高一英语外研版-必修4-module-4-great-scientists-教案

1、高一英语外研版-必修4-module-4-great-scientists- 教案Module 4 Great ScientistsTeaching Time: 教学时间Teaching Aims: 教学目标1. Knowledge and Skills 知识与技能a. Make students know some words, phrase and related expressions about scientists.b. Make students make a revision about the passive voice and the usage of “by + - ing

2、 ”.c. Make students learn to write an essay on great scientists life.d. Make students proficiently master how to say the numbers.e. Improve students abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.2. Process and Methods 过程与方法a. Improve students speaking ability through group discussion.b. Impr

3、ove students analyzing and resolving abilities through group cooperation.3. Emotion and Values 情感与价值Make students know something about the current development of science and technology, as well as make them learn from those great scientists, such as the spirit of devoting to science, seeking truth a

4、nd persistent dedication for human s happiness and development.Teaching importance and difficulties ：教学重点与难点1. Teaching Importance 教学重点a. Master some science-related vocabularies.b. Learn how to use passive voice.c. Learn how to say numbers.2. Teaching Difficulties 教学难点a. Make students understand so

5、me common expressions used in quiz show while listening.b. Enable students to use passive voice correctly.c. Enable students to write essays on great scientists life according to the structure of the passage.Teaching Plan ：教学计划Period One: Introduction, Reading and V ocabulary, FunctionPeriod Two: Gr

6、ammar 1 and Grammar 2Period Three: Listening and V ocabulary, Pronunciation, Everyday EnglishPeriod Four: Reading and WritingPeriod Five: Cultural Corner, Module FilePeriod One: Introduction, Reading and Vocabulary, FunctionTeaching Goals:1. To know something about great scientists, such as Qian Xue

7、sen, Marie Curie, Archimedes, Albert Einstein and Yuan Longping;2. To learn some science-related words;3. To learn how to say numbers.Teaching Procedures:Step 1: Lead inIntroductionBrainstorm:Question: What great scientists do you know? ( free speaking )Make students say something about those four g

8、reat scientists- Qian Xuesen, Marie Curie, Archimedes, Albert Einstein.NameNationalityMajorInvention/DiscoveryTime of the discoveryQian XuesenChinaPhysics, MathematicsChinese atom bombIn 1964Marie CuriePolandPhysicsRadioactivityIn 1898ArchimedesSicily in ItalyPhysics, mathematicsbuoyancyAbout 240 BC

9、Albert EinsteinGermany/AmericaMathematicalPhysicsrelativityIn 1905Make students learn some words of different fields in science.SubjectsChinese meaningThe person who research the subjectsBiochemistry生化学BiochemistBiology生物学BiologistBotany植物学BotanistChemistry化学ChemistGenetics遗传学GeneticistPhysics物理学Phy

10、sicistZoology动物学ZoologistMake students finish exercise 2 on page 31 individually.The answers:1. zoology 2. botany 3. biology 4. physics 5. biochemistry 6. chemistry 7. geneticsStep 2: Reading and Vocabulary2. From the title “ The Student Who Asked Questions ” , guess what the passage is about?Who is

11、 the student?Question: What do you know about Y uan Longping?NameNationalityMajorInvention/DiscoveryTime of the discoveryYuan LongpingChinaAgricultureHybrid riceIn 19703. Make students find the topic sentence of each paragraph.Para1: Yuan Longping is a leading figure in the rice-growing world.Para2:

12、 As a boy, he was called“the student who asked questions Para3: As a young teacher, he began experiments in crop breeding.Para4: He discovered a special type of rice plant.Para5： His discoveries increased Chinese rice production.Para6: The yield of the new hybrid rice is much greater than that of ot

13、her types grown in Pakistan.4. Make students skim the passage and find the answers to the following questions.1) What kind of student was Yuan Longping when he was young?2) What way did he think to produce rice more quickly?3) What did he discover?4) How important was the discovery ?The possible ans

14、wers：1) He was a student with lots of questions and he was interested in plants.2) By crossing different species of rice plant, then he could produce a new plant which could give a higher yield than either of the original plants.3) He discovered a naturally sterile male rice plant.4) Chinese rice pr

15、oduction rose by 47.5% in the 1990' s.There were other advantages.50,000 square kilometers of rice fields were converted to growing vegetables and other cash crops.Yuan' s rice wasxported to other countries.His rice ' s yield is much greater than the yield thfer types of rice grown in Pa

16、kistan.4. Make students read the passage carefully and decide whether the statement are true or false.1) . China produces more rice than any other country.2) . Yuan Longping asked a lot of questions at school.3) . He developed a new kind of fast-growing rice.4) . The government helped him in his res

17、earch.5) . The new rice replaced vegetables in 50 thousand square kilometers.6) . The new rice is now grown n other countries, such as Pakistan.The answers: TTTTFT5. Make students finish exercises in activity 3 and 4 on page 33 individually, then check the answers.Step 3: Language points1. He though

18、t that (the key to feeding people was to have more rice and to produce it more quickly.)宾语从句the key to sth. / doing sth.-的关键 to 属于“介词"e.g. 这就是考试失败的关键。 This is the key to failure in the exam.= This is the key of failing in the exam.她获得成功的关键在于她的努力。 The key to her success is based on her efforts.2

19、. He though there was only one way to do this-by crossing different species of rice plant, and then he could produce a new plant which could give a higher yield than either of the original plants.What s the function of which ”?“引导定语从句(one) way to do sth. = (one)way of doing sth.Eg. That s not a righ

20、t way to solve theropblem.I m not hapypwith this way of working.by crossing 通过杂交的方式 eg. Switch it by pressing this button.I will contact you by e-mail.3. First Yuan Longping experimented with different types of rice.experiment: (V.) 做实验e.g. 有人认为用动物来做实验是很残忍的。Some people think that it s cruel to exper

21、iment on animals.experiment: (n.) c / u 实验；试验do / perform / carry out an experiment做/进行实验4. This was the breakthrough.breakthrough: an important development that may lead to an agreement or achievement 重大进展 ,突破make a breakthrough 取得突破a major breakthrough 大突破5. 50 kilometres of rice fields were conve

22、rted to growing vegetables and other cash crops.= 50 kilometers of Rice fields were changed to grow vegetables and other cash crops. convert (sth) to / into sth: 把转变成；转变，改变e.g. 那家工厂把铁转变成钢。 That factory converts iron into steel.e.g. 我把我的美元换成了欧元。 I converted my dollars into euros.6. Following this, Yu

23、an Longping s rice was exported to other countries, such asexport: (Vt./vi.) to sell and send goods to anther country 出口，输出export (n.) import (vt./vi / n.)eg.出 口贸易 export trade石油的进口 imports of oilStep 4: Function1. Make a revision about how to say numbers in English.Integral number 整数 fractional num

24、ber 分数 decimal number 小数percentage 百分数3. Make students finish exercises in activity 1 and 2 on page 35.Step5: Homework1. Make students preview grammar 1 and 22. Finish exercise 5 to 12 on page 86 . (vocabulary and reading) Period Two: Grammar 1 and Grammar 2Teaching Goals:1. Make students learn how

25、to use passive voice in different tenses.2. Make students master the usage of 'by + - ing :Teaching procedure:Step 1: Review and Lead-inThe pattern of passive voice时态动词形式一般现在时am / is / are + 过去分词 (p.p.)一般过去时was / were + p.p.一般将来时shall / will + be + p.p.现在进行时am / is / are + being + p.p.过去进行时was /

26、 were + being + p.p.现在完成时has / have + been + p.p.过去完成时had been + p.p.过去将来时should / would + be + p.p.Step 2: ExercisesMake students finish activity 2, 3 and 4 on page 34 by themselves.The answers of Activity 2:1. These computers are produced in America.2. Rice has been grown in China for thousands of

27、 years.3. These electronic games were / are made in Japan.4. A new variety of rice was discovered in 1970.5. Many important discoveries have been made since the beginning of last century. The answers of Activity 3 :1. was educated2. was given3. were published4. was discovered5. were converted6. was

28、exportedThe answers of activity 4:1. Where was he educated?2. What nickname was he given?3. When were the results of the experiment published?4. When was a naturally sterile male rice plant finally discovered?5. How many square kilometres of rice 巾elds were converted to growing vegetables?6. Where w

29、as Yuan Longping's rice exported?Step 3: Grammar 2-by + -ing formby + - ing 表示方式方法Make students finish activity 2 on page 35 individually.Step 4: Exercises of college entrance exam1. - The window is dirty.-I know. It for weeks.A. hasn ' t cleanedB. didn ' t cleanC. wasn ' t cleanedD.

30、 hasn ' t been cleaned2. Now that she is our of a job, Lucy going back to school, but she hasnyet.A. had considered B. has been consideringC. consideredD. is going to consider3. The mayor of Beijing says that all construction work for the Beijing Olympics by 2006.A. has been completedB. has comp

31、letedC. will have been completedD. will have completed4. According to the art dealer, the painting to go for at least a million dollars.A. is expectedB. expectsC. expectedD. is expecting5. - What happened to the priceless works of art?A. They were destroyed in the earthquakeB. The earthquake was des

32、troying themC. They destroyed in the earthquakeD. The earthquake destroyed them6. - The window is dirty.- I know. It for weeks.A. hasn t cleanedB. didn t cleanC. wasn t cleanedD. hasn t been cleaned7. When and where to go for the no-salary holiday yet.A. are not decided B. have not been decidedC. is

33、 not being decided D. has not been decided8. A new cinema here. They hope to finish it next month.A. will be builtB. is builtC. has been builtD. is being built9. The new suspension bridge by the end of last month.A. has been designedB. had been designedC. was designedD. would be designed10. Hundreds

34、 of jobs if the factory closes.A. loseB. will be lostC. are lostD. will lose11. Rainforests and burned at such a speed that they will disappear from the earth in thenear future.A. cutB. are cutC. are being cutD. had been cut12. The first use of atomic weapons was in 1945, and their power increased e

35、normouslyever since.A. is B. wasC. has beenD. had beenThe answers: 1-5 DBCAA 6-10 DDDBB 11-12 CBStep 5: HomeworkFinish the exercises on page 85 and preview Listening and Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Everyday English.Period Three Listening and Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Everyday EnglishTeaching Goals:1

36、. Train the students ability of obtaining the key information while listening.2. Make the students learn how to read the stress in long words.3. Master some daily expressions.Teaching procedure:Step 1: Lead-inListening & Speaking1. Discussion:1) What is happening in the picture?2) What do you th

37、ink the listening text is about?The possible answer： 1) There's a quiz show being on.2. Vocabulary -Match the words with the meanings.1) . a prize or money given to someone for sthaward2) . exactly the sameequal3) . to find out how long, wide, heavy, etc. sth ismeasure4) . to finddiscover5) . an

38、 idea, esp. in science, that explains why or how sth happenstheory6) . a form of energy which comes from a nuclear reactionradiation7) . a person who takes part in a contestcontestant8) . a stage in a competitionround3. Listen to the tape and finish Activity 2 on page 36.The answers:1) . The second

39、round2) . Great scientist.3) . The first person to answer correctly win a point, if he or she answers incorrectly, he or she loses a point and the other person can then try and answer.4) . Two.5) . Difficult.6) .Rachel.4. Listen to the tape again, then finish the exercise in Activity 3, on page 36.T

40、he answers:1 .born 2. published 3. given 4. famous for 5. hole6 . discovered, holes 7.holes measured5. Listen to the tape again ,then fill in the blanks.Q.M: Boys and girls, we ' re into the second roiSupef quiz" , and'the subject of this round is “ Great Scientists ” . In this round, t

41、he firso peswer the question gets a point.If he ' s wrohe , loses a point, and the question goes to the second contestant. At the moment, Matthew and Rachel are equal, with 36 points each. First question: What is Einstein known for?(buzzer)M: What is Einstein famous for?Q.M: Correct. When was Ei

42、nstein born?(buzzer) M:10.Q.M: Wrong. Rachel? R:1879?Q.M: Correct. The special theory of relativity was published in1905. Who was it written by? (buzzer) M: Einstein.Q.M: Correct. Einstein was given an important award in 1921. What award was he given? (buzzer) M: Was he given the Nobel Physics Prize

43、?Q.M: Yes, he was. Well done. Next question: What book is Stephen Hawking famous for? (buzzer) R: A Brief History of Time .” Q.M: Correct. When was it published? (buzzer) R:1988.Q.M: Correct. What is a black hole" ? (buzzer) M:It ' s a star that has collapsed in on itself.Q.M: Correct. Who

44、discovered black holes? (buzzer) M: They were discovered by Einstein.Q.M: No, they were not discovered by Einstein, they were discovered by Fred Hoyle. How are black holes measured? (silence) Rachel?R:Pass.Q.M: Matthew?M:They ' re measured by thlight waves that come from them.Q.M: Wrong, they ar

45、en ' m easured by light waves, they ' rmeasured by the radiation that comes from them. Who was this radiation discovered by? (buzzer) R: Stephen Hawking?Q.M: Well done! They were discovered by Stephen Hawking. They' realled the Hawking radiation. Now, Stephen Hawking is famous for anothe

46、r reason. Does anyone know? (buzzer) M:He can ' t walk and he can ' t talk except with a machine.Q. M: That ' s correDo you know the name of the his disease? (buzzer)R: Motor neuron disease. He sits in a special wheelchair and he speaks through a voice machine.Q.M: Correct. And at the en

47、d of this round Matthew has thirty-nine points and Rachel has forty-one points!Step 2: Pronunciation1. Read about stress in long words.Make students read the stress after the teacher ,then pair them to practice saying them to each other.2. Listen and underline the stresses.Ask the students to read t

48、hrough the words and underline where they think the stwicess will fall.Play the tape twice and let them check to see if they are correct.Pair them to practice saying them to each other.Step 3: Everyday English1. Ask the students to do the choices individually then check with a partner.2. Call back t

49、he answers from the whole class.The answers:1 4a a b aStep 4: HomeworkMake students preview Reading and Writing.Period Four Reading and WritingTeaching goals:1. Train the students' reading ability.2. Teach students learn how to write a biography.Teaching procedures:Step 1: BrainstormDo you know

50、who is himthe box with the attacked, injured accident, etc.Make students look at the photo and guessWhen & where was he born?Why was he famous?When did he discover /invent?Step 2: Vocabulary Match the words in definitionsa person who has been or killed as a result of a crime, anto discover the c

51、ause of an illness or a problem a book that sells in very large numbers an illness the study of the origin and development of the universe the state of being disabledThe answers:Diagnose bestseller motor neurone disease cosmology disabilityStep 3: Numbering1. Make the students read the passage about Stephen Hawking and number the paragraphs in the correct