高二英语inventions2.pptVIP

人教版高二下 Unit 18 Inventions 教案 Period1 Let’s listenand speak! Goals ● Help students understand thecommon sense about inventions. ● Do listening and make sure students understand it. ● Help improve the students’listening and speaking abilities. Procedures Leading in by guessing. Today, we are going to learn something about inventions that will do good to human beings or even smoot h away difficulties brought by disabilities. Here are some of them. Please guesswhat they are orwho the i nventors are. 1. a man who made more than 1,000 inventions in his life and invented electric bulbs 2. awoman who discovered away to alter and expand the range of natural cotton colorswithout using tint s or dyes 3. a computer that fits comfortably on your nose and weighs less than a pair of glasses 4. a man born in 1876 who invented an effective gas motor engine and built the first practical four-strokei nternal combustion engine called the “Otto Cycle Engine” 5. a shoewhose heels made electricity with every step thewearer takes Key: 1. ThomasAlva Edison 2. Sally Fox 3. Nose-top computer 4. Nicolaus Otto 5. Electric shoes To learn more about inventions please turn to page 57 or look at the screen. Task 1: Looking anddiscussing. Look at page 57 or thescreen. There are four pictures and four descriptions. Read the descriptions individ ually first and then match each picture with thecorrect description. Picture 1: Electric shoes Picture 2: Inflatable bicycle Picture 3: Edible chopsticks Picture 4: Nose-top computer Task 2: Discussing. Now discuss thefollowing questions in pairs: 1. Which of thefour “invention” do you think would be more useful? Why? 2. Is there anything you would like to invent? If so, what and why? Task 3: Listening andanswering questions. 1. Now we are going to listen to dialogue 1 on the tape, which is about Mr. Dean’s new invention. Listen c arefully and try to understand it. Then you should answer thefollowing questions: 1) What are the advantages of Mr. Dean’s