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丰都县实验中学校“四段七步”课堂教学导学案

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课题

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions---The problem of the snakes

班级:12班_

组别：英语组

【学习目标】

1.To enable the students to grasp the usage of some important words and expressions. 2.Let the students learn the reading skills. 【学习重点】：Let the students learn the reading skills. 【学习难点】：How to let the students master some reading skills.

【自学检测】

1.Read the text quickly and complete its main idea. The text is mainly about the author’s experience in helping her mother get rid of the ______ and applying for the _____ for her invention.

2.Match the right answer according to the passage. Part I (Para.1)

A. The research on the approaches to the problem. Part II (paras.2-3)

B. The requirement of getting a patent. Part III (Paras.4-6)

C. The attempts to catch the snakes. Part IV (Paras.7-8)

D. the discovery of the problem of the snakes.

Read the text carefully and do the following exercises. 1. How did the writer catch the snakes?

A. using something the snakes were interested to attract them into a trap. B. taking their habitat to another place. C. placing the snakes at a low temperature for them to sleep and then caught them. D. All the above.

2. The writer was successful to catch the snakes in ____ attempt.

A. the first

B. the second

C. the third

D. every 3. The following are used in the three attempts EXCEPT ____.

A. perfume

B. an ice-cream maker C. jelly

D. ice-cubes 4. Which of the following may get a patent according to the text? A. A computer programme.

B. A new animal variety. C. A work of literature. D. A truly novel and useful invention.

5. The purpose in writing this text is ___. A. to show us how to trap the snakes but not to kill them B. to tell people how to apply for a patent of the writer’s new idea

C. to introduce the writer’s new idea of trapping the snakes and her application for a patent

D. to tell the readers how to get a new idea and make it a patent 6. The biggest advantage of the writer’s new idea is that ____.

A. it makes the snakes move slowly B. it makes the snakes hardly bite us C. it is easier for us to kill the snakes without hurting ourselves D. it is easier for us to catch the snakes without killing them

Listen to the tape carefully and then judge the following exercises are true or false. 1. The snakes were so sleepy in the second attempt that they couldn’t bite the writer at all.

2. Your product must be different from everybody else’s if you want to receive a patent.

3. The writer decided to send her invention to the patent office the moment she succeeded in catching the snakes. 4. If an application for your product proves to be valid, you can get a patent immediately.

Fill in the blanks according to the passage and the given words.

When I 1.________(call) up my mother in the countryside, she told me that 2._______(snake) came to the house now and then, and they seemed to have made their home there. I got the chance 3._______________(distinguish) myself by inventing something to catch snakes. No products can help me catch snakes, 4.____ I set about 5._______________ (research) the habit of snakes in order to trap them. I decided on three 6.________(possibly) approaches: firstly, removing their habitat; secondly, 7.__________(attract) them into a trap, and 8.________(three)cooling them. I used a frozen bowl to make the snakes less active, and then collected 9.______(they), and the next day I released them into 10.______wild.

Try to read the passage again after class, and manage to recite paras. 3,6&