人教版英语选修8-Unit3-全单元教案
Unit 3 Inventors and inventions
The First Period Reading
Teaching goals教学目标 1. Target language目标语言 a. 重点词汇和短语
patent, distinguish, product, power, perfume, cube, abrupt, abruptly, convenient, expectation, monitor, passive, criterion, valid, application, file, rod, call up, now and then, set about, in case 2. Ability goals
Enable the students to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. 3. Learning ability goals
Help the students to learn how to retell the story and how to meet the requirements of getting a patent.
4. Emotional goals
Make the students try to be good at discovering some useful things and realize that it’s not easy to get a patent.
Teaching important points 教学重点
To get the main idea of the whole passage and each parts. Teaching difficult points 教学难点
Learn how to meet the requirements of getting a patent. Teaching methods 教学方法 Reading and Task-based activities.
Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式 Step Ⅰ warming up
Deal with the part of warming up and ask the students to find out the definitions of discovery and an invention, and their differences.
An invention is something that is created by a human being, such as the lightning rod. To the contrary, a discovery merely makes known something that already existed in nature, such as the discovery on the New Continent by Columbia. Step Ⅱ Pre-reading
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Ask the students to discuss in groups and work out a suitable order for the list of how people get their invention approved.
1. Finding a problem 2. Doing research 3. Thinking of a creative solution 4. Testing the solution Step Ⅲ While-reading
Task 1: Get the students to comprehend the passage carefully and accurately to find out the main idea of the passage, and then divide the text into several parts and work out the main idea for each paragraph.
Main idea: The text is mainly about the author’s experience in helping her mother get rid of the snakes and applying for the patent for her invention. Part I (Para.1): the discovery of the problem of the snakes
Part II (Paras.2-3): the research on the approaches to solve the problem Part III (Paras.4-6): the attempts to catch the snakes Part IV (Paras.7-8): the requirements of getting a patent
Task 2: go through the whole text again and finish Exercise 1 on page 21. Step Ⅳ Post-reading
Ask the students to think of 2 questions. 1. What should we learn from this text? 2. What’s the writing purpose of the writer?
1. We can learn from the text the way of doing scientific researches and how to apply for a patent. We can also learn that it takes an inventor great determination and persistence to achieve his or her ambition in life.
2. The writer wants to inform us of the scientific methods to solve present problems so that we students can not only broaden the horizons but become more skilled in discovering and considering carefully the problems in daily life. We are also encouraged by the writer to be creative and hardworking as well as thinking independently. Step Ⅴ Homework
1. Go over the whole passage, and try to retell it.2. 能力提升，Jinbang.
The second Period Language points
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5. Deciding on the invention 6. Applying for a patent
人教版英语选修8-Unit3-全单元教案
Teaching goals教学目标 1. Target language目标语言 a. 重点词汇和短语
patent, distinguish, product, power, perfume, cube, abrupt, abruptly, convenient, expectation, monitor, passive, criterion, valid, application, file, rod, call up, now and then, set about, in case b. 重点句子
1. The first thing I did was to …, but there only seemed to …
2. Between the outside and the inside walls of the bowl there is some jelly, which freezes when cooled.
3. The criteria are so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted unless they are truly novel. 4. Nor will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from everybody else’s. 2. Ability goals
Enable the students to master the usage of the new words and expressions and some key sentence structures, and use them in the writing. 3. Learning ability goals
Teaching important points 教学重点 How to use the language points Teaching difficult points 教学难点
Try to comprehend some complicated sentence structures Teaching methods 教学方法 Reading, explaining and practicing.
Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式 Step Ⅰ revision
Check their homework, and try to retell the passage briefly. Step Ⅱ language points 1. Pre-reading go through
(1)经历(2)通过,成功,成交(3)审阅,检查(4)翻找,查看(5)穿过,通过 Most families went through a lot in the war.
2. do research on /into /in... 从事, 进行, 做研究 They are carrying out a research into the
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causes of cancer. They are doing research into electricity.
P 1. call up 打电话，使......回忆起 I’ll call you up tonight (call sb. /ring sb. up ) 号召 call on 需要 call for… 取消 call off 使产生 call forth 结束一天的工作 call it a day 收回 call back
拜访某人 pay a call on sb./ visit sb./ drop in on sb./ pay a visit to sb.
now and then 有时, 偶尔 I see them now and then, but not often. distinguish 1. distinguish oneself 使…出名显扬自己, 使自己扬名
2. distinguish A and B区分A 和B 3. distinguish/ tell right from wrong辨别是非
4. distinguish/ tell good from evil 分清善恶 5. distinguished/respected guests 尊敬的来宾 P 2. powder: n. 粉，粉末；药粉；火药 grain sth. into powder 把磨成粉 set about 开始, 着手 The sooner we set about it , the sooner we’ll finish. P 3. prepare with, sleepy, stainless steel
P 4. abruptly adv. A man with an abrupt manner is not welcome here. convenient Come and see me whenever it is convenient to you. Inconvenience inconvenient convenience P5 caution
P6. expectation 1. 出乎意料 out of expectation 2. 在意料之中 in expectation 3. 盼望得到… in expectation of… 4.
不负…所望 live up to one’s expectation
passive: adj. 被动的，消极的；不抵抗的；不活跃的 He played a passive role in the marriage. P 7. 1. seize the chance/ opportunity 抓住机遇
P 8. application: n. 应用，运用；申请，请求；努力，专注 The invention had no practical application. Step Ⅴ Homework 1. learning about language 2. English weekly P3 part 1, part 2
The third Period using language
Teaching goals教学目标 1.Target language 目标语言 a. 重点词汇和短语
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forehead, dot, tap, wire, straw, current, importance, helicopter, triangle, stable, practical, beaten track, dive into, set out (to do), in truth b. 重点句子
He found that by pressing his lips against... He designed a machine that...
Although he will always be known for..., he was... He realized that by understanding how... 2. Ability goals能力目标
Enable the students to learn about the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his inventions.
3. Learning ability goals学能目标
Help the students learn how the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell invented telephones. Teaching important points 教学重点
How the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell invented telephones. Teaching difficult points教学难点
Help the students learn what the key is to become a successful inventor. Teaching methods 教学方法 Listening, fast reading and practicing.
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式 Step Ⅰ Revision Check their homework Step Ⅱ Pre-reading
Ask the students to look at the title and the picture of the great inventor on page 25, and answer the following questions in groups. 1. What do you know about the inventor?
2. How useful is his invention to human society? Why? Step Ⅲ Listening & Reading
Firstly, let the students read the four questions in the EX 1 on page 26 to get a general idea of what should be paid attention to and then play the tape for students to follow and give the answers to the questions. Then check the answers with the whole class.
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