Unit 1 PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT Using Language (教学课件)-【上好课】高二英语同步备课系列（人教版2019选择性必修第一册）

Unit 1 People of Achievement Using language Lead-in Who is he? What do you know about Albert Einstein? Albert Einstein Pre-reading Task1 : What do you think the text is about? Task2 : Listen and fill in the timetable What’s the main idea of the text? The text mainly talks about Einstein’s _________ and ______________. life story achievements Task1 : Born in Germany 1879 1896 1955 1933 Tried but failed to enter university in Switzerland 1895 Entered university Graduated from university 1900 Took a job as a clerk in the Swiss patent office 1902 1905 Able to quit his job at the patent office and enter research full-time at a university 1909 Awarded the Nobel Prize 1922 Had to flee Germany Died in the United States Earned a doctorate in physics Task2 : Listen and fill in the timetable Reading Carefully reading Study the organisation and writing body The text is a biography, which follows the time order/develops in the order of time. 1. What type of writing is this text? How does the writer develop the text? 2. Find the descriptions that tell us what Einstein looked like and what kind of person he was. To the public, he was seen as a slightly odd-looking but kind and funny man. He had a thick moustache and long white hair, which sometimes stood on end as though he had just received an electric shock. Although he was a genius, he sometimes forgot things, like his friends' birthdays. But despite his peculiarities, he was loved by his friends and neighbours. There is even a story about how he helped a little girl who knocked on his door and asked for help with her homework. In fact, Einstein often encountered people on the street36.who would stop him and ask him to help explain things. After many such occasions , he finally started saying, "Pardon me! Sorry! Always I am 38.mistaken(mistake) for Professor Einstein!" The descriptions of Einstein's appearance He is smart, courageous, kind, popular, funny, peculiar and forgetful. Structure