Learning about Language教案（名师）

Teaching plan for “Inventors and Inventions”

天台育青中学

邱委

Teaching aims: 1.

knowledge ①

Be able to have a full understanding of the process of an invention ②

Be able to know the meaning of the following words and expressions: distinguish,

merciful, products, set about, perfume, abruptly, convenient, caution, expectation, passive, seize, criteria, seize, valid, file 2.

skills ①

Be able to use effective skills to understand the passage well, including predicting the

main content of the passage, guessing the meaning of the new words from the context,

guessing the implied meaning from the context and the main idea of each paragraph. ②

Be able to use different reading skills such as describing the process of an invention

logically, and using accurate words to make the narration more vivid. 3.

affection ①

Get the students interested in finding a problem, doing research and soling the

problem. ②

Inspire students to use their imagination and creation to solve problems that they may come across in their daily life.

Teaching Important and difficult points: 1.

How to understand the steps of inventing fully especially the stage of testing the solution. 2.

How to understand the important words using the content to guess their meanings.

Teaching procedures: step 1: leading in How did people contact others far away from them in the past?

step 2: pre-reading What steps should an inventor follow to solve a problem? Applying for a patent Finding a problem

Doing research

Testing the solution

Thinking of a creative solution

Deciding on the invention

step 3: reading paragraph 1: finding the problem what is the problem? How to remove the snakes without harming them

paragraph 2: doing research What research did the writer do?

The first thing I did was to see if there were any products.

set about researching the habits of snakes

paragraph 3: thinking of a solution What approaches did the writer decide on? Firstly, removing their habitat

Secondly, attracting them into a trap using perfume or food Thirdly, cooling them so that they would become sleepy and could be easily caught.