高中英语 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions warming up and reading课件2 新人教版选修8.pptVIP

Unit 3 Inventors and Inventions warming up reading presentations Do you think it’s easy to invent something? Do you know the stages every inventor must go through before they can have their invention approved? Reading for the details True or false? 1. I felt proud because I could help my parents kill the snakes in our yard. 2. I get down to searching the habits of snakes so I could trap them in the easiest way. 3. I decided to attract the snakes into a trap using male or female perfume or food to catch them. 4. For the first attempt I placed the frozen bowl over the snakes’ habitat in the evening. 5. As soon as I catch the snakes without harming them, I am truly an inventor. post-reading (discussion in groups) What are the requirements of the character of an inventor? Can you give some details in the text to support your idea? For example: patient persistent The author tried three times and finally he succeeded. hardworking, creative, careful, curious assignment 1. Remember the words and expressions in the reading passage. 2.part 1-2 in unit3 in your homework book. * ① ② ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥ Inventions: 1, 2,and 3. Discoveries: 4, 5 and 6. Sort out inventions and discoveries = = A discovery is __________. Finding or learning about something (place, fact) that has already existed for the first time. An invention is __________. Making or designing something that has not yet existed before. Discoveries often lead to inventions. Work out two rules: Do you know what these inventions are and when did they happen? Telephone 1876 television 1923 colour television 1940 photocopier 1937 air conditioner 1902 electronic digital computer 1942 Atomic bomb 1945 Alexander Bell Alexandra Volt Wright brothers Heng Zhang Bi sheng Galileo Guess the inventions their inventors Applying for a patent Finding a problem Doing research Testing the solution Thinking of a creative solution Deciding on the invention Give orders to invention stages: What will you do if some snak