Unit1Greatscientist-WarmingUpandReading教案新人教版必修5.doc

PAGE  PAGE 4 Unit 1 Great Scientists Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading 1．Teaching Aims ①Get Ss to improve their reading abilities. ②Let Ss know the topic “Great scientists” ③Know some important phrases occurring in this reading 2．Teaching Procedures Step 1 Lead in Check Ss’ knowledge about some scientists and their discoveries. ①Who discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float? Archimedes ②Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed? Charles Darwin ③Who invented the first steam engine? Thomas Newcomen ④Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed form parents to their children? Gregor Mendel ⑤Who discovered radium? Maries Curie ⑥Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities? Thomas Edison ⑦Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people? Leonardo da Vinci ⑧Who invented a lamp to keep miner safe underground? Sir Humphrey Davy ⑨Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened? Zhang Heng ⑩Who put forward a theory about black holes? Stephen Hawking After all the questions, then lead in the passage with a picture. Ask ss if they know the map and what it is used for. Give them the answer later “It is a map to find out the cause of Cholera. ” Step 2 Skim and Scan More questions are given to get the general ideas of this passage and some obvious facts. Who defeats “King Cholera“? John Snow What happened in 1854? Cholera outbreak hit London. How many people died in 10 days? 500 Why is there no death at No. 20 and 21 Broad Street as well as at No. 8 and 9 Cambridge Street? These families had not drunk the water from the Broad Street pump. Step 3 Reading for details 1 Why couldn’t the cholera be under control at first? Neither its cause, not its cure was understood. 2 Which theory did John Snow believe in? People absorbed cholera into their bodies with their meals. 3 John Sn