高中英语 Uint3 Inventors and Inventions Using language课件 新人教版选修8.ppt

Using language reading,Q: When you need to tell something important to your friends who is far from you , what could you do?,By letter,By QQ,By telephone,Who invented the telephone?,Alexander Graham Bell,Task1 Skimming,Reading Task 1: Get some general information of Bell.,He was born.,His family moved to Boston, USA.,He made his first invention.,He invented the first telephone.,He made his last invention.,1.What does Bells saying mean to you?,His saying means that it is important to be experimental. By being curious and exploring around a subject you may by chance come up with some new and original ways of solving a problem.,The text mainly tells us some information about_ . A. Bell and his telephone B. Bell and his telegraph C. Bell and his helicopter designs D. Bell and his inventions,2.Choose the best answer.,D,2. Bell invented _ by chance according to the text. A. Morse code B. telegraph C. telephone D. tetrahedron,C,3. Which statement is true according to the text? A. Bell made a contribution to the deaf education. B. Bell invented the telephone for the deaf. C. Bell thought that you should not think too much about something that you had never seen before. D. Bell invented a lot of flying machines while searching for a kite to carry a man into the air.,A,4. According to the text, Bell got such great achievement thanks to _. A. a straw joined to a deaf mans ear B. the exploring around problems C. a moving electrical current D. his excellent assistant Watson,B,5. We can infer from the text that _. A. doing research in telegraph helped Bell greatly in inventing the telephone B. Bell was given the patent after he succeeded in sending the first telephone message to his assistant Watson. C. in order to make the bridges stronger Bell discovered telephone D. Bell discovered so many practical solutions that he must be a millionaire,A,3.Useful expressions,对感兴趣 对好奇 踩出来的路 一心投入 值得思考 导致 开始(做) 一次,be/become interested in be curious beaten track dive into (be) worth thinking lead to set out to (do) at a time,at the same time found the problem difficult to solve be aware of search for be famous for indeed,同时 发现问题很难解决 注意到 寻找 因闻名 的确, 事实上,1. He believed that one should always be curious and his most famous saying was: “Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.”,佳句背诵,他认为人应该保持一颗好奇心, 他最著名的一句话是: “偶尔离开平路, 去寻求困境。当你这么做的时候, 你一定会发现你从未见过的东西。跟踪下去, 不断探索, 不知不觉中, 你就会发现某种值得思考的东西占据着你的头脑。所有真正伟大的发现都是思考的结果。”,1. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.,偶尔离开平路，去寻求困境。,beaten track 被踩出来的路;常规;惯例 2) dive into 跳水(头朝下); 迅速把手伸入; (对活动, 问题等) 全心投入, 潜心研究 e.g:,He _ his career and made a great contribution to our country. A. dived himself into B. devoted himself to C. dived into D. devoted to,B,3) every / each time 意为“每次; 每当”, 此短语在句子中经常作连接词, 引导时间状语从句做连词的名词, 引导时间状语从句。 能用做连词的名词短语还有： the first time 第一次 last time 上次 next time 下次 the instant / moment / minute / second 一 就,A,_ I see him, the old man is sitting in the same chair. A. Every time B. Every time when C. At each time D. Each time that,follow sth. up 追究到底；（乘势）贯彻到底,2. Bell never set out to invent the telephone and what he was trying to design was a multiple telegraph. 贝尔从未打算发明电话而是试图设计一种复式电报。,set out (to do sth.) / set about doing sth. 开始(做某事),着手干,为某个目标而努力 set out for=set off for=leave for 意为“出发到去”,1) At dawn, they set _ to get ready for the work of the day. A. off B. about C. out D. in,2) They set _ at about 8 oclock. A. about to work B. about to working C. about working D. out work,3) They _ the mountain at noon. A. set off to B. set out to C. set out for D. set off in,C,C,C,3. This original telegraph sent a message over distance using Morse code (a series of dots tapped out along a wire in a particular order). 这种原始的电报是在一段距离中用莫尔斯电码传递信息(莫尔斯电码是通过电线发出的以特定的次序敲击出的一串点)。,dot n. 点;小圆点 on the dot 准时，按时 vt. 打点于，使点缀于，星罗棋布于,4. The patent was given in 1876, but it was not until five days later that Bell sent the first telephone message to his assistant, Watson. 这项专利是1876年发布的, 但是贝尔是在5天之后才跟他的助手华生通了第一次电话。,It is/was not until that 这是强调not until 引导的时间状语从句句型。,1) It wasnt until nearly a month later _ I received the managers reply. A. since B. unless C. as D. that 2) -Did Jack come back early last night? -Yes, it was not yet eight oclock _ he arrived home. A. before B. when C. that D. that,D,B,5. Being very stable, it has proved invaluable in the design of bridges. (四面体)十分稳定牢固, 在桥梁设计领域的价值难以估量。,Being very stable, 是Because it is very stable的省略句, 它在句中作原因状语。 1) _ in thought, he almost ran into the car in front of him. A. Losing B. To lose C. Lost D. Having lost,C,2) With _ leaves _ in the earth every year, the soil becomes richer and richer. A. falling; burying B. fallen; buried C. fallen; burying D. falling; buried 3) John rushed out in a hurry, _the door_. A. leaving; unlocked B. leaving; unlocking C. left; unlocking D. to leave; unlocking,A,B,4) The girl _ forward to buying a new gold watch. A. referred to look B. referred to looking C. referred to looks D. referring to look,C,6. Although he is most often associated with the invention of the telephone, he was indeed a continuing searcher after practical solutions to improve the quality of everybodys life. 虽然人们常把他和发明电话联系起来，但是他的确是一名永不停息的探索家，不断寻求着改善人们生活质量的途径。 1) associate with 把 和联系起来；和来往 2) indeed adv. (加强语气) 真正地, 确实,Task3 Retelling,In 1847 Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland and then he moved to Boston with his family. Because his mother was deaf, he became interested in helping deaf people (1) _ (communicate). This interest led him to invest the microphone. He found that by (2)_(press) his lips against his mothers forehead, he could make his mother understand (3) _ he was saying.,(to) communicate,pressing,what,In 1876, Bell invented his most famous invention, the telephone. In fact, at the beginning, he wanted to design a multiple telegraph, (4)_ sent a message over distance (5)_(use) Morse code. (6)_ only message could go at a time. Bell later improved his machine. When he was experimenting with one end of a straw joined to a deaf mans ear drum and the (7)_ to a piece of smoked glass,which,using,But,other,Bell noticed the straw drew sound waves on the glass. And he had a flash of (8)_(inspire), which led him to the first telephone finally. Bell also (9) _(interest) himself in many other areas of invention. He experimented (10)_ helicopter designs and flying machines. He made his last invention when he was seventy-five.,inspiration,interested,with,Homework,1. Go over the language points of the unit. 2. Finish all the exercises in workbook. 3. Write a short passage about an invention.,Pair work:Try to answer the questions with your own words .,1. What does Bells saying mean to you? 2. What do you think Led to his success as an inventor of telephone? 3. What inventions did Bell make? 4.