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Unit 3 Why Do We Believe That The Earth Is Round? Page  PAGE 3 of  NUMPAGES 3 教学课题Unit 3 Why Do We Believe That The Earth Is Round?施教时间2011.3.21教学目标1.Get Ss to know the author’s purpose is to teach Ss to have a correct attitude towards knowledge and accepting of knowledge by taking the examples of other’s arguments of the shape of Earth. 2 About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text structure, basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section.教学难、重点Topic discussion; text analysis; words and expressions教学准备教学过程I. PRE-READING ACTIVITIES 1.Background information George Orwell George Bernard Shaw The Flat Earth Theory and the Round Earth Theory Eclipses Playing Cards Comrade Mao Tse-tung on knowledge, on Direct Experience and Indirect Experience 2. warm- up questions and introductory remarks Do you believe that the earth is round? Why? Yes, I do, because science proves that it is true. 2) Have you heard of other conclusions about the shape of the earth? What are they? Why don’t you believe them? Yes. The earth was said to be flat or oval. I don’t believe them because the photos from satellites or the scenes of eclipses show that it’s round. why is “the earth is round” put in a question? 3.Key words and expressions: study of the words and phrases new words and old words teacher students (old words or expressions) (new ones) forward preface say,argue remark quote cite simply merely accept without question swallow overstate exaggerate attract appeal to for the good of for the sake of pole on a ship mast bend