Lesson 8 A Universe of Thought教学设计

Lesson 8: A Universe of Thought

Title

古渡中学

李青

Lesson 8: A Universe of Thought

Teaching aims By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to read, understand Knowledge

and use the new words and phrases e.g. solve, pioneer, go on to…, in the field of…, pass away. To be able to talk about great people and their lives.

Ability

Emotion

Teaching difficult points and important points

Teaching tools To be proud of the excellent Chinese writer and scientist and learn from them.

To use the new words and phrases to talk about great people and their lives. PPT, computer, tape recorder Teacher’s activities Students ’activities

Aims

Step1: Warm up Show a picture of Albert Einstein and teach new words and phrases in the lesson.

Step2:Lead-in

Play the tape recorder for Lesson 8.

Learn new words and phrases in the lesson.

Listen to the text about Einstein and fill in the blanks.

To motivate the students and prepare for the new lesson.

To guide the students to get the main details of the text and lead in the new lesson.

Step3: New Lesson 1. Play the tape recorder for the lesson.

2. Show the questions about the lesson and then check the answers with the students. 1)In what field did Einstein solve many

Listen and read after the tape.

The students complete the exercise

In order to correct the students' pronunciation

To get to know the key information

problems during his lifetime？

2)What is Einstein most famous for? 3)In what countries did Einstein teach? 4)What did he ask people to do in his last letter?

3.

Explain the whole text and teach all the language points in the lesson.

4.

Show the culture tip about the Nobel Prize.

Step 4: Exercise Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words or phrases in the box.

Step 5: Group Work

1.Show two pictures about the excellent Chinese writer and scientist who have got the Nobel Prize. 2.Talk about your favourite Nobel Prize winner.

Home-Finish off the exercises in the lesson. work

independently and then discuss the answers in groups.

Read the lesson again and answer the questions.

Listen to the teacher carefully.

Read and learn something about the Nobel Prize. about the lesson.

To get to know the details about the lesson.

To understand the language points and remember the usage of the language points.

To get some knowledge about the Nobel Prize.

To check if they grasp the main words and phrases in the lesson.

To give students some time to

practice their speaking abilities.

The students try to fill in the blanks with the words and phrases in the lesson.

Discuss it in groups and choose one of them each group to talk in class.

Lesson8 A Universe of Thought Words and phrases:

lifetime

*go on to

early years universe

the Nobel Prize

Switzerland

unclear weapon

Albert Einstein

the teacher Princeton

* in the field of

*pioneer

Theory of Relativity

sayings *solve

*pass away conclusion false

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