Using LanguageⅡ优质课教案整理

Module 8 Unit 3

Inventors and inventions

Using Language: Alexander Graham Bell

I. Teaching Objectives: Knowledge aims: a. Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in

this part. b. Get students to learn about the life of Bell and his most famous invention---the telephone. Ability aims: a. Develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different

reading skills. b. Enable students to learn how to give their opinions. Emotional aims: a.

Get the students to learn from Bell’s curiosity and his dynamic spirit. b.

Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.

II. Teaching important points: a. Let the students get the needed information by skimming and scanning. b. Let the students learn different reading skills.

III. Teaching difficult points: a. Develop students’ reading ability.

b. How to make the students learn from Bell’s curiosity and his dynamic

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spirit.

IV. Teaching methods:

a.

Task-based teaching and learning. b.

Discussion V. Teaching aids:

The multimedia and other normal teaching tools. VI. Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Pre-Reading 1.

How do you communicate with others, especially those far away from you?

2. Do you know who invented the first telephone? Step 2. Reading 1.

Fast Reading

Skim the text in five minutes and get some general information of Bell. Task one: get some general information of Bell. 2.

Careful Reading Read the text carefully paragraph by paragraph and try to answer the following questions. Para.1 Task two: What do you think led him to invent the microphone? Para.2 Task three: What does Bell’s saying mean to you? Para.3-7 Task four: True or False? (1)

Bell’s exploration and dynamic spirit led to his invention of the

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telephone. (2)

In the experiment, Bell used a straw, a deaf man’

ear drum and microphone. (3)

At the beginning, what Bell wanted to invent was a multiple telegraph. (4)

Bell sent his first telephone message before he got his patent. (5)

The tetrahedron shape is useless in the design of bridges. (6)

Bell is respected because he devoted all himself to improving everybody’s life. Step 3. Post Reading Task five: Try to summarize the main idea of the text. Alexander Graham Bell,

______ (bear) in 1847, is a great inventor. He invented the microphone

______ (help) deaf people communicate. He once said, “leave the ________ (beat) track occasionally and dive

_____ the woods.” It was his curiosity ______ led ____ his most famous invention – the telephone. He was also the man ______ discovered the tetrahedron shape. He was indeed ____ continuing searcher after ___________(practice) solutions to improve the quality of everybody’s life. _____ great an inventor he is! Task six(Discussion): 1.What do you think led to his success as an inventor of the telephone? 2.What inventions did Bell make?

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3.Why will he always be known as the inventor of the telephone? Step 4. Homework Think and debate after class: Is it really necessary for a student to have a smartphone?

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