Chapter 8 Great Minds (reading 2)课件(牛津深圳版九年级全册)

2. Which of these are or were fictional characters? Which of these are of were real people?
real person
fictitious character
real person
real person
B. Look and think B1. Look at the title, the pictures and
sense of humour
Words review
theory n. 理论 n. 讲台 n. 鼓掌；喝彩 把…看作
platform
applause regard…as let…down
使…失望
learn…by heart 熟记
Lead-in:
What is a genius?
Can you name some geniuses?
牛津深圳版初中英语 九年级全一册
Chapter 8
Great minds
Reading
汉语是我们的母语，我们从学英语开 始，就是用汉语来解释和记忆英语的。 变“用汉语解释和记忆英语”为“用 英语解释和记忆英语”。避免了将英 语转换为另一种语言——汉语所带来 的不便和时间耗费。不但提高了效率， 而且久而久之，有可能在头脑中建立 起两种思维系统，即在在汉语思维之 外，还可以逐步建立起独立的英语思 维系统。
Einstein was born in 1879 in Ulm, a city
in Germany.
As a boy, he was slow to learn to talk, but later in his childhood he showed great curiosity about nature and ability to solve difficult mathematical problems. After he left school, he went to Switzerland, where he graduated from the university with a degree in mathematics.
adj. 遥远的；远处的 distant in a perfect way adv. 完美地；极佳地 perfectly
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Words review fiction non-fiction n. 小说
n. 纪实文学
n. 天才 n. 宇宙 n. 好奇心 幽默感
genius
universe curiosity
Who are they?
Charles Darwin Charlie Chaplin
Newton
Beethoven
Li Bai
Galileo
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Confucius
Thomas Edison Yuan Longping
1. What are the above people famous for? 2. Are they geniuses in you mind? 3. What kind of person can be called as a genius?
用英语解释和记忆英语，本身就是在学 习和运用英语，对提高英语语感和英语 的阅读理解能力和综合运用能力很有好 处。是一举多得的好方法。真正做到了 用英语品味英语，越品越有味；用英语 理解英语，理解更准确。鉴于本环节初 次尝试此种设置，可能有些学生对英语 解释不能完全理解，为降低难度，英文 解释后面可进一步演示中文解释，学生 可再通过中文解释回顾早读课中已预习 过的单词，进一步加深记忆。
Read the explanation and speak out the word it explains.
Words review
a natural ability n. 天赋；才能
gift
an act of trying to do sth, especially sth difficult, often with no success n. 试图；尝试 attempt to function; to operate work v. 运转；运行
1933
1940
1955
died
E=mc² The deep connection Einstein discovered between energy and mass is expressed in the equation E=mc² . Here E represents energy, m represents mass, and c² is a very large number, the square of the speed of light.
Theory of Relativity
At the heart of his special theory of
relativity was the realization that all
measurements of time and space depend on judgments as to whether two distant events occur simultaneously（同时地）.
Listen to the passage and arrange the sentences below in correct order.
5 a. The audience clapped. _____ b. Hans left the platform. _____ 8 10 c. Hans offered to drive. _____ d. Hans offered to give the lecture. ____ 3 e. A professor asked a difficult question. __ 6 f. Einstein was invited to give a lecture at a university. ______ 1 g. Einstein listened to the lecture. ____ 4 h. Hans and Einstein left the university. ___ 9 i. Einstein felt very tired. _____ 2 j. Einstein answered the question. _____ 7
creation of his famous Theory of Relativity.
1879
1905
published theory of relativity
Won the Nobel Prize
Patent clerk in Bern
1915
1921
Was born in Germany
Became a US citizen Moved to Princeton, New Jersey
There he continued his study on the
structure of the universe until his death ial important discoveries
Einstein made in his life, the greatest is the
In 1905, Einstein began to publish a
series of papers which shook the whole scientific and intellectual world, and for the theories he established in the papers he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. Because Einstein was Jewish, when Hitler took over Germany in 1933, he had to leave the country and finally settled in the United States.
and the principle of the invariance (不变
性) of the speed of light, that the speed of
light in a vacuum (真空) is a universal
constant.
Objectives
进一步了解爱因斯坦。 掌握课文中的新词汇及 短语。
Who is he?
What is he famous for? Is he a genius?
scientist, physicist, theory of relativity, German-American ------ Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was considered the greatest scientist of the 20th century and one of the greatest of all time. His discoveries and theories have greatly influenced science in many fields.
This led him to develop a theory based on two postulates (假设): the principle of relativity, that physical laws are the same
in all inertial (惯性的) reference systems,
A. What do you know about …?
Before you read the passage on the next page, answer these questions.
1. What do the words fiction and nonfiction mean? fiction: things which are not true. Non-fiction: things which are true.
Words review
the quality in sth that makes it funny or amusing; the ability to laugh at things that are amusing n. 幽默 humour far away in space or time
the first and last paragraphs of
the story on the page103. Then
try to answer these questions.
1. Who are the two geniuses in the title?
gravity ------ Isaac Newton
A great German composer, wrote nine symphonies ----- Ludwig Van Beethoven An Italian scientist, used a telescope to observe space, said the Earth revolved round the Sun, dropped objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa ------ Galileo A great Chinese poet, fond of drinking ------ Li Bai
The biologist who wrote about evolution
------ Charles Darwin funny, tramp, great actor, British, silent films ------ Charlie Chaplin
An English scientist, discovered the laws of