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Unit 3 Inventors and inventions (教案) 教学重点 Help the students to understand the passage. 教学难点 How to improve the students’ reading ability. How to help the students understand the passage exactly. 情感目标 Develop the students’ sense of responsibility. 教学方法 Task-based teaching and learning. Cooperative learning. 媒体准备 A blackboard, The multimedia computer. 教学过程 Step 1 Warming up Look at the pictures below. Why are they famous? P1: Issac Newton discovered gravity. P2: Ben Franklin discovered Lighting is electricity. P3: Thomas Edison invented the electric bulb. P4: Madame Curie discovered Radium. Question: 1.What is the difference between the discovery and invention? A discovery is : finding out something existing but not yet known A invention is : creating something not existing before 2. Connection between discovery and invention: DiscoveriesInventionsElectricity electrical light, computers, telephones, television, etcThe movement of airairplane, air balloons, etcThe circulation of the bloodmachines to help people with serious diseaseX-raysmachines to treat illnesses (like cancer) Step 2 Fast-reading 1. Read and get its main ideas. 1. Read and get its main ideas. The text narrates the problem of the snakes and presents the procedures of catching them and applying for a patent 2. Divide the passage into 4 parts and find out the main idea of each paragraph. Part 1 (Para 1): The discovery of the problem of the snakes. Part 2 (Para 2-3): The research on the approaches to solve the problem. Part 3 (Para 4-6): The attempts to catch the snakes. Part 4 (Para 7-8): The requirement of getting a patent. Step 3 Skimming Skim the passage and finish the following tasks: Task1: Answer the following questions: 1. What was the mother upset about? (The mother was upset because a family of snakes had made their home near the house.) 2. Why was the writer happy to help he