1、NSEFC Module 7 Unit 2 RobotsUsing language A BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC ASIMOVReading & WritingTeaching aims:1. Students will be able to know 3 basic features of “biography”.2. Students will be able to focus on important points by using examples. 3. Students will be able to master 4 different ways to presen
2、t timeline through scanning and reviewing.4. Students will be able to use 4 different tips to make sentences concise through discovering and reviewing.Teaching procedure:Part 1: Lead-inTask 1: Riddle timeTask 2: AppreciationPart 2: Features of “biography”Task 1: Structure PredictionPredict basic fea
3、tures of “biography” with the help of the definitionTask 2: Information PredictionGo through the whole text to find out items included Part 3: Writing tipsTask 1: Careful readingRead Para. 5 to locate his 4 achievementsTip: Focus on important points by using examples. Task 2: Scanning1. When he was
4、nine years old, he started working in the candy store. = At (the age of) nine, he started working in the candy store. 来源:学科网2. When Asimov was eleven years old, his talent for writing became obvious. = It was when Asimov was eleven years old that his talent for writing became obvious. 3. Asimov was
5、born in Russia on 2 January, 1920. = Asimovs life began in Russia, where he was born on 2 January, 1920. 4. In the last 30 years, the greatest number of laws have stopped our rights and progress 来源:学科网ZXXK= The last 30 years have _ the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress. (M1 U5
6、 Page 34 Eliass story) Task 3: Learn to use “witness” In 1950 Asimov developed a set of three “laws” for robots. 1950 witnessed Asimov(s) developing a set of three “laws” for robots. Task 4: Discovering and Reviewing1. Asimov had an extraordinary imagination that gave him the ability to explore futu
7、re worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for explanations of everything. 2. In 1950 Asimov published his first novel and in 1953 he published his first science book.= In 1950 Asimov published his first novel and in 1953 his first science book.3. Because farmers are using his hybrid rice,
8、 they are producing harvests twice as large as before. = _, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. (M4 U2 Page 9 Working the land) 来源:Zxxk.Com4. Because I was worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days. = _, I was unsettled for the first few days. (M5 U3 Page
9、 17 Life in the future) TIPS: “clause”; Cross repeated words”; “-ing” form; “-ed” form” Part 4: Writing A Short Biography of Wu Shaoze March, 12, 1981: born 2004: started to work as a math teacher 2014: won the award “My Favorite Teacher” of Class 7 Grade 2 (attitude; talent; character; knowledge; )Homework :来源:Z_xx_k.Com1. Finish your writing and polish it. 2. Read and learn from passages about persons in the textbook.
