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Module 4

Great Scientists Ｉ．模块教学目标

技能目标Skill Goals Talk about great scientists and their achievements Practice using the Passive Voice Practice “by + -ing form”

Talk about numbers Learn to prepare a radio biography about a famous scientist

Ⅱ. 目标语言Target Language Definitions

The study of animals→zoology

Plants people grow for food→

crop

If you have a breakthrough, it means you have solved a difficult problem.

A form of energy which comes from a nuclear reaction→

radiation 功

Practice talking about a famous scientist or inventor 能

When and where was he born? 句

Why was he famous? 式

Where did he live and work? What did he discover / invent ...? Talking about numbers 5,000,000 five million 47.5% forty seven point five percent 4/5 four fifths

1. 四会词汇

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biochemistry, biology, botany, genetics, zoology, staple, producer, leading, 汇

figure, educate, agriculture, breeding, species, yield, original, publish, sterile, breakthrough, support, production, convert, export, hybrid, agricultural, replace,

quality, quantity, diagnose, victim, brilliant, career, brief, partly, physical, graduate, personal,

rocket, explode, explosion, escape, straight, clear 2. 认读词汇

cosmology, motor neurone disease, relativity, millennium, gunpowder, arrow 3. 词组

bring up, as a result of, cash crop, best-seller, earn one’s living, come to power, be known for 1. Revision of the passive voice

Rice is grown in many other Asian countries.

语Researchers were brought in from all over China. 法

2. by + -ing form

He thought he could produce more rice by crossing different species of plant.

You can get a good job by studying hard. 1. In the rice-growing world, the Chinese scientist, Yuan Longping, is a leading

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2. He thought there was only one way to do this-by crossing different species of rice plant, and then he could produce a new plant which could give a higher yield than either of the original plants.

P32 3. As a result of Yuan Longping’s discoveries Chinese rice production rose by 47.5 percent in the 1990’s.

P32 4. 2/3 of the world’s population regularly eat rice.

P35. 5. Moving in a wheelchair and speaking through a special computer, he has become the voice of science.

P37 Period5

Reading and Writing

Step I Revision of the subject words Guessing time: •

The study of animals •

The study of plants

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The study of all living things •

The study of chemical processes in living things •

The study of the structure of substances and how they react with each other •

The study of inherited characteristics in living things •

the study of numbers, quantities, or shapes.

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the scientific study of natural forces such as heat, light, sound, pressure, gravity, and electricity •

a theory about the origin and nature of the universe. Discuss how to say a person who majors in some field to lead in physicist

Step II Warming up –introduction of a physicist

there was a physicist born in England in the 17th century. He discovered the laws of gravity…

guessing game : use several sentences to introduce someone and let others guess who he or she is.

Activity I give some information of Stephen Hawking

Question: If I want to introduce Stephen Hawking, what can I do? how to do it ? In other words, what aspects can be included?

Activity II Discussion-how to introduce a person- how to write a Biography

Step III reading time : Read some information of Stephen Hawking and find out how to introduce a person

Find out what sentence structures it has used Learn to use these sentence structures in their writing exercise

Step IV give some notes about Albert Einstein Discuss how to write it. In this part, ask the Ss to write a biography of a famous scientist —

Albert Einstein, using the given information. First, let the Ss discuss how to make an outline.

Second, teacher shows the instructions on how to write a proposal letter on the screen. Third, ask the Ss to read the notes on Page 37. Ask them to discuss what evaluation should be given. Fourth, give them ten minutes to write a biography.

Step V homework

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Write a brief biography about Einstein

Possible sample Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, 1879, was probably the most brilliant scientist of the twentieth century. He couldn’t speak until he was three, but he loved mathematics and had the idea of his theory of relativity when he was 16.

Albert Einstein studied physics in Zurich, Switzerland. Later he got a job in an office to earn his living. In 1905, he published the special theory of relativity. Four years later, he became an university teacher. By working hard, he published the general theory of relativity in 1915.

As a result of his outstanding achievement, he was awarded Nobel Price for physics in 1921. Unfortunately, when Hitler came to power, Albert Einstein was forced to leave his homeland for the U.S. and worked there. Later he took American nationality and died there in 1955.