Module 5 Unit 1 Great Scientists
【教材分析】
本单元的中心话题是“科学家如何以探索、钻研、无畏的科研精神验证未知的科学真理。” Warming up 和pre-reading激活背景知识，为进入阅读课文打好铺垫;阅读文章介绍英国著名医生John Snow是如何通过考察、分析、探究的科学方法发现并控制“霍乱”的。运用图式理论激活背景知识的过程，
Doctor Zhong Nanshan

SARS & Bird Flu

infectious diseases

Cholera John Snow
通过阅读，使学生学习解决问题的一般步骤，并用于指导其他学科的学习。之后进行相关的语言学习和语法学习，对于课文语言点，采用老师引导式：课前布置学生找出重难点，堂上通过设计各种各样的情景要求学生使用课文出现的重难点回答问题，最后以填空、翻译、复述、使用所学重点造句等形式进行巩固，深入理解文章中的句子。语法教学根据三维语法教学理论所提倡的：“形式+ 意义+ 运用”相结合；把语法教到实处，教到使处。整个语法教学由单词、词组、句子、对话、段落到篇逐渐过渡，使学生能做到学以致用。听力部分主要培养学生的分析能力和组织语言的能力；而说的部分侧重于交际能力和说服能力，同时也为后面的写作打好基础。写作除了强调说理能力的培养，也强调了对学生收集信息、整理信息及传递信息的能力培养，通过引入(背景)---口头讨论(收集点子)---列提纲---写作---组内交流---全班分享---课后修改---老师批改体现了自做、自助和自悟的教学思想、改进学生的学习策略。
【课程标准要求掌握项目】




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Describing people
What nationality is this scientist?
When was he / she born?
When did he / she die?
What kind of family did he / she come from?
What kind of education did he / she receive?
What did he / she achieve in his / her scientific work?
Why did he / she achieve great success?
Was it because of his / her talent / intelligence / hard work / persistence / confidence / curiosity / enthusiasm / luck?




词 汇 1． 四会词汇
engine, characteristic, theory, scientific, examine, conclude, conclusion, analyse, repeat, defeat, attend, expose, cure, control, absorb, test, severe, valuable, pump, pub, blame, immediately, handle, addition, link, announce, instruct, virus, construction, contribute, positive, strict, movement, god, backward, complete, spin, enthusiastic, cautious, reject, view
2． 认读词汇
infect, infectious, cholera, deadly, outbreak, clue, Cambridge, germ, certainty, creative, cooperative, Nicolas Copernicus, revolutionary, calculation, loop, privately, bright-ness, persuasive, logical
3． 词组
put forward, make a conclusion, in addition, link ... to ..., apart from, be strict with, lead to, make sense, point of view, expose to, absorb into, be to blame, physical characteristic
结
构 The past participle as the predicative & attribute
Find out the functions of the past participle in sentences.
Discover the similarities and differences between the passive voice of the predicate and the past participle used as predicative & attribute.





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子 1. John Snow was a famous doctor in London — so expert, indeed, that he attended Queen Victoria as her personal physician. P2
2. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed to cholera. P2
3. It seemed the water was to blame. P2
4. To prevent this from happening again, John Snow suggested that the source of all water supplies be examined. P3
5. Although he had tried to ignore them, all his mathematical calculations led to the same conclusion: that the earth was not the center of the solar system. P6
6. Only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense. P7
7. To his surprise, he found that he could cross six of the bridges without going over any of them twice or going back on himself. P44

Period 1 Warming up & Vocabulary
Teaching Aims:
1. Get to know some new words and expressions. Focus on: put forward, theory, black hole, radium, steam engine, characteristics, examine, draw a conclusion, analyse, repeat, attend, contribute, apart from, creative, co-operative, positive, strict, enthusiastic, cautious.
2. Know some great scientists and their achievements.
3. Analyse the common qualities these scientists share and revise how to describe people’s characteristics.
Difficult and Important Points:
1) Word study
2) Describe main contributions of the great scientists.
3) Make up a dialogue between two scientists about their inventions/discoveries an
生词表: