新人教版选修8Unit3WarmingupandReadingI课件.pptVIP

人教新课标必修8 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions;Period 12 Warming up and Reading I;Warming up:;Do you know what these inventions are and when did they happen?;television 1923 ;photocopier 1937;electronic digital computer 1942;Atomic bomb 1945;Credit cards 1950;Penicillin 1928;Among the inventions above, which invention do you think is the most important one? Why?;What is an invention?;What is a discovery?;Look at the pictures below and discuss in pairs which pictures show inventions and which show discoveries. ;An amphibious car(2003);Stephenson’s “Rocket” (1781-1848) ;The structure of DNA;;The suitable order:;Patent office (专利局) plays the role of deciding what is an invention and what is not. And only inventions can get patens and so be recognized and protected.;Reading The problem of the snakes;Skim the whole passage and get the main idea:;Divide the text into four parts and work out the main idea for each paragraph.;Scanning: Find out which paragraph or paragraphs deal with each inventing process in the passage and find the examples:;;Detailed reading:; What was the mother upset about?;3.What are the three creative steps that the writer takes to catch the snakes without hurting them?;4. Why did cooling make the snakes less active?;5. Discuss with your partner what the advantages might be of getting a patent.;Match the different writing characteristics with each writing styles:;Vivid use of language and more informal style, imaginative but can be based on fact;Discussion:;1. What’s the writing purpose of the writer?;2.What should we learn from this text?;Apply what we learn:;;Assignment