Ⅰ.Teaching aims and demands
1.Topic:
Talk about science and scientists
2. Function: describing people and debating
3.Vocabulary
4. Grammar
The infinitive used as predictive/ adverbial / attribute / subject/ object
II.Teaching arrangements
Period 1&2: Warming up, listening and speaking
Period 3&4: reading
Period 5: Language study
Period 6: Integrating skills and writing
Ⅳ.Teaching procedures
Period 1&2: Warming up, listening & speaking
Goals:
1.To encourage the students talk about the science and scientists
2.To develop the students’ ability of listening for information
3.To enable the students to have a better understanding of the importance of science.
Teaching procedures
Step1. Warming up
Task 1. Class work
T: Nice to see you again. I miss you very much. And I’m glad to meet some new students here! Nice to meet you!
T: What makes you get together here/ get apart with your former classmates ?
Some of us learn arts/ science while others learn science / arts.
Task2 Class work
1. What are arts subjects? What are science subjects?
Task3. Pair work Why do you learn arts/ science?
Task4. Individual work
What is your dream? What will you do to make your dream come true?
Step2. Listening
Pre-listening
Task1. Class work
What great scientists do you know?
Task2. Individual work
Enjoy the video, listen carefully and find out who are mentioned in the video.
(Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton.)
Task3 Pair work
Enjoy once more. What are they famous for?
Task4 Individual work
Listen to the three passages , finish the exercises and talk about the scientists.
Enjoy a video and do the listening comprehension on the screen.
Step3. Speaking
Debating (Should a nuclear power station be built in Sanmen?)
Step4. Homework
1. Finish off the WB listening.
2. Make up a column about scientists and their quotes
Period 3 & 4 : Pre-reading , reading & post-reading
Goals:
1. To get to know something about the famous scientist Stephen Hawking.
2. To learn the spirit of Hawking
3. To develop some basic skills of reading
Teaching Procedures
Step1. Pre-reading
Task1: Class work
Task2. Class work
Enjoy the video and guess who he is.
Does he move his lips while speaking?
Task3. Individual work
Listen and answer:
1). How does he make a speech without moving his lips?
(through a speech computer)
2) What is it that Hawking doesn’t like about his speech computer?
(It gives him an American accent.)
Step2. Reading
T: Do you want to know more about Hawking? S: Yes.
T: What do you want to know about him? S: his family, his achievements…
T: Turn to P3
Task1: Group work
Skim the text and give one word to each paragraph.
Task2: Individual work
1) How would ordinary people feel when they were told that they had an incurable disease?
2) What did Stephen Hawking do when he was told that he had an incurable disease?
3) What is Hawking’s dream?
4) Read Para3 and Para4. Fill in the blanks.
Task3. Group work
Now we know that in Hawking’s opinion even the best theory can turn out to be wrong.
Task4. Class work
How do you understand the title “No boundaries”?
Step4.Homework:
Group work research work
Period 5 Word Study ＆Grammar
Goals:
1. To get the students to reflect on the useful words and phrases in this unit
2. To enable the students to have a better knowledge of the uses of the Infinitive
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Individual work
1.Ask the students to tell the spirits of disabled people and what they can learn from them.
2.Finish the exercises in the SB Page 5
Step 2 Class work
Step3 Class work
Step4 Individual work
Do Ex.3 Page6
Step5 Homework
Finish off the exercises in WB.
Preview Making a Difference
Period 6 Integrating skills & writing
Goals:
1. To revise the language points and grammar-the Infinitive in this unit.
2. To learn more about the characteristics of scientists
3. To write a paragraph about a scientist.
Teaching Procedures:
T: yesterday we learned the grammar-the Infinitive. We know that the infinitive can be used as the Subject, Object, Adverbial and so on. Now let's do some exercises to see if you have mastered them well enough. Fill in the blanks, using the Infinitive。(Show the following on the screen）
Look at the screen.
Step 1 Individual work
Step 2 Reading
Task1 Individual work
Who are mentioned in the text? (Hawking, Bacon, Zhang Heng, Galileo, Copernicus)
Task2 Class work
Task3 Class work
What characteristics should a scientist have?
suggested answers: creativity
strong will curiosity
observation intelligence
imagination diligence confidence
Step 3 Group work
Discussion
How do you understand the title?
(* have a great effect on something *make contributions to the world
* make good changes to the world *gain achievements)
Step 4 Individual work