1、2014-2015学年高中英语（精品）同步教案（1）：Unit 3 Inventors and inventions（人教新课标选修8）Unit 3 Inventors and inventions . 单元教学目标技能目标Skill GoalsTalk about inventors and inventions Learn about the stages used in scientific researchLearn to use the past participle as the attribute Write an entry for an encyclopedia about
2、some inventions Write a letter asking for a job. 目标语言功 能 句 式Make a telephone callHold the line, please.Hang on, please. Just a moment, please.Im sorry, but this phone is out of order. I cant get through. Sorry. He / She isnt him / her right now.Can I ring back later?Ill ring him / her up again. I mu
3、st ring off now because.词 汇1 四会词汇patent, courtyard, walnut, distinguish, merciful, product, powder, perfume, stainless, cube, abrupt, convenient, caution, expectation, passive, merry, seize, criterion, valid, file, ripe, string, glue, freezing, greengrocer, identification, directory, dial, rainfall,
4、 innocent, lantern, bear, jam, forehead, dynamic, dot, tap, wire, straw, current, helicopter, triangle, stable, associate, practical, refrigerator, court, extension, version, competence, jeep, personnel2 认读词汇amphibious, Stephenson, George Stephenson, jelly, freezer, overnight, release, recognition,
5、claim, rod, precede, Alexander Graham Bell, microphone, occasionally, multiple, Morse code, inspiration, reproduce, tetrahedron, invaluable, James Dyson3 词组call up, now and then, set about, in case, beaten track, dive into, set out (to do), hang on, get through, ring back, ring off 4 重点词汇discovery,
6、convenient, distinguish, application, expectation, importance, practical, bear结 构Appositive clause that 可引导同位语从句重点句子1. The first thing I did was to see if there were any products that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes. P202. Between the outside and the inside
7、 walls of the bowl there is some jelly, which freezes when cooled. P203. The criteria are so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted unless they are truly novel. P214. Nor will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from ever
8、ybody elses. P215. He found that by pressing his lips against his mothers forehead, he could make his mother understand what he was saying. P256. He designed a machine that would separate different sound waves and allow different conversations to be held at the same time. P257. Although he is most o
9、ften associated with the invention of the telephone, he was indeed a continuing searcher after practical solutions to improve the quality of everybodys life. P26. 教材分析和教材重组1. 教材分析本单元以Inventors and inventions为话题，旨在通过单元教学，使学生了解发明和发现的区别，了解发明创造的过程和获得专利的条件，学习发明家的成功事例；能灵活运用基础句型描述中外古代和现代发明，谈论不同发明的优缺点及其现实意义
10、；根据不同问题及条件设计、改进发明并阐述自己的观点；能写一封有创新的求职申请，阐述自己的特长和优势，能对别人的发明、创造或观点提出意见或建议；并能运用所学知识利用现实生活中有限材料进行发明创造。1.1 Warming Up 提供了三幅不同发明或发现的图片，让学生运用已有的知识和经验，区分发明和发现的不同含义；并能与同伴合作描述现代发明在现实生活中的作用。1.2 Pre-reading要求学生将课本所列关于进行科学研究或发明创造所必须经历的几个阶段（步骤或过程）进行正确的排序。了解每一项发明在得到社会承认前都必须经历一个过程。1.3 Reading是一篇记叙性的文章。作者在文中详细介绍了从发现问
11、题（snake trouble）、分析问题（products that might help）到解决问题（remove the snakes）的全过程，并介绍了专利申请方面的一些知识。1.4 Comprehending第一个训练题要求学生根据课文内容回答问题；第三个训练题要求学生运用科学步骤设计一项发明解决课本所提供的三个问题，并与同学交流观点。1.5 Learning about Language分两部分。第一部分要求学生利用填空、改写句子的方式复习所学词汇及表达法。第二部分重点练习过去分词作定语的用法。1.6 Using Language分成四部分。第一部分Reading要求学生阅读一篇介
12、绍发明家Alexander Graham Bell的文章并回答有关问题，了解电话发明者贝尔的发明及其成功的原因。第二部分Listening and speaking 是一段关于Zhou Rui对一家发明公司的工程师进行电话采访的听力材料。要求学生掌握电话交谈常用表达；并在此基础上进行角色扮演活动，即求职者与公司考核人员之间的电话交谈。第三部分Writing要求学生写一封求职信，列举自己的优势、特长和工作经历向这家发明公司提出求职申请。2 教材重组2.1 从话题内容及训练目的分析，Warming Up与Speaking和Workbook中的TALKING相一致，可将这三部分整合在一起，设计成一节
13、任务型“口语课”。2.2 将Listening and speaking和Workbook中的LISTENING, LISTENING TASK整合在一起，设计成一节“听力课”。2.3 可将Pre-reading, Reading和Comprehending三个活动整合在一起上一节“阅读课（一）”。2.4 可将Learning about Language 与Workbook中的USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS, USING STRUCTURES整合在一起，上一节“语法课”。2.5 可将Using Language中Reading和Workbook中READING TAS
14、K整合起来，上一节“阅读课（二）”。2.6 将Using Language中的Writing和Workbook中的WRITING TASK整合为一节“写作课”。3. 课型设计与课时分配1st periodSpeaking2nd periodListening3rd period Reading ()4th period Grammar5th period Reading ()6th period Writing. 分课时教案The First Period SpeakingTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target language目标语言重点词汇和短语discovery, ap
15、plication, evaluate, presentation, alternative, messenger, get together, make a case for, add up2. Ability goals能力目标Enable the students to talk about inventions and discoveries.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Help the students learn how to talk about inventions and discoveries.Teaching important & dif
16、ficult points教学重难点How to talk about inventions and discoveries.Teaching methods教学方法Discussion.Teaching aids教具准备A computer and a projector. Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式Step Warming upTalk about inventions and discoveries.T: The importance of inventions to social progress can never be changed. Ea
17、ch invention carries the world a step forward and provides stimulation for later ones. With inventions turning up all the time, our world is always taking on a new look. But do you know what an invention is? S1: The creation of something new. S2: A creation (a new device or process) resulting from s
18、tudy and experimentation.S3: The creation of new things. Ask the students to talk about the pictures with the teachers help, and then discuss the first two questions. T: And what is a discovery? Whats the difference between a discovery and an invention? Now look at the pictures on page 1. Work in pa
19、irs and talk about the three different things, telling them apart and giving reasons.Show the following. 1. Which of these pictures show inventions? Does any of them show discoveries?2. Work out two rules that will help you decide what is a discovery and what is an invention? S1: I think the first t
20、wo are inventions, i.e. the amphibious car and Stevensons “Rocket” while the last picture about the DNA is a kind of discovery. Because the first two products were quite new to people at that time and no one had ever seen or designed such kind of vehicles before though some others had made similar c
21、ars or machines which had less functions and advantages as these two. I think the picture about the DNA is a kind of scientific discovery in biology because such cells and their structure do exist in living creatures and they have been found out by a certain scientist and are made known to the publi
22、c nowadays. So I think a discovery is something existing before but unknown while an invention is something unknown and not existing before.S2: I think the first two pictures show us great human inventions about the transportation because they were invented by people for certain purposes and they ha
23、d special advantages and could satisfy peoples needs in some ways. On the other hand the third picture showing the formation of DNA is a kind of discovery because these special cells exist and function in the body of life all the time no matter who discovers it or when and where it is discovered. In
24、 my opinion a discovery is something found out or brought to view now but it was unknown before while an invention is something created or designed by people , which is completely new not only now but in the past.T: Well, from these pictures we can see that there lies differences between a discovery
25、 and an invention. There are certain rules or questions you should pay attention to while distinguishing them. Did it exist in the past? Is it created or developed by people? An invention is something that is created by a human being, such as the lightning rod. To the contrary, a discovery merely ma
26、kes known something that already existed in nature, such as the discovery on the New Continent by Columbia. OK. Lets go on with some other questions of this part. You may talk with your partner first before we have a check five minutes later. Show the following. What modern inventions do you know? D
27、escribe them to your partner and how useful they are in life today.S1: Adidas 1 is the thinking shoes with a built-in microprocessor that decides how soft or firm the wearer needs the support. It has been chosen by Popular Science magazine as the best recreation invention of 2004. It is very comfort
28、able to wear it all day without worrying about your toes being hurt and you can adjust the height and stiffness according to your demands whenever you want and wherever you go. Thus it is a very practical choice for both the young and the old when having exciting sports outdoors or resting at home d
29、uring holidays. S2: Camera phones have opened up a new way to communicate. Because many of them look like regular cell phones, you can snap pictures as discreetly as any spy and, with the push of a few buttons, pop them into an e-mail or upload them to the Web in less than a minute. No wires or comp
30、uter hookups necessary. To be sure, most camera phones end up taking pictures of friends, family, babies and pets. But they have also been used to snap pictures of VIPs at private parties, copy recipes from cookbooks at bookstores and even document crimes in progress. But with an estimated 80 millio
31、n camera phones sold in 2003, 6 million in the U.S. alonethe cat may already be out of the camera bag. Like it or not, these camera phones have been very popular and widely used by people even today.S3: A kind of robot heart called AbioCor was invented in 2001. On July 2, 2001, the 59-year-old grand
32、father and retired librarian Robert Tools became the first human to get one. Its been long since the operation, and Tools new heart is still beating. He can walk a city block without stopping and hes even making plans for the future. Though not everybody needs a new heart, hundreds of thousands even
33、tually may. Nor will an artificial heart rid the world of sickness or poverty or terror. But sometimes it really helps.T: Very good! I am glad to see that all of you have known so many modern inventions both at home and abroad and you have thought a lot about them. Its certain that modern discoverie
34、s and inventions do have great effects on peoples life and can always represent the advanced science and technology, so you should learn to distinguish them and make good use of them.Step TalkingT: Suppose you are working for a mobile company. It is your job to suggest new ways of developing a mobil
35、e. In pairs discuss some new applications of a mobile. Make a list of the ones you like and that seem the most useful. Choose one you both like and think will be popular with other people. Now work in groups of four to discuss the question. S1: I suggest the new applications of mobile should be: por
36、table entertainment players, cameras, member-ship and loyalty cards, guidebooks, maps, tickets, watches, and devices for accessing everything from news to corporate databases. Among them, we like the applications of devices for accessing everything from news to corporate databases. We both think the
37、y are useful and will soon be popular with others in the near future because the ability will enable a whole class of workers to rely less on their memory and more on their companys and even worlds knowledge maintenance, sales, construction, transportation, taxicab drivers, and many other workers sp
38、end a great deal of time from offices. Thus, when they need information, they must either have it in their heads or stop what they are doing and make a phone call.S2: I think the new mobiles can be developed better with 4G to listen to the radio, watch TV, play games, do shopping, chat on the QQ, su
39、rf the internet, control the electrical equipment at home in the distance, give off harmless rays and be used as computers with special operating systems which can do business, have fun and work as intelligent P4 computers. Among them, we like the new application of surfing the internet and doing sh
40、opping and we both think they are useful and will soon be popular among youngsters because it is very convenient for people to find various useful information whenever and wherever possible. As there are different kinds of goods to choose from online and its very funny and exciting to make choices a
41、nd buy what we need at a reasonable price without going out and bargain with sellers in the markets. T: Very good. Now get together with another pair to discuss whether your suggestion is a good one. Make a case for your idea. Let the other pair evaluate it. Then swap so that you evaluate their idea
42、. Decide which idea you like better and prepare to explain it. Then present it to the class.S1: I think the first classmates expectation that the mobile phones can do so much, maybe more than they can offer. The mobile phones usually have limited size and capacity. So I think it will take time befor
43、e the mobiles are designed to meet his needs. S2: I think its practical and meaningful for the second classmate to develop the mobiles in that way. Though it has been used in some ways but we can do better because every day we have much information to look for and different types of things to do and
44、 the smart mobile can make it more convenient for us to achieve our goals in life.T: Now, Id like you to discuss in groups and try to tell the others about your ideas and the others who act as the leaders of the company may ask some questions for him or her to answer. Then Id like some of you to rep
45、ort your group work. Five minutes later.(L=Leader of the company)S: I think the new mobiles can be developed better with 4G to watch TV and do shopping on the internet.L1: Well, have you thought about the cost of this kind of new mobile which has a large capacity and such functions?S: Yes. Ill make
46、a good survey of the international electronic markets in advance and try to reduce the cost as much as possible. L2: Are you sure of the security measures of using these mobiles, especially when they are used to shop on the internet?S: Sure. Ill keep the new mobiles designed so in order that they wi
47、ll give warning messages whenever there is misleading information or dishonesty in selling and buying things on the internet.L3: I think it would be difficult for the new mobile of limited size to be used to watch live broadcast and pick out all sorts of goods on the internet. Have you taken these i
48、nto consideration?S: Yes. Now, I come to realize that I have to design the mobiles with larger screens, which can make it more convenient and comfortable for the users. Thank you!T: Very good! I can see all of you have done a good job in the presentation. Next I want you to evaluate the ideas using
49、the following criteria. First, do you know about the words, such as originality and quality argument?S: Yes, originality just means the quality of being new and interesting and quality argument just means different opinions about the quality of the product.T: Quite right! Now lets look at the criter
50、ia and go on with the next step.Show the followingAfter each group has taken part, add up the scores and award the contract to the winner!T: Next, Id like to divide you into four teams and the leader of the company will write down the scores according to the criteria while helping everyone present t
51、he ideas. At last the winner will be awarded in class. Step SPEAKING TASK (若时间不足，可改为作业) T: Leonardo da Vinci was not only a painter, but a true inventor. Now look at the picture in 1 on page 68. Id like you to work in pairs and discuss what this invention of Leonardo da Vinci was. Several alternativ
52、e explanations are provided, but only one is correct. Be prepared to give your ideas to the class with your reasons. S: I think its a kind of water slide because we can clearly see the long slide way connecting the water tower, equipment on the roof of the building and the base on the ground. If the
53、re is a lack of water down on the ground, the working machine will be used to carry water from the tower above to the ground along the slide way. Just so, this specially fixed machine can also carry water up to store in the tower if the water on the ground is more than needed. This kind of invention
54、 is really useful especially in some dry or mountainous areas.T: Good! You are very creative in thinking about the use of the machine in different cases and from this we can see Leonard da Vinci is really a great inventor. He contributed to peoples everyday life besides painting wonderful pictures.
55、Well, lets go on with Activity 2. Please look at the pictures and read the instructions below, discuss in groups and finish the exercises.Sample answers:What was its possible use? Why?When and where did it appear in Europe?1. Its possible use is calculation because it is usually called “the Chinese
56、computer” by foreigners.About the middle of the 15th in Russia2. Its possible use is to spread the development of culture because it is usually used to print papers for people to read.About the late 15th in Germany3. The south pointer was used to find the most harmonious position to place new buildi
57、ngs. It seems possible that it dates back to the Qin Dynasty. It was the first application of magnetism in peoples lives.The navigational compass appeared in Europe in the 12th or 13th centuries. This is similar to the time when Zheng He used it on his voyages to Africa.Step ProjectT: “Creativity is
58、 the soul of a nation and an inexhaustible source of a countrys prosperity.” Chinese former President Jiang Zemin said in the speech delivered on November 24 to the scientific and technological community in the Science City of Novosibirsk. As a young generation, every one of us should be creative an
59、d inventive in order to contribute more to make our country richer and more beautiful. Now, please look at the project exercise on page 69. Id like you first read the introductions and then discuss in pairs about the pictures and solutions to the problems. Finally Id like someone to present your wor
60、k.One possible solution:S: In this kind of situation, I will have to use the sticks and ropes to make a fishing rod with the nails made in shape of hooks. I will cut the pumpkin or the nuts on the trees into halves so as to make a water container. And as for the shelter Id use the piece of cloth com
61、bined with sticks, ropes and nails. I will have to need a magnifying glass found on the island to focus the heat on the leaves and wood so that there will be much smoke rising from the fire caused by the strong light and heat from the sun. If Im not lucky enough to be saved by someone, I would have
62、to use the ropes cut by the knife to link the pieces of wood together so as to make a raft as means of escape. T: Good! You all have good imaginations and you have known much about how to design and make effective inventions especially in emergency. I am very proud of you and Im sure you will do more research about the inventions after class until you make them perfect.Step HomeworkAsk the students to do the following. 1Search for more information about mobiles on the Internet. 2Prepare for the listening part on page 26.
