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Lesson 3 Understanding
UNIT 5
EDUCATION
By the end of this period, you will be able to:
read and talk about how to acquire knowledge and achieve understanding;
read for deep understanding, and summarize information;
know the importance of understanding and getting new knowledge.
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CONTENTS
Pre-reading
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While-reading
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Post-reading
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Sentences analysis
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1. Do you know some popular facts finally proved to be false?
2. Do you completely believe what great scientists said?
Pre-reading
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While-reading
Activity 1 Fast reading
1.Read the text quickly and match the main idea with each paragraph.
Para.1 A.Why people didn’t approve of this type of thinking.
Para.2 B.We should thank the great men of the past for their wisdom.
Para.3 C.A type of analysis.
Para.4 D.Our understanding of the world around us is constantly growing
and changing.
Para.5 E.Some great men in history using this type of thinking were not
supported,but punished.
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2.Divide the passage into three parts.
Part 1 (Para._) :How do we acquire knowledge and understanding?
Part 2 (Para._-Para._):How did people think in Bacon’s time?
Part 3 (Para._-Para._):Conclusions
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3.What’s the main idea of the famous saying “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;the point is to discover them.”?
A.All truths are easy to discover.
B.It’s most important to discover truths.
C.It’s more important to understand truths than to discover them.
D.If we want to discover truths,we should first understand them.
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4.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.Francis Bacon was going against the views of his day.
B.Galileo Galilei was great to prove the Earth is not the centre of the universe.
C.The Earth is not the centre of the universe and it doesn’t move round the sun in a perfect circle,either.
D.People should question more because great men,even Aristotle and Galilei,might make mistakes.
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Activity 2 Careful reading for details
Part 1
1.Read paragraph 1. According to the writer,h