Lesson 8 A Universe of Thought名师教学设计

Lesson 8: A Universe of Thought

洮阳中学：毛红梅

Title

Lesson 8: A Universe of Thought

Teaching aims By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to read, understand Knowledge

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

Emotion

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

To use the new words and phrases to talk about great people and their lives PPT, radio Teacher’s activities Students ’activities

Aims

Teaching difficult points and important points

Teaching tools

Step1: Warm up 1.

Show some pictures and teach new words and phrases in the lesson.

2.

Show the culture tip about the Nobel Prize.

Step2:Lead-in

Play the audiotape for Lesson 8.

Learn new words and phrases in the lesson.

Read and learn something about the Nobel Prize.

The Ss Listen and circle the thing about Einstein that is NOT mentioned in the lesson.

To motivate the Ss and prepare for the new lesson.

To guide the student to get the main details of the text and lead in the new concept.

Step3: New Concept 1. Play the audiotape for the lesson.

2. Read the lesson and fill in the blanks.

Listen and read after the tape.

The Ss complete the exercise

In order to correct the students' pronunciation

To get to know the key

To check if they grasp the main words and phrases in the lesson.

Step 5: Group Work

To give Ss 1．Show a picture about the excellent Chinese Discuss it in groups and choose time to scientists who have got the Nobel Prize. practice their 2．Talk about your favourite Nobel Prize some of them to talk in class.

speaking winner.

abilities.

Step6: Writing Ask the Ss to write a short passage about their Write a short To give Ss favourite Nobel Prize winner. passage about their time to . survey. practice their

writing abilities. Home-1. Finish off the exercises in the lesson. work 2. Copy your passage on the exercise book.

Board Design

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

2) What is Einstein most famous for? 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: Exercise Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box. independently and then discuss the answers in groups.

Read the lesson again and answer the questions. information about the lesson.

To get to know the details about the lesson.

The Ss try to fill in the blanks with the words and phrases in the lesson.

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