Unit 16 Scientists at work 高一英语说课稿
Step 4 Post-listening
1). Group work
List what you can do and can’t do in a lab as much as possible in groups.
2). Individual work
Knowing the rules in a lab is very necessary for the sake of our safety. Suppose you are a chemistry teacher, and you are going to make an announcement to your students to give them some instructions before an experiment.
3). Group work
Design the rules for the chemistry lab of your school in groups and put it on the wall in the classroom.
Homework:
Task 1. Have a discussion to find out the best rules for the lab and recommend it to the school leader.
Task 2. Preview Speaking and try to search for some information about the new inventions and discoveries.
Period 2 Speaking
Learning Aims
1. To learn to cooperate with partners to analysis a problem in different views.
2. Enable students to describe the advantages and disadvantages of something in specific words.
Learning Procedures
Step 1 Warming-up
Daily report
1). Class work
Watch a video about the successful launch of ShenZhou V manned space flight in
Nowadays, more and more new inventions and discoveries are made all over the world.
2). Brainstorming
List the words they’ve learned about the new scientific inventions and discoveries. Then have a short introduction to Maglev train.
Step 2 Pre-speaking
1). Pair work
Read the dialogue aloud to finish the following form:
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inventions |
advantages |
disadvantages |
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Maglev train |
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2). Group work
Discuss how you can talk about the advantages and disadvantages about some new inventions and list the relevant words and phrases an many as possible.
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Advantages |
Disadvantages |
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It’s good for… |
It is too expensive |
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It can help… |
It is dangerous to… |
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It is important for… |
It is unnecessary to.. |
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It brings people… |
Some people will use it for… |
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It doesn’t pollute… |
It is bad / or harmful for… |
Step 3 While speaking
1). Group work
Enjoy some pictures about some new inventions. (Cloning, Nuclear energy, Computers and Space flight ) Each group is to choose one of them to have a discussion and list the advantages and disadvantages. Exchange the ideas with the whole class.
2). Pair work
Make a dialogue in pair to talk about one of the inventions, using the structures to show your agreement and disagreement, such as I’m afraid…/ I can’t agree with you./ I don’t think so. / In my opinion… And then act it out.
Step 4 Post-speaking
1). Debate
The scientific technologies are improving very fast. Some of them are widely accepted and applied, while some are still being argued about by people. Cloning humans is still one of them. In your opinion, do you think it good to do so all over the world?
Divide the whole class into two groups to have a debate and see which group will perform better.
2). Imagination
If you were a scientist many years later after you graduated from universities. Do you think what you would try to invent or discover? And why do you think so?
Homework:
Task 1. Read the following poem ,and then try to imitate it and write down a similar one, of course, about other inventions.





