高中英语选修八人教版课件：Unit+3+Inventors+and+inventions+Using+Language+Reading+%26+Listening.pptxVIP

Unit3：Using language Reading listening Great inventions in ancient China火药gun-powder司南The compass 印刷术 movable-type printing 造纸术 paper-making Can you name some of the most influential inventions abroad, and their inventors.Walt and his steam engine Thomas Edison and light bulb Alexander graham Belltelephone Fast readingRead the passage for the first time, and make a pro the great inventor--Alexander Graham BellBirth year：Birth place:Hobbies:Belief: His famous saying：The year he made his first invention:The year he invented telephone： Careful ReadingDisscussion: What does Bell’s saying mean to you? Which sentence would you prefer? Read the third paragraph, and finish the following exerciseAccording to the text, Bell got such great achievement thanks to _____. A.a straw joined to a deaf man’s ear B. the exploring around problems C. a moving electrical current D. his excellent assistant Watson It was this exploring around problems and his dynamic spirit [1] _______ led to his most famous invention—the telephonein 1876. Bell never set out to invent the telephone and [2] _______he was trying to design was a multiple telegraph. This original telegraph sent a message over distances [3]______(use) Morse Code(a series of dots tapped out along a wire in a particular order). But only one message could go at a time. He designed a machine that would separate different sound waves and allow different conversations [4]_________(hold) at the same time. But he found the problem difficult [5]___ ( solve) . One day [6]___he was experimenting with one end of a straw [7]______[join] to a deaf man’s ear drum and the other to a piece of smoked glass, Bell noticed that when he spoke into the ear, the straw [8]______ sound waves on the glass. Suddenly he had a flash of inspiration. If sound waves could be reproduced in a moving electrical current, they could be sent along a wire. In searching to improve thetelegraph, Bell had invented the first telephone.