外研必修 module great scientists

1、Module 4 Great Scientists Teaching Time: 教学时间Teaching Aims: 教学目标1. Knowledge and Skills 知识与技能 a. Make students know some words, phrase and related expressions about scientists. b. Make students make a revision about the passive voice and the usage of “ by + - ing”. c. Make students learn to write an

2、 essay on great scientists life. d. Make students proficiently master how to say the numbers. e. Improve students abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.2. Process and Methods 过程与方法 a. Improve students speaking ability through group discussion. b. Improve students analyzing and resolv

3、ing abilities through group cooperation.3. Emotion and Values 情感与价值 Make students know something about the current development of science and technology, as well as make them learn from those great scientists, such as the spirit of devoting to science, seeking truth and persistent dedication for hum

4、ans happiness and development.Teaching importance and difficulties：教学重点与难点1. Teaching Importance 教学重点 a. Master some science-related vocabularies. b. Learn how to use passive voice. c. Learn how to say numbers. 2. Teaching Difficulties 教学难点 a. Make students understand some common expressions used in

5、 quiz show while listening. b. Enable students to use passive voice correctly. c. Enable students to write essays on great scientists life according to the structure of the passage.Teaching Plan：教学计划Period One: Introduction, Reading and Vocabulary, FunctionPeriod Two: Grammar 1 and Grammar 2Period T

6、hree: Listening and Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Everyday English Period Four: Reading and Writing Period Five: Cultural Corner, Module File Reading Teaching Goals: 1. To know something about great scientists, such as Qian Xuesen, Marie Curie, Archimedes, Albert Einstein and Yuan Longping;2. To learn

7、some science-related words;3. To learn how to say numbers. Teaching Procedures:Step 1: Lead in- Introduction Brainstorm: Question: What great scientists do you know? ( free speaking )Make students say something about those four great scientists- Qian Xuesen, Marie Curie, Archimedes, Albert Einstein.

8、Name Nationality Major Invention/Discovery Time of the discoveryQian XuesenChina Physics, MathematicsChinese atom bombIn 1964Marie Curie Poland PhysicsRadioactivityIn 1898ArchimedesSicily in Italy Physics, mathematicsbuoyancyAbout 240 BCAlbert EinsteinGermany / AmericaMathematical PhysicsrelativityI

9、n 1905Make students learn some words of different fields in science.SubjectsChinese meaning The person who research the subjectsBiochemistry生化学Biochemist Biology生物学Biologist Botany植物学BotanistChemistry化学ChemistGenetics遗传学GeneticistPhysics物理学PhysicistZoology动物学Zoologist Make students finish exercise 2

10、 on page 31 individually.The answers:1. zoology 2. botany 3. biology 4. physics 5. biochemistry 6. chemistry 7. genetics Step 2: Reading and Vocabulary1. From the title “The Student Who Asked Questions”, guess what the passage is about?Who is the student?Question: What do you know about Yuan Longpin

11、g?Name Nationality Major Invention/Discovery Time of the discoveryYuan LongpingChina Agriculture Hybrid rice In 19702. Make students find the topic sentence of each paragraph.Para1: Yuan Longping is a leading figure in the rice-growing world.Para2: As a boy, he was called “the student who asked ques

12、tions”.Para3: As a young teacher, he began experiments in crop breeding.Para4: He discovered a special type of rice plant.Para5：His discoveries increased Chinese rice production.Para6：The yield of the new hybrid rice is much greater than that of other types grown in Pakistan.3. Make students skim th

13、e passage and find the answers to the following questions.1） What kind of student was Yuan Longping when he was young?2） What way did he think to produce rice more quickly?3） What did he discover?4） How important was the discovery？The possible answers：1） He was a student with lots of questions and h

14、e was interested in plants.2） By crossing different species of rice plant, then he could produce a new plant which could give a higher yield than either of the original plants.3） He discovered a naturally sterile male rice plant.4） Chinese rice production rose by 47.5% in the 1990s. There were other

15、 advantages.l 50,000 square kilometers of rice fields were converted to growing vegetables and other cash crops. l Yuans rice was exported to other countries.l His rices yield is much greater than the yield of other types of rice grown in Pakistan.4Make students read the passage carefully and decide

16、 whether the statement are true or false. 1). China produces more rice than any other country.2). Yuan Longping asked a lot of questions at school.3). He developed a new kind of fast-growing rice.4). The government helped him in his research.5). The new rice replaced vegetables in 50 thousand square

17、 kilometers.6). The new rice is now grown n other countries, such as Pakistan.The answers: TTTTFT5. Make students finish exercises in activity 3 and 4 on page 33 individually, then check the answers.Step 3: Language points1. He thought that (the key to feeding people was to have more rice and to pro

18、duce it more quickly.) 宾语从句2. He though there was only one way to do this-by crossing different species of rice plant, and then he could produce a new plant which could give a higher yield than either of the original plants.3.First Yuan Longping experimented with different types of rice.experiment: (V.)做实验4. This was the breakthrough.5. 50 kilometres of rice fields were converted to growing vegetables and other cash crops.6. Following this, Yuan Longpings rice was exported to other countries, such as .Step 4: Function 1. Make a revis