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1、Unit 3 Period 1 Welcome to this unitThe General Idea of This Unit:In this period, students are asked to talked about some amazing people in the world. The four pictures in this part can arouse the students interest in speaking. By talking about these famous people, the students will know the good qu
2、alities to become a famous person, and try to work hard at study and form good habits. The teacher encourages the students that as long as they work hard, they will succeed in the future.Teaching Aims:1. Talk about famous people in the world.2. Make the students know the fact that they will succeed
3、as long as they work hard.Teaching Important Point:Make the Ss free to talk in and after class about the amazing people.Teaching Difficult Point:How to finish the task of speaking.Teaching Methods.Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.Teaching Aids:1. The multimedia2. Th
4、e blackboardTeaching Procedures:Step 1 Greetings and Lead-inGreet the students as usualCheck the homework if anyStep 2 Lead-inT: Hi. everyone! Welcome to this unit. In this unit well learn about some great people. As we all know, great people often played important roles in history. Some of them eve
5、n changed the history . Can you name some great people ? And why do you think he or she is great ?Do you have some persons who you admire very much?Step 3 SpeakingT: Now were going to talk about some famous people in the world. Open your books and turn to Page 41. Please look at pictures. Talk about
6、 them in groups of four. Who are they? What are they famous for? You are given five minutes to discuss them. Is that clear?Ss : Yes.T: OK. Please begin.T. (Five minutes later. ) Are you ready?Ss: Yes.T: OK. Whod like to talk about the first picture?S1: Id like to have a try. The woman in the first p
7、icture is Mother Teresa. She is a Christian. She won the Nobel Prize for Peace, and was loved and worshipped in India. She was given the highest honor as Gandi by the government of India.T: Very good. Mother Teresa is one of great women in the world and she made great contributions for the peace of
8、the world. If youre interested in her, you can surf the Internet for more information about her. Lets talk about the second picture. Can you try, Li Ning?S2 :Yes. William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and
9、 solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. He offers many jobs for people. It is said that he employs more than 55 000 people in 85 countries and regions. He has made great contributions for the world. I think he is the greatest man in the world.T: Quite right. Sit down
10、, please. He is the most famous businessman in the world. He is also the richest man in the world-worth and estimated (估价) $ 40 billion in t997 according to Forbes magazine. Without a doubt, Bill Gates is one of the most important minds of our era(世纪)-the Thomas Edison of our time what else do you k
11、now about him?S3 : It is said in the newspaper that he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.T: Wonderful. Gates foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. OK. Lets talk about the Th
12、ird picture. Li Ming, you try, please.S4 :Yes. The man in the picture is Beethoven. He is a great composer. During his life he created many beautiful and famous works. Many of his works are well kept today. But it is said that he wrote a great deal more than those well-known works; one catalog of hi
13、s compositions runs to 849 separate items. While several hundred of these works have been recorded on one medium or another, there still remain literally hundreds of other works which have never been recorded at all, or which have never been published in widely available editions or in some cases, n
14、ever published at all! There are thus hundreds of Beethoven works which, until now, have been available only to scholars and specialists.T: Well done. Sit down, please. Anything else?S5 :At an early age, Beethoven took an interest in music, and his father taught him day and night on March 26th 1778,
15、at the age of 8,Beethoven gave his first known public performance, at Cologne. Though he couldnt hear anything any more at the age of 45 ,he still continued to work for his music, and he successfully finished the ninth and tenth symphony at last.T: What about the last picture?S6 :Zhang Heng was a fa
16、mous man of letters and scientist in the East Han Dynasty in the Chinese history. He invented the armillary sphere and the seismograph, or Di Dong Yi (Earth Motion Instrument) for measuring earthquakes.T: Who can tell us something about the seismograph?S7: II1 have a try. This device was made of bronze in the shape of an urn eight feet in diameter. Inside the seismograph is a copper pendulum (钟等的摆
