Unit 13 Albert Einstein
Lesson 51 Albert Einstein (2)
Teaching objectives: 1. Improve the students’ listening and speaking
abilities by answering questions、making new
dialogues、group discussion and so on.
2. Make a further study of the text.
3. Learn language items in the dialogue.
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warming-up:
1.Read out some statements about Einstein. Get the students to say if they are true or false.
1). Einstein was born in Switzerland.
2). He studied in Germany.
3). He didn’t enjoy school very much.
4). He never worked as a teacher.
5). Mrs. Einstein admitted that even she did not understand the Theory of Relativity; but she understood something far more important for a wife; she understood her husband.
6).Mrs. Einstein said that her husband liked order in his thinking, but he didn’t like it in his life. He did whatever he wanted to.
7). Einstein led a very simple life. When he went out, he was always in old clothes and seldom did he wear a hat. He liked to whistle and sing in the bathroom.
8). He married three times.
9). He didn’t talk until the age of three.
10). Einstein said he was happy because he didn’t want money or titles or foolish praises. He made his own happiness of such simple things as playing the violin and sailing his boat.
11). Einstein’s violin brought him more joy than anything else in his life. He said he often thought in music and made his day-dreams in music.
Ⅱ.Listen and answer:
1.First listening with questions: (watch the video of the text)
Today we are going to find out more about Albert Einstein. Watch the video to find the answer to this question: Why did Einstein leave Europe?
( It was not safe to remain there.)

1). Einstein’s theory was completely new, and _______ people could understand it at the time.
A. nobody B. a lot of people
C. only three people D. even children
2). As a great scientist, Einstein ____ during the First World War.
A.didn’t stick to his opinion
B.didn’t join the army
C.was greatly surprised
D.believed the war was wrong
3). When Germany was ruled by Hitler, Einstein and his family left Europe for the USA in 1933 because ________.
A.he wrote a letter to American newspaper
B.other scientists didn’t accept his ideas
C.he couldn’t prove his ideas
D.they were Jews
4). We can see ____ from the second paragraph.
A.Einstein’s theory was too difficult
B.Other scientists are all less clever than Einstein
C.Truth lasts forever
D.Einstein was not liked by other scientists
5). According to the text, which is right? _______
A.The stars are moving.
B.The stars will be where they used to be.
C.The light is bent when it travels at ha high speed.
D.The light travels through space in a straight line.
6). The last paragraph tells _______.
A.when Einstein left Europe for the USA
B.Einstein didn’t like to join the army
C.What happened to Einstein during the First World War.
D.Einstein liked peace and hated wars and kllings
Suggested answers:
1) C 2) B 3) D 4) C 5) C 6) D
2. Some further questions to the text.
Ask the students to ask and answer the following questions in pairs.
1). What did scientists believe before him?
Scientists believed that light traveled through space in a straight line before Einstein.
2). What did Einstein prove?
Einstein proved that light coming from the stars was bent as it passed the sun.
3). What did he work out?
He worked out just how much the light would be bent and how far the stars would appear to have moved.
4). How did Einstein become world famous?
At first many of the scientists did not accept his scientific ideas. Yet by 1919 scientists who had been watching the stars supported his wo
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