Learning about Language第二课时教学实录

Teaching Goals: 1. Enable the Ss to familiar with some famous scientists and their contributions.

2. Enable the Ss to learn how to organize a scientific research. 3. Let the Ss learn the reading skill of getting the main idea of each para./ part & each passage .

Difficult points

1. How to grasp the main idea of each paragraph / part & each passage. 2. How to help the Ss use what they’ve learnt to do first aid treatment for burns correctly.

Teaching methods

1. Skimming & scanning methods to make the Ss get a good understanding of the text. 2.Discussion methods to make the Ss understand what they’ve learned in class.

3.Pair work of group to get every student to take part in the teaching-and-learning activities. 4.Competition and role-play method to arouse the Ss’ interest

Teaching process: Period 1 Word study, Warming up, pre-reading Pre-class task:

1. Preview new vocabulary of Unit 1, and especially pay attention to the pronunciation of the new word

2. Finish the quiz in Warming up( p1) in groups of four by referring to books or surfing the net. Step 1 Learning Goals Get Ss to go through the summing up form on p 8 in order to have a general idea of the learning goals of Unit 1 Step 2 Word Study 1.

(Pair work) Get Ss to learn the new words and phrases on p92 within 3 mins, by reading them aloud to each other to make sure that they can pronounce the words correctly---- Get Ss to read aloud the words in pairs by turns, e.g. 1 pairs read 4 words then go to next pair 2.

Practice

Use the correct form of the words to fill in the blanks. n. infection examination=exam science /scientist conclusion analysis defeat value instructor/instruction contribution /contributor creation calculation

movement completion

v. Infect examine X conclude analyse defeat Value(估价，评价) instruct contribute create calculate move complete 1 adj. Infectious X scientific X X X valuable Instructive(有益的，教育性的) contributive creative X movable completive(完成的，完全的)

enthusiasm X enthusiastic Step 3. Warming up (Group competition and introduce the great scientists) 1.Check the answers to the quiz to find out which group know the most . 2.Introduce the great scientists. 1) Archimedes (287—212 BC) Ancient Greek. He was a mathematician. He found that if you put an object into water the water pushes the object up. It rises

and partly floats.

“Give me a place to stand on, and I can move the earth.”

----Archimedes

2) Charlie Darwin(1808-1882) British naturalist. The Origin of Species was published in 1859. It explained how plants and animals had changed over time to fit in with a changing environment. His book showed that people had developed from apes.

3) Gregor Mendel(1822—1884) Czech. The father of genetic. He grew pea plants and developed ideas on heredity (遗传) and inherited characteristics. Between 1856—1863 he grew 28,000 pea plants. He examined seven kinds of seed and plant characteristics and developed some laws of inheritance.

4) Marie Curie ( Polish ) (1867-1934) was born in Poland, moved to Paris and studied chemistry and physics there. She married Pierre Curie and together they studied radioactive materials and discovered radium. In 1911 she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her death in 1934 was almost certainly due to radiation in her work.

5) Thomas Edison(1847----1931)

He was already an inventor of other electrical devices (phonograph, electric light bulb) when in 1882 he designed a system for providing New York with electricity from a central power station. This was a tremendous achievement, which had previously been thought impossible.

6) Leonardo da Vinci (Italian) (1452-1519)He was a famous Italian artist whose skill for showing human skin tones made his paintings seem to come alive. He used to study dead people in order to make his paintings as accurate as possible. Some of his famous paintings include “The Adoration of the Magi”

and the “The Last Supper”. Later in his life he lived in France where he designed a submarine (潜水艇) and a flying machine.

7) British. He did research into different gases and discovered the medical value of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) as an anaesthetic.(麻醉药) In 1815 he developed a safety lamp for miners.

8) Zhang Heng ,Chinese( 78-----139) He invented the first seismograph to indicate in the direction of an earthquake. It was in the shape of a cylinder with eight dragonheads round the top, each with a ball in its mouth. Around the bottom were eight frogs directly under a dragon’s head. When an earthquake occurred, a ball fell out of the dragon’s mouth, making a noise.

9) Stephen Hawking,British(1942---

) He has worked in astronomy and studied black holes in space. He has shown that black holes do not only absorb everything around them but, from time to time, throw out matter as well. This may mark the beginning of new galaxies. This is an advance on the old theory which said that black holes “eat”

everything they come across.

Step 4 Pre-reading

1. (Pair work) What five most important qualities do you think a scientist should have? Give reasons. clever/talented

strict

patient

creative

determined/strong-willed

positive

honest

energetic

intelligent/hard-working

ambitious

careful

co-operative

confident

brave

2. (Group work)

Ex2, p1 Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research? Discuss in groups the stages in

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examining a new scientific idea. What order would you put them in? 8)Draw a conclusion

3)Think of a method

4)Collect results

5)Make up a question

1)Find a problem

5)Analyse the results

6)find supporting evidence

7)Repeat if necessary Step 5. Summary

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are three pillars (支柱，要素) of learning. learning without thought is a labour lost; thought without learning is perilous(危险的) 3.

To know the disease is half the cure. 找出病根等于医治了一半。

Step 6 Homework 1. Preview the reading passage John Snow Defeats “King Cholera”(p2)

2. Speaking task (p46) write some key words to the Qs to help your talk on your book and prepare to introduce the scientist you admire most to the class

3. Read notes ①--⑨

to Unit 1, p76-77 4. Listening exercise P41,Ex 1&2

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