新人教版、、必修五、 《Unit 1 Great Scientists》教案一（ 第1课时）.docVIP

新人教版、、必修五、 《Unit 1 Great Scientists》教案一（ 第1课时） Period 1 Warming up Vocabulary Teaching Aims: 1. Get to know some new words and expressions. Focus on: put forward, theory, black hole, radium, steam engine, characteristics, examine, draw a conclusion, analyse, repeat, attend, contribute, apart from, creative, co-operative, positive, strict, enthusiastic, cautious. 2. Know some great scientists and their achievements. 3. Analyse the common qualities these scientists share and revise how to describe people’s characteristics. Difficult and Important Points: 1) Word study 2) Describe main contributions of the great scientists. 3) Make up a dialogue between two scientists about their inventions/discoveries and their plan for the future. Teaching Methods: Analysing Individual Pair work Teams match Teaching Procedures Step 1 Leading in Introduce some famous scientists and their achievements, and then do the quiz. 1. Can you remember them? ( Stephen Hawking Yuan Longping) Have a revision of the expressions: theory, black holes, super hybrid rice. 2. Play a guessing game. Show sentences one by one about scientists’ contributions, and let Ss guess who they are. Ss should compete to answer as soon as possible. Then share some famous sayings by the great scientists, to inspire Ss to learn from them. Each student represents his/her team and gains points for his/her team. Step 2 Warming up 1. Try this quiz and find out who knows the most. (Pair work to finish the Quiz Questions on P1.) Give Ss enough time to understand the questions in the quiz, and they are allowed to discuss with their partners. T walks around to give help. 2. Check the answers with the whole class. Then ask Ss about these scientists. If they don’t know, show the further introduction to these 10 scientists. 1).Archimedes (an ancient Greek mathematician physicist) 2).Charles Darwin (British, author of The Origin of Species ) 3).Thomas Newcomen (British, improved the first steam pump and turned