Using LanguageⅡ教学评价实录

Unit 3 Inventors and Inventions Using language: Alexander Graham Bell 潮南区砺青中学

张思香

The type of the lesson---reading level【课型（阅读课）】

Teaching aims (1) Get students to learn and master the useful words and expressions (2) Use reading skills such as skimming or scanning to catch the general idea or specific information (3)

Stimulate students’ interest in inventions in our life.

Teaching important and difficult points【教学重难点】

1. Important points (1) grasp key information while they are reading;

(2) learn the knowledge about the Bell and his inventions. 2. Difficult points (1)

Let students learn to summarize the main idea (2) How to develop students’ reading ability.

Teaching methods: Task-based activities; Pair work and group work; Discussion and cooperation.

Teaching procedures【教学过程】

StepⅠ: Lead-in

Showing the latest brands of phones, then get the Ss know the development of phones. StepⅡ: Pre-reading

Ss are expected to tell who is the inventor of telephone—the father of telephone StepⅢ: While-Reading

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Skimming ---structure analysis

(1)

What kind of writing style is the passage？

(2) Read the passage quickly and put the following main ideas into right order. A.

Bell’s other inventions

B.

How did Bell invent the telephone C.

Bell’s first telephone message

D.

Bell’s letter to his father

E.

A comment on the inventor Bell F.

Bell’s famous sayings

G.

Why did Bell invent the telephone (3) Find out the main idea of the passage.

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2. Scanning --- get some specific information of the passage There are 6 utilities(应用) on the screen, each of which stands for a challenge for Ss to conquer.

(1)

We Chat Li Hua raises some questions about Bell on We Chat. Please answer them according to what we have learnt in the text.

(2) English-Chinese Dictionary Ask Ss to translate Bell’s most famous saying: “Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods…”

(3) YouTube Show Ss a soundless video about the whole process on how Bell invented the first telephone. And after watching it once, Ss are asked to describe it according to Para.3 with the video on. Here are some key words. set out to, Multiple telegraph, experimented with, noticed, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, invented…

(4) Message According to the message that Bell wrote to his father, do you think his prediction has come true today? Have a discussion and think about the convenience that telephones have brought to us. (5) Calendar Ss are required to find out what happened in 1876, then make more sentences with the following two sentence patterns: It was…that…/ It was not until…that…

(6) Calculator

Work out the year when Bell made his first invention and his last invention. StepⅣ

Post-reading 1. Multiple Choices ①

Which statement is true according to the text? A. Bell made a contribution to the deaf education. B. Bell invented the telephone for the deaf. C. Bell thought that you should not think too much about something that you had never seen before. D. Bell invented a lot of flying machines while searching for a kite to carry a man into the air. ②

We can infer from the text that ______. A. Bell discovered so many practical solutions that he must be a millionaire.

B. Bell was given the patent after he succeeded in sending the first telephone message C. Alexander was interested in deaf education because of his mother. D. doing research in telegraph helped Bell greatly in inventing the telephone 2

Suggested answers:

A D 2. Fill in blank

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell, ______ (bear) in 1847, is a great inventor. He invented the telephone

______ (help) people communicate. He once said, “leave the _______ (beat) track occasionally and dive

______the woods.” It was his curiosity ______ led _____ his most famous invention–the telephone. He was also the man _________ discovered the tetrahedron shape. He was indeed ___ continuing searcher after __________ (practice) solutions to improve the quality of everybody’s life. _______ great an inventor he is!

StepⅤ: Language points

1) Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. 偶尔离开平路, 去寻求困境。

2) Every time you do you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.

每当你这么做的时候, 你一定会发现你从未见过的东西。

3) Being very stable, it has proved invaluable in the design of bridges.

(四面体)十分稳定牢固, 在桥梁设计领域的价值难以估量。

4) Although he is most associated with the invention of the telephone, he was indeed a continuing searcher after practical solutions to improve the quality of everybody’s life. 虽然他一直以发明电话闻名于世, 但是他的确是一个永不停息的探索者, 不断寻求着改善人们生活质量的可行方法。

StepⅥ: Homework

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