外语组刘丽浓

Lesson 49

Teaching demands

1.      Through the learning of this unit, introduce the great contribution and the great life of the outstanding scientist

2.      Using fluent English to describe the important activity and the scientific attitudes of pursuing truth and hold the strong belief.

3.      Understanding the sentence structure of portraying people

1.      do you like Physics? Why or why not?

2.      What do you find most interesting in Physics study?

3.      What does Physics mean to oue daily life?

4.      Do you know any famous Physics scientists?

5.      What common characters do they have?

6.      If you are asked to write an article about a scientist, what subjects will you cover?

Today we will learn a passage about a great scientist named Einstein.

   Let the Ss Skin the text and finish the time table.

Step 3 reading

   Listen the first part and ask some comprehending questions

Get Ss to read aloud

1)      What did scientists believe before Einstein?

2)      What did Einstein prove?

3)       What did he work out?

4)      How did Einstein become world famous?

5)      What brought him great sadness?

6)      Why didn’t he have to join the army?

7)      What did the want to see?

8)      Why did he find it impossible to continue living in Germany?

Keys to the questions:

1)      Scientists believed that light traveled through space in a straight line before Einstein

2)      Einstein proved that light coming from the stars as bent as it passed the sun

3)      He worked out just how much the light would be bent and how far the stars would appear to have moved

4)      At first many of the scientists did not accept his scientific ideas. Yet by 1919 scientists who had been watching the stars supported his work a and he quickly became world famous

5)      The first world was brought him great sadness

6)      Einstein had taken Swiss nationality and therefore did not have to join the army since Switzerland did not take sides in the war

7)      He wanted to see and end to all the armies of the world

8)      When Germany was ruled by Hitler in the early 1930s Einstein who was a Jew, found it impossible to continue living in Germany.

1)      Why do you think that many of the scientists would not accept Einstein’s discovery at that time? Why do you think that Einstein would just stick to his opinion and never give up? What can you learn from Einstein?

Key for reference:

1)      First, what Einstein had discovered was completely new, and scientists at that time had been used to the theory that light travels in a straight line. They could not understand how Einstein had proved his discovery

2)      Einstein had proved that light coming from the sun was bet as it passed the stars by working very hard, by doing a lot of research. He himself had worked out just how much the light would be bent and how far the stars would appear to have moved. He believed that what he had done was based on scientific research and he could prove that. So he stuck to his opinion. We should learn from his scientific attitude.

            Curious about everything

            Learned maths all by himself

Childhood    shy/not enjoy school

Like being alone

 

           Learn maths by himself

           Studied in Swthland from 17

Education   received a Doctor’s degree in 1905

           Study and research in Physics all his life

 

                Great contribution to Physics 

               

His contribution

                 Human rights and progress

 

           Shy /clever/curious

 

Character   hard-working/perseverant

 

           Prefer simple life / care little about money / love music ,peace

 Let Ss present a talk show

 Host / Einstein / his wife / his son

 Subjects may mentioned:

  Childhood / education / character / contribution / career and family ,etc

 

1.       Through the learning of the text, let the students enjoy complicated episodes of detective stories and great character of Holmes

2.       Using fluent English to retell the story as one of the characters of the story

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.       Do you like reading detective stories?

2.       Who like reading detective stories better in this class, the boys or the girls?

3.       Have you ever read detective stories about Sharlock Holmes?

4.       Why do you like reading detective stories?

5.       What’s good reading this kind of stories?

 Show some pictures of Holmes and Konan. T introduces some information.

1)      fasting reading

say something about each characters of the story using several sentences in their own words.

Describe the rooms of young lady’s and her uncle’s

2)      Reading

Play the tape and then test Ss on the ext they have listened

1.       What is Holmes famous for? In what way?

2.       What happened to the lady before she came to Holmes?

3.       What did the lady often hear at night?

4.       Did she get along with her uncle very well?

5.       Why did Holmes want to pay a visit to lady’s home?

6.       Why did Holmes have special interest in the hole in the young lady’s room?

7.       Where was the end of the rope?

8.       Where did the rope go?

9.       When did Holmes begin to doubt the lady’s uncle?

10.   What was in the corner of her uncle’s room?

11.   What was Holmes sure after examining the whole houses?

12.   What did Holmes decide to do?

13.   What did Holmes put on the table?

14.   What did he do after he heard a long low whistle?

15.   How did he hit the bell rope?

16.   What did he hear later?

17.   What did the young lady’s uncle keep in the heavy metal chest?

18.   Why did he keep it?

1.       Could you explain the use of the box of matches and the thin stick?

2.       Why did the young lady open and shut her bedroom door without entering?

3.       Why did Holmes and Watson sit with the light on for half an hour and then turn off the light?

4.       Why do you think Holmes hit the bell again and again?

5.       Why will the snake attack its keeper?

6.       What do you know about Holmes from the story?

7.       How could be a good detective in your opinion?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Retell the story of “Noises in the night”. They may choose to be one of the characters.  )workbook P86.

Model:  words maybe used

     Go up; a box of matches; stick; in silence; geet; have dinner; upstairs hide in another room a scream rush on the floor dead brown snake open metal chest drive the snake back attack its keeper

Mr Holmes and his assistant went up to my bedroom and waited there. I saw the detective put out a box of matches on the table and lay his stick next to it. I did not know why. As soon as they heard my uncle return, they stopped talking and sat in silence.

 I greeted my uncle as usual and we had dinner together downstairs. After dinner, I went upstairs and said good night to my uncle. Then I opened  my bedroom door and shut it. But I didn't enter. Very quieting I stole into another small room to hide there. It seemed to me that many hours had passed when I heard a sudden scream. It came from my uncle’s room. I rushed there and saw my uncle on the floor, dead. Around his head was a brown snake . Holmes took the snake with a piece of rope, threw it into the open metal chest and shut it. Then he explain to me what had happened. Now I realized how the snake had been driven back to attack its keeper. Anyhow, I was saved.

Step 5 Post- reading

If time permits, ask some students to read the detective stories written by themselves..