高职高专英语I Unit 4教案

课程名称：新世纪高职高专英语

Unit 4 Who’s Afraid of Maths Anyway?

授课内容：

1. Understand the Text：Who’s Afraid of Maths Anyway

2.Explain the key words and structures in the text.

目的要求：

1. Understand the differences between man and woman with respect to the social

position and the career ladder as well.

2. Master the key words and structures in the text

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板书设计：

Unit 4 Who’s Afraid of Maths Anyway?

Lead In: Talking about the strong points and weak points of being a

man or a woman

Man Woman

Strong Points: sense of security, opportunity tender, pretty, careful,

gentle, strength, power, active tolerance, calm, prudential

humorous, intelligence, sense warm-hearted,

of responsibility , brave

Weak Points: pressure, impulsive, fussy, sensibility, weak, passive, ill-tempered, crude, careless teary, nagging, unbelieving

prejudice

Unit 4 Who’s Afraid of Maths Anyway?

I.Lead in( 15 minutes)

1. Ask the students to look at the pictures on Page 16 in the textbook and discuss in pairs if they had

a choice, would they choose to be men or women, and then ask some pairs to report their findings

to the whole class.

2. Ask the students to find out both strong and weak points of man and woman in relation to the

various social parts they play, and then report to the whole class.

II. Read in ( 65 minutes)

1. Background Information ( 5 minutes)

1)Liberal arts

The term liberal in liberal arts originally meant “appropriate for free men,” i.e., among the Romans, only freemen were permitted to pursue them. In modern times the liberal arts refer to college or university subjects such as literature, history, and political science.

2)Some successful women in science

Although science and mathematics are usually regarded as “masculine”subjects, many successful women in these fields proved that those subjects do not belong to men alone. For example, Marie Curie (1867-1934), a French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, working together with her husband, performed ground-breaking studies of radioactive elements, including the discovery of two such elements, radium and polonium. Their work contributed greatly to the understanding of atoms on which modern nuclear physics is based.

One of the Curie’s daughter, Joliot Curie (1897-1956) shared the 1935 Nobel Prize for chemistry with her husband for their work in the synthesis if radioactive substances.

Emmy Noether (1882-1935), a German mathematician, was noted for her work in abstract algebra.