Unit 1 Great Scientists
Topic: Great Scientists
Functions: Learn to talk about great scientists.
Learn to talk about contributions of great scientists.
Learn to talk about stages in setting out a new scientific idea.
Target language: What do you know about great scientists?
Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research?
What do you know about infectious disease?
What do you know about cholera?
What kind of scientific job do you want to do?
Period 1 Warming up
Teaching goals:
1. To talk about some great scientists and their achievements. Promote the Ss to know something. about great scientists.
2. Learn some new words and expressions.
3. To examine a new scientific idea.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Greeting and Lead-in
T: I’m very glad to see you all here. After a long holiday, all of you look energetic and happy. I hope that we will work hard together happily all through the year. I do believe that a bright future is waiting for you. We are sure to realize our dreams in the near future.
1. What would you like to be in the future?
2. Do you want to be a scientist in the future?
3. Which scientists do you know?
Show two videos about Steven Hawking.
Step 2 Quiz
Do the quiz, connecting the famous scientist with his contributions.
Alexander Bell electricity
Thomas Edisonthe First telephone
Wright Brothers the electric Lamp
Madame Curie black holes in Universe
FranklinTheory of Gravity
Steven Hawking the First Plane
Elbert Einstein Radium
Isaac Newton the Theory of Relativity
Step3 What other scientists do you know?
Show other great scientists referred to in our textbook.
1) Archimedes (287—212 BC) Ancient Greek. He was a mathematician. He found that if you put an object into water the water pushes the object up. It rises and partly floats.
“Give me a place to stand on, and I can move the earth.”----Archimedes
2) Charles Darwin (1808-1882) British naturalist. The Origin of Species was published in 1859. It
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