1.Topic:
Talk about science and scientists
2. Function: describing people and debating
That’s correct. It’s clear that…
I doubt that …
There is no doubt that…
It’s hard to say.
Well, maybe, but…
That’s true.
What’s your idea?
Have you thought about…?
3.Vocabulary
undertake analysis within gravity similar paragraph
debate scan boundary incurable engage promise
exploration disable theory seek that(adv.) misunderstand
scientific method observe match predict astronomer
curious microscope telescope punish intelligent patient
be similar to work on go by be/get engaged to sb. use up
go on with dream of turn out be satisfied with
take a look at the other way round on fire
make a difference be curious to do sth./ about sth. / that –clause
4. Grammar
The infinitive used as predictive/ adverbial / attribute / subject/ object
The topic of this unit is “ making a difference”. In this unit, first we can learn about the science subjects and know the importance of each subject. Second, we can get familiar with some great scientists and their famous quotes and achievements, such as Stephen Hawking, Galileo, Albert Einstein, ZhangHeng and so on. Third, we will know how the discoveries and inventions of the great scientists help us better understand the world and improve our life. By knowing this, students are encouraged to study hard, and their love of science and their hope of becoming scientists are inspired.
1.Warming up: It offers us five pictures of foreign great scientists with their famous quotes. By learning their quotes and talking about their achievements, students can know about the key to success and make their minds to be successful.
2. Listening: It contains 4 great minds including the students. In fact, it provides three passages and the students are asked to have a guess who they are, which is so interesting that it may further arouse the students’ enthusiasm in science.
3. Speaking: The students are asked to have a debate about which branch of science is the most important and useful to society. By doing so, students can practice debating skills and use some useful expressions freely. At the same time, they will find that knowledge plays an important part in our daily life.
4.Pre-reading The three questions in pre-reading pave the way for reading.
5.Reading: The text describes Hawking’s disease, dream, achievements and opinions on science and scientific research.
6. Post-reading: The exercises help the students further understand this great scientist.
7. Language study It contains word study and grammar. Students will have a better knowledge of the uses of the infinitive in this part.
8.Integrating skills It includes reading and writing. In the reading passage, students can learn about characteristics of five scientists and their scientific spirit. In the writing part, students are asked to write a paragraph to describe a favourite scientist.
9. Tips Unit One also gives students some advice on how to use the scientific method to learn English.
10. checkpoint
It sums up the uses of the infinitive.
Period 1&2: Warming up, listening and speaking
Period 3&4: reading
Period 5: Language study
Period 6: Integrating skills and writing
Notes:
1. Amending In warming up, it’s too abstract for the students to talk about the quotes, so we deal with it as a unit task to the students at the very beginning¬―make up a column about scientists and their quotes.
2. Replacement In speaking, the text gives the students the debate: Which branch of science is more important and useful to our society?
It’s too difficult and abstract for the students to carry it out. The reasons are as follows:
1) Their vocabulary is not large enough.
2) It’s too difficult to divide each branch of science in our daily life.
In fact, each branch can’t be divided from the others. Only by combining them together, can we make our world more beautiful.
So we change the topic, and ask the students to talk about what has happened in our daily life. That is , should a nuclear power station be built in Sanmen? This topic can give the students lots of space to talk about.
Goals:
1.To encourage the students talk about the science and scientists
2.To develop the students’ ability of listening for information
3.To enable the students to have a better understanding of the importance of science.
Teaching procedures
Step1. Warming up
Task 1. Class work
T: Nice to see you again. I miss you very much. And I’m glad to meet some new students here! Nice to meet you!
T: What makes you get together here/ get apart with your former classmates ?
Some of us learn arts/ science while others learn science / arts.
Task2 Class work
1. What are arts subjects? What are science subjects?
Task3. Pair work
Why do you learn arts/ science?
I’m good / poor at…
I prefer … to…
I’m into…
Because I like/ dislike...
I want to be
My parents want me to…
My dream is…
Task4. Individual work
What is your dream? What will you do to make your dream come true?
Step2. Listening
Pre-listening
Having heard your dreams, I am glad to know all of you have great mind. I’m sure one day you’ll become great minds (great men /women).Before we realize our dreams, we should learn about some great minds first so that we can follow them, do you think so?
Task1. Class work
What great scientists do you know?
Task2. Individual work
Enjoy the video, listen carefully and find out who are mentioned in the video.
(Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton.)
Task3 Pair work
Enjoy once more. What are they famous for?
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