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Unit5
Power of ideas
What do creative ideas bring about?
Section A (3a-3d)
Thinking Quality
Learning Ability
Cultural Awareness
Language Ability
Learning Objectives
Extract key info about inventions using wh-questions and passive voice in past tense.
Appreciate how inventions connect the world and understand their role in human progress.
Complete a fact chart and use it to describe an invention’s history and impact.
Analyze how the radio changed the world and evaluate what makes an invention useful.
If there were an “Invention Hall of Fame”, which invention do you think should be in it? Why?
What can you see from the picture?
伽利尔摩・马可尼
Guglielmo Marconi
/ɡʊˈljɛlmoʊ mɑːrˈkoʊni/
the earliest wireless telegraph
最早的无线电报机
Read the conversation. What does Peter think is the most useful invention of all time?
3a
Fu Xing: What do you think is the most useful invention of all time, Peter?
Peter: It has to be the radio.
Fu Xing: The radio? Why?
Peter: Before the radio was invented, information travelled very slowly. The world was made much smaller by
the radio. Suddenly, news could be spread around the world in seconds.
Fu Xing: Right. Who was the inventor?
Peter: An Italian inventor called Guglielmo Marconi. He developed the idea in the 1890s. In 1901, a radio
message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
Fu Xing: Wow! That was quite a distance at that time.
Peter: Yeah. And because of the radio, some other important inventions were developed as well.
Fu Xing: Like the television?
Peter: That's right. It also had a big effect on music. The radio made it much easier for people to enjoy music
from artists around the world.
have to be + 名词 必须是/成为...
What does “radio” refer to here?
VS
Read again and complete the chart.
3b
radio
Fu Xing: What do you think is the most useful invention of all time, Peter?
Peter: It has to be the radio.
Fu Xing: The radio? Why?
Peter: Before the radio was invented, information travelled very slowly. The world was made much smaller by
the radio. Suddenly, news could be spread around the world in seconds.
Fu Xing: Right. Who was the inventor?
Peter: An Italian inventor called Guglielmo Marconi. He developed the idea in the 1890s. In 1901, a radio
message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
Fu Xing: Wow! That was quite a distance at that time.
Peter: Yeah. And because of the radio, some other important inventions were developed as well.
Fu Xing: Like the television?
Peter: That's right. It also had a big effect on music. The radio made it much easier for people to enjoy music
from artists around the world.
Who’s the inventor?
Fu Xing: What do you think is the most useful invention of all time, Peter?
Peter: It has to be the radio.
Fu Xing: The radio? Why?
Peter: Before the radio was invented, information travelled very slowly. The world was made much smaller by
the radio. Suddenly, news could be spread around the world in seconds.
Fu Xing: Right. Who was the inventor?
Peter: An Italian inventor called Guglielmo Marconi. He developed the idea in the 1890s. In 1901, a radio
message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
Fu Xing: Wow! That was quite a distance at that time.
Peter: Yeah. And because of the radio, some other important inventions were developed as well.
Fu Xing: Like the television?
Peter: That's right. It also had a big effect on music. The radio made it much easier for people to enjoy music
from artists around the world.
When was it invented?
Fu Xing: What do you think is the most useful invention of all time, Peter?
Peter: It has to be the radio.
Fu Xing: The radio? Why?
Peter: Before the radio was invented, information travelled very slowly. The world was made much smaller by
the radio. Suddenly, news could be spread around the world in seconds.
Fu Xing: Right. Who was the inventor?
Peter: An Italian inventor called Guglielmo Marconi. He developed the idea in the 1890s. In 1901, a radio
message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
Fu Xing: Wow! That was quite a distance at that time.
Peter: Yeah. And because of the radio, some other important inventions were developed as well.
Fu Xing: Like the television?
Peter: That's right. It also had a big effect on music. The radio made it much easier for people to enjoy music
from artists around the world.
How did it change the world?
①
②
③
④
Read again and complete the chart.
3b
radio
An Italian called Guglielmo Marconi.
Developed the idea in the 1890s; first radio message across the Atlantic in 1901
made the world much smaller
spread news in seconds
led to other inventions like TV
had a big effect on music
Retell the text!
The invention is the radio.
It was invented by ..., an Italian inventor.
The idea was developed in the ...
In ..., the first radio message was sent across ...
It changed the world because ...
Listen to the conversation and pay attention to how the key information is stressed. Then role-play the conversation.
3c
Fu Xing: What do you think is the most useful invention of all time, Peter?
Peter: It has to be the radio.
Fu Xing: The radio? Why?
Peter: Before the radio was invented, information travelled very slowly. The world was made much smaller by
the radio. Suddenly, news could be spread around the world in seconds.
Fu Xing: Right. Who was the inventor?
Peter: An Italian inventor called Guglielmo Marconi. He developed the idea in the 1890s. In 1901, a radio
message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
Fu Xing: Wow! That was quite a distance at that time.
Peter: Yeah. And because of the radio, some other important inventions were developed as well.
Fu Xing: Like the television?
Peter: That's right. It also had a big effect on music. The radio made it much easier for people to enjoy music
from artists around the world.
How to talk about an invention?
Fu Xing: What do you think is the most useful invention of all time, Peter?
Peter: It has to be the radio.
Fu Xing: The radio? Why?
Peter: Before the radio was invented, information travelled very slowly. The world was made much smaller by
the radio. Suddenly, news could be spread around the world in seconds.
Fu Xing: Right. Who was the inventor?
Peter: An Italian inventor called Guglielmo Marconi. He developed the idea in the 1890s. In 1901, a radio
message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
Fu Xing: Wow! That was quite a distance at that time.
Peter: Yeah. And because of the radio, some other important inventions were developed as well.
Fu Xing: Like the television?
Peter: That's right. It also had a big effect on music. The radio made it much easier for people to enjoy music
from artists around the world.
invention(what)
effect(why/how)
inventor(who)
invented time(when)
effect(why/how)
Four Elements of Describing an Invention:
What + Who + When + How (effect)
Choose another invention you think is the most important and make a mind map about it. Then describe it to a partner.
3d
I think ... is the most useful invention.
It was invented by ...
It was invented in ...
It changed the world because ...
Four Elements of Describing an Invention:
What + Who + When + How (effect)
influenced
1. . It also had a big effect on music..
effect /ɪˈfekt/n. 效果;作用;影响
have an effect on 对…… 产生影响;
take effect 生效;
come into effect 开始实施
相关词形:
affect v. 影响;使改变(动词) effective adj. 有效的;起作用的
effectively adv. 有效地;实际上
effectiveness n. 有效性;效用
单词 核心区别
effect 侧重事物带来的客观结果、实际效果,名词;
固定搭配 have an effect on
influence 侧重潜移默化、长期的思想 / 性格层面的熏陶、感化,可作名词 / 动词
impact 侧重冲击力强、巨大深远的重大冲击、强烈影响,程度比 effect 更强
辨析:effect, influence和impact
一、选用方框中的短语填空(每个限用一次)
was invented was spread was sent
had a big effect on developed the idea
1. The radio ____________________ in the 1890s by Guglielmo Marconi.
2. Before the radio, news ____________________ very slowly.
3. In 1901, a radio message ____________________ across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
4. The radio ____________________ music because it made it easier to enjoy songs from around the world.
5. Marconi ____________________ of using radio waves for communication.
was invented
was spread
was sent
had a big effect on
developed the idea
二. 单项填空
( ) 1. The first airplane ______ by the Wright brothers in 1903, which opened the era of human flight.
A. invents B. invented C. is invented D. was invented
( ) 2. The math competition was very difficult, but Tom worked it out ______ with his excellent skills.
A. in seconds B. on time C. by chance D. in person
( ) 3. — Excuse me, could you tell me the ______ from here to the nearest subway station?
— Sure. It’s about 500 meters. You can walk there in 5 minutes.
A. price B. weight C. distance D. height
( ) 4. Lack of sleep _____ your ability to concentrate, and this bad habit has a negative ______ on your study.
A. affects; affects B. effects; affects C. affects; effects D. effects; effects
( ) 5. — I think the Internet is the most important invention in human history.
— ______. It has completely changed the way we live, work, and communicate.
A. I don’t agree B. I’m not sure C. That’s right D. Never mind
Unit5
Power of ideas
What do creative ideas bring about?
Section A (3a-3d)
星越教育
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