Unit 2 Great mindsppt配套的教案及板书设计

Unit 2

Great minds Reading

Two geniuses The third Week Teaching Periods: The first period (Two period ) Learning Objectives:

1.

To help students read and understand the story. 2.

To guide students to guess the meanings of some new words in the context: genius, curiosity, let---down, complex, ect. 3.

To develop students’ reading skills of skimming and scanning so as to get the general and specific information from the text. 4.

To help students have a better understanding of the great scientist Einstein.

导学部分：

I. Skimming: look at the three pictures in the story, read the title, the introductory part at the beginning of the story , and the first and the last two paragraphs and try to answer the following questions. 1). Where is the passage from? 2). What is the story about? 3). Who are the two geniuses mentioned in the story? 4). What do you know about Einstein?

II. Scanning:

1. Read Paragraphs 1-3 and answer the following questions. Q1. What do the three paragraphs tell us about Einstein in general?

Q2. What did Einstein say about himself? Q3. What was Einstein often invited to do? Q4. What did his driver use to say to him? 2. Read the rest of the story to find out the details of the story.

(1). Read the text and fill in the table with key words. Time Events(words and phrases) Einstein Hans On their way to a

distant university At the university

Left the university

(2). Read paragraph 4-10 again, and answer the following questions orally.

Q1.Why did he still want to go to a distant university in the evening although he was tired?

Q2. What was Hans’ response?

Q3. What did Einstein do while Hans was giving the lecture at the university? What about Hans? Q4. What happened before Hans left the platform? Q5. Who was driving the car when they both left the university?

III. Discussion:

How do you understand the sentence which appears twice in the story---“It is a pleasure to

drive a genius like you?” Do you think both of them are geniuses? Give your reasons.

homework：

1.

Ex. D on page 20 2.

Ex E on page 21 3.

Reading: