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新人教选择性必修Book 1
Using Language II
P8-9
Unit 1 People of Achievement
Be able to introduce Einstein’s life story and achievements with the timeline.
Be able to write a person you admire
Learning Objectives
Pre-reading
What do you know about Albert Einstein?
a Jewish
Nobel prize winner
The theory of relativity
Some famous quotations
from Albert Eintein
While-reading
Read the text to know more:
Paragraph Topics
1 General information about his greatest contribution and personal qualities
2-4 His life story and achievements
5 Appearance and personality
6 Dealth
What’s the genre of the text?
A. Exposition B. Narration
C. Argumentation D. Practical writing
This is a general introduction of Albert Einstein and his
___________________ and ______________________.
Read Paragraph 1
greatest contribution personal qualities
Greatest contribution
Personal qualities
It is in chronological order.
Read Paragraph 2-4&6
How does the writer develop the text?
Complete the timeline.
Born in Germany
1879
1896
1900
1905
1922
1933
1955
1895
1902
1909
Tried but failed to enter university in Switzerland
Entered university
Graduated from university
Took a job as a clerk in the Swiss patent office
Earned a doctorate
in physics
Able to quit his job at the patent office and enter research full-time at a university
Awarded the
Nobel Prize
Had to flee Germany
Died in the United States
Albert Einstein’s Key words Supporting details
Appearence
Personality
slightly
odd-looking
kind,
funny & forgetful
a thick moustache and long white hair, which sometimes stood on end
sometimes forgot things
helped a little girl with her homework
encountered people and help explain things
“Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein!”
Read Paragraph 5
What rhetorical devices(修辞手法) are used in the passage?
Analogy (类比)
Metaphor (隐喻)
Personification (拟人)
Euphemism (委婉语)
Simile (明喻)
Pair work:
Introduce Ein