高中英语选修七教案：Unit2 Fit for life Period 2-3 Reading.docVIP

Period 2-3 Reading Teaching aims and demands: Enable the students to master the usage of new words and phrases Enable the students to know development of the two medicines . To help the students to improve their reading , speaking ability Teaching important and difficult points: Help the students to improve their listening ,reading and speaking ability. Help the students master the reading strategy . Inform them of more about the two medicines. Teaching aids: the multimedia and the blackboard Teaching methods: listening and speaking pair work and group work Teaching procedures: Step 1.Lead-in: A free talk with students: ⑴.Have you ever taken aspirin and penicillin? ⑵.How much do you know about the two medicines? ⑶.What other illnesses do they cure? Step 2.Fast reading Read the passage again and answer the following questions: What are the two medicines mentioned in the article? (Aspirin and penicillin) 2. When was one of the medicines first sold as a tablet? (In 1900.) 3. What did Fleming, Florey and Chain share? (The Nobel Prize.) Step 3. Detailed reading Ask the students to read the passage again carefully and answer the detailed questions 1. When did people find that drinking a special tea could reduce fever and pain? (About 2,500 years ago) 2. When was ASA first made from other chemicals? ( In 1897) 3. What other things can ASA help with besides reducing fever and pain? (It can also help reduce the risk of heart attacks by thinning blood, prevent a stroke, reduce the risk of colon cancer, increase the length of people’s lives and help with diabetes.) 4. Where did Alexander Fleming find penicillin? (In the mould that killed bacteria) 5. What illnesses can penicillin be used to treat? (It can be used to treat bacteria illnesses and other illnesses including pneumonia.) 6. Why were Fleming, Florey and Chain given the Nobel Prize in physiology or Medicine in 1945? (Because Fleming discovered penicillin and the others turned it into the great drug wh