Using LanguageⅡ教学设计及课堂实录

Module 7 Unit2 Robots教学设计

---Using Language A BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC ASIMOV Teaching aims教学目的

Teach students to learn something about a famous science fiction writer. Enable students to grasp Who Isaac Asimov is and his achievements. Help students to know about the important events in his life. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Help students to complete the timeline of the events in Isaac Asimov’s life. Teaching methods教学方法

Discussing, reading, explaining and practicing Teaching procedures: Step1 Warming up If you are asked to write a biography of a person, what will you write about? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Step2 skimming Main idea for each paragraph Para1

A: his awards Para2

B: his marriage

Para3

C: his education Para4

D: his talent Para5

E: Who Isaac Asimov is Para6

F: the time and the place he was born and died Main idea:

The passage is mainly about an _________ scientist and writer Isaac Asimov’s _________ and _________________. Step3 Detail reading Read the text and complete the timeline of the events Date

Event 1920

born in Russia 1922

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1923

________________________

Parents bought a candy store 1929

________________________

Mother had her third child _______

Started to take himself seriously as a writer 1939

____________________________ ________

Gained master’s degree in chemistry 1942

Finished working in the candy sore。____________________ 1942-1945

______________________________ ________

Got PhD in chemistry ________

Became a biochemistry teacher, Boston University

School

of

Medicine. 1950

Published his first novel. ___________________.

Developed three laws for robots. 1951-1953

Published the Foundation trilogy and won an award for it. ________

Published first science book ________

Became a full-time writer 1973

Divorced his first wife

________________________ ________

Had a blood transfusion. Became infected with HIV. 1992

_____________________________ Step4 Summary

Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born American writer. His family_______to the United States when he was three years old and ________in New York.

He ______a master’s degree in chemistry and later_____________. After he graduated, he became a ____________teacher at Boston University. He was ________in writing. When he realized it, he gave up _________and became _________________In 1939 he had stories__________ in science fiction magazine.

and in 1950 he published his ________novel. He was well-known for

his science fiction stories and received____________. His works __________ other writhers and scientists researching into artificial intelligence. Asimov _______________ twice and had _______children. His first marriage _______ 31 years. He married again soon after his _________ but had no children with his second wife.

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Step5 Expressions and sentences 1.

Useful expression 怀(孕) 着… ______________________ 认真对待某人/某物________________________ 使某人/某物被_____________________ 获得化学硕士学位___________________ 因……而获奖______________________ 2.长难句分析

1. Asimov had both an extraordinary imagination that gave him the ability to explore future worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for explanations of everything, in the present and the past. 2. It was when Asimov was eleven years old that his talent for writing became obvious. Step6 Have a discussion Why did Isaac Asimov develop the three laws for robots? He thinks the robot is _____________________________ for human race. It can only _____________________us human beings to make the world _____________________, our life __________________. Otherwise it will cause _____________for human beings. At the same time we should _________________our inventions and use them wisely.

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