Unit1GreatscientistsListeningSpeakingandWriting教案.doc

第  PAGE 3 页 共  NUMPAGES 3 页 Unit 1 Great Scientists Listening, Speaking and Writing Teaching Aims: Improve the students’ listening skills. Improve the students’ speaking skills.[来源:Zxxk.Com] Difficult and Important Points:[来源:Zxxk.Com] 1)Listening 2)Help Ss overcome the difficulties in listening material. Teaching Methods: Class activities to help motivate the Ss’ interest of learning English. Teaching Procedures: Step I Warming up 1.Which plant and animal do you like best? Can you classify them into a system ? 2.Background: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish Carl Linnaeus is often called the Father of Taxonomy(分类学).He succeeded in classifying the plants and animals into a system that worked. His method was called “the sexual method” of classifying plants and animals. His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes). His ideas on classification have influenced generations of biologists during and after his own lifetime. Step II. Listening P41 1.Choose which of the following statements most closely describes what this listening passage is about . Explain why the others are wrong. A. This is about a man who wants to name a flower. B. This is about a man who finds a flower and wants to own it. C. This is about a man who finds a flower and wants to know if it is a new species of flower. 2. Listen to the tape again and try to complete the following passage. To find the name of the unknown flower, first you have to go to see a flower ________. He /She will look in a special ________ written by Carl Linnaeus. He lived in __________ from ________to __________. He was very important because he solved a serious problem for _________ . He saw all plants and animals produce _________________________. Some animals produce __________ but others lay _______ while plants ______________. He used these different ways of producing young to put plants and animals into _________. For exam