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Unit 3 Inventors and inventions Using Language Teaching Goals:

1. To get Ss to know about the inventing process of a real inventor, Alexander Graham Bell

2. .To develop Ss’ some basic reading skills.

3. To develop Ss’ ability to discover and solve the problems

Teaching important & difficult points How to talk about inventions and discoveries. Teaching methods Listening and cooperative learning Teaching aids A computer and a projector, a recorder Teaching Procedures:

1. Leading-in Purpose:

To lead Ss to the topic and arouse the Ss’ interest in reading.

(1)

Get Ss to answer the question.

Do you know the four ancient Chinese invention? (2) Get SS to brainstorm as much information on some famous inventions and inventors in the world as possible. 2. Pre-Reading

Purpose : To develop Ss’ ability of prediction.

Ask Ss to talk about the following questions.

(1) What is Alexander Graham Bell? (2) Can you guess which invention he invented? (3) According to the title, what might be talked about in this passage?

3. Fast reading Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text.

Ask Ss to read the text in two minutes, discuss the questions, and then answer them in pairs.

(1) What did he think was the key to his success as an inventor? (2) How did curiosity make Alexander Graham Bell into a great inventor? (3) What inventions did Bell make by chance? (4) Why will he always be known as the inventor of the telephone? 4. Intensive reading Purpose: To get Ss to have some details in the text.

Ask Ss to read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to complete each sentence.

(1) Alexander Graham Bell became interested in helping deaf people communicate and in deaf education because _________.

A. he .wanted to invent the. telephone

B. he wanted to invent the microphone

C. he loved his mother very much

D. he loved the deaf people (2)

What does the writer mean by saying “ Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods

A. Never walk on the smooth road but go along the path

B. Leave the beaten track for a while and walk into the woods

C. Try to do something in the unusually way sometimes.

D. Sometimes do something in the same way as people often think of. (3) Which statement is true? A. Alexander Graham Bell set out to invent the telephone after inventing a multiple telegraph.

B. Alexander Graham Bell set out to invent the telephone before inventing a multiple telegraph

C When Alexander Graham Bell wanted to design a multiple telegraph, he changed his mind to invent the telephone .

D. In search to improve the telegraph, Bell invented the first telephone.

D. he could study and get a degree (4) As leader of South Africa, Nelson Mandela helped prisoners of Robben Island by ________

A. giving them an education

B. giving them money

C. putting the guards in prison

D. giving them a job Suggested Answers:

(1) D

(2) D

(3) B

(4) A

5. Consolidation

Ask Ss to discuss the following question. What have they learned from Alexander Graham Bell? Love ,warm-hearted Alexander Graham Bell

Finding the problem Think about possible solution

Determination perseverance creation imagination curiosity , wide interests

Exploring around problem

in many, varied, particular ways to solve the problem

6. Language study

Ask Ss to go through the text, and find out the following sentences and analyze them. (1) He found that by pressing his lips against his mother`s forehead, he

could make the bones move in such a way that she could understand what he was saying

(2) Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

(3) It was this exploring around problems that lea to his most famous invention——the telephone in 1876.

(4) Bell never set out to invent the telephone and what he was trying to design was a multiple telegraph.

(5) Bell was fully aware of the importance of his invention and wrote to his father: “The day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to house just like water or gas——and friends will talk to each other without leaving home.”…

(6) It was not until five days later that Bell sent the first telephone message to his assistant. (7) Being very stable, it has proved invaluable.