高二英语unit11教案2

Unit11 Scientific Achievement

Teaching Aims & Demands:

1. Get the Ss to talk about science and scientific achievement.

2. Learn and practise the communication items about expressing intentions and

wishes and explaining the importance.

My plan is to… If I got the money, I would…

I hope that … I want/ hope/ wish/ intend/ plan to …

I‘d like to… I‘m thinking of …

Your research is extremely important because …

Your project is significant because …

That is important because …

This is very important project because …

… will make it impossible to …

… has had a positive effect on …

… allows farmers to increase production …

The breakthrough gives hope to …

3. Read & understand the texts, improve Ss‘ reading comprehension and do the

reading comprehension exercises.

4. Learn the new words, new phrases and new language points: solar, mankind,

constitution, man, support, daily, achieve, likely, zone, private, institute, grasp, master,

perfect, arrange, rely, failure, valley, base, mark, agency, organ, forward,

breakthrough, march, aim, announce, evolution, battle, set foot (in), have effect on,

rely on, come to life, put forward, aim (sth) at.

5. Learn the grammar Word Formation and do the grammar exercises.

6. Learn to write a persuasion essay.

7. Practise listening and do the listening exercises.

8. Get the Ss to know the new development of science.

Main & Difficult Points: the communication items about expressing intentions and

wishes, the reading comprehension of the text, the usages of the new words, new

phrases and new language points, the rules of Word Formation and grammar exercises,

listening and writing.

Time: 6 periods.

Period Ⅰ

Teaching Contents: Warming up & Listening.

Teaching Aims & Demands:

1. Talk about science and scientific achievement.

2. Listen to the tape and do the listening exercises.

Teaching Procedures:

Step1. Lead-in

Hello, everyone. Do you like science? Do you want to be a scientist in the future?

Of course, most of you do. Without science and scientists there would not be our

modern society. Now, can you imagine that we could live without electricity,

television, computer and telephone? No, definitely we can‘t. Fortunately, that kind of

thing will never happen. Well, do you know some of the great inventions that change

our daily life? If you want to know more, please open your book and turn to page 1.

Today we are going to learn Unit 11—Scientific Achievement.

Step2. Warming up

1. Look at the pictures and answer the following questions:

1) Who is the person in the first picture? Could you tell us what is his greatest

achievement? (Newton, the Theory of Gravity)

2) You can see a keyboard and a mouse of a computer. How often do you use

computer and what do you do with computer? How should we use computer?

3) Cars are very common in the modern society. Do you think it is possible that

every family in our country will have a car? If so, what would happen?

4) Do you use solar heater at home? What is the advantage of using solar energy?

2. Get the Ss to look at the pictures and discuss the following questions in groups or

pairs. Encourage Ss to think of their own reasons and ideas and try to widen their

mind.

1) These are some great scientific achievements that have changed the world.

Which one do you think is the most important? Why?

2) What are some other scientific achievements that you think are important?

3) Do these achievements have anything in common? If so, what?

4) Who can tell the importance and usages of electricity?

5) How do the modern media, such as radio, TV and internet change our daily life? 6) Talk about the great achievements in cloning, nuclear and solar energy.

Some words used in the discussion: electricity, solar energy, nuclear science,

cloning, and achievement.

3. Collect different answers to the questions from Ss and give supplementary if

necessary.

Possible answers Question 1:

Achievement

Importance/ Reasons

Electricity It is possible to work at night/ build factories/ invent computers,

telephones, TVs etc.

Cars It makes transportation cheap, easy and convenient.

People can live far away from where they work.

Policemen, doctors and firemen can reach accident scenes quickly.

Aeroplanes People can travel across the world.

Mail and goods can be sent across the world.

Radios and

televisions They provide entertainment and education.

They make people know news and other important information.

The Internet It provides education and entertainment.

It is a easy way for people to communicate with each other.