Teaching Aims:
1. Learn and master the words and expressions in the text:
2. Train the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn to use the words and expressions in the tex t:
2. Train the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to help the students understand the text exactly, especially the following sentences:
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text.
2. Careful reading to get the detailed information.
3. Asking-and-answering to help the students understand the text exactly.
4. Pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. the multimedia
2. a tape recorder
3. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step II Lead in
1. When was Clive Sinclair born?
2. What was Clive’s first job?
3. What society was Clive chairman of?
Step III Skimming
Read the text quickly and decide which of the following can best express the main idea of the text.
A. Sir Clive’s stories.
B. Sir Clive’s mini inventions.
C. How Sir Clive ran his company.
D. Sir Clive Sinclair’s life and inventions.
Read Para One and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British businessman and inventor.
B. Clive’s brilliant Childhood.
C. Clive got a job at 17.
D. Sinclair invented the calculator and was saddened.
Read Para Two and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sinclair was unfortunate.
B. How Clive’s ran his first company.
C. Sinclair produced his pocket radio in bulk.
D. Sinclair registered his own company.
Read Para Three and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sinclair was the first to make pocket-sized things in the world.
B. Sinclair’s computer cost only 100 pounds.
C. Sinclair’s company expended rapidly.
D. Clive was very talented at making little things.
Read Para Four and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sinclair studied Economics atCambridge University.
B. The advantage of Sinclair’s new inventions.
C. Sinclair’s new invention was laughed at in the newspaper.
D. How Sinclair’s career underwent a downward slide during the 1980s.
Read Para Five and chose the correct topic sentence for it.
A. Sinclair became chairman of British Mensa.
B. How Sinclair saved Mensa as a chairman.
C. Sinclair paid personally for an annual Mensa conference at Cambridge.
D. Sinclair has been an inventor and a business man.
.Step V Language points
1. -the man who brought technology to the man in the street.
句中the man in the street意思是“普通人”, “常人”, “大众”, 也可为“man on the street”。
2. Sinclair was blessed with brains and spent much of his time educating himself.
短语“be blessed with”意思是“赋有（能力等）”，“享有（幸福等）”。比如：
Though in his eighties, he is blessed with good health.
尽管他八十多岁了，身体却很好。
Sinclair’s big picture was to produce in bulk and to sell cheaply so that everyone could afford electronic goods.
短语in bulk意思是“大量地”，比如：
She prefers buying things like tissues in bulk.
她喜欢批量购买东西，比如面巾纸。
4. As soon as he advertised, the company was flooded with demands for the little, cubic-shaped radios.
“was flooded with” 如洪水般涌至，比如：The office was flooded with companies.
5. The company expanded rapidly, and he even had to open a new center in the USA to cope with the increased demand.
“cope with” 对付，应对，比如：
There was too much work for our computer to cope with.
我们的计算机要干的事情太多，简直应接不暇。
名词“demand”在这里是“需求”，比如：There is a growing demand in
China for enviromentally-friendly cars.
中国对环保汽车的需求量越来越大。
6. When Sinclair joined in 1959, membership was falling, and the society was on its last legs.
短语“on its last legs”意思是“奄奄一息”
比如：
The company was on its last legs after the manager retired.
公司在经理退休后到了快解体的地步。
7. He was honoured in 1983 with a knighthood from the Queen of England in recognition of his efforts and achievements.
recognition在这里意识是“承认”，“认可”，比如：
He was rewarded with a pay increase in recognition of his contribution to the company.
他被奖励加薪，作为他为公司所做贡献的肯定。
.Step V Homework
Finish Exercise in the work book..