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Unit 3

Inventors and inventions Part4 Listening and Speaking Teaching aims: 1. To introduce students to a living inventor.

2.

To enable students to understand the listening text. 3.

To help the students learn how to make a phone call using the given

key sentences Process and methods: 1.

Smoothing away language problems if any before listening. 2.

Listening for needed information. 3.

Speaking freely and making conversations. Emotion,attitude and value 1.

To stimulate students’ sense of communication and cooperation. 2.

To develop students’ ability of communicating by making a phone call. Step1 Lead in

Can you guess what the name of it is? Watch the following video and get familiar with Dyson’s products. It is a________. Who is the inventor?___________

Step2 Listening

Listen to Text 1 (Page26)and do the following exercises. Task1:Listen for the first time and do Exercise2.

washing machine

drum

refrigerator

bicycle

carpet

cleaner

court Task2:listen to the tape again and fill in the missing information according to the tape. James Dyson found that clothes were not as ___ from a______ machine as those washed by_____.So he tried to improve that.He______a system with two______in the same machine.Together they are the same______ as the old drum,but they work________. One drum goes in one direction and the other goes in the other. So it's more like______and the clothes_____

_____cleaner. Step3 Discussion

Do you want to be a schoolmate of James Dyson and be an inventor like him?Here is a good news.James Dyson’s old school will hold an interview on June 10th. Do you want to have a try? Step4 Speaking activity1 Suppose you want to attend the interview of University of the arts London in Guangzhou .So you ring up one of its workers to ask what kind of application materials it needs.Remember to ask for as much information as you can. Work in groups to make a dialogue. Here are some useful sentences:

When does the interview begin?

What do I need to prepare? Hold the line,please.

I'm sorry,but this phone is out of order. Sorry.He isn't here right now.

Hang on,please. Can I speak to…,please?

Just a moment,please. What you need to do is……

Speaking activity 2 Spend three minutes preparing and practicing, and then describe your inventions . Here are some tips:

What is it?

Why do you invent it? What is the use of it?

Is it practical or useful in our daily life? How much do you want to sell it? Step5 Homework Write a passage to describe your own invention.