Unit 15 Lesson 4 Understanding

Module 5 Unit 15 Lesson 4 Understanding
(Reading)
导(Lead-in)：
Which of the following help you to understand things?
1 being relaxed and happy
2 having time to think about what you are learning
3 being interested in the topic
4 discussing topics with friends
5 asking questions
Which of the options does the writer suggest we use to understand things? What else do we acquire knowledge?
Proverbs concerning understanding：
1.“Who questions much,shall learn much, and remember much.”-Francis Bacon
2.“All truths a re easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” - Galileo Galilei
思(Thinking)：
How do we acquire knowledge and understanding?
议&展( Discuss & Display) :
Teamwork: Make mind map.
Tips: To start with, try to get the general idea of each paragraph.Then, divide them into three parts. After that you can draw the structure mind map by using the key words or expressions. Last but not the least, team leader make a presentation.
评（Voice your opinion）:
Does the writer believe that the Baconian Method of scientific thought is a good
way to gain knowledge? How about your opinion?
Do you think people like Bacon and Galilei would have thought it was a good idea to open libraries and set up universities? Why?
评(Review)：Language in use
It seems 1.________ (obviously) now how we acquire knowledge and understanding. To start with, you need questions. Then, to find answers, you observe the world around you and study the facts. After that you consider 2.________ (possibly) answers and test each to find the right 3.________ (one). Although today we are more 4.________ (accustom) to typing a few key words into a search engine and waiting for the Internet to spit the answers out for us, modern scientists and thinkers ar e still solving the world’s problems with this type of 5.________ (analyze)—luckily for us.
At that time, people believed more in 6.________ (religious) than scientific ideas such as “the Earth is not the centre of the universe”, were often 7.________ (punish) by the church with no one coming to their 8.________ (defend). The church and many people tended to 9.________ (ignorance) the facts and were unwilling 10.________ challenge what they had always 11.________ (comfortable) believed. They preferred to make assumptions about the world based 12.________ the experience of others. In fact, when Galilei proved that the Earth was not the centre of the universe, instead of 13.________ (believe) him, people 14.________ (choose) to believe views that were almost 2000 years old!
检(Exercise)：Keys: 1. obvious 2. possible 3. ones 4. accustomed 5. analysis 6. religion 7. punished 8. defense 9. ignore 10. to 11. comfortably 12. on 13. believing 14. chose
Homework:
1. Please write down a short essay with the title “ The way I acquire
knowledge and understanding.”。