教学设计教学过程Step 1: warming upShow a picture and let the students guess what they are.Ask a question to enter the textStep 2: Listen to the text to fill in blanks using the following words.Listen to get the general idea of each paragraph.Step3: Read the text to finish the following questions. Read the passage to know Copernicus ' s storyStep 4: Retelling about the text. Fill in blanks according to the text.Step5: Role play to practice your spoken English.(Try to persuade Copernicus to public his theory.)Step6: Prepare for homework (Please refer to P8 Learning Tip and exercise 3)Step7: Homework.After class, write a letter to persuade Copernicus to public his theory.教学思路1营造氛围，激发兴趣先是提供图片和哥白尼的信息，激发学生的学习兴趣。
2延伸兴趣、深入拓展，提出日心说。
3安排任务，多向互动本课是一篇关于讲述哥白尼发现太阳系新理论的故事，使学生了解科学家如何探索、钻研、无畏的科研精神验证未知的科学道理的经历，并通过一些问题训练学生的分析，解决问题的能力。
COPERNICUS’ REVOLUTIONARY THEORYNicolaus Copernicus was frightened and his mind was confused. Although he had tried to ignore them, all his mathematical calculations led to the same conclusion: that the earth was not the centre of the solar system. Only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense. Yet he could not tell anyone about his theory as the powerful Christian Church would have punished him for even suggesting such an idea. They believed God had made the world and for that reason the earth was special and must be the centre of the solar system.The problem arose because astronomers had noticed that some planets in the sky seemed to stop, move backward and then go forward in a loop. Others appeared brighter at times and less bright at others .This was very strange if the earth was the centre of the solar system and all planets went round it.Copernicus had thought long and hard about these problems and tried to find an answer. He had collected observations of the stars and used all his mathematical knowledge to explain them. But only his new theory could do that . So between 1510 and 1514 he worked on it , gradually improving his theory until he felt it was complete.In 1514 he showed it privately to his friends. The changes he made to the old theory were revolutionary. He placed a fixed sun at the centre of the solar system with the planets going round it and only the moon still going round the earth. He also suggested that the earth was spinning as it went round the sun and this explained changes in the movement of the planets and in the brightness of the stars . His friends were enthusiastic and encouraged him to publish his ideas , but Copernicus was cautious. He did not want to be attacked by the Christian Church, so he only published it as he lay dying in 1543.Certainly he was right to be careful. The Christian Church rejected his theory , saying it was against God’s idea and people who supported it would be attacked . Yet Copernicus’s theory is now the basis on which all our ideas of the universe are built. His theory replaced the Christian idea of gravity, which said things fell to earth because God created the earth as the centre of the universe . Copernicus showed this was obviously wrong. Now people can see that there is a direct link between his theory and the work of Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.New words and expressions in the passage:(be) strict with…对……严格的Nicolaus Copernicus [ˈnɪkələs kəuˈpɜ:nɪkəs]尼古拉.哥白尼（波兰天文学家）revolutionary adj 革命的；重大变革的make sense 讲得通；有意义backward adv﹠adj 向后地（的）；相反地（的）；退步地（的）loop n 圈；环privately adv 私下地；秘密地spin vi﹠vt (使)旋转；纺（线或纱）brightness n 明亮；亮度；聪颖enthusiastic adj 热情的；热心的cautious adj 小心的；谨慎的reject vt 拒绝；不接受；抛弃universe n 宇宙；世界。
评测练习（一）非测试性评价1. Do I know how to be persuasive?2. Do I know how to make notes in class?3. Do I understand the reading passages well?4.Do I understand the listening texts well?（二）测试性评价1. Join the following sentences into one, using the past participle as the attribute.1) We have been told to read the book. It was written by a news reporter.2) We have all been very satisfied with the service in the space hotel. It was recommended by Li Qiang.3) The temple is under repair. It was built in 1900.4) The space vehicle can hold more than 100 space tourists. It was designed by a Chinese scientist.5) The plan will not be carried out until next month. It was discussed at last week's meeting.2. Rewrite the underlined parts using the past participle as the adverbial.6) As he was confused by the problem, he decided to turn to his teacher for help.7) Because she is worried about the missing child, she finds it difficult to go to school these days.8) As she was supported by her family, she decided to settle in the northwest of China.9) If he were given enough time, he would have finished the test paper.10) After she was accused of stealing the mobile phone in the office, she found that all her friends had deserted her.答案1) We have been told to read the book written by a news reporter.2) We have all been very satisfied with the service in the space hotelrecommended by Li Qiang.3) The temple built in 1900 is under repair.4) The space vehicle designed by a Chinese scientist can hold more than 100 space tourists.5) The plan discussed at last week's meeting will not be carried out until next month.6) Confused by the problem, he decided to turn to his teacher for help.7) Worried about the missing child, she finds it difficult to go to school these days.8) Supported by her family, she decided to settle in the northwest of China.9) Given enough time, he would have finished the test paper.10) Accused of stealing the mobile phone in the office, she found that all her friends had deserted her.（1）My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time (1)_______ I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and he had opened a black law firm to advise poor black people (2)_______ their problems.I began school at six . The (3)_______ where I studied only two years was three kilometres away. I had to leave , (4)_______ my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus (5) ______ . I could not read (6)______write. After trying hard , I got a job in a gold mine . This was a time when one had got to have a passsbookto live in Johanneburg. (7)______(sad) I did not have this passbook because I was not born there and I was worried (8)_____ whether I would be out of work.The day when Nelson Mandela told me what to do and helped me was one of the9 (happy) days of my life . He told me how to get the correct papers so I couldstay in Johanneburg. I never forgot (10) ______ kind he was and when he organized the ANC Youth League , I joined it as soon as I could .Keys:1. when2. on3. school4. because5. fare6.or7. Sadly8.about9.happiest 10. how（2）However, there was one band that started in a different way. It began as a TV show. The musicians of 1 the band was formed played jokes 2 each other as well as played music. Their music and jokes were based loosely on the band called “The Beatles”. The TV organizers3 (look) for four musicians who were lively and who could make good music. They put an advertisement in a newspaper4 (look) for rock musicians, but they could only find one that was good enough. They had to use actors for the other members of the band. Actors may not be able to sing so at first other musicians sang the songs for the programme5 the band pretended to sing them.Their attractive performances 6 (copy) by other groups and their fans supported them fiercely. Each week the group that was called “The Monkees” would play a song or two written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became 7 (serious) about their work, “The Monkees” started to play their own instruments and write their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. They became even more popular than “The Beatles” in the USA and sold even more records. However, the band broke 8 in about 1970, but 9 (unite) in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, which was a 10 (celebrate) of their time as a real band.Key:1. whom2. on3. had looked4.looking5. while6.were copied7.more serious 8. up 9. reunited 10. celebration。
