Unit 12 Innovation Reading Club 2课件 2024-2025学年高二英语北师大版选择性必修第四册

UNIT 12 INNOVATION Reading Club 2 Simple Inventions That Changed the World 作者编号：33007 To read and understand the history of three important inventions To read for detail and answer questions To answer critical thinking questions Learning objectives 作者编号：33007 Read the heading of the text and brainstorm simple inventions that changed the world. Thomas Alva Edison Wright Brothers electric light airplane 作者编号：33007 Alexander Graham Bell Karl Friedrich Benz Hamilton Smith telephone car washing machine 作者编号：33007 4 Look at the pictures and discuss what each invention is used for and in what way was life different before these inventions. 作者编号：33007 When and where were the clock, the refrigerator and the elevator invented? How have these inventions changed our lives? 作者编号：33007 Inventions When Where Inventors How to change our lives the clock in the 16th and 17th centuries Europe European inventors almost every part of our day-to-day lives is governed by time our ability to measure it accurately 作者编号：33007 Inventions When Where Inventors How to change our lives the refrigerator 1805 Oliver Evans it’s a common object in most homes and people would find it difficult to imagine living without it 作者编号：33007 Inventions When Where Inventors How to change our lives the elevator 1880 Werner von Siemens Elevators have changed not only our lives by making it possible to live in bigger and taller buildings, but also the city skylines. Germany 作者编号：33007 9 1. To illustrate this, let’s have a look at three simple inventions: … illustrate vt. to make the meaning of something clearer by giving examples 说明, 阐明 to put pictures in a book, article etc 给(书籍、文章)加插图 e.g. Let me give an example to illustrate the point. 让我举个例子来说明这一点。 Over a hundred diagrams, tables and pictures illustrate the book. 这本书有一百多幅图解﹑表格和图片。 Language points 作者编号：33007 regulate vt. to control an activity or process, especially by rules 控制, 管理 to make a machine or your body work at a particular speed, temperature etc 调整, 校准, 调节 2. One regulates almost everything we do, … e.g. regulate market order 规范市场秩序 People sweat to regulate their body heat. 人出汗以调节体温。 作者编号：33007 3. European inventors developed the first accurate mechanical clocks in the 16th and 17th centuries. accurate adj. correct and true in every detail 正确的﹐准确的 e.g. The evidence she gave to the court was not exactly accurate. 她向法庭提供的证词并不完全准确。 accurately adv. 精确地; 准确地 accuracy n. 精确(程度), 准确(性) 作者编号：33007 4. Therefore, preserving food has always been an important consideration for people. preserve vt. to store food for a long time after treating it so that it will not decay 腌制, 保存(食物) to save something or someone from being harmed or destroyed 维护, 保护 preserve sth. from sth. to make something continue without changing 保持, 维持 n. a substance made from boiling fruit or vegetables with sugar, salt, or vinegar 果酱; 腌菜 作者编号：33007 e.g. black olives preserved in brine 盐水黑橄榄   We must encourage the planting of new trees and preserve our existing woodlands. 我们必须鼓励栽种新树木﹐同时也要保护现有的林地。 We should take measures to preserve the environment from pollution. 我们应该采取措施保护环境免受污染。 the responsibility of the police to preserve the peace 警察维护和平的职责 homemade fruit preserves 自制果酱 作者编号：33007 【语境应用】将下面句子翻译成汉语。 1) It is one of the duties of the police to preserve public order. 2) I think these interesting old customs should be preserved. 3) You can preserve meat or fish in salt. 警察的职责之一是维持公共秩序。 我认为这些有趣的旧习俗应该保留下来。 你可以用盐保存肉或鱼。 作者编号：33007 Which one of the three inventions do you think has changed people’s lives the most? Why? 作者编号：33007 16 What is the writer inferring in the last paragraph? The writer is inferring that throughout our daily routine we don’t truly acknowledge the benefit of these three inventions and how much inspiration and hard work it took to create them. 作者编号：33007 Truly Useful Inventions That You Never Knew You Needed Spaghetti Measuring Tool Toothpaste Tube Squeezer 作者编号：33007 Dresser That Keeps Your Clothes In Their Places Pizza Scissors 作者编号：33007 Citrus Spritzer Onion Holder 作者编号：33007 Twister Fork Baby Shower Cap 作者编号：33007 Because of the great inventions, we can enjoy a colourful life now. Find more inventions in our daily life. Homework 作者编号：33007 $$