lead in 1、Telephones become part of our life. But do you know who invented the telephone? A British inventor called Alexander Graham Bell. 2、提问答问

⑴. 贝尔对什么很感兴趣？

What was Bell interested in? Bell was interested in helping people in need. ⑵. 在他看来一个人应该做些什么？

What did he think a man should do? He believed that a man should always be curious. ⑶

是什么导致他发明了电话？

What led to his invention of the telephone? The exploring around the problems and his dynamic spirit. ⑷. 他一生都在搞发明吗？

Was he involved in invention all his life? Yes. Bell was an inventor all his life. ⑸. 他做发明的目的是什么？

Why was he involved in inventions? Because he wanted to find solutions to improve the quality of people’s life.

Step 2 Fast reading Read the passage quickly and find out the main idea of it.

It mainly talks about the life of Alexander Graham Bell and how he made the great inventions. Step 3 Careful reading Read the passage and answer the questions below. 1. What does Bell’s saying mean to you?

His saying means that it is important to be experimental. By being curious and exploring around a subject you may by chance come up with some new and original ways of solving a problem. 2. What do you think led to his success as an inventor of the telephone? His curiosity and exploring spirit led to his success as an inventor of the telephone. 3. What inventions did Bell make? Bell invented the telephone and the tetrahedron shape by chance. Both of these are extremely useful and still used today. 4. Why will he always be known as the inventor of the telephone? He will always be known as the inventor of the telephone because it was a very popular invention and the patent made the most money ever. Step 4 Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks. Birth Born in 1847 in ________.

Inventions discoveries

The microphone:

and His interest in helping ____ people communicate and in deaf education ___________ invent the microphone.

The telephone:

In searching to improve the

_________, he invented the first telephone.

The tetrahedron shape:

While searching for a kite strong enough to __________ into the air, he experienced putting ________ together and discovered the tetrahedron shape. Step 5 Summary

In 1847 Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland and then he moved to Boston with his family. Because his mother was deaf, he became interested in helping deaf people (1) _________________(communicate). This interest (2) __________ (lead) him to invent the microphone.

He found that by (3) __________ (press) his lips against his mother's forehead, he could make his mother understand what he was saying. In 1876 Bell invented his (4) ________________ (famous) invention, the telephone. In fact, at the beginning, he wanted to design a multiple telegraph, (5) __________ sent a message over distance using Morse code. (6) __________ only one message could go at a time. Bell later improved this machine. When he was experimenting with one end of a straw joined to a deaf man’s ear drum and the (7) __________to a piecAnd he had a flash of(8) __________ (inspire), which led him to the first telephone Bell also (9) __________ (interest) himself in many other areas of invention. He experimented (10) __________helicopter designs and flying machines. He made his last invention when he was seventy-five.

Step 6 language points 1.

“Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind.

All really big discoveries are the result of thought.” (P

25) A. 本句为名人名言，其中包含祈使句、定语从句和状语从句。

B. that 引导的定语从句修饰先行词something。

你所有的成绩都是你辛勤劳动的结果。

All your achievements are the result of your hard work.

2. He found that by pressing his lips

against his mother’s forehead, he could make the bones move in such a way that she could understand what he was saying.

我发现通过听英语歌我提高了对我来说曾经是很难学的英语。

I find that by listening to English songs I have improved my English that used to be hard for me to learn well. 3. He designed a machine that would separate different sound waves and allow different conversations to be held at the same time. (P 25) ［分析］

本句含有一个that引导的定语从句。that引导的定语从句修饰先行词machine。

他发明了一种既能榨果汁同时又能加热果汁的机器。

He invented a machine that would press fruit into juice and heat juice at the same time.