Unit 2 Great minds教学设计一等奖

Teaching plan

15 Mar, 2011

School: Wu’ai Senior High School

Teacher: Wu Diying Title (Topic): The Nobel Prize (Period 2 of More Reading, Unit 2, Oxford English S1B) Class：Senior One，Class 8

Teaching aims

Teaching

aids Teaching Procedure

Pre-reading

Teacher’s activities 1. Ask the Ss two questions about Albert Einstein.

2. Introduce to the Ss some Chinese winners of the Nobel Prize.

Ask the Ss to read Paragraph 1 and complete a short text about Alfred Nobel.

Ask the Ss to read Paragraph 2 & 3 and then answer some questions according to the two paragraphs.

Ask the Ss to give a brief introduction to the Nobel Prize.

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To help the Ss to get a basic knowledge of Alfred Nobel 2.

To guide the Ss to get a clear understanding of the history, the development and the significance of the Nobel Prize 3.

To encourage the Ss to practise their oral English

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To get the Ss to understand what makes a person great mind Multimedia & Blackboard Students’ activities

purposes 1. Answer the two questions.

2. Listen to the T’s introduction To warm up the Ss for the and add anything they know topic of the text about the topic.

Read Paragraph 1 and complete the short text.

Read Paragraph 2 & 3 and then

answer the questions.

Give the introduction based on what they have learned previously.

To help the Ss to get a basic knowledge of the founder of the famous Nobel Prize

To guide the Ss to get a clear understanding of the history, the development and the significance of the Nobel Prize

To consolidate the Ss’

understanding of the text and encourage them to practice oral English

While-reading Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Post-task

1. Read to the Ss an extract from Nobel’s will and ask them what information they have got from it.

2. Ask the Ss to discuss what Einstein and Nobel had in common as great minds.

1. Think and discuss their understanding of the extract with classmates.

2. Discuss and share their personal viewpoints.

To get the Ss to understand what makes a person great mind Homework: 1. Read the text fluently after the tape-recording. 2. Learn the text by heart. 3. Optional: Think about what you can learn from the two great minds in this unit.

A Reflection on the Lesson: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The man behind the Prize

_____________ was the founder of the Nobel Prize, which is considered the highest prize of the world.

He was born in Stockholm, _________ in 1833. As an _________ , he is particularly remembered

for dynamite (甘油炸药), which greatly improved the safety of explosives (炸药). And he devoted

his life to the peaceful use of dynamite.

Thanks to this invention, a great fortune worth about _____________ favoured him, and it later became the ______________ of the world-famous Nobel Prize.

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Why did Alfred Nobel establish the Nobel Prize?

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What do the prizes honour?

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When was the Nobel prize first awarded?

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How often is the Nobel Prize awarded?

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Where is the award ceremony held?

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What is awarded to the winners?

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Who is responsible for awarding the winners?

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Who are invited to the banquet following the award ceremony?

Last week, we read a story about a great mind in human history, the famous scientist Albert Einstein. As we all know, in his life time he made a lot of significant contributions to the development of the world and human beings, and because of that, he won great honours, among which, one was especially important. Do you know what it was?

Do you know any Chinese people who have won the Nobel Prize for physics? Let me give you some hints. Two Chinese scientists won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1957. Let me show you their photos. Who are they?