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1、,新课标人教版课件系列,高中英语 选修(模块）8-3.2,English Song English Class Language Data Bank,课时分配,Period 1&2 Warming up and Reading I,Unit 3 Inventors and inventions,Period 1&2: 幻灯片9-48页,Warming up:,In groups, discuss the inventions you know and then make a list.,Warming up-I (4m),Do you know what these inventions ar
2、e and when did they happen?,Telephone 1876,television 1923,colour television 1940,photocopier 1937,air conditioner 1902,electronic digital computer 1942,Atomic bomb 1945,Credit cards 1950,Penicillin 1928,Among the inventions above, which invention do you think is the most important one? Why?,Warming
3、 up II (2m),What is an invention?,An Invention is something that is created by a human being. Inventing is a scientific activity.,Warming up-III (2m),What is a discovery?,A discovery merely makes known something that already existed in nature.,In pairs discuss which of the following pictures show in
4、ventions. Does any of them show discoveries?,Pre-reading I (4m),An amphibious car(2003),This is the first car that can travel safely on water and on land. When moving on water, the wheels of the car turn sideways and move into the body. The underneath of the car is strong enough to sail as a boat. I
5、t is a prototype and is not yet being produced for sale. This is an interesting modern invention.,Stephensons “Rocket” (1781-1848),George Stephenson was one of the first men to design engines for the railways which were new at that time. One of the first tracks to be laid was between Stockton and Da
6、rlington. Stephenson was one of the first railway engineers and in 1825 he drove the first train along the line.,The structure of DNA,This was a discovery of Francis Crick and James Watson and published in 1953. These two scientists were the first to show that our genes consist of two spirals of DNA
7、 (called the double-helix). This work led directly to the human genome project in 2003, which discovered the Structure of DNA.,Do you know the stages every inventor must go through before they can have their invention approved? Discuss in pairs , and then put the following stages into a suitable ord
8、er.,1.Applying for a patent 2.Finding a problem 3.Doing research 4.Testing the solution 5.Thinking of a creative solution 6.Deciding on the invention,Pre-reading II (3m),The suitable order:,Finding a problem,Doing research,Thinking of a creative solution,Testing the solution,Deciding on the inventio
9、n,Applying for a patent,Patent office (专利局) plays the role of deciding what is an invention and what is not. And only inventions can get patens and so be recognized and protected.,patents,Reading The problem of the snakes,Skim the whole passage and get the main idea:,The text narrates _ and presents
10、 _ and applying for _.,the problem of the snakes,the procedures of catching them,a patent,Reading-I(3m),Divide the text into four parts and work out the main idea for each paragraph.,Part I Part II Part III Part IV,(Para.1),The discovery of the problem of the snakes.,(Paras2-3),The research on the a
11、pproaches to solve the problem.,(Para. 4-6),The attempts to catch the snakes.,(Para.7-8),The requirement of getting a patent.,Reading II (5m),Scanning: Find out which paragraph or paragraphs deal with each inventing process in the passage and find the examples:,removed,harmed,methods,habits,three,on
12、e,1,2,3,Reading III (7m),4,5,6,7,three,efficiently,recognized,Detailed reading:,Answer the following questions:,What are the three creative steps that the writer takes to catch the snakes without hurting them? Why did cooling the snakes make them less active? What might the advantages be of getting
13、a patent?,Reading IV (5m),What are the three creative steps that the writer takes to catch the snakes without hurting them? _ _ _,To put the frozen bowl over the snakes habitat in the morning.,To put the frozen bowl over the snakes habitat in the evening.,To put the frozen bowl over the snakes habit
14、at in the evening and carry a net to collect the snakes without harming them the next morning.,2. Why did cooling the snakes make them less active?,The cooling made the snakes less active because they are reptiles and their body temperature depends on the heat around them.,You are able to prove that
15、 you were the first person to make the invention. You are recognized as a real inventor. You can make money if you sell your invention to others.,3.What might the advantages be of getting a patent?,(The students can have various answers),Match the different writing characteristics with each writing styles:,Formal language with few adjectives, not emotional, factual,Vivid use of words with similes and metaphors, emotional to describe atmosphere, not factual but imagi
