What should we do in our daily life to develop our interest and love for science??

Teaching Aids

CAI equipment with a Multi-media classroom and other normal teaching tools.?

Three Dimensional Teaching Aims

Knowledge Aims

Learn something about some famous scientists in the world.?

Know about the outstanding discoveries, inventions and theories from some well-known scientists.

Try to understand and learn the important words and expressions.?

Ability Aims

Develop the students’ ability of speaking.?

Encourage the students to give more information about the great scientists.?

Emotional Aims

Encourage the students to learn more about the great scientists and learn from them.?

Help the students to form the good habit in learning and encourage the students to take part in social practice.?

Help the students to realize that it is scientific spirit that makes those scientists successful.

Encourage the students to develop their love for science.?

Teaching Procedure

Step 1 Greeting

Teacher: Hello, everyone.?

Teacher: Hello, Mr.../Ms...?

Step 2 Lead inw

T: I’m very glad to see you all here.After a long holiday, all of you look energetic and happy.I hope that we will work hard together happily all through the year.I do believe that a bright future is waiting for you.We are sure to realize our dreams in the near future.By the way, I’d like to know what you would like to be in the future.Let me share your dreams.Anyone who gives your idea will get a star for your group.Ready?Go!

S: I admire Yang Liwei very much, who is a great honour to our motherland.I’d like to be an astronaut like him.

T: Yeah, the spacecraft, Shenzhou V, orbited the earth 14 times in 21 hours, making China the third country to have successfully sent an astronaut into space.I hope you will realize your dream.

S: I want to be a doctor.I hope I’ll be an outstanding one and be expert in finding cures for different kinds of cancers.?

T: That’s a good idea.There are so many patients with cancers in the world, who are suffering a lot.Thank you!?

S: I want to be an English teacher like you.For one thing, I like English very much; for another, you are not only strict with us but also patient with us.You are just our friends and maybe more than our friends sometimes.?

T: I’m really gla d to hear that.It’s my great honor to be your friends and I like my job very much.

S: I’d like to be an expert in environment.You see, with the development of industry, our globe is seriously polluted.Dirty water, polluted air, and loud noise make our living conditions worse.I think we should leave a beautiful world to the next generation.?

T: Yes, someone predicted that the last drop of water in the world would be the tear of human being’s.I think all of us should pay attention to our environment, and make our contributions to improving the environment.?

S: I’m so interested in physics.And I have read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time? twice.I hope I will be a scientist like him.As we all know, the development of our society will go hand in hand with the development of science.

T: Yeah, I can’t agree with you more.S cience plays an important part in the development of our society.There are so many examples in the history of human beings.

Ss: ...

T: I’m so glad to share your dreams.Your ambition and careful thoughts really leave a good and amazing impression on me.I like them.In this unit, you will learn something about“Great scientists”.Maybe you will know what you need in your efforts to realize your dreams after we talk about some world-famous scientists.Before we come to“Warming up”, I’d like you to come to the new words in this unit, which will help you to learn this unit.?

Step 3 Word puzzles

T: Open your books and turn to Page 92.Let’s read the words and expressions together.?

(Let the students read the words and expressions together.Help them pronounce the new words and expressions correctly.Later give them some time to practise reading and remember some easy and important ones.Give more help to those who are poor in pronunciation.)?

T: Here are some definitions of some of the words from this unit.Please work in pairs and match the words with their definitions.(group competition)?

Words　　  Definitions or explanations

A.examine  1.general principles of an art or science?

B.repeat   2.say or do again?

C.theory   3.at once; without delay?

D.immediately  4.look at...carefully in order to learn about or from...?

E.complete  5.of great value, worth or use?

F.valuable  6.having all its parts; whole; finished?

G.announce  7.make known?

H.control   8.come or bring to an end?

I.positive   9.power to order or direct?

J.conclude  10.quite certain or sure

T: Now, let’s check the answers.A—4, B—2, C—1, D—3, E—6, F—5, G—7, H—9, I—10, J—8. You have done a good job.I will give you some more minutes to go over all the words and expressions and then fill in the blanks with proper forms of some of them from this unit.?

1.“All roads lead to Rome, ”he encouraged me after I failed the entrance examination.?

2.This sentence doesn’t make any sense.?

3.Our English teacher is not only strict with us but also friendly to us.?