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人教版 选择性必修一 Unit 1 Using Language in Writing
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to today's class. In today's class, we will talk about using language in writing and the topic of today is to introduce someone you admire. So first of all, let's have a guessing game. Can you guess who the guy it was? First hint I will give you is that he was a great physician. Second hint, he was Jewish. The third one he founded the theory of relativity. So can you guess who he was? That's right. He was Albert Einstein and there was a famous saying from him. Imagination is more important than knowledge!So can you tell me what do you know about this guy? Do you have some keywords to describe his whole life? You see, I can provide you with some.Do you agree with me? Now let's start reading. I want you to read the whole passage and please draw a structure of the passage or you can come up with one word or two words to conclude each paragraph; tell me the main idea of each paragraph. Okay, now let's check. This structure or the main idea in the first paragraph, it is the brief introduction of Albert Einstein. Second part, the educational background of him. Third part, the achievement. The fourth part, his research. The fifth part is about his real life. Then, at the end, the end of his life. So can you tell me what is the genre of this text? I'll give you four options. A news report, biography, narration or exposition? Yes, it is a biography. Then what is biography? It's a story of a person's life written by somebody else.OK, so now we know the structure and the genre of the text. Let's dig into Einstein’s life. Shall we? Let's draw a timeline and you need to write down the important events of his life according to each time. So I'll show you an example. In the first part, we found out four time expressions. First, in eighteen seventy nine, then in eighteen ninety five, in eighteen ninety six. So what happened in eighteen seventy nine? That's right. The gentle genius was