1、新人教版、 、必修五、 Unit 1 Great Scientists教案一（ 第1 课时） Period 1 Warming up & VocabularyTeaching Aims: 1. Get to know some new words and expressions. Focus on: put forward, theory, black hole, radium, steam engine, characteristics, examine, draw a conclusion, analyse, repeat, attend, contribute, apart from,
2、creative, co-operative, positive, strict, enthusiastic, cautious.2. Know some great scientists and their achievements.3. Analyse the common qualities these scientists share and revise how to describe peoples characteristics. 1. Analysing 2. Individual & Pair work3. Teams match Step 1 Leading inIntro
3、duce some famous scientists and their achievements, and then do the quiz.1. Can you remember them? ( Stephen Hawking & Yuan Longping)Have a revision of the expressions: theory, black holes, super hybrid rice.2. Play a guessing game. Show sentences one by one about scientists contributions, and let S
4、s guess who they are. Ss should compete to answer as soon as possible. Then share some famous sayings by the great scientists, to inspire Ss to learn from them. Each student represents his/her team and gains points for his/her team.Step 2 Warming up1. Try this quiz and find out who knows the most. (
5、Pair work to finish the Quiz Questions on P1.) Give Ss enough time to understand the questions in the quiz, and they are allowed to discuss with their partners. T walks around to give help.2. Check the answers with the whole class. Then ask Ss about these scientists. If they dont know, show the furt
6、her introduction to these 10 scientists. 1).Archimedes (an ancient Greek mathematician & physicist)2).Charles Darwin (British, author of The Origin of Species )3).Thomas Newcomen (British, improved the first steam pump and turned it into a steam engine for taking water out of mines in 1712 .James Wa
7、tt improved it and turned it into the first modern steam engine used on the railways. )4). Gregor Mendel (Czech)5).Marie Curie (Polish and French, won two Nobel Prizes)6).Thomas Edison (an American inventor)7).Leonardo da Vinci (a famous Italian artist)8).Sir Humphry Davy (British)Difficult and Impo
8、rtant Points:1) Word study 2) Describe main contributions of the great scientists. 3) Make up a dialogue between two scientists about their inventions/discoveries and their plan for the future.Teaching Methods:Teaching Procedures9).Zhang Heng (Chinese, invented seismograph)10).Stephen Hawking (a Bri
9、tish astronomer)Step 3 Brainstorming1. Now that weve learned so many great scientists, lets draw a conclusion about them. What common characteristics do they have?Attention: In this part, Ss may list many other adjectives which they have learned before to describe scientists. So the major job of T s
10、hould be leading in these new expressions and make some connection between the old and the new, for example, bright can be equal to clever or wise, strict can be similar to serious, co-operative means work along well with others, enthusiastic means full of love for their jobs, and so on. So it is be
11、tter for T to explain the new words in English-English way. But if the Ss are not so good at English, T can use some Chinese if necessary.enthusiastic co-operative positivebright common characteristicsstrictpersuasive cautious creative2. Draw a conclusion about them in sentences: They allEg. made a
12、great contributionmade great achievementssucceeded in their scientific careerovercome many difficultiesStep 4 Pair workMake up dialogues. Its a pity that these great minds cant get together. So now well organize a party for them. Because of an advanced machine called Time Machine, all scientists fro
13、m all different times can come to attend it. Now theyre talking to each other. Make up a dialogue between two scientists. They may talk about their achievements, their life and their plan for the future work.They may talk about these1.I wonder if youre2.I know you because Ive heard that you3.Thank y
14、ou for knowing so much about me. 4.Im the one who5.Im really interested in your invention.They may ask about theseWhats your nationality? (Im from)What are you interested in?What conclusion have you drawn?What are you proud of?What leads to your success? (My cautiousness/ creativeness/ determinationleads to)Step 5 Homework 1. Tell your partner about the great scientists and their achievements. 2. Revise the new words and expressions learned in this lesson, and preview those of the reading text.
