1、Unit 1 Great Scientists教学设计Teaching Goals:1. Enable the Ss to familiar with some famous scientists and their contributions. 2. Enable the Ss to learn how to organize a scientific research.3. Let the Ss learn the reading skill of getting the main idea of each para./ part & each passage .Difficult poi
2、nts 1. How to grasp the main idea of each paragraph / part & each passage.2. How to help the Ss use what theyve learnt to do first aid treatment for burns correctly.Teaching methods1. Skimming & scanning methods to make the Ss get a good understanding of the text.2.Discussion methods to make the Ss
3、understand what theyve learned in class.3.Pair work of group to get every student to take part in the teaching-and-learning activities.4.Competition and role-play method to arouse the Ss interestTeaching process:Period 1 Word study, Warming up, pre-readingPre-class task: 1. Preview new vocabulary of
4、 Unit 1, and especially pay attention to the pronunciation of the new word 2. Finish the quiz in Warming up( p1) in groups of four by referring to books or surfing the net.Step 1 Learning GoalsGet Ss to go through the summing up form on p 8 in order to have a general idea of the learning goals of Un
5、it 1Step 2 Word Study1. (Pair work) Get Ss to learn the new words and phrases on p92 within 3 mins, by reading them aloud to each other to make sure that they can pronounce the words correctly- Get Ss to read aloud the words in pairs by turns, e.g. 1 pairs read 4 words then go to next pair2. Practic
6、e Use the correct form of the words to fill in the blanks.n.v.adj.infectionInfectInfectiousexamination=examexamineXscience /scientistXscientificconclusionconcludeXanalysisanalyseXdefeatdefeatXvalueValue(估价，评价)valuableinstructor/instructioninstructInstructive(有益的，教育性的)contribution /contributorcontrib
7、utecontributivecreationcreatecreativecalculationcalculateX movementmovemovablecompletioncompletecompletive(完成的，完全的)enthusiasmXenthusiasticStep 3. Warming up (Group competition and introduce the great scientists)1.Check the answers to the quiz to find out which group know the most .2.Introduce the gr
8、eat scientists.1) Archimedes (287212 BC) Ancient Greek. He was a mathematician. He found that if you put an object into water the water pushes the object up. It rises and partly floats. “Give me a place to stand on, and I can move the earth.” -Archimedes 2) Charlie Darwin(1808-1882) British naturali
9、st. The Origin of Species was published in 1859. It explained how plants and animals had changed over time to fit in with a changing environment. His book showed that people had developed from apes. 3) Gregor Mendel(18221884) Czech. The father of genetic. He grew pea plants and developed ideas on he
10、redity (遗传) and inherited characteristics. Between 18561863 he grew 28,000 pea plants. He examined seven kinds of seed and plant characteristics and developed some laws of inheritance. 4) Marie Curie ( Polish ) (1867-1934) was born in Poland, moved to Paris and studied chemistry and physics there. S
11、he married Pierre Curie and together they studied radioactive materials and discovered radium. In 1911 she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her death in 1934 was almost certainly due to radiation in her work. 5) Thomas Edison(1847-1931) He was already an inventor of other electrical devices (p
12、honograph, electric light bulb) when in 1882 he designed a system for providing New York with electricity from a central power station. This was a tremendous achievement, which had previously been thought impossible. 6) Leonardo da Vinci (Italian) (1452-1519)He was a famous Italian artist whose skil
13、l for showing human skin tones made his paintings seem to come alive. He used to study dead people in order to make his paintings as accurate as possible. Some of his famous paintings include “The Adoration of the Magi” and the “The Last Supper”. Later in his life he lived in France where he designe
14、d a submarine (潜水艇) and a flying machine. 7) British. He did research into different gases and discovered the medical value of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) as an anaesthetic.(麻醉药) In 1815 he developed a safety lamp for miners. 8) Zhang Heng ,Chinese( 78-139) He invented the first seismograph to indi
15、cate in the direction of an earthquake. It was in the shape of a cylinder with eight dragonheads round the top, each with a ball in its mouth. Around the bottom were eight frogs directly under a dragons head. When an earthquake occurred, a ball fell out of the dragons mouth, making a noise. 9) Steph
16、en Hawking,British(1942- ) He has worked in astronomy and studied black holes in space. He has shown that black holes do not only absorb everything around them but, from time to time, throw out matter as well. This may mark the beginning of new galaxies. This is an advance on the old theory which sa
17、id that black holes “eat” everything they come across. Step 4 Pre-reading 1. (Pair work) What five most important qualities do you think a scientist should have? Give reasons.clever/talented strict patient creative determined/strong-willed positive honest energetic intelligent/hard-working ambitious
18、 careful co-operative confident brave 2. (Group work) Ex1, p1Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research? Discuss in groups the stages in examining a new scientific idea. What order would you put them in?8)Draw a conclusion 3)Think of a method 4)Collect results 5)Make up a question 1)
19、Find a problem 5)Analyse the results 6)find supporting evidence 7)Repeat if necessaryStep 5. Summary Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are three pillars (支柱，要素) of learning.learning without thought is a labour lost; thought without learning is perilous(危险的)3. To know the disease is half
20、 the cure. 找出病根等于医治了一半。Step 6 Homework1. Preview the reading passage John Snow Defeats “King Cholera”(p2)2. Speaking task (p46) write some key words to the Qs to help your talk on your book and prepare to introduce the scientist you admire most to the class 3. Read notes - to Unit 1, p76-774. Listen
21、ing exercise P41,Ex 1&2Reflection after teaching（教学反思）本节课我通过不同的任务设置，让学生在小组活动中通过合作和探究来完成各个任务。新教材要求教师改变单纯进行语法教学的方式，将语言的形式与其意义、交际功能有机的结合起来，通过在实际的语言运用中内化语言规则，从而使学生达到能准确运用语言进行有效交际的目的。但是大多数学生离开课堂之后并没有多少听说英语的练习机会，他们十分缺少环境英语的反复刺激。导致学生的语言基础不扎实，在表达自己的看法和用英语进行讨论时，不时有学生夹杂着汉语，或有的学生不敢大胆说出自己的看法，欲言又止。所以在学生进行小组活动时，应尽量给学生更多的帮助，主动了解学生的语言困难。总之, 学生在有限的课堂中学到的知识毕竟有限，我们要让他们掌握语言的同时，将课堂学到的知识内化为能力，继而实现语言学习并运用的目的。同时，运用写作引导学生体验语言的用法，提升学生的能力。