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1、 Unit 1Great scientistsBrief Statements Based on This UnitThis unit centers on Great scientists, including some scientists both at home and abroad like John Snow and Copernicus.The students should be encouraged to practise talking about these scientists.The whole unit can be divided into seven parts

2、: warming up, reading, listening and speaking, language focusing, reading and writing, grammar, and assessment.In warming up, there is a quiz for the students to do, which will arouse the students interest in knowing about the famous scientists and help the students to know science is very important

3、 in our daily life. Group discussion and brainstorming will be used in this period to help the students to communicate with each other using their previous knowledge.In the reading passage, the students will learn about John Snow, who defeats “King Cholera”, and get a general idea about how to exami

4、ne a new scientific idea. This will help the students to form their own attitude towards science.In learning about language, the students are encouraged to learn the following words and expressions: engine, characteristic, radium, theory, scientific, examine, conclude, analyze repeat, defeat, attend

5、, expose, cure, control, absorb, severe, valuable, blame, immediately, handle, announce, instruct, virus, construction, contribute, positive, movement, backward, complete, enthusiastic, spin, reject, view, steam engine, put forward, draw a conclusion, in addition, link.to., be strict with, lead to,

6、make sense, point of view.While practising using the language, the students will learn about Copernicus Revolutionary Theory, and their skills of reading, speaking and writing will be improved.In listening and speaking, more chances will be given to the students to learn about other scientists and t

7、heir spirit. The students are encouraged to make up their mind to make contributions to science.The students will be asked to write a letter to Copernicus on the basis of the understanding of the text. The letters are sure to be full of imagination and creativity.Assessment will help the students to

8、 look back what they have learned and focus on the difficult and important points.So, this unit will be divided into seven periods as follows: Period 1Welcome to the Unit Period 2ReadingPeriod 3Listening and SpeakingPeriod 4Reading and WritingPeriod 5 GrammarPeriod 6Language FocusingPeriod 7Assessme

9、nt Knowledge aims: Key words in this unit: engine, characteristic, radium, theory, scientific, examine, conclude, analyze, repeat, defeat, attend, expose, cure, control, absorb, severe, valuable, blame, immediately, handle, announce, instruct, virus, construction, contribute, positive, movement, bac

10、kward, complete, enthusiastic, spin, reject, view.Key phrases in this unit: put forward, know about, look into, in addition, prevent sth. from doing, lead to, make sense, punish sb. For, suggest doing sth. steam engine, draw a conclusion, link.to., be strict with, lead to, point of view.Key sentence

11、 patterns: 1 But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed to cholera. 2 He got interested in two theories explaining how cholera killed people.3 Only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense.Grammar in this unit: Past parti

12、ciple used as attribute and predicativeAbility aims: 1. To talk about great scientists and their great achievements.2. To guess what will be talked about in the listening materials.3. To improve their reading skills.4. To learn to use past participle as attribute and predicative.Emotion aims: To enc

13、ourage the students to learn about some great scientists and their great achievements and how science helps to improve our society and change our life. Meanwhile, inspire the students to learn from the scientists and form their positive attitude towards science.Period 1Welcome to the UnitThe General

14、 Idea of This PeriodThe unit centers on “great scientists”. This is the first period of this unit. During this period, the students should be encouraged to give their previous knowledge of some of the famous scientists, participate in the activities in class and try to get more information from the

15、discussion. They will take part in different forms of activities, including pair work, group work, competition, and quiz. Group competition will be carried out all through the class.Words and expressions in this unit will help the students to talk about the topic “great scientists”. So at the beginn

16、ing of this period, the teacher should spend some time training the students to read them and help the students pronounce them correctly. The students are encouraged to learn the new words in groups by themselves, using dictionaries and other reference books. Then more time should be given to the st

17、udents to get familiar with the words and expressions. Lastly, several sentences will be given to the students to help them to know how to use some of the phrases.This unit is about “great scientists”, so from the very beginning, the teacher can encourage the students talk about their dreams in the

18、future. Then the teacher can let the students brainstorm something about great scientists. The students are free to say anything that they know. The students will be quite interested in this topic. This activity gives the students a chance to express their feelings about their favorite scientist. At

19、 the same time, this activity can stir the students enthusiasm in science.Then the teacher can have the students match the famous scientists with their discoveries, inventions or theories, making sure that they have some common sense about some world-famous scientists.Later the students will be divi

20、ded into several groups, describe one of the great scientists and let other students guess who he or she is talking about. In this way, the students should learn to organize their own sentences and express their ideas clearly.After that, the students will feel comfortable to do the quiz in the text.

21、 The students should be encouraged to give more information about these ten scientists.Meanwhile, the students interest in scientists and science should be cultivated. So two topic discussion questions, as well as the practice exercises are designed.The post-class activities are designed to arouse t

22、he students interest in science and encourage them to “DIYdo it yourself” in their daily life if they have some doubt in some areas.Teaching Important PointsHave the students discuss great scientists.Encourage the students to hold their views about their future career.Understand and learn the follow

23、ing words and expressions: engine, characteristic, radium, theory, scientific, examine, conclude, analyse, repeat, defeat, attend, expose, cure, control, absorb, severe, valuable, blame, immediately, handle, announce, instruct, virus, construction, contribute, positive, movement, backward, complete,

24、 enthusiastic, spin, reject, view, steam engine, put forward, draw a conclusion, in addition, link.to., be strict with, lead to, make sense, point of view.Teaching Difficulties What can we learn from the scientists?What should we do in our daily life to develop our interest and love for science?Teac

25、hing AidsCAI equipment with a Multi-media classroom and other normal teaching tools.Three Dimensional Teaching AimsKnowledge AimsLearn something about some famous scientists in the world.Know about the outstanding discoveries, inventions and theories from some well-known scientists.Try to understand

26、 and learn the important words and expressions.Ability AimsDevelop the students ability of speaking.Encourage the students to give more information about the great scientists.Emotional AimsEncourage the students to learn more about the great scientists and learn from them.Help the students to form t

27、he good habit in learning and encourage the students to take part in social practice.Help the students to realize that it is scientific spirit that makes those scientists successful.Encourage the students to develop their love for science.Teaching ProcedureStep 1 GreetingTeacher: Hello, everyone.Tea

28、cher: Hello, Mr./Ms.Step 2 Lead in T: Im very glad to see you all here. After a long holiday, all of you look energetic and happy. I hope that we will work hard together happily all through the year. I do believe that a bright future is waiting for you. We are sure to realize our dreams in the near

29、future. By the way, Id like to know what you would like to be in the future. Let me share your dreams. Anyone who gives your idea will get a star for your group. Ready?Go!S: I admire Yang Liwei very much, who is a great honour to our motherland. Id like to be an astronaut like him.T: Yeah, the space

30、craft, Shenzhou V, orbited the earth 14 times in 21 hours, making China the third country to have successfully sent an astronaut into space. I hope you will realize your dream.S: I want to be a doctor. I hope Ill be an outstanding one and be expert in finding cures for different kinds of cancers.T:

31、Thats a good idea. There are so many patients with cancers in the world, who are suffering a lot. Thank you!S: I want to be an English teacher like you. For one thing, I like English very much; for another, you are not only strict with us but also patient with us. You are just our friends and maybe

32、more than our friends sometimes.T: Im really glad to hear that. Its my great honor to be your friends and I like my job very much.S: Id like to be an expert in environment. You see, with the development of industry, our globe is seriously polluted. Dirty water, polluted air, and loud noise make our

33、living conditions worse. I think we should leave a beautiful world to the next generation.T: Yes, someone predicted that the last drop of water in the world would be the tear of human beings. I think all of us should pay attention to our environment, and make our contributions to improving the envir

34、onment.S: Im so interested in physics. And I have read Stephen Hawkings A Brief History of Time twice.I hope I will be a scientist like him. As we all know, the development of our society will go hand in hand with the development of science.T: Yeah, I cant agree with you more. Science plays an impor

35、tant part in the development of our society. There are so many examples in the history of human beings.Ss: .T: Im so glad to share your dreams. Your ambition and careful thoughts really leave a good and amazing impression on me. I like them. In this unit, you will learn something about “Great scient

36、ists”. Maybe you will know what you need in your efforts to realize your dreams after we talk about some world-famous scientists. Before we come to “Warming up”, Id like you to come to the new words in this unit, which will help you to learn this unit.Step 3 Word puzzlesT: Open your books and turn t

37、o Page 92.Lets read the words and expressions together.(Let the students read the words and expressions together. Help them pronounce the new words and expressions correctly. Later give them some time to practise reading and remember some easy and important ones. Give more help to those who are poor

38、 in pronunciation.)T: Here are some definitions of some of the words from this unit.Please work in pairs and match the words with their definitions.(group competition)WordsDefinitions or explanationsA. examine1.general principles of an art or scienceB. repeat2.say or do againC. theory3.at once; with

39、out delayD. immediately4.look at.carefully in order to learn about or from.E. complete5.of great value, worth or useF. valuable6.having all its parts; whole; finishedG. announce7.make knownH. e or bring to an end I. positive9.power to order or directJ. conclude10.quite certain or sureT: Now, lets ch

40、eck the answers. A4, B2, C1, D3, E6, F5, G7, H9, I10, J8. You have done a good job. I will give you some more minutes to go over all the words and expressions and then fill in the blanks with proper forms of some of them from this unit.1. “All roads lead to Rome, ”he encouraged me after I failed the

41、 entrance examination.2. This sentence doesnt make any sense.3. Our English teacher is not only strict with us but also friendly to us.4. He is good-looking, apart from his nose.5. It is announced that the spacecraft, Shenzhou , landed on the earth successfully.6. It is not Tom but you who are to bl

42、ame.7. In 1995, the Chinese government put forward a plan for “rejuvenating the nation by relying on science and education”.And it has helped Chinese scientists make many breakthroughs.8.Have you drawn any conclusion after you read this passage?T: Well done. So much for the learning of the new words

43、 and expressions. Step 4 BrainstormingT: Now lets come to the title of this unit Great scientists. When we talk about great scientists, what will come into your mind(s)?We will go on our competition.S1: Madame Curie, who got two Nobel Prizes, one for physics and the other for chemistry, is really ou

44、tstanding among all the women scientists.S2: It reminds me of the great inventor named Thomas Alva Edison and one of his famous sayings “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”S3: Yes, we lead a better life now with the help of science. Without Edison, maybe now we a

45、re still living in a dark world. They really make our life easier and more comfortable.S4: I also think of one of the quotes from Albert Einstein, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”S5: All the scientists are devoted to the career that they choose, and they set good examples to us in our

46、 work. S6: Take all the scientists for example, if we want to be successful in the future, we should not only learn something from our textbooks, but also take part in social practice and get close to nature to learn more about it.S7: I like plants very much. I just think of the two key scientists i

47、n the field of botany, Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks. The former one laid the foundation for the classification of plants, while the latter one also made great contributions to the development and direction of botany.Ss: .T: Im glad to see that you have a great deal of previous knowledge of famous

48、scientists in the world.Step 5 Previous knowledgeT: Now lets match some of the great scientists with their famous discoveries, inventions or theories. Let me see who is the quickest in mind and action and can get all the answers correct.Famous scientistsDiscoveries/Inventions/TheoriesA. Isaac Newton1.Evolution (进化论)B. Charles Darwin2.Discovery of Radium（镭）C. Madame Curie3.Newtons LawD.Albert Einstein4.Electric bulbE. Thom