Unit 2 Great minds优秀公开课教案

Unit 2 Great minds First Period (text understanding)

Knowledge Objective: to enable students to learn a story about Einstein to fill out information gap about Einstein Competence Objective:

to practice students’ speaking abilities

Emotional Objective: to help the students to know more about Einstein

Teaching Procedures: I. Pre-instruction: Help the students differentiate between fiction and non-fiction, and then provides students with photos of one fictional character, two real people and a real person playing a fictional character. Encourage the students to tell you what they know about the people in the photos. Provide some words and phrases to help students guess who the people are.

For example:

a. scientist, physicist, theory of relativity, German-American- Albert Einstein b. patients, take care of, war, the lady with the lamp-Florence Nightingale

II. Performance: Ask the students to look at the pictures, and read the title and the first and last paragraphs of the article.

Then they should be able to answer the question: Why they rejected the other options?

III. Promotion: Ask students to read the sentences first, and then scan the story to find the proper words to replace the italicized words. Give students time to read the text and find out the “who, when, where, what, why and how” of the story. Then read and think.

Homework: 1. Review the verbal phrases 2. Preview the vocabulary and phrases in the text and finish Ex. 3. Practice reading and know about the story

4. To describe a genius.