英语优秀教案(人教版)：必修五(Unit1GreatscientistsPeriod1)

Unit 1Great scientists

Brief Statements Based on This Unit

This 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: warming up, reading, listening and speaking,

In warming up, there is a quiz for the students to do, which will arouse the students’ intere in knowing about the famous scientists and help the students to know science is very important 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 Chole and get a general idea about how to examine 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, 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, make sense, point of view.

While practising using the language, the students will learn about Copernicus’ Revoluti

In listening and speaking, more chances will be given to the students to learn about other

scientists and their 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

Assessment will help the students to look back what they have learned and focus on the

difficult and important points.

So, this unit will be divided into

Period 1

Period 2

Period 3

Period 4

Period 6

Period 7

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, backward, Key phrases in this unit: put forward, know about, look into, in addition, prevent sth.from