Using LanguageⅡ教学设计

Module 8

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions Content

(1st period for warming up and reading) Designed by Chen Xiaoyan Warming up and reading

1.Target language

Enable the students to learn some words and expressions. Teaching aim before class

2.Ability goal

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. Teaching aim in class

Teaching aim after class

Teaching important and difficult points

Teaching methods

Teaching aids

1 Have Ss reinforce the reading skills. 2. Develop the students’ sense of cooperative learning.

How to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. How to meet the requirements of getting a patent.

Skimming, scanning, task-based method

Enable Ss to improve students’ reading speed and comprehension.

A recorder, a projector and some slides.

Teaching Procedures: Teaching Teaching Time steps content needed Step 1 Pre-test Teacher’s activity Students’ activity Media Design purpose chosen To check whether the students have previewed the new words, expressions and some information of the reading text. Students can practice their oral English. 8 Go around the Complete the exercises printed in IRS/ minutes classroom and the paper. PPT check the answers. Step 2 Warming up

5 Ask Ss to think minutes ＆

speak. Q: Guess what the invention is or who the inventor

1.Answer the question. 2.Enjoy pictures of inventors.

1 PPT/ famous picture

is.

Step 3 Step 4 Pre-read- ing

PPT/

IRS/ PPT Prepare for the text reading. To check the students’

understanding of the text. To consolidate what students learned. 3 Can you put them The six stages of inventing minutes in right order？

Skimmin10 Ask Ss to read the Choose the best answer. g & minutes text, and find out

Scanning the main idea. After that, answer the questions. Detailed reading

10 Ask Ss to fill in minutes the blanks according to the text.

Step 5 Ask Ss to take the quiz below and PPT/ see whether Ss can grasp the details

of the text.

Step 6 Summary 8 Ask Ss to fill in

Fill in the blanks according to the PPT While-tesminutes the blanks text. t according to the

text. To enlarge vocabulary and consolidate the words and expressions learned in the text. To master the words and expressions learned in the text. Step 7 Home- work 1 Ask Ss to read the Read the passage carefully and find

minutes passage carefully the difficult language points.

and find the difficult language points.

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预习检测

Pre-test

I.单句语法填空

1

The ________( mercy) villagers saved the young man from death. 2

Our conversation ended _____________( abrupt) when George burst into the room. 3

It is very _____________( convenience ) that you live near the office. 4

The children waited patiently in ___________ (expect) of the magician. 5

The couple ___________( merry) celebrated their fifty-year anniversary. II. 单句改错

1 The next morning I carried in my hand a small net using for catching fish.

2 Prepare with some research findings, I decided on three possible approaches.

3 This time with great caution I bend down to examine the snakes and I found them very sleepy.

4 I set about research the habits of snakes to find the easiest way to trap them.

5 Only after you have had that recognition can you say that you are truely an inventor.

Step 5. Reading and excises

1 Read the text and decide whether the following statements are true or false

(1) The first thing the writer tried to do was to catch the snakes.

(2) The writer decided to remove the snakes` habitat.

(3) After three attempts, the writer finally caught the snakes and sent them into the wild.

2. Ask Ss to take the quiz below and see whether Ss can grasp the details of the text. (1) Why did the writer do so much trap the snakes but not hurt them ________? A. Because she wanted to eat the snakes. B. Because she planned to apply for a patent. C. Because she obeyed her parents and wanted to test her new idea. D. Because they were poisonous snakes. (2) The writer placed a frozen bowl over the snakes` habitats because________.

A. The snakes were small.

B. She knew the snakes were cold-blooded animals.

C. She didn’t want to be bitten.

D. She wanted to make the snakes passive and caught them easily.

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(3) Which statement is true according to the text________?

A. The writer decided to send her invention to the patent office the moment she succeeded catching the snakes.

B. The snakes were still as active as before in the first attempt.

C. The writer could make a lot of money if she succeed.

D. If an application for your product proves to be valid, you can get a patent immediately. . (4) According to the text, which subject do you think can be given a patent________?

A. A new kind of flower found by a botanist..

B. A new way to make dirty air clean

C. A new poem written by Mr. Li.

D. A new star discovered by a scientist. While-test 课文语法填空

Prepared with some research findings, I decided1 ___ three possible approaches: firstly, removing 2 _____habitat; secondly, 3 __________(attract) them into a trap using male or female perfume or food; and thirdly, cooling them so that they would become 4 ______ (sleep) and could be easily caught. I decided to use 5 ____ last one. I bought an ice-cream maker6 __________was made of stainless steel. Between the outside and the inside 7 ______ (wall) of the bowl there is some jelly, 8_____ freezes when 9 ______(cool). I put the bowl into the fridge and waited for 24 hours. 10 __ the same time I prepared some ice-cubes.

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