人教版高二Unit1 Making a difference

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Ⅰ.Teaching aims and demands

1.Topic:

Talk about science and scientists

2. Function: describing people and debating

3.Vocabulary

4. Grammar

The infinitive used as predictive/ adverbial / attribute / subject/ object

II.Teaching arrangements

Period 1&2: Warming up, listening and speaking

Period 3&4: reading

Period 5: Language study

Period 6: Integrating skills and writing

Ⅳ.Teaching procedures

Period 1&2: Warming up, listening & speaking

Goals:

1.To encourage the students talk about the science and scientists

2.To develop the students’ ability of listening for information

3.To enable the students to have a better understanding of the importance of science.

Teaching procedures

Step1. Warming up

Task 1. Class work

T: Nice to see you again. I miss you very much. And I’m glad to meet some new students here! Nice to meet you!

T: What makes you get together here/ get apart with your former classmates ?

Some of us learn arts/ science while others learn science / arts.

Task2 Class work

1. What are arts subjects? What are science subjects?

Task3. Pair work Why do you learn arts/ science?

Task4. Individual work

What is your dream? What will you do to make your dream come true?

Step2. Listening

Pre-listening

Task1. Class work

What great scientists do you know?

Task2. Individual work

Enjoy the video, listen carefully and find out who are mentioned in the video.

(Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton.)

Task3 Pair work

Enjoy once more. What are they famous for?

Task4 Individual work

Listen to the three passages , finish the exercises and talk about the scientists.

Enjoy a video and do the listening comprehension on the screen.

Step3. Speaking

Debating (Should a nuclear power station be built in Sanmen?)

Step4. Homework

1. Finish off the WB listening.

2. Make up a column about scientists and their quotes

Period 3 & 4 : Pre-reading , reading & post-reading

Goals:

1. To get to know something about the famous scientist Stephen Hawking.

2. To learn the spirit of Hawking

3. To develop some basic skills of reading

Teaching Procedures

Step1. Pre-reading

Task1: Class work

Task2. Class work

Enjoy the video and guess who he is.

Does he move his lips while speaking?

Task3. Individual work

Listen and answer:

1). How does he make a speech without moving his lips?

(through a speech computer)

2) What is it that Hawking doesn’t like about his speech computer?

(It gives him an American accent.)

Step2. Reading

T: Do you want to know more about Hawking? S: Yes.

T: What do you want to know about him? S: his family, his achievements…

T: Turn to P3

Task1: Group work

Skim the text and give one word to each paragraph.

Task2: Individual work

1) How would ordinary people feel when they were told that they had an incurable disease?

2) What did Stephen Hawking do when he was told that he had an incurable disease?

3) What is Hawking’s dream?

4) Read Para3 and Para4. Fill in the blanks.

Task3. Group work

Now we know that in Hawking’s opinion even the best theory can turn out to be wrong.

Task4. Class work

How do you understand the title “No boundaries”?

Step4.Homework:

Group work research work

Period 5 Word Study ＆Grammar

Goals:

1. To get the students to reflect on the useful words and phrases in this unit

2. To enable the students to have a better knowledge of the uses of the Infinitive

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Individual work

1.Ask the students to tell the spirits of disabled people and what they can learn from them.

2.Finish the exercises in the SB Page 5

Step 2 Class work

Step3 Class work

Step4 Individual work

Do Ex.3 Page6

Step5 Homework

Finish off the exercises in WB.

Preview Making a Difference

Period 6 Integrating skills & writing

Goals:

1. To revise the language points and grammar-the Infinitive in this unit.

2. To learn more about the characteristics of scientists

3. To write a paragraph about a scientist.

Teaching Procedures:

T: yesterday we learned the grammar-the Infinitive. We know that the infinitive can be used as the Subject, Object, Adverbial and so on. Now let's do some exercises to see if you have mastered them well enough. Fill in the blanks, using the Infinitive。(Show the following on the screen）

Look at the screen.

Step 1 Individual work

Step 2 Reading

Task1 Individual work

Who are mentioned in the text? (Hawking, Bacon, Zhang Heng, Galileo, Copernicus)

Task2 Class work

Task3 Class work

What characteristics should a scientist have?