Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained Welcome to the unit课件（译林牛津版必修2）.pptVIP

Area of standing crops that has been flattened in the form of a circle or more complex pattern. No general cause of crop circles has been identified although various natural and unorthodox explanations have been put forward; maybe many of the circles are known to have been hoaxes Welcome to the unit Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained In your opinion, what is the most beautiful thing one can experience? Why? Group discussion What have you known about Albert Einstein? Why was he so great? Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His special and general theories of relativity are still regarded as the most satisfactory model of the large-scale universe that we have. He solved lots of problems mysterious to us before… Do you want to know his opinion of the most beautiful thing one can experience? The most beautiful thing one can experience is mysteries . They are truly the basis of all arts and sciences . ------what kind of attitude should we adopt towards mysteries? Have you ever heard of something not only interesting and attractive but also unexplained and unsolved by today’s science and technology? The Bermuda Triangle Pair work Do the four pictures have something in common? If so, what is it? Can scientists explain these phenomena? 3.How do you feel about them? Example: They are mysterious because no satisfactory answers have been offered to explain them so far. Though these组卷网 mysteries have puzzled people for a long time, they still show great interest in them. People feel puzzled by the mysteries… Example: UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Objects, that is, objects, apparently moving in the sky, which we cannot identify. There are lots of reports about UFOs. Some say they are aliens visiting us in their spacecraft, and some say they are military test aircraft, while others say they do not actually exist. Since we have never seen one with our own eyes and there is no definite scientific