外研版Book4Module4GreatScientistsPeriod7教案

Module 4　Great Scientists

Period 6

Teaching contents: Reading and writing.   

Main and difficult teaching point: Reading and writing practice

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Reading Practice  

  1. Task 1 Check the meaning of the words in Activity 1.

  2. Task 2 Read the passage about Stephen Hawking and number the paragraphs in the correct order and match the main idea of each paragraph, and then check the answers. (2,3,1/1,2,3)

  3. Go through the short passage and explain some of the new language items in it.

  1) be famous/known for   be famous/known as

  2) partly adv. 部分地；在一定程度上

 e.g. She was partly responsible for the accident.

  3) physical disability 身体上的残疾

  4) graduate vi. vt. 毕业   graduate from 从……毕业

graduate n. (大学)毕业生  graduation  n. [u] 毕业；毕业典礼

e.g. She graduated from Cambridge with a degree in law.

她毕业于剑桥大学，获得法学学士学位。

The college graduated 30 students from the science department last year.

这所学院去年有30名理科毕业生。

The students without jobs came here after graduation.

毕业后，那些工作无着落的学生来到这里。

  5) be diagnosed with  被诊断为

  6) victim n. 受害人, 牺牲者, 牺牲品  career n. 事业, 生涯  

best-seller 畅销（书、唱片等）    brilliant adj. 聪颖的；才华横溢的   

7) brief adj. 简短的；简洁的  n. 摘要；大纲

  in brief  总之；简短的   in short总之；简言之  to be brief 简单地说

 To P46 RB.

Step 2 Writing

  1. Task 1 Read the notes about Albert Einstein and give brief explanation.

    New phrases:

1) earn one’s living 谋生  make a living

To P46 RB.

2) come to power 掌权；上台 take power,  in power

To P46 RB.

2. Help the Ss to develop one or two pieces of information into whole sentence(s) as example.

3. Ss work in pairs to prepare for the writing. (Use the given information about Albert Einstein on P37 and think about the questions in Speaking on P38 in TB)

4. Talk about how to write a short biography with the help of the writing guidance on P50 in RB.

5. Read or show the sample writing for the students to follow. (To P123 in Teacher’s Book)

Homework:

  Complete the writing task and do some exercises in RB. (For Class 20, they can copy the sample writing in RB)

A sample writing:

Tu Youyou

Tu Youyou is a Chinese medical scientist and educator. She was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China on 30 December 1930. She attended Xiaoshi Middle School for junior high school and the first year of high school before going to Ningbo Middle School in 1948. From 1951 to 1955, she attended Peking University Medical School and graduated in 1955.

After graduation, Tu worked at the Academy of Chinese Medicine in Beijing. She is best known for discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin (青蒿素和双氢青蒿素), used to treat malaria, which saved millions of lives. Her discovery of artemisinin and its treatment of malaria is regarded as a significant breakthrough of tropical medicine in the 20th century and health improvement for people of tropical developing countries in South Asia, Africa, and South America. For her work, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She is the first Chinese Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine and the first citizen of the People’s Republic of China to receive the Nobel Prize in natural sciences.

Tu is now regarded as a representative figure of the first generation of Chinese medical workers since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.