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Stephenson’s “Rocket” DNA 2. Work out rules that will help you decide what is a discovery and what is an invention? (2) Do you know the stages every inventor must go through before they can have their invention approved? Here give you some similar stages used in research, please out them in the suitable order. Discussion: Discuss with your partner what the advantages might be of getting a patent. * * * * * * * * 人教新课标必修8 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions Warming up and Reading I electric bulb Who invented it? Thomas Edison 1.Do you know some famous inventors and their inventions? Try to make a list of them. Leading in Gas-motored and manned plane 1903 air conditioner 1902 Wright brothers Willis Carrie television 1923 colour television 1940 Logie Baird Atomic bomb 1945 American scientists Credit cards 1950 Ralph Schneide Windows OS 1985 Microsoft Company Among the inventions above, which invention do you think is the most important one? Why? Warming up –I 1.Look at the pictures below and discuss in pairs which pictures show inventions and which show discoveries. Warming up – Ⅱ This is the first car that can travel safely on water and on land. An amphibious car George Stephenson was one of the first men to design engines for the railways which were new at that time. This was a discovery of Francis Crick and James. (1) An Invention is something that is created by a human being. Inventing is a scientific activity. A discovery merely makes known something that already existed in nature. Pre-reading Applying for a patent 2. Finding a problem 3. Doing research 4. Testing the solution 5. Thinking of a creative solution 6. Deciding on the invention Reading The problem of the snakes As you read the following passage, check the order you wrote above to see whether it follows the correct stages in producing an invention. Reading What was the mother upset about? 2. Why was the writer happy to help her mother? The mother was upset because a family