广东省德庆县孔子中学高中英语 Unit 1 Great Scientists（第四课时）教案 新人教版必修5.docVIP

PAGE  广东省德庆县孔子中学高中英语 Unit 1 Great Scientists（第四课时）教案 新人教版必修5 教学内容This is the fourth period. In this period the teaching and learning will center on reading and writing. Help the students know about Copernicus and his theory. Develop the students’ reading ability. Improve the students’ writing ability.教学目标Knowledge Aims Get the students to know about Copernicus and his theory. Learn about persuasive writing. Ability Aims Master the skill of gist reading. Develop the students’ reading ability, such as skimming and scanning. Improve the students’ writing ability. Emotional Aims Arouse the students’ interest in science and devotion to science.教学策略手段As usual, the teacher can begin the teaching with reviewing the former knowledge. So at the beginning, get the students to prepare some knowledge for reading. For that purpose, the teacher will firstly ask for information about Copernicus according to what the students already know. Then the teacher can have the students listen to the tape and find out whether the statements are true or false. The following step is to read the passage for the details.The teacher can design some teaching activities to help the students to know about more and more information by taking part in the reading activities. At the end of reading, some activities should be designed to check the students’ understanding by saying something about Copernicus and making up a dialogue between Copernicus and his friend. Besides reading, the students are also expected to learn and practise their writing skill.By studying the passage, the students should learn to do persuasive writing to change someone else’s decision.The teacher should give the students some advice on how to plan the writing and develop the writing—beginning, body and conclusion.课堂练习Step1 Stephen Hawking 最杰出的科学家之一出生：1942年1月8日，英国品格:严于律己；严谨治学经历：1.小时候热衷于设计玩具 2.二十岁时，患上怪病；但积极面对，迎接挑战，专注于宇宙研究成就：1.1988年，提出“黑洞”理论 2.由于他贡献突出，被认为这一领域的权威 2006年，到中国做演讲，给听众留下深刻的印象 Ste