江西省南昌市湾里区第一中学高中英语《Unit3 Inventors and inventions》教学设计 新人教版选修8.docVIP

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions he First Period Speaking Teaching goals 教学目标 1. Target language ：discovery, application, evaluate, presentation, alternative, messenger, get together, make a case for, add up 2. Ability goals Enable the students to talk about information and different. 3. Learning ability goals Help the students learn how to talk about inventions and discoveries. Teaching important difficult points How to talk about inventions and discoveries. Teaching methods Discussion. Teaching aids A computer and a projector. Teaching procedures ways Step I Warming up Talk about inventions and discoveries. T: The importance of inventions to social progress can never be changed. Each invention carries the world a step forward and provides stimulation for later ones. Whit inventions turning up all the time, our world is always taking on a new look. But do you know what an invention is? S1: The creation of something new S2: A creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation. S3: The creation of new things. … Ask the students to talk about the pictures with the teacher’s help, and then discuss the first two questions. T: And what is a discovery? What’s the difference between a discovery and an invention? Now look at the pictures on page 1. Work in pairs and talk about the three different things, telling them apart and giving reasons. Show the following. 1. Which o these pictures show inventions? Does any of them show discoveries? 2. Work out two rules that will help you decide what is a discovery and what is an invention? S1: I think the first two are inventions, i. e. the amphibious car and Stevenson’s “Rocket” while the last picture about the DNA is a kind of discovery. Because the first two products were quite new to people at that time and no one had ever seen or designed such kind of vehicles before though some others had made similar cars or machines which had less functions and advantages as these two. I think the pictu