大学英语课程教案.ppt

I. Background Information
1). Brief Introduction to Stephen Hawking
Regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein, Stephen Hawking is known not only for the adventurousness of his ideas, for the clarity and wit with which he expresses them, but for the courage he has shown in struggling with the illness that he has suffered from for the most of his life.
《大学英语》课程教案
课程名称：大学英语（ 第一册） 学时数：64
本章名称： Understanding Science 学时数：6
授课对象：全源自文库非英语专业学生 授课学期：第一学期 授课教研室：外语学院大学英语教学部 授课教师：外语学院大学英语教学部全体教师
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Unit 3 Understanding Science
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3) The Sky at Night (Para.3)
A popular British television program about the stars and planets, broadcast every month by the BBC since 1957. Its presenter, Patrick Moor, gives scientific information in an entertaining way and this program is thus well received in Britain.
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In the years since its publication in 1988, Hawking's “A Brief History of Time” has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific writing. It has also become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into 40 languages and selling over 9 million copies. Since he explains the principles that control our universe in simple terms, which is quite different from Einstein to whom he owes a debt, the book is essential reading for all of us who want to understand the universe in which we live. In his often playful style, he guides us on his search to uncover the secrets of the universe and conveys the excitement felt within the scientific community as the secrets of the cosmos reveal themselves.
Stephen Hawking now is Lucasian professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in England, a post once held by the great scientist Isaac Newton. Like many in the community of theoretical physicists, he is seeking to find the key to science in the elusive Theory of Everything that lies at the heart of the cosmos. He seeks to combine Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Richard Feynman's idea of multiple histories into one complete unified theory that will describe everything that happens in the universe.
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I. Background Information II. Pre-reading Questions III. Text Organization IV. Words and Phrases V. Comprehension Questions
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2) Frankenstein (Para. 3)
It comes from a monster created from parts of the corpses by a German student Frankenstein, whose name serves as the title of Mary Shelly’s novel of terror, published in 1818. the monster was a giant and much stronger than anyone else. So Frankenstein couldn’t control him. At last he destroyed all Frankenstein loved and killed him. This word later on is used to refer to a man-shaped monster and a person who has to pay for the wrong deeds he has done.