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Unit 1 Great scientists 第4课时 导学案 【学习目标】 1. To learn about Copernicus’ revolutionary theory. 2. To learn to write a persuasive essay and improve their integrating skills . 【重点难点】 Inspire Ss to argue for their own ideas. Enable Ss to write a persuasive composition. 【学习内容】 【课前预习】 Step I. Words and expressions 1. 对……要求严格 ______________ 2. 导致______________________ 3. 只有_________________ 4. 讲得通，有意义______________________ 5. 太阳系________________ 6. 有时_______________________ 7. 鼓励某人做某事__________________________ 8. ……的中心____________________ Step II. Crazy reciting. 1. Nicolaus Copernicus was frightened and his mind was confused. 尼古拉·哥白尼很害怕，大脑很混乱。 2. Only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense. 只有当你把太阳放在中心位置上，天空中其他行星的运动才能讲得通。 3. He placed a fixed sun at the centre of the solar system with the planets going round it and only the moon still going round the earth. 他把太阳固定在太阳系的中心位置上，其他行星则围绕着太阳转，只有月球仍然绕着地球转。 4. The Christian Church rejected his theory， saying it was against God’s idea and people who supported it would be attacked. 基督教会拒绝接受他的理论，说这种理论违背了上帝的旨意，谁支持这一理论将会受到攻击。 5. Yet Copernicus’ theory is now the basis on which all our ideas of the universe are built. 然而哥白尼的理论却是我们宇宙观赖以建立的基础。 【课堂学习】 Step1. Skim the text and draw the two theories of the universe with the following pictures. Before Copernicus’ theory Copernicus’ theory 【课堂小结与反思】 Step2. Read through the passage， and tell whether the following statements are true or false. 1. At Copernicus’ time， Christian Church was in charge of many western countries. 2. Copernicus noticed that observed from the earth， some planets appears in front of or behind the earth. 3. Copernicus didn’t show his new theory to his friends until he completed it. 4. His friends were not interested in his ideas. 5. Since he was not afraid of being attacked by the Church， Copernicus published his book as soon as he finished working on it. 6. Newton， Einstein， and Hawking are