Learning about Language教案设计（一等奖）

Module V Unit 1 Great scientists Teaching Aims Skill Goals ▲ Talk about science and contributions of scientists ▲Practice expressing will, hope and suggestions ▲Practice expressing the stages in examining a new scientific idea ▲Learn to organize a scientific research ▲Learn to use the past participle as the predicative & attribute ▲Practice describing people‟s characteristics and qualities ▲Develop the skills of persuasive and descriptive writing Key new words and expressions 1．Memorize engine, characteristic, theory, scientific, examine, conclude, conclusion, analyse, repeat, defeat, attend, expose, cure, control, absorb, test, severe, valuable, pump, pub, blame, immediately, handle, addition, link, announce, instruct, virus, construction, contribute, positive, strict, movement, god, backward, complete, spin, enthusiastic, cautious, reject, view 2．Read up infect, infectious, cholera, deadly, outbreak, clue, Cambridge, germ, certainty, creative, cooperative, Nicolas Copernicus, revolutionary, calculation, loop, privately, bright-ness, persuasive, logical 3．Expressions put forward, make a conclusion, in addition, link ... to ..., apart from, be strict with, lead to, make sense, point of view, expose to, absorb into, be to blame, physical characteristic Procedures 1Period 1： Warming Up，Pre-reading, Reading和Comprehending 2 Period 2：Reading and difficulties 3 Period 3： Reading P7 4. Period4： Learning about Language,Workbook 5.Period 5： Grammar 6.Period6： Using Language,Listening and Speaking 7.Period 7 ： reading and writing The First Period Reading StepⅠ Lead-in Ask the students to think of some great inventions and inventors in history. T: Welcome back to school, everyone. I guess most of you have enjoyed your holiday. Maybe I should say everyone has enjoyed a scientific life. Why? Because you have enjoyed the results of the science and scientists. Now can you tell me the scientists who invented the lights, the gramophone and the computer? S1: Edison invented the lights and the gramophone. S2: The first computer was invented by a group of American scientists. StepⅡ Warming up First, ask some questions about great scientists. Second, tell all the students to play the game called Guess Who I Am. T: You know our life is closely related to science and scientists. We benefit a lot from them. Can you name out as many scientists as possible?

T；what contributions did they make? T: Ok, you‟ve known a lot about scientists and now lets play a game called Guess Who I Am. I will show you some hints of a scientist one by one, and you guess the name of the scientist. Let‟s see which group will do the best. 1. I lived in ancient Greek. 2. I was a mathematician. 3. I discovered that objects in water were lifted up by a force that helped them float. Answer: Archimedes 1. I lived in Britain. 2. I published The Origin Of Species. 3. I could explain how animals and plants develop as the environment changed. Answer: Charles Darwin 1. I am Englishman 2. I‟ve worked in astronomy. 3. I‟ve put forward a theory about black holes. Answer； Stephen Hawking 1. I was a Chinese. 2. My invention had eight dragon heads round the top with eight balls in their mouths. Around the bottom were eight frogs directly under a dragon‟s mouth. 3. My invention was the earliest instrument that told people where earthquakes happened. Answer: Zhang Heng 1. I was an American. 2. I invented electric light bulb 3. I invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities. Answer: Thomas Edison 1. I was a lady and born in Poland. 2. I received two Nobel prizes. 3. I discovered radium. Answer : Marie Curie Step Ⅲ Pre-reading Get the students to discuss the questions on page 1 with their partners. Then ask the students to report their work. Encourage the students to express their different opinions. T: Now, class, please look at the slide. Discuss these questions with your partners. Then I‟ll ask some students to report their work. Show the following on the screen: 1. What do you know about infectious diseases? 2. What do you know about cholera? 3. Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research? 4. What order would you put the seven in? Just guess. Draw a conclusion think of a method collect results make a question find a problem analyse the results find supporting evidence T: Well done! When we want to solve some problems, first we should find out the problem, do some research on it, prove your findings, and then make a conclusion. This is a scientific and objective way of researching. Now let‟s see how doctor John Snow did his research.

Step Ⅳ Reading T: Now lets read the title and the picture and guess what the passage may tell us. T: The effect of cholera in the nineteenth century London was devastating. Many people died without knowing the reason. It was doctor John Snow who saved the people. Please look at the screen. Lets read the whole passage quickly and find the number below and the relevant happenings in the passage.(Competition among groups) Two theories The first suggested that…multiplied in the air;. The second suggested…absorbed this disease into their bodies with their meals. In 1854 Another outbreak hit London. 500 , 10 More than 500people had died in 10 days. 16, 37, 38 and 40 These numbers in Broad Street near the water pump had many of the deaths 20 ,21; 8,9 20 and 21 Broad Street and 8 and 9 Cambridge Street had no deaths….They didn‟t drink the water from the Broad Street pump. These families worked in the pub at 7 Cambridge Street. They didn‟t drink the water from the pump. Step Ⅴ Text analyzing Ask the students to analyze the text in groups. T: Please look at the chart on the screen. The chart shows that each paragraph of the text explains John Snows stages in his research. Please read the text and find out the general idea of each paragraph and match the stage with each paragraph. Discuss it in groups, and then report your answers. Paragraph Stages General ideas 1 Find a problem The causes of cholera 2 Make up a question The correct or possible theory 3 Think of a method Collect data on where people were ill and died and where they got their water 4 Collect results Plot information on a map to find out where people died or did not die 5 Analyse the results Analyse the water to see if that is the cause of the illness 6 Repeat if necessary Find other evidences to confirm his conclusion 7 Make a conclusion The polluted dirty source of drinking water was to blame for the cause of the London cholera T: Now class. Can you tell me what style of the passage belongs to? T: Here are three pieces of writing. They belong to different writing styles. Now read and find out what style each piece belongs to. Show the chart and three pieces of writing on the screen. Report Description Creative writing Formal language with few adjectives Vivid use of words with similes and metaphors Vivid use of language and more informal style No speech except quotations No speech except to help the description Speech to show feelings, reactions etc. Emotional to describe atmosphere Emotional to describe feelings

Only one main character No characters May have several characters Factual Not factual but imaginative Imaginative but can be based on fact Structural according to experimental method Not structured Beginning, middle, end Past tense and passive voice Past tense Past tense Making Way Once Goethe(歌德), the great German poet，was walking in a park. He was thinking about something when he noticed he came to a very, very narrow road. Just at that time, a young man came towards him from the other end of the road. It was too narrow for both of them to pass through at the same time. They stopped and looked at each other for a while. Then the young man said rudely，“I never make way for a fool.” But Goethe smiled and said, “I always do.” Then he turned back quickly and walked towards the end of the road. Weather Report Heres the weather report for the next 24 hours. Beijing will be fine with the temperature from 4 to 13. Tokyo will be fine too and cloudy later in the day. The lowest temperature is l to 8. London will be rainy and windy later in the day. The highest temperature is 8 and the lowest is 4. New York will be sunny and cloudy later in the day. The temperature is 13 to 19. Heartbeating Put your hand to the left side of your chest. Try to feel your heartbeating. The heart takes a little rest after each pump or beat. In boys or girls of your age, heart beats about 90 times a minute. A grown-ups heart beats about 70 or 80 times a minute. But the heartbeat is different in the same person at different times. For example, the heart beats faster during exercise. It is also faster when a person is angry, scared, or excited. During sleep, the heartbeat slows down. Sample answers: S1: I think the first piece “Making A Way” is in a style of creative writing. The second piece belongs to a description style. The third piece belongs to a report style. T: Very good. Now let‟s return to our text. Who can tell me the main idea of this passage? S2: I can. Clearly it tells us how John Snow defeated the disease cholera by doing scientific research. StepⅥ Language Points StepⅧHomework