必修5 UNIT1The 1st Period教学设计.docVIP

BOOK 5 Unit1 Great Scientists The 1st Period Teaching Aims: 1. Learn some new words and expressions. 2. Know some great scientists and their achievements. 3. Know some important qualities a scientist should have and the stages in examining a new scientific idea. Difficult and Important Points: 1)Word study 2)Discuss in groups the stages in examining a new scientific idea. Teaching Methods: Inductive method Pair work group work Word Study according to the situations given (Do exercises) Teaching Procedures: Step I Warming up 1. What do you know about great scientists? Try this quiz and find out who knows the most.(Pair work to finish the Quiz Questions on P1.) 2.Check the answers with the whole class. 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 it into a steam engine for taking water out of mines in 1712 .James Watt improved it and turned it into the first modern steam engine used on the railways. ) 4).Gregor Mendel (Czech) 5).Marie Curie (Polish and French, won two Nobel Prizes) 6).Thomas Edison (an American inventor) 7).Leonardo da Vinci (a famous Italian artist) 8).Sir Humphry Davy (British) 9).Zhang Heng (Chinese, invented seismograph) 10).Stephen Hawking (a British astronomer) Step II. Word Study 1.Read the new words after the tape. 2.Choose the correct words to complete the following sentences. 1) John Snow devoted himself to ________(science, scientific) research. 2) He worked hard until he drew a ____________(conclude, conclusion) in 1854. 3) The boy needs one more stamp to make his collection __________ (complete, completely) 4) ____________(Apart from, Except) that 10 dollars, I have another ten given by my mother. 5) Cholera was a ________disease. Many people _____ of it. (dead, die , death, deadly) 6) People who had drunk the __________ (polluting, polluted) water were dead. 7) I will tell him the good