高级英语Lesson6-Disappearing-Through-the-Skylight课件PPT.ppt

Aims To know the features of scientific writing. To analyse the structure of the text. To understand the deeper meaning of the text. To appreciate the language features Teaching Contents 1. Scientific writing 2. Structuralism and the main idea of the text. 3. Detailed study of the text 4. Organizational pattern 5. Language features 6. Exercises  As science becomes successful, more and more people accept its basic concepts. This proves the universality. thermodynamics -- (sing) 热力学 For many years there were two schools of genetics--- a Western genetics and a Soviet genetics put forward by Lysenko. Lysenko put forward the theory that environmental stress produces genetic changes and these are transmitted. The spread of technology with its universalizing tendency is what makes different countries and people look more similar or identical. As children’s thoughts and feelings are shaped by this sameness, their sense of differences among cultures and people becomes weak. Diversity: difference; variety Para 3 The automobile shows very clearly this universalizing influence of science and technology. Clarity: clearness of appearance; clearness of thought or style; lucidity NB: The writer uses four para.s to develop the ideas in this short topic sentence. innovation ---making change introducing new things technical innovations in industry A technological breakthrough like streamlining or all-welded body construction may not be accepted at first by all car makers but if it proves itself to be important in raising the efficiency or improving the economics of the car it will reappear, maybe in different forms, and will not only be accepted but regarded as a valuable thing by all car manufacturers. Today’s automobile do not display any unique features to show they are manufactured by a certain company or country. cylinder --- 汽缸 block ---main part of a petrol engine, consisting of the cylinder and valves 汽缸与阀 carburetor ---that part of an internal combustion engine in