内容正文:
Thinking Skills
& Reading Strategies
Great Ideas
Unit 3
仁爱科普版英语九年级上册
重点
重点
通过本节课的学习,学生能够:
Learning objectives
Learning objectives
1. 读懂有关发明、发现主题的短文;
2. 学会依托文本客观线索推理作者主观观点,形成有理
有据的文本逻辑推理思维;
3. 掌握重读阅读策略,遇到阅读难点时主动回读上下文
查找线索;
4. 通过新发明与新发现,感受人类探索与创造的价值。
Look and talk
What can you see in the picture?
All the things you talk about are real, clear facts from the picture.
A boy in blue sports clothes jumps high to shoot a basketball.
There is a schoolbag and a bottle of water on the ground beside the boy.
Clues
...
Look and talk
What do you think of this boy?
These sentences are your feeling, judgement and idea.
He loves playing basketball very much.
He is a hard-working boy.
He sticks to his goal and never gives up.
Viewpoint/
Opinion
Think and learn
Text Clues
Author’s Viewpoint
The author can express a viewpoint, or an opinion, either directly or indirectly,
and there are always clues in the text that support or show the author’s viewpoint.
Definition:
True, real facts and concrete details
directly stated in the text.
Examples:
Specific data, numbers, descriptions, events or researching findings.
Definition:
The writer’s personal idea, feeling, judgment, or attitude on a topic.
Examples:
Value judgments, emotional responses or beliefs.
Look and complete
Look at the picture and use the text clues to complete the chart.
Text Clues
Author’s Viewpoint
Xiaoxiao practices painting day and night.
Her family buy her
all kinds of painting materials and hang her paintings everywhere!
Xiaoxiao is _______________.
Xiaoxiao’s family support her to learn _______________.
hard-working
painting
day and night日日夜夜
all/many kinds of 各种各样的
support sb. to do sth. 支持某人做某事
Read and answer
Read the text and answer the questions.
There is a famous saying, “Need is the mother of invention.” This means that a need or a problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem. For example, the need for communication brought about the telephone, and the need for entertainment led to the creation of the television. To solve the problem of seeing in the dark, people invented the light bulb.
1. How many examples does the writer give? What are they?
2. What’s the same point of the three inventions?
Three. They are the telephone, the television and the light bulb.
They were all invented to meet people’s needs and solve daily problems.
Read and find
Read the text and find out the clues.
The Telephone
The Television
The Light Bulb
a. What human need led
to its invention?
The need for voice communication.
b. What led to the creation
of this device?
The desire for
entertainment.
c. Which problem did it
aim to solve?
The problem of seeing in the dark.
Read and complete
Read the text and complete the author’s-viewpoint chart.
• The telephone was invented because of _____________________________________.
• People needed to entertain themselves, so they ___________________________________.
• In order to solve _______________________
_______, the light bulb ______________.
Clues
Author’s Viewpoint
____________________________________________________________________________________
the need for communication
created the television
the problem of seeing in the dark
was invented
Need is the mother of invention. People’s needs
and problems lead to new inventions.
Read and learn
Read the text and learn the key words and phrases.
There is a famous saying, “Need is the mother of invention.” This means that a need or a problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem. For example, the need for communication brought about the telephone, and the need for entertainment led to the creation of the television. To
solve the problem of seeing in the dark, people invented the light bulb.
1. meet the need
满足需求
2. bring about
引起;导致
3. solve the problem of...
解决......的问题
= satisfy the need/fulfill the need
= cause/lead to/result in
= work out/deal with the problem of...
List more examples about inventions to explain the author’s viewpoint.
Author’s viewpoint: Need is the mother of invention.
* The fridge
Clue: People needed to keep food fresh for a long time.
Example sentence: The need for storing fresh food brought about the fridge.
* The bike
Clue: People wanted to travel faster on short trips.
Example sentence: To solve the problem of slow walking, people invented the bike.
Think and list
Think and list
* The umbrella
Clue: People had the problem of getting wet on rainy days.
Example sentence: The need for keeping dry led to the creation of the umbrella.
* Air conditioner
Clue: People suffered from hot weather in summer.
Example sentence: To keep cool on hot summer days, people invented the air conditioner.
List more examples about inventions to explain the author’s viewpoint.
Author’s viewpoint: Need is the mother of invention.
Read and talk
Read the short passage and talk about the word(s) puzzles you.
Lily loves taking photos. Old cameras work too slowly to take clear pictures. Only new digital cameras can do that fast enough.
What do you think “that” refers to here?
It refers to taking clear pictures.
Think and say
Need Reread or Not?
Situation 1
You understand every sentence clearly and grasp all the details without any confusion.
Situation 2
You see a pronoun like “it” and are unsure what it refers to in the story.
Situation 3
After reading a paragraph, you can’t figure out the main idea or meaning.
Situation 4
The text is very easy for your level, and you follow the plot or ideas.
➜ No need to reread.
➜ No need to reread.
➜ Go back and reread!
➜ Go back and reread!
Think and sum up
When you have a question or can’t understand something while reading, you need to stop and reread certain parts of the text.
Let’s sum up four fixed steps of rereading.
01
Where I stopped
02
What question I ask myself
03
What I reread
04
What I know now
Read and learn
Read the text and learn how to use rereading strategy.
Philo Farnsworth was an American inventor. From an early age, he showed great interest in television. He believed that machines were too slow to work with pictures. Only an electronic system could do that fast enough. In 1927, he invented the all-electronic television system.
Where I stopped:
“could do that fast enough”
What question I ask myself?
What does “that” mean?
What I reread:
“too slow to work with pictures”
What I know now:
“do that” means “ ______________”.
work with pictures
Read and complete
Read the text and complete the steps of using rereading strategy.
Can you explain how a discovery is different from an invention? Take Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America and Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb as examples. Columbus discovered land, but the land existed long before he found it. However, in Edison’s case, there was no light bulb in the world before Edison created it. Now, do you see the difference?
Where I stopped:
_____________________________________
What question I ask myself?
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
What I reread:
_____________________________________
Now I understand:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
What’s the difference between discovery and invention?
How a discovery is different from an invention
Columbus discovered land, ... created it.
A discovery is finding something that already exists in the world. An invention is creating a completely new thing that never existed before.
/dɪˈskʌvəri/ n. 发现;发觉
Let’s explain
Explain how a discovery is different from an invention.
What examples of discovery and invention does the writer give?
Columbus’ discovery of America. The land was already there before he found it.
Thomas Edison’s light bulb. There was no light bulb before Edison made it.
Talk and share
Work in groups. Talk about other discovery and invention examples and share your ideas.
* Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie discovered radium. It already existed in nature. The Wright brothers invented the airplane in 1903. It was something new that never existed before.
* ...
Let’s enjoy
find text clues to grasp the author’s viewpoints.
3
1
After learning this lesson,
I can
appreciate the wisdom behind great inventions.
use the rereading strategy to help me understand confusing words and sentences when reading.
2
Summary
Homework
1. Create a short passage about one invention you like. Write two text clues first, then write your viewpoint about this invention.
2. Pick one discovery and one invention from daily life. Write down the four rereading steps to explain how they are different.
Unit 3
Thank you!
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