Unit 1 Great Scientists

By Liu Chaoying

The First Period

Reading

一、教學目標（Teaching Aims）

Warming up in student’s book and listening in workbook

1、能力目標（Ability aim）

To activate the students’ knowledge about great scientists in the world and their achievements.

To get the students understand the spirit of science.

To enable students to communicate with each other and improve students’ language expression ability.

2、語言目標（Language aim）

Words: engine, characteristic, radium, enthusiastic, cautious, spin, In addition, link to, instruct, attend, expose to cure, absorb into severe, to blame, handle from, lead to, make sense, reject.

Important sentence:

To prevent this from happening again, John Snow supposed that the source of all water supplies be examined and new methods of dealing with polluted water be found.

Expressions on making comments

二、 教學方法（Teaching Method）

Communicative approach， Audio－Visual approach

三、教具準備（Teaching Aids） Multi-media

四、教學步驟 （Teaching Procedure）

Step I Presentation

Talk about famous scientists and the kind of roles they play in history. Present a word match exercise to arouse the students’ interest on the topic.

Step II Talking

Try a quiz and see who knows the most about scientists. Discuss in pairs about the significance of some achievements.

Step III Group Work

Discuss in groups about the basic factors that make a scientist successful.

Homework

1. Oral homework: Prepare a story about a famous scientist and share the story with the whole class.

2. Written homework: Write down the story and make comments on the key to success.

The Second Period

Extensive Reading

一、 教學目標（Teaching Aims）

Reading part in students’ book

1、 能力目標（Ability Aims）

To train the students’ ability in skimming & scanning.

To adapt the scientific spirit in their pursuit of knowledge.

2、 知識目標（Knowledge Aims）

To lead the students to get some information on the steps of a scientific research through reading.

二、 教學重難點（Teaching important points）

a. Understand the spirit of science and scientists.

b. Understand the details of each stage in examining a new scientific idea.

c. Discuss what attitude the scientists should take towards a complete new finding that is against the present theory.

三、 教學方法（Teaching method）

Communicative Approach, Task-based Approach

四、 教具準備 （Teaching Aids） Multi-media

五、 教學步驟 （Teaching Procedures）

Step I Pre-reading

Ask the students to get ready for reading by discussing about some infectious diseases and the ways of making a scientific research.

Step II Reading

Let the students read through the whole passage and finish the required task.

Help them to have a better understanding of the article by providing some background information and analysis.

Step III Post-reading

Hold a discussion after reading in order to widen students’ views and further consolidate their knowledge on the topic.

Homework: Finish the reading passage in the workbook.

The Third Period

Language Points

一、教學目標（Teaching Aims）

1. 能力目標（Ability aim）

Students are required to learn how to guess the meaning of a new word according to the context and use the words and expressions in the first passage on Page 2.

2. 語言目標（Language aim）

Students are asked to learn about the words and expressions in the first passage on Page 2, including their meanings and the usage in our daily life.

Key words expressions:

a. attend, expose, cure, control, absorb, severe, valuable, pump, pub, blame, handle, link, in addition, announce, instruct (in Student’s Book)

b. expose…to, test, defeat, reject, examine, apart from, contribute to, make a conclusion, make sense, enthusiastic, lead to, be strict with (in Workbook)

二、教學重難點（Teaching important points）

attend, expose, absorb, handle, in addition

三、教學方法（Teaching Method）: Explaining and practicing

四、教具準備（Teaching Aids）： Multi-media

五、教學步驟（Teaching Procedure）

Step I: Leading in

Ask questions about the story of John Snow with the words and expressions presented.

Step II Word Study

Explain the meanings of the words and phrases and learn how to use them.

Step III Word Exercises

Homework:

1. Go over the words and phrases students have learned and retell the story about John Snow’s defeating “King Cholera”.

2. Choose the suitable words or expressions to complete the passage in the project:

valuable, instruct, cure, expose, look into, examine, put forward, immediately, announce

The Fourth Period

Listening

一、 教學目標 （Teaching goals）

1.Target language目標語言

重點詞匯和短語

astronomer, astronaut, institute, lily, specialist, sort out, produce, parrot, species, revise, foundation, symbol, analyse, pure, sin, cosin, geometry, calculus, mechanics, practical, topology.

2.Ability goals 能力目標

Get the students to know more about scientists and science by listening.

3.Learning ability goals 學能目標

Guide the students to get detailed ideas of listening materials

Help the students to form good and correct listening habits.

二、 教學重難點 ( Important and difficult teaching points)

a. Listen to materials and grasp the information needed

b. The details of the listening materials

c. The new words of the listening materials.

d. The unfamiliar subjects of the materials

三、 教學方法 (Teaching methods)

Audio-lingual method

Audio-visual method

Task- based learning approach

四、 教具準備 (Teaching aide) Multi-media

五、 教學過程與方式 (Teaching procedures & ways)

StepⅠlead-in

Task 1: To develop the students predicative skill in listening. Ask students to describe the picture at page 5 and guess what details may be talked and mentioned in the listening.

Listening (page 41)

Task 1 Describe the picture and stimulate the student’s thinking.

Task 2. Help the Ss to master the new words in the listening.

species(種類)，parrot(鸚鵡)，blackbird(烏鴉)，

Task 3. Enable the students to get a general picture of the listening and then extract specific information.

Listening Task (Page 44)

Task1. Introduce the students to the life and work of Leonhard Euler. Help students to gain some knowledge of topology.

Homework

According to the listening materials above, access the internet:

http://www.e-mu.cn/bbs/index.php

to get further information.

The Fifth Period

Grammar and Writing

一、 目標語言(Target language)

Using “make + n” and past participles

make an appointment, make a gossip, make an apology, make a contest, make a choice, unexpected visitors, discouraged students, inspired contestant, crowded streets, struck speeches

二、 能力目標 (Ability goals Ability goals)

Get the students to know how Past Participle used as attributive and predictive is used

三、 學能目標 (Learning ability goals)

Guide the students to get detailed information for the writing

四、 教學重點 (Teaching important points)

Past participle used as attributive and predicative.

五、 教學難點(Teaching difficult points)

To teach students the right steps of writing a composition

六、 教學方法(Teaching methods)

Discussing; task- based learning approach

七、 教具準備(Teaching aid) Multi-media

八、 教學過程與方式 (Teaching procedures & ways)

Step I: assign the task

Gregor Mendel's Achievements

Step II: thinking

Necessary steps in writing a composition

Step III: give an example

How to make a plan for your composition?

How to draw an outline?

Homework

Write a report about your scientist, his/her life, achievements and the key to his/her success.