2013年四川省攀枝花市米易中学高二英语教学资源：Unit 18《Inventions》1（选修6）.docVIP

Unit 18 Inventions 第一部分 教案范例 Period 1 Let’s listen and speak! Goals ● Help students understand the common sense about inventions. ● Do the listening and make sure students understand it. ● Help improve the students’ listening and speaking abilities. Procedures Leading in by guessing. ( group work, approx. 5 mins) Today we are going to learn something about inventions that will do good to human beings or even smooth away difficulties brought by disabilities. Here are some of them. Please guess at what they are or who the inventors are. 1. a man who made more than 1,000 inventions in his life and invented electric bulbs 2. a woman who discovered a way to alter and expand the range of natural cotton colors without using tints or dyes 3. a computer that fits comfortably on your nose and weighs less than a pair of glasses 4. a man born in 1876 who invented an effective gas motor engine and built the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine (四缸内燃机) called the Otto Cycle Engine. 5. a shoe whose heels make electricity with every step the wearer takes Key: 1. Thomas Alva Edison 2. Sally Fox 3. Nose-top computer 4. Nicolaus Otto 5. Electric shoes To learn more about inventions please turn to page 57/ look at the screen (showing the pictures on page 57). Task 1: Looking and discussing. ( pair/ group work, approx. 5 minus) Look at page 57/ the screen. There are four pictures and four descriptions. Read the descriptions individually first and then match each picture with the correct description. Picture 1: Electric shoes Picture 2: Inflatable bicycle Picture 3: Edible chopsticks Picture 4: Nose-top computer Top 10 Inventions and Inventors of All Time 人类历史上最重要的10大发明 Laser激光 Lightbulb/ Electricity 灯泡/ 电 Airplane飞机 Printing Press印刷术 Automobile汽车 Telegraphy电报 Radar雷达 Radio收音机 Penicillin青霉素 Microchip芯片 Task 2: Discussing. ( pair work, approx. 10 minus) Now discuss the following questions in pairs: 1.Which of the four “inventions” do you think would be usefu