高中英语人教版（新课程标准）选修8【教学设计】Module8 Unit 3

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions The First Period Warming up 一．Aims: 1. Teaching aims 教学目标： Help the students learn how to talk about inventions and discoveries. 重点词汇和短语 discovery, application, evaluate, presentation, alternative, messenger, get together, make a case for, add up 2. Ability aims能力目标 Enable the students to talk about information and different. 二．Contents Step I Ask the students to talk about the pictures with the teacher’s help, and then discuss the first two questions. what is a discovery? What’s the difference between a discovery and an invention? Step II Work in pairs and talk about the three different things, telling them apart and giving reasons. 1. Which these pictures show inventions? Does any of them show discoveries? 2. Work out two rules that will help you decide what is a discovery and what is an invention? Step III Go on with some other questions of this part. What modern inventions do you know? Describe them to your partner and how useful they are in li