Learning about Language公开课教案（教学设计）

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions The First Period Warming up/ Reading 黄湾中学 陈长报

一．Aims: 1. Teaching aims 教学目标：

1.Help the students learn how to talk about inventions and discoveries. 2.How s to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. 2. Ability aims能力目标

1.Enable the students to talk about information and different. 2.Enable the students to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Make them realize it takes steps to catch the snakes and it’s not easy to get a patent. 重点词汇和短语

discovery, application, uate, presentation, alternative, messenger, get together, make a case for, add up 二．Contents Step I Ask the Ss to guess about the content of the passage from the title.

Then ask the Ss to judge the right order of stages of inventions.

Ask the students to talk about the pictures with the teacher’s help, and then discuss the first two questions. what is a discovery? What’s the difference between a discovery and an invention? Step II Work in pairs and talk about the three different things, telling them apart and giving reasons. 1. Which these pictures show inventions? Does any of them show discoveries? 2. Work out two rules that will help you decide what is a discovery and what is an invention? Step III Go Get the Ss to comprehend the passage carefully and accurately, and then divide the text into several parts and work out the main idea for each paragraph. PartⅠ (Para.1) the discovery of the problem of snakes PartⅡ (Para.2-3) the research on the approaches to solve the problem PartⅢ (Para.4-6) the attempts to catch the snakes PartⅣ (Para.7-8) the requirements of getting a patent. Step III Ask Ss to go over the whole text again and analyze the text in details. Discuss the following questions: 1.What are the writing techniques of this text?

2.What’s the main idea of the text?

3.What should we learn from this text? 4.What’ the writing purpose of the writer?

What modern inventions do you know? Describe them to your partner and how useful they are in life today. Step IV Work in groups of four to discuss the question: Suppose you are working for a mobile company. It is your job to suggest new ways of developing a mobile. In pairs discuss some new applications of a mobile. Make a list of the ones you like and that seem the most useful. Choose one you both like and think will be popular with other people. Step V Comprehending: Finish the exercise1, 2, 3.