Scientific Achievements
Tasks which should be achieved in this unit:
a. Achieve language skills and related knowledge about the topic of science and scientific achievements;
b. Learn to express intentions and wishes:
1. My plan is to…….
2. I hope that…..
3. I want/wish/hope/intend/plan to…..
4. I’d like to,,,,
5. I’m thinking of ….
6. It is likely that…
c. Vocabulary in this unit:
likely, private, grasp, master, perfect, arrange, locate, luggage, boom, announce.
d. Useful expressions:
in store, in the late 1990s, grasp the opportunity, hear about, set foot, have a positive effect on…, as well as, rely on, deal with, come to life, put forward, make many breakthroughts, map out.
e. Grammar:
word formation (1)
compounds:
Nouns:
n+n : classroom, newspaper, workshop, bookcase, bookworm
adj+n: blackboard; highway, greenhouse
v+n: pickpocket; chopstick
adv+n: overcoat; outhouse;
n+prep+n: son-in-law; father-in-law
-ing+n: reading-room; dining-hall; sleeping-car
v+adv: get-together; breakthrough(突破)
pron+n: he-goat; she-wolf
Adjectives:
N+adj: snowwhite; worldwide; manlike;
Adj+adj: red-hot; darkblue
Adv+adj: evergreen
N+PP/-ing: man-made; snow-covered; English-speaking; peace-loving
Adj+PP/-ing: good-looking; easy-going; ready-made; new-born
Adv+PP/-ing: hardworking; farseeing; well-written; well-known;wide-spread
Adj+n: barefoot; new-type
Num+n: second-hand; five-year; 100-meter
Num+n+adj: five-year-old; three-inch-wide
Num/Noun/dj+n-ed: four-footed; three-legged; iron-hearted; cold-blooded; warm-hearted
Verbs:
Adv/n/adj+verbs: overcome; overflow; upset; underline; sunbathe; sleepwalk; whitewash; blacklist(列入黑名单)
Adverbs:
N+n: sideway
N+adv: head-on
Adj+n: meanwhile; meantime
Prep+n: beforehand (事先)
Teaching procedure:
Period 1.
Contents: Warming up & reading comprehension
Step 1.Warming up
Aim: Make students familiar with some words and expressions on the topic.
1. Brainstorming:
Find as many words as the students can find about Scientific achievements using some pictures as hinders:
Electricity; cars; aeroplanes; The Internet; Cloning; The Theory of Gravity; Nuclear science; solar energy; gene technology
2. Discussing the questions on P1 and then the questions:
How do they improve our daily life? How do they change our society?
Step 2. Pre-reading
1. Show some pictures of Zhongguancun.
2. group work:
if you want to do research or start a hi-tech company, what preparations you should make?
Step 3. While-reading
1. Scanning: Ss read quickly and answer the following question:
What is the passage mainly about?
2. Ss read and get the main ideas of each paragraph. Make an outline if possible.
Step 4. After-reading
Finish the post-reading Ex on P4.
Step 5. Assignment
1. surf the internet and get more information about the topic.
2. if you are asked to introduce Zhongguancun to oversea Chinese students, what must be included in your speech? Just think over and prepare an outline.
Period 2.
Contents: difficulties in the passage.
Step 1. Warming up
Ask some Ss to present their outlines.
Step 2. Learning about the language:
Play the tape for students to follow.
Teacher explain some language points in the text on page 19--20.
1. Whatever great achievements the future may have in store for China, it is likely that many of them will be born in northwestern Beijing.
Whatever = no matter how 引导让步状语从句。
Whatever还可引导名词性从句， 意为“所。。。的一切事情”。例如：
He always keep calm whatever happens.
It is unwise to give a child what ever he or she wants.
In store 意思是“就要到来，必将发生”；这个介词短语还有“储备着”的意思。
Be likely “有可能的”
He is likely to finish the work on time.
It is likely that he she will finish the work on time.
2. it was wonderful, like a dream come true.
Like 用作连词，引导方式状语从句，与as，as if 相似。
Like I said just now, I won’t do that foolish things.
3. One of the mottos for the park – “Rely on science, technology and knowledge to increase economic power”-makes it clear that science and business can and must work together to build the future.
rely on/upon “依赖，依靠”
You must rely on our own effort to do it.
3. Not all the new company can succeed, but the spirit and creativity they present are more important than money.
Step 3. Practice
Ss finish on page 5 by themselves and then check the answers.
Step 4. Assignment
1. Learn the useful expressions by heart.
2. Finish Ex1 –3 on page 82-83 on WB
3. read the whole passage aloud.
Period 3.
Contents: Grammar; talking and speaking
Step 1. Revision
Check the answers of Ex 1 -- 3 on page 82 and 83.
Step 2. Word formations
1. introduce the main ways of word formation: (the following may be of help during your teaching)
The main Processes of English Word-formation:
a. Prefixation: disagree, unimportant, non-smoker, minibus, overuse, antibiotics, underdeveloped, post-war, pre-school, renew, bimonthly, multi-racial;
b. Suffixation: percentage, girlhood, Londoner, hostess, employee, puzzlement, hopeless, changeable, talkative, deepen;
c. Conversion: desire-v. to long for, to wish/ n. strong longing, earnest wish; hit-v, to give a blow/ n. blow; They downed the tools.
d. Compounding: deadline, above-mentioned, chewing-gum, sun-bather, table talk, fathead, redcap, easygoing, sleep-walk,
The minor processes of English word-formation:
a. clipping or shortening: phone (for telephone), ad (for advertisement), prof (for professor), flu (for influenza), pub (for public house);
b. Acronyms(首字母缩略词): UN, VIP, NATO,DA (Doctor of Arts) , H-bomb (Hydrogen bomb);
c. lending: branch, motel, Eurasia,
d. Back-formation: to beg from beggar, to baby-sit from baby-sitter, to greed from greedy.
f. Forming new words by analogy:
Moonrise is derived from the word sunrise by analogy.
e. Onomatopoeia:
Bark, giggle, bang, murmur.
2. Ss study examples on p6 and see if they can tell the processes of the words.
3. More exercises to consolidate the Grammar.
EX1-4 on p6 & ex1-5 on page 83-84 of WB.
Step 3. Talking
1. Ss four in one group and have a discussion about the topics on page 7.
2. Ss make notes during the discussion, and try to report the topic to the whole class.
Step 4. Speaking
Ss work in pairs and discuss their intentions and wishes..
The following structures are helpful to students:
1. My plan is to…….
2. I hope that…..
3. I want/wish/hope/intend/plan to…..
4. I’d like to,,,,
5. I’m thinking of ….
6. It is likely that…
Step 5. Assignment
Writing on page 86.
Period 4.
Contents: Integrating skills:
Step 1. Warming up
Ask Ss some questions about great achievements in science and technology.
Step 2. Reading
1. Ss read the passage :
2. Help Ss to understand the passage entirely.
Step 3. Writing
Finish the writing task on p 8.
You can give Ss some strategies for writing a short essay, or give them an outline if necessary.
(The following material may ease your work.)
Internet ---- the greatest achievement of this century
Argument 1: Internet changes our daily life.
Details: a. make communication easier.
b. change our ways of shopping.
c. get to know outside world more quickly.
Argument 2: Internet make our work easier.
Details: a/b/c
Argument 3: Internet accelerate the development of science and technology.
Details : a/b/c
Period 5.
(Listening)
Step 1. Listening
1. Ss finish the listening task on page 2.
2. Ss listen to the tape again and check the answers.
Step 2. dealing with the Ex 1-4 on p 95 of Workbook.
Step 3. Listening skills
Give the students some tips on how to improve listening while checking the Ex.
a . make notes while listening;
b. grasp the most important information
Step 4. Finish the Listening Ex on p81.
Period 6.
Revision:
Go over the important points in this unit once again, and give Ss some additional reading materials if possible.
Zhongguancun Science Park is China's biggest science park with a high concentration of scientific and technological institutions and intellectual resources. Located in this area are 39 institutions of higher learning represented by Beijing University and Tsinghua University. There are 213 research institutions as exemplified by the institutions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and 37% of the academicians of both the CAS and CAE are living and working in this area. Each year, thousands of sophisticated research discoveries emerge in this area and pour out to all places throughout China. Many state-level laboratories and important engineering and technology centers are concentrated in this area too. Zhongguancun Science Park is the largest software development and production center in China.
Zhongguancun Science Park in fact is composed of five science zones like Haidian Zone, Fengtai Zone, Changping Zone, the Electronic City Zone and Yizhuang Zone. Some ten thousand new and hi-tech enterprises, such as Legend, Stone, Founder, Zhongguancun Science and Technology, Tsinghua Tongfang, Netease, are all doing their business at Zhongguancun. In addition, there are some 1500 R&D centers and hi-tech companies set up by or invested by renowned overseas transnational companies like IBM, Microsoft, Mitsubishi in this area as well as 40 overseas listed companies. At present Zhongguancun has become the most important growth point in the economic development of the capital which makes a contribution of 60% of the total industrial growth of the city. The business income generated from the industry, trade and technology of Zhongguancun Science Park in 2001 accounted for 18% of the total income of all the 53 national new and hi-tech parks.
In June 1999, the State Council of China officially approved the "Note of Request to Expedite the Building of Zhongguancun Science Park for the Purpose of Implementing the Strategy of Rejuvenating the Country through Science and Education" by the Beijing Municipal Government and the Ministry of Science and Technology and instructed the Beijing Municipal Government and the Ministry of Science and Technology to speed up the construction process of Zhongguancun Science Park in order to build it into a comprehensive reform trial base for implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and the two essential changes, a model base of international technical innovation with competitiveness, an incubator and radiating center for its scientific and technological achievements with its footing in the capital city of Beijing but facing the whole country and a base for training innovators and a first-class science park in the world. This is the most important trans-century decision made by the central government after its decisions of establishing the Shenzhen Special Zone in 1980s and opening up Shanghai's Pudong area in 1990s.
Beijing People's Municipal Government promulgated "Regulations of the Zhongguancun Science Park" on January 1, 2001, which provides the legal basis and guideline for its future development. The Park is now moving on at vigorous strides in promoting technology innovation in accordance with the principle of "Bold innovation in the areas not banned by the law" with the ambition of achieving great changes every year and make the Park a first-rate science park in the world within 10 years.
Zhongguancun is indeed a place full of opportunities and challenges as well as bright hopes. All domestic and overseas companies and individuals are welcome to Zhongguancun for business development.
Period 7.
Teachers can use this period freely.
Suggestion : Teachers can use this period to let Ss sum up what they have learned and explain what Ss couldn’t understand very well in this unit. Teachers can also add more practice in this period to consolidate what the Ss have learned. Finally, ask the Ss to finish Assessing on page 87. It is very important to improve their learning and let them have a sense of achieving gradually.