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1、Period 1Module 4 Great ScientistsIntroduction Reading & VocabularyWhat great scientists do you know?Name: _Nationality: _Major: _Inventions /discovers: _When did they invent/discover:_QianQian XuesenXuesenChineseChinese PhysicsPhysicsChinese atom bombIn 1964Name: _Nationality: _Major: _Inventions /d
2、iscovers: _When did they invent/discover:_Marie CuriePolish PhysicsRadioactivityIn 1898Name: _Nationality: _Major: _Inventions /discovers: _When did they invent/discover:_Archimedes Sicilian Physics, Mathematicianbuoyancy浮力About 240 BCName: _Nationality: _Major: _Inventions /discovers: _When did the
3、y invent/discover:_Albert EinsteinGerman / American Mathematical Physicsrelativity In 1905Name: _Nationality: _Major: _Inventions /discovers: _When did they invent/discover:_Yuan Longping Chinese Agriculturehybrid riceIn 1970Find out the words with their definitions.1. the study of animals. 2. the s
4、tudy of plants. 3. the study of all living things.4. the study of physical objects and natural forces.zoologybotanybiologyphysics5. the study of chemical processes in living things. 6. the study of the structure of substance and how they react with each other.7. the study of inherited characteristic
5、s in living things. biochemistrychemistrygeneticsReading & Vocabulary-1. Pre-reading (4ms) Look at the title and guess what it is about. The Student Who Asked QuestionsThe Student Who Asked Questions1. Will the passage be about something 1. Will the passage be about something or about someone?or abo
6、ut someone?2. Do you think that the writer wrote 2. Do you think that the writer wrote about how the student studied in about how the student studied in school? Did the writer write about school? Did the writer write about what he did when he what he did when he grew up? Why? grew up? Why?Reading &
7、Vocabulary -2. Skimming(7ms) Read the passage and find out the answers to the questions.1.1.What kind of student was Yuan What kind of student was Yuan LongpingLongping when he was young?when he was young?2.2.What way did he think to produce rice What way did he think to produce rice more quickly?mo
8、re quickly?3.3.What did he discover?What did he discover?4.4.How important was the discoveryHow important was the discovery？1. 1. What kind of student was Yuan Longping when he What kind of student was Yuan Longping when he was young?was young?2. What way did he think to produce rice more 2. What wa
9、y did he think to produce rice more quickly?quickly?3. What did he discover?3. What did he discover?He was a student with lots of questions and he was interested in plants.By crossing different species of rice plant, then he could produce a new plant which could give a higher yield than either of th
10、e originalplants.He discovered a naturally sterile male rice plant.4. How important was the discovery4. How important was the discovery？ Chinese rice production rose by 47.5% in the 1990s.other advantages: 50,000 square kilometres of rice fields were converted to growing vegetables and other cash cr
11、ops. Yuans rice was exported to other countries. His rices yield is much greater than the yield of other types of rice grown in Pakistan.Reading & Vocabulary - 3. Careful reading (5ms) Read the passage again and decide whether the statements are True of False. 1. China produces more rice than any ot
12、her country.2. Yuan Longping asked a lot of questions at school.3. He developed a new kind of fast-growing rice.4. The government helped him in his research.5. The new rice replaced vegetables in 50 thousand square kilometers.6. The new rice is now grown n other countries, such as Pakistan.Reading & Vocabulary -3. Vocabulary (6ms) Finish the exercises in Activity 3 & 4.Activity 3: 1) crop 2) breakthrough 3) breed 4) support 5) feed 6) publish 7) producer 8) species 9) agriculture Activity 4:1) B2) B3) A4) B5) BHomework 1,Read the text at least 3 times.2,Recite the words from P31-32.
