高中英语必修五全套教案

Module V

Unit 1 Great scientists

Teaching Aims

Skill Goals

▲ Talk about science and contributions of scientists

▲Practice expressing will, hope and suggestions

▲Practice expressing the stages in examining a new scientific idea

▲Learn to organize a scientific research

▲Learn to use the past participle as the predicative & attribute

▲Practice describing people’s characteristics and qualities

▲Develop the skills of persuasive and descriptive writing

Key new words and expressions

1．Memorize

engine, characteristic, theory, scientific, examine, conclude, conclusion, analyse, repeat, defeat, attend, expose, cure, control, absorb, test, severe, valuable, pump, pub, blame, immediately, handle, addition, link, announce, instruct, virus, construction, contribute, positive, strict, movement, god, backward, complete, spin, enthusiastic, cautious, reject, view

2．Read up

infect, infectious, cholera, deadly, outbreak, clue, Cambridge, germ, certainty, creative, cooperative, Nicolas Copernicus, revolutionary, calculation, loop, privately, bright-ness, persuasive, logical

3．Expressions

put forward, make a conclusion, in addition, link ... to ..., apart from, be strict with, lead to, make sense, point of view, expose to, absorb into, be to blame, physical characteristic Procedures

1Period 1：Warming Up，Pre-reading, Reading和Comprehending

2 Period 2：Reading and difficulties

3 Period 3：Reading P7

4. Period4：Learning about Language,Workbook

5.Period 5：Grammar

6.Period6：Using Language,Listening and Speaking

7.Period 7 ：reading and writing

The First Period Reading

StepⅠ Lead-in

Ask the students to think of some great inventions and inventors in history.

T: Welcome back to school, everyone. I guess most of you have enjoyed your holiday. Maybe I should say everyone has enjoyed a scientific life. Why? Because you have enjoyed the results of the science and scientists. Now can you tell me the scientists who invented the lights, the gramophone and the computer?

S1: Edison invented the lights and the gramophone.

S2: The first computer was invented by a group of American scientists.

StepⅡ Warming up

First, ask some questions about great scientists. Second, tell all the students to play the game called Guess Who I Am.

T: You know our life is closely related to science and scientists. We benefit a lot from them. Can you name out as many scientists as possible?

T；what contributions did they make?

T: Ok, you’ve known a lot about scientists and now let’s play a game called Guess Who I Am. I will show you some hints of a scientist one by one, and you guess the name of the scientist. Let’s see which group will do the best.

1.I lived in ancient Greek.

2.I was a mathematician.

3.I discovered that objects in water were lifted up by a force that helped them float. Answer: Archimedes

1.I lived in Britain.

2.I published The Origin Of Species.

3.I could explain how animals and plants develop as the environment changed. Answer: Charles Darwin

1.I am Englishman

2.I’ve worked in astronomy.

3.I’ve put forward a theory about black holes.

Answer；Stephen Hawking

1.I was a Chinese.

2.My invention had eight dragon heads round the top with eight balls in their mouths.

Around the bottom were eight frogs directly under a dragon’s mouth.

3.My invention was the earliest instrument that told people where earthquakes

happened.

Answer: Zhang Heng

1.I was an American.

2.I invented electric light bulb

3.I invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities.

Answer: Thomas Edison

1.I was a lady and born in Poland.

2.I received two Nobel prizes.

3.I discovered radium.

Answer : Marie Curie

Step Ⅲ Pre-reading

Get the students to discuss the questions on page 1 with their partners. Then ask the students to report their work. Encourage the students to express their different opinions.

T: Now, class, please look at the slide. Discuss these questions with your partners. Then I’ll ask some students to report their work.

Show the following on the screen:

1. What do you know about infectious diseases?

2. What do you know about cholera?

3. Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research?