Using LanguageⅡ第二课时教学设计

Book8 Unit3

INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS Using Language

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Lead-in Telephones become part of our life. But do you know who invented the telephone? A British inventor called Alexander Graham Bell. Pre-reading Discuss the following questions in groups: 1. What do you know about the inventor? 2. How useful is his invention to human society? Why? Bell is known as much of his work for deaf education as for his inventions. He became a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University.

His job was to help deaf people to understand speaking people and to make themselves understood by learning how to speak. When he invented the telephone, he was testing a method of helping a deaf person to hear. Scanning 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. I. Read the passage and try to answer

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the questions. 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. Language Points

1. He believed that one should always be curious and his most famous saying was: “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

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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.”

他认为人应该保持一颗好奇心，他最著名的一名话是: “偶尔离开平路，去寻求困境。当你这么做的时候，你一定会发现你从未见过的东西。跟踪下去，不断探索，不知不觉中，你就会发现某种值得思考的东西占据着你的头脑。所有真正伟大的发现都是思考的结果。”

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dive into 跳水

(头朝下)；迅速把手伸入；

(对活动，问题等) 全心投入，潜心研究

He dived into the history of China.

他潜心研究中国历史。

He dived into his pockets and fished out one dollar.

他迅速把手伸进口袋掏出了一美元。

The boy dived into the river from the bridge.

这男孩从桥上跳入河中。

dive into 作

“潜心于……”

讲时和devote oneself to sth. 的意思一样，但devote oneself to sth. 还有“投身于……; 把自己奉献给……”

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的意思

He ____ his career and made a great contribution to our country.

A. dived himself into

B. devoted himself to

C. dived into

D. devoted to 2) every / each time 意为“每次; 每当”, 此短语在句子中经常作连接词, 引导时间状语从句做连词的名词, 引导时间状语从句。能用做连词的名词短语还有：

the first time

第一次

last time

上次；

next time

下次；

the instant / moment / minute /

second …

that

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……就……

____ I see him, the old man is sitting in the same chair.

A. Every time

B. Every time when

C. At each time

D. Each time that

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