Learning about Language公开课参赛课教案

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions Teaching goals教学目标

语言目标

a. 重点词汇和短语

patent, distinguish, product, power, perfume, cube, abrupt, abruptly, convenient, expectation, monitor, passive, criterion, valid, application, file, rod, call up, now and then, set about, in case b. 重点句子

1. The first thing I did was to see if there were any products that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes.

2. Between the outside and the inside walls of the bowl there is some jelly, which freezes when cooled.

3. The criteria are so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted unless they are truly novel.

4. Nor will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from everybody else. 能力目标

Enable the students to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Make them realize it takes steps to catch the snakes and it’s not easy to get a patent.

学习目标

Help the students to learn how to retell the story and how to meet the requirements of getting a patent.

Teaching important points 教学重点

How to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Learn how to meet the requirements of getting a patent. Teaching methods 教学方法

Task-based activities. Teaching aids 教具准备

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step 1. warming up 1. 1.Do you want to be an

inventor ?2.Can you name some famous inventors in the world? 2. Check the answers to the multiple choices in USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS. 3. Ask some students to show the answers to the preview questions. T: Last period, you were asked to preview the text and answer the two questions. Did you get ready? Sample answers: 1. free talk. 2. The writer solved the problem in different steps. For example placing the frozen bowl and the ice-cubes on top of the bowl to keep it cool, freezing the bowl and ice-cubes again in the evening as the temperature was starting to cool and using a net used for catching fish. Step2. Pre-reading, intensive and extensive reading. T: Problems can arise anywhere at any time. Now here is a problem of snakes. Look at the title of the reading passage. What can you guess about the content of the passage from the title? To answer the question you should try to predict the content of the reading material by reading the title and looking at the pictures in the text. The title of the text is THE PROBLEM OF THE SNAKES. Next, I’d like you to discuss this question with your partner. Then I’ll ask some students to report your work. Are you clear? After a few minutes T: Now who’d like to answer the question? Volunteer!

S1: Let me try. Someone was once frightened at the sight of snakes, the brave and clever writer helped solve the problem of the snakes, as we can see from the picture that she finally caught them with a net.

S2: Judging from the title, I think the passage is mainly about the serious problem of the snakes around the house and how the girl made efforts to catch the snakes in the end. S3: The title tells us that the content of the text will be about different ways of catching snakes tried by the girl and her success in doing it.

T: Very good! Now, let’s go on with Exercise 1 in the pre-reading.

The word

“invent”

means

creating something not existing (存在) before.The work of

inventors makes life

much easier and more comfortable by their inventions. They make great contribution to social development.

Step 3.Reflection

&

Enlightenment Genius

is

one

percent inspiration and

ninety-nine percent

diligence . A nation without innovation ability, can never stand in the world advanced nation community.

一个没有创新能力的民族将很难屹立于世界先进民族之林

Step 4 Homework Finish the exercise book

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