Module 4 Great ScientistsTeaching Time:教学时间Teaching Aims:教学目标1. Knowledge and Skills知识与技能a. Make students know some words, phrase and related expressions about scientists.b. Make students make a revision about the passive voice and the usage of “by + - ing ”.c. Make students learn to write an essay on great scientists ’life.d. Make students proficiently master how to say the numbers.e. Improve students abilities’ of listening, speaking, reading and writing.2. Process and Methods过程与方法a. Improve students’speaking ability through group discussion.b. Improve students ’analyzing and resolving abilities through group cooperation.3. Emotion and Values情感与价值Make students know something about the current development of science and technology, as well as make them learn from those great scientists, such as the spirit of devoting to science, seeking truth and persistent dedication for human ’s happiness and development. Teaching importance and difficulties：教学重点与难点1. Teaching Importance教学重点a. Master some science-related vocabularies.b. Learn how to use passive voice.c. Learn how to say numbers.2. Teaching Difficulties教学难点a. Make students understand some common expressions used in quiz show while listening.b. Enable students to use passive voice correctly.c. Enable students to write essays on great scientists’life according to the structure of thepassage.Teaching Plan ：教学计划Period One: Introduction, Reading and V ocabulary, FunctionPeriod Two: Grammar 1 and Grammar 2Period Three:Listening and V ocabulary, Pronunciation, Everyday EnglishPeriod Four: Reading and WritingPeriod Five: Cultural Corner, Module FilePeriod One:Introduction, Reading and Vocabulary, FunctionTeaching Goals:1.To know something about great scientists, such as Qian Xuesen, Marie Curie, Archimedes,Albert Einstein and Yuan Longping;3.To learn how to say numbers.Teaching Procedures:Step 1: Lead in----- IntroductionBrainstorm:Question: What great scientists do you know? ( free speaking )Make students say something about those four great scientists--- Qian Xuesen, Marie Curie, Archimedes, Albert Einstein.Name Nationality Major Invention/Discovery Time of thediscoveryQian Xuesen China Physics, Chinese atom bomb In 1964MathematicsMarie Curie Poland Physics Radioactivity In 1898Archimedes Sicily in Italy Physics, buoyancy About 240 BCmathematicsAlbert Einstein Germany / Mathematical relativity In 1905America PhysicsMake students learn some words of different fields in science.Subjects Chinese meaning The person who research the subjects Biochemistry 生化学BiochemistBiology 生物学BiologistBotany 植物学BotanistChemistry 化学ChemistGenetics 遗传学GeneticistPhysics 物理学PhysicistZoology 动物学ZoologistMake students finish exercise 2 on page 31 individually.The answers:1. zoology2. botany3. biology4. physics5. biochemistry6. chemistry7. genetics Step 2:Reading and Vocabulary1. From the title“ The Student Who Asked Questions” , guess what the passage is about?Who is the student?Question: What do you know about Y uan Longping?Name Nationality Major Invention/Discovery Time of thediscoveryYuan Longping China Agriculture Hybrid rice In 19702. Make students find the topic sentence of each paragraph.Para1: Yuan Longping is a leading figure in the rice-growing world.Para2: As a boy, he was called“ the student who asked questions”. Para3: As a young teacher, he began experiments in crop breeding.Para4: He discovered a special type of rice plant.Para5： His discoveries increased Chinese rice production.Para6： The yield of the new hybrid rice is much greater than that of other types grown in Pakistan.3. Make students skim the passage and find the answers to the following questions.1） What kind of student was Yuan Longping when he was young?2） What way did he think to produce rice more quickly?3） What did he discover?4） How important was the discovery ？The possible answers：1） He was a student with lots of questions and he was interested in plants.2） By crossing different species of rice plant, then he could produce a new plant which could give a higher yield than either of the original plants.3） He discovered a naturally sterile male rice plant.4） Chinese rice product ion rose by 47.5% in the 1990’ s.There were other advantages.50,000 square kilometers of rice fields were converted to growing vegetables and other cash crops.Yuan’ s rice wasexported to other countries.His rice ’ s yield is much greater than the yieldofother types of rice grown in Pakistan. 4．Make students read the passage carefully and decide whether the statement are true or false.1). China produces more rice than any other country.2). Yuan Longping asked a lot of questions at school.3). He developed a new kind of fast-growing rice.4). The government helped him in his research.5). The new rice replaced vegetables in 50 thousand square kilometers.6). The new rice is now grown n other countries, such as Pakistan.The answers: TTTTFT5. Make students finish exercises in activity 3 and 4 on page 33 individually, then checkthe answers.Step 3: Language points1.He thought that (the key to feeding people was to have more rice and to produce itmore quickly.)宾语从句the key to sth. / doing sth. ---的关键to 属于“介词”e.g. 这就是考试失败的关键。