Lesson 8 A Universe of Thought教学设计第一课时

Lesson 8: A Universe of Thought

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Lesson 8: A Universe of Thought

By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to read, understand and use the new words and phrases e.g. solve, pioneer, go on to…, in the field of…, pass away. To be able to talk about great people and their lives

Ability To be proud of the excellent scientists and learn from them.

Emotion Teaching difficult points To use the new words and phrases to talk about great people and their lives and important points PPT, radio Teaching tools

Teacher’s activities Step1: Warm up 1.

Show some pictures about great people 2.

Make sentences with be famous as /for

Step2:Lead-in Show a picture of Elbert Einstein Students ’activities

Aims Knowledge Teaching aims

Look at the pictures and Understand be say sentences famous as /for And make sentence with it

A preliminary of Einstein

In order to correct the students' pronunciation

To get to know the key information about the lesson.

To get to know the details about the lesson.

Answer the questions 1.

who is he ? 2.

What is he famous for? Step3: Presentation

1. Play the audiotape for the lesson. Listen and circle

The students complete 2.Read the lesson and fill in the blanks. the exercise

independently and then

discuss the answers in

groups.

3. Show the questions about the lesson and then check Read the lesson again the answers with the students. and answer the 1)What problems did Einstein solve during his lifetime？

questions. 2)What did he do after he finished school? 3)In what countries did Einstein teach? 4)What did he ask people to do in his last letter? 5)Has anyone tried anything new if he has never made a mistake?

Step 4: Retelling

Try to introduce Einstein to others with new phrases: The students try to

To check if they 1

one of ,be famous for ,be born,go on to,a pioneer in the retell the passage field of,receive,pass away......

Step 5: Culture tip 1.

Introduce the Nobel Prize 2.

Introduce Mo Yan and Tu Youyou

Listen and understand

it can understand the passage and Retell it

Understand the Nobel Prize

Step6: Group Work 1.Ask the students about her /his dream 2.How to achieve it? Home-work

Discuss and writing

To give students time to practice and thinking Write a short passage about your dream and how to achieve it.

Lesson8 A Universe of Thought Words and phrases: lifetime *go on to early years universe the Nobel Prize Switzerland unclear weapon Albert Einstein the teacher Princeton * in the field of *pioneer Theory of Relativity sayings *solve *pass away conclusion false

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