Lesson 4 Understanding
Objectives
To practise using linking and reference words to help understand a text.
To practise using adverbs.
To make students know how to gain knowledge.
Ⅱ. Warming up
Question students: By what ways do we acquire knowledge?
Reading books
Watching TV
Going through the Internet
Learning from teachers or friends
Listening to radio
Ⅲ. Pre-reading
1. Can you think of the process/way to gain/understand knowledge?
2. Which of these things help you to understand things?
1) being relaxed and happy
2) having time to think about what
you are learning
3) being interested in the topic
4) discussing topics with friends
5) asking questions
3. Will you completely believe in what your teachers said? What about the great scientist? Will you fully believe in them?
We have our understanding about things, but we are always affected by the authorities and lose our thoughts. It seems that not all that the great people said is correct.
Do you believe the following sentences said by the great?

Knowledge is power.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them
Earth must be the centre of the universe because it felt like the earth was standing still

Earth must be the centre of the universe because it felt like the earth was standing still

Ⅳ.Reading
(I).Read the text and answer the following questions.
1)Does the writer believe that the Baconian Method of scientific thought is a good way to gain knowledge?
2) What image does the writer use to explain how men like Bacon and Galileo helped educate people?
3) Why did Aristotle assume that the sun moved around the Earth?
4) Would the writer describe the people of the church during Galileo’s time as having ‘open’ or ‘closed’ minds?
5) Do you think people like Bacon and Galileo would have thought it was a good idea to open libraries and set up universities? Why?
(II).Read texts 1-4Which of the underlined linking words mean the same as these?
Example as = when
afterwards, but, since, so he could, so, to start with, when, next
(Ⅲ). Vocabulary: Words about learning, Ex.5
(Ⅳ). Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words below. Ex.6
Ⅴ.Language points
Ⅵ. Assignments



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