Unit 4 Scientist who changed the world Welcome to the unit 教学设计-2023-2024学年高中英语译林版必修第三册

Book 3 Unit 4 Scientist who changed

 the world

湖南省永州市道县第二中学

课型

Welcome to the unit

主备人

姚双玲

教学目标

By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

1. learn about two scientists after watching the video;

2. get to know how to read a news report;

3. analyze and understand the language of a news report;

4. discuss and reflect on factors contributing to success;

5. write a news report about a scientist.

过程与方法

1.Pair work

2.Activity-based teaching method

3.Reading, discussion.

教学重难点

1. Analyze and understand the language of a news report.

2. Write a news report about a scientist.

教（学）具

Multimedia and the blackboard

教学过程

二次备课

Step 1  Lead-in

Step 1  Lead-in

Q1: What do we refer to when we talk about “science”?

bold hypothesis & cautious verification  objectivity& authority

be bold & be humble                 precise & poetic

uncertainty & (of)certainty

Q2: What do we refer to when we talk about “scientists”?

Quotation from Irving Langmuir: The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

【设计意图：紧扣主题，用学生熟悉的话题作为预设教学目标的情境载体导入，创造生动活泼有趣的课堂氛围，激活学生已有的知识和经验，引入主题。】

Step 2 Game Time

What scientists do you know of ?Show some pictures and clues to have students guess these scientists .

Picture1  Isaac Newton        Picture 2  Charles Darwin

Step 1  Lead-in

Picture3  Marie Curie         Picture 4  Albert Einstein

Picture5  Fleming            Picture 6  Stephen Hawking

Picture 7  Zhang Heng        Picture 8  Qian Xuesen

Picture 9  Yuan Longping      Picture 10 Tu Youyou

【设计意图：通过图片和线索让学生更多地了解国内国外科学家,吸引学生对课堂教学的兴趣。】

Step 3  Welcome to the unit

1. A video clip: Scientists who changed the world
2. What else do you know about two scientists in the video?
3. Yuan Longping has an asteroid named after him. In 1999, the asteroid project team who discovered it decided to honour this great man for his achievement in developing hybrid rice. The asteroid is called “Yuan Longping star”.

Steven Hawking fulfilled his lifelong dream of experiencing zero gravity, even though he was wheelchair-bound. His dream came true when he flew in a special zero gravity airplane in 2007.

【设计意图：介绍袁隆平和霍金,吸引学生的的兴趣。】

Step 4 Writing

Translate the following sentences .

1.钱学森，被誉为“新中国航天之父” ，自从1985年来，他一直致力于航天科学，为新中国的航天事业做出巨大贡献。

Qian Xuesen,____________the Father of New China’s Aerospace . Since 1985, he __________________areospace science and _______________ the cause of New China’a aerospace.

2.袁农平， 被誉为“杂交水稻之父” ，70年代他成功培育出第一个杂交水稻品种，并且在2019年9月30日被授予共和国勋章。

Yuan Longping ,___________the Father of Hybrid rice, ___________

the first hybrid rice varieties and __________________with the Medal of the Republic in September 30,2019

3.2015年屠呦呦因为发现治愈疟疾的青蒿素而获得诺贝尔奖。

Te Youyou _____________a Nobel Prize in 2015, for _____________of qinghaosu to the fight against malaria.