Module4GreatScientistsBriefStatementsBasedonThisModuleTheAnalysisofTeachingContentsinThisModuleIntroductionInthispart,wewillleadinthetopicbytalkingaboutsomescientists.Theteachercanshowthestudentssomepicturesofscientistsonthescreen,suchasAlbertEinstein,Archimedes,MarieCurie,QianXuesen.Makesurethestudentsknowthemandencouragethemtosayasmanythingsaboutthemastheycan.That’sthelead-inandalsoActivity1intheintroduction.InActivity2,we’lllearnsomewordsrelatedtoscience.Inthispart,letthestudentsmatchthesubjectswiththeirdefinitions.PairworkcanbeinvolvedinActivity3.Askthestudentstoworkinpairsandwritesomefactsaboutafamousscientist.(TheteacherhadbetteraskthestudentstocollectsomeinformationbysurfingtheInternetorreadingsomemagazineaheadoftime.)VocabularyandReadingThepassagemainlytellsusthestoryofYuanLongping—thefatherofhybridrice.Theteachermayaskthestudentstoreadthetextfasttogetthemainideaofeachparagraph.Thendosomecarefulreadingtomakesurethestudentsunderstandthepassagebetter.Atthesametime,we’lldealwithsomeexercisesincludingsomewordstudy.Theteachermayshowthemonthescreen,suchasstaple,yield,sterile,hybrid,etc.Byguessingfromthewholecontexttheywillhaveagoodsenseofenlargingtheirvocabularyandthisisveryimportantinlearningalanguage.Whilereadingthispassage,somereadingstrategiesarenecessary:skimming—fastreadingtofindoutthegeneralideaofthepassageaswellastheanswerstooneortwoquestions;scanning—carefulreadingtolookforimportantfacts;guessing—trytoguessnewwordsfromthecontext,understandtheauthor’sattitudeandideasfromthecontextandunderstandtheintention.Intheteachingofreading,theteachercanorganizedifferentreadingactivitiesaccordingtothecontentofthetextonpurposetotraintheabovereadingstrategiesandhelpthemdevelopgoodreadinghabitsfromtheverybeginning.FunctionFunctioninthismoduleistalkingaboutnumbers,whichincludebignumbers,fractionsandpercentages.ThestudentscanfinishActivities1and2individuallyandchecktheanswerswiththewholeclass.Asforactivity3,pairworkorgroupworkisbetter.Letthestudentsdictatesomenumberstotheirpartnerstoconsolidatewhattheylearned.Afterthat,theteachercangivethemaquiztomakesurethestudentscandistinguishdifferentnumberscorrectlyandcanreadandwritetheminthecorrectway.Grammar1Ingrammar1,we’llrevisethepassivevoiceofpresenttense,pasttense,futuretenseandpresentperfecttense.Therearefouractivitiesforthestudentstopractice.ThroughActivity1,theteacherwillknowifthestudents专心爱心用心1cantellpassivevoicefromactivevoiceandiftheycandistinguishthesentencetense.Inclass,theteachershouldgivethestudentsmorechancestospeakEnglish.ListeningActivity1isanoraljob.TheteachermaygivethestudentsoneminutetohaveaquicklookatthepictureonPage36andthendescribewhatishappening.Theteachercanasktwoorthreestudentstoanswerthisquestion.InfinishingActivities2&3moreeffortsmaybeinvolved,andthereforetheteacherhadbetterplaythetapetwice.Afterlisteningwe’lldoawordexercise,thatisActivity4,matchthewordswiththemeaning.Itisagoodwaytoconsolidatenewwords.ReadingandWritingThispartisveryimportantandusefulforthestudentstopracticewriting.Atthebeginning,we’lllearnthenewwords:best-sellercosmology,diagnose,disability,motorneuronedisease,andvictim.Inactivity2therearethreedisorderedparagraphsaboutscientistStephenHawking.Thenmakesurethemainideaofeachparagraphinactivity3.Activity4givesusthenotesaboutAlbertEinsteinintheorderoftime,whichisoftenthemaincharact...
