模块5 Unit1 Great Scientists

The general analysis of this period

This period focuses on the reading passage, which is about John Snow and King Cholera. First, teacher can have a competition about information about some scientists mentioned in Warming Up. Then the teacher can make full use of the questions in Pre-reading. This part is to make for preparing for understanding the passage. To develop students’ different reading skills, the teacher can design different reading tasks, such as answering questions and filling the form, etc. Then teacher can ask students to retell the passage as homework.

Three Dimensional Teaching Aims

Knowledge Aims

Have a good understanding of the text through exercises.

Key words expressions:

a. attend, expose, cure, control, absorb, severe, valuable, pump, pub, blame, handle, link, in addition, announce, instruct (in Student’s Book)

b. expose…to, test, defeat, reject, examine, apart from, contribute to, make a conclusion, make sense, enthusiastic, lead to, be strict with (in Workbook)

Ability Aims

Grasp some reading skills.

Develop the ability to describe some great people.

Emotional Aims

Arouse students’ interest in science.

Encourage students to study hard to devote to science.

Teaching Important Points

Have a good understanding of the text by doing exercises.

Develop students’ different reading skills, especially gist reading and understanding beyond lines.

Teaching Difficult Points

Know the meaning between lines and beyond lines.

Learn different reading skills.

Teaching Aids

Multi-media classroom and other normal teaching tools.

Teaching Procedure

Step 1 Greeting

Greet students as usual.

Step 2 Warming up

1. (Pair work) what five most important qualities do you think a scientist should have? Give reasons.

clever/talented strict patient creative confident brave

determined/strong-willed positive honest energetic intelligent/hard-working ambitious careful co-operative

2. (Group work) Ex2, p1

Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research? Discuss in groups the stages in examining a new scientific idea. What order would you put them in?

Draw a conclusion Think of a method Collect results Make up a question Find a problem Analyze the results Repeat if necessary

Step 3 pre-reading

1. Invite 2-3 Ss to introduce the scientists they admire most to the class

2. Background introduction to John Snow

John Snow (1813-1858) was born and worked as a doctor in Great Britain. He was originally an anesthetist(麻醉师).He was so famous that he became the doctor for Queen Victoria at the births of her many children.

Four outbreaks of cholera in the 1830s and 1840s killed many people in England. In 1854, the most terrible outbreak of cholera which ever occurred in the kingdom began. It was so violent and sudden that 127people died in the first three days.

1. Give information of the deadly disease cholera

1) What infectious diseases do you know? (AIDS, SARS, H5N1,pig-borne disease 猪链球菌)

2) What kind of disease is it ?

4. Make up a question

What was the cause of this disease? How did John Snow find it out?

Get Ss to imagine and describe How John Snow defeat cholera by making use of the key words

Cholera, outbreak, severe, deadly, infectious, examine, expose, analyze, control, cure, defeat

5. New Words

Work in pairs and match the words with their definitions.

Suggested answer:

B-1 C-2 E-3 G-4 j-5 I-6 H-7 A-8 D-9 F-10

Step 4 Reading

1. Fast reading : Scanning

Scan the passage and find out what are mentioned in the passage.

1) John Snow’s wish

2) John Snow’s attending Queen Victoria

3) Two theories explaining the cause of Cholera

4) John Snow’s examination of the source of the water

5) Evidence for the cause of Cholera

6) The source of all water supplies

7) The spread of Cholera by germs in polluted water

Suggested answer: 1), 3),4), 5),7)

2. Second reading : Skimming

Read the text quickly and find out the main idea of each paragraph

Para 1: the problem Para 2: the cause----two theories Para 3: the method Para 4: the discovery Para 5: the result and conclusion Para 6: the suggestion

3. Careful reading: Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.

1) What problem existed in London at his time?

2) How did Cholera killed people?

3) How did he prove the second theory was correct?

4) What was the result after he looked into the cause of Cholera?

5) Which idea was right? Why?

6) What conclusion did he draw?

Step 5 Discussion

1. (Group work) Discuss how John Snow investigates cholera. Put the stages in examing the disease in the right order.

Draw a conclusion Think of a method Collect results Make up a question

Find a problem Analyze the results Repeat if necessary

P3, Ex2, and Q3: Do you think John Snow would have solved this problem without the map? Give your reasons.

Step 6 Consolidation

Use the correct form of the words to fill in the blanks.

3. Fill in the blanks using the new words in this unit

1) Mrs. White bought a pan with a long ________. (handle)

2) The pollution is so ________ that we have to take some measures to stop it. (severe)

3) He has a big nose that is a ________ of his family. (characteristic)

4) Water and salt are ________ into our blood stream every day. (absorbed)

5) If a doctor or a medical treatment ________ someone’s illness, they make the person well again. (cure)

6) A ________ is a kind of germ that can cause disease. (virus)

Step 7 Homework

1. Finish P4, Ex 1,2(on SB) Ex3 make sentences on exercise book (make one’s way to, make up one’s mind, make sure, make room for)

2. Find out the phrases according to the Chinese (part 1 on the paper for language points)

3. Retell the story John Snow Defeats “King Cholera” by following the 7 steps on p1

4. Read notes to Unit 1, p78-79, find out some difficult points while reading the text

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人教版高中英语必修五Unit 1《Great scientists》word教案1