必修五Unit1-教案

Unit 1 Great Scientists

Knowledge Aims:

1. To learn some words and expressions related to the description of the great scientists, and the personal traits of making a great scientist.

2. To make sure the students have a full understanding of the text by reading and translating. Read many times for memorizing some key sentences.

3. To guide the students to have a discussion about the characters in the text. Ability Aims:

1. To cultivate the students’ reading ability and deepen their understanding how to describe a great person and his/her personal achievement and contribution to the humankind.

2. To cultivate the students’ oral English skills and related knowledge about description of a great person’s deeds.

Teaching important points:

1. To make the students have a full understanding of the text.

2. To let Ss have good command of grammar points by analyzing the key sentences. Teaching difficult points:

1. To improve the students’ reading ability and their grammatical analysis ability.

2. To enable the students to voice their opinions freely.

Teaching materials:

1. Multi-media Teaching Assistant.

2. Some related pictures.

Teaching aids:

1. Multi-media facilities.

Teaching methods:

1. Asking-and-answering method.

2. Discussing method.

3. Elicitation method.

Teaching procedures

Teaching aims and demands:

Teach procedures

Step 1 warming up

Show some pictures of the famous scientists and ask the Ss to answer the following question:

1.Do you know those scientists?

(Ss say some scientists. Such as : Albert Einstein\, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, Qian Xuesen , Liu Zhenxing , Hawking, Mendeleev……)

Ask the Ss some to introduce some scientists by his / her own word by the next question

2.Can you remember their names and their scientific achievements?

.Help the Ss to finish the introduction.

Step 3. Pre-reading

Ask the Ss the following Qs”

3. What do you know about infectious diseases such as cholera ?

4.Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research? (Ask the Ss to guess the correct orders of the steps on page)

Step4. Scanning

Read the passage quickly and put the correct stages into the reading about research into a disease.

Find a problem: John Snow was a well-known doctor in London…until its cause was found.

Make up a question: He got interested in the two theories…and soon the affected person was dead.

Think of a method: He believed in the second theory but…so severe that more than 500 people had died in 10 days.