Module 4 Great ScientistsTeaching Time:教学时间Teaching Aims:教学目标1. Knowledge and Skills知识与技能a. Make students know some words, phrase and related expressions about scientists.b. Make students make a revision about the passive voice and the usage of “by + - ing ”.c. Make students learn to write an essay on great scientists life.d. Make students proficiently master how to say the numbers.e. Improve students abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.2. Process and Methods过程与方法a. Improve studentsspeaking ability through group discussion.b. Improve students analyzing and resolving abilities through group cooperation.3. Emotion and Values情感与价值Make students know something about the current development of science and technology, as well as make them learn from those great scientists, such as the spirit of devoting to science, seeking truth and persistent dedication for human s happiness and development.Teaching importance and difficulties：教学重点与难点1. Teaching Importance教学重点a. Master some science-related vocabularies.b. Learn how to use passive voice.c. Learn how to say numbers.2. Teaching Difficulties教学难点a. Make students understand some common expressions used in quiz show while listening.b. Enable students to use passive voice correctly.c. Enable students to write essays on great scientists life according to the structure of the passage.Teaching Plan ：教学计划Period One:Introduction, Reading and V ocabulary, FunctionPeriod Two: Grammar 1 and Grammar 2Period Three:Listening and V ocabulary, Pronunciation, Everyday EnglishPeriod Four: Reading and WritingPeriod Five: Cultural Corner, Module FilePeriod One:Introduction, Reading and Vocabulary, FunctionTeaching Goals:1. To know something about great scientists, such as Qian Xuesen, Marie Curie, Archimedes, Albert Einstein and Yuan Longping;2. To learn some science-related words;13. To learn how to say numbers. Teaching Procedures:Step 1: Lead in- IntroductionBrainstorm:Question: What great scientists do you know?( free speaking )Make students say something about those fourgreat scientists- Qian Xuesen, Marie Curie,Archimedes, Albert Einstein.NameNationalityMajorInvention/DiscoveryTime of thediscoveryQian XuesenChinaPhysics,Chinese atom bombIn 1964MathematicsMarie CuriePolandPhysicsRadioactivityIn 1898ArchimedesSicily in ItalyPhysics,buoyancyAbout 240 BCmathematicsAlbert EinsteinGermany/ MathematicalrelativityIn 1905AmericaPhysicsMake students learn some words of different fields in science.SubjectsChinese meaningThe person who research the subjectsBiochemistry生化学BiochemistBiology生物学BiologistBotany植物学BotanistChemistry化学ChemistGenetics遗传学GeneticistPhysics物理学PhysicistZoology动物学ZoologistMake students finish exercise 2 on page 31 individually.The answers:1. zoology 2. botany 3. biology 4. physics 5. biochemistry 6. chemistry 7. genetics Step 2: Reading and Vocabulary1.From the title“ The Student Who Asked Questions” , guess what the passage is about?Who is the student?Question: What do you know about Y uan Longping?NameNationalityMajorInvention/DiscoveryTimeofthediscoveryYuan LongpingChinaAgricultureHybrid riceIn 19702. Make students find the topic sentence of each paragraph.2Para1: Yuan Longping is a leading figure in the rice-growing world.Para2: As a boy, he was called“ the student who asked questions”.Para3: As a young teacher, he began experiments in crop breeding.Para4: He discovered a special type of rice plant.Para5： His discoveries increased Chinese rice production.Para6： The yield of the new hybrid rice is much greater than that of other types grown inPakistan.3. Make students skim the passage and find the answers to the following questions.1） What kind of student was Yuan Longping when he was young?2） What way did he think to produce rice more quickly?3） What did he discover?4） How important was the discovery ？The possible answers：1） He was a student with lots of questions and he was interested in plants.2） By crossing different species of rice plant, then he could produce a new plant which couldgive a higher yield than either of the original plants.3） He discovered a naturally sterile male rice plant.4） Chinese rice product ion rose by 47.5% in the 1990 s.There were other advantages.50,000 square kilometers of rice fields were converted to growing vegetables and other cash crops.Yuan s rice wasexported to other countries.His rice s yield is much greater than the yieldofother types of rice grown in Pakistan. 4Mak