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Teaching Design of Unit 3 Inventors and inventions

THE PROBLEM OF THE SNAKES

Teaching objectives: 1.To help students understand the text’s forms and contents and learn about inventors and inventions

2.To help students communicate on the topic in focus with the words, collocations and structures learned in this unit

Introduction to students: In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to pre-read the text by talking about invention. Then they will read for forms, copy and making sentences, read to transform information, read the text for the type of writing and summary of The problem of the snakes and read to draw a diagram of the text and retell the test in your own words.

Teaching focuses and difficulties: key wordas and pharses

distinguish，

monitor，release，

claim，file，

bear，

dot，

tap，reproduce，call up，

now and then，

set about，

in case，dive in，in truth，

hang on，

out of order，

get through，

ring back，

ring off key sentence patterns

1. Here was a chance for me to distinguish myself by inventing something that

would catch snakes but not harm them.

2. This was in the expectation that the snakes would bite again. 3. The criteria are so strict that it is difficult for new ideas to be accepted unless they are truly novel.

4. “Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

5. Every time you do you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.

6. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind.

7. All really big discoveries are the result of

thought.”

Teaching aids: Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams

Teaching procedures: Step1. Lead -in and Pre-reading by talking about intention What is invention? Invention is the successful exploitation of new ideas, new objects. By reasoning, analyzing and experimenting new things and new ideas are invented for the benefits of the world.

Look at the photo, please. This man is a great inventor called Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison received over 1000 U.S. patents, the most issued to any individual. Some people also credit him with an invention that received no patent: the modern corporate research laboratory. While this conclusion is arguable, his Menlo Park laboratory was intentionally designed to be an invention factory. It housed a large reference library, and often served to showcase the Wizard's work. Some who worked in or visited the lab later became competitors. Step2. Scanning for forms

Read the text again ,divide the sentence into thought groups, blacken

the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful collocations.

Step3. Copying and making sentences There are several different types of collocation made from combinations of verb, noun, adjective etc. Some of the most common types are:

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Adverb + Adjective: completely satisfied (NOT downright satisfied)

Adjective + Noun: excruciating pain (NOT excruciating joy)

Noun + Noun: a surge of anger (NOT a rush of anger)

Noun + Verb: lions roar (NOT lions shout)

Verb + Noun: commit suicide (NOT undertake suicide)

Verb + Expression With Preposition: burst into tears (NOT blow up in tears)

Verb + Adverb: wave frantically (NOT wave feverishly) Step4. Reading to transform information Read the text to find answers to the five questions listed in the table.

Step5. Reading the text for the type of writing and summary of The problem of the snakes Determining the type of writing will help you determine the author’s topic (subject), purpose (why he is writing), style (how he should write) and tone (his attitude toward his subject - supportive, condeming, objective, etc.) Step6. Reading to draw a diagram of the text and retelling the test in your own words Writers structure, or organize, their writing in many different ways. Recognizing the way in which a text has been organized will help you understand its meaning more fully.

Step7. Blackboard designing and homework

THE PROBLEM OF THE SNAKES Inventing something that would catch snakes but not harm them Cooling the snakes so that they became sleepy and could be easily caught Placing the frozen bowl and ice-cubes over the snakes' habitat and covering the bowl with the bucket

collecting the passive snakes and releasing them back into the wild

Filling in the form and filing my patent application with the Patent Office