Lesson 50 of Unit 13
Aims and demands: Reading comprehension about Albert Einstein.
Aids: a recorder and a small blackboard
Procedures:
Step 1. Revision
1. Check the homework exercises.
2. Phrases translation:
(1) 交换意见
(2) 猜字谜
(3) 美国总统
(4) 为自由而战
(5) 互相帮助
(6) 著名物理学教授
Step 2. Presentation for reading
Read the passage quickly to find the answers to the questions:
What scientific work is Einstein famous for?
Where did he spend the last part of his life?
Step 3. Reading
Read the whole passage carefully and do Ex 1 in pairs or small groups. Then deal with some language points:
Be born
Used to
Learn by oneself
Enjoy very much
Get along with
Be content to do
Close friends
A government office
Go on wi
Aims and demands: Language points.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Revision
1. Written work (the first paragraph of the text)
2. Check the homework
Step 2 Language points
1. content adj. Happy, satisfied. Usually used in a phrase “be content to do” “be content with”
He was content to eat simple food.
My grandparents are content to live quietly in the country.
Don’t be content with small success.
No one is content with what he has.
Content v. make sb. happy and satisfied
Simple praise is enough to content him.
John contented himself with two glasses of beer for each meal.
2. lead to
The accident led to many deaths.
His carelessness led to his failure.
Too much work and too little rest lead to illness.
This kind of test is bad because it leads to incorrect learning.
3. the First World War = World War One
On June 28th, 1914 the relative of the Austria was killed
The main reason: In Germany, Austria-hungary, Italy, Russia, France, England and so on contradiction in politics, economic became acute.
Austria-hungary dug up the hatchet to Serbia on July 28, 1914
Later Russia, Germany, France and England engulfed the war and formed triple entente of Russia, France and England including Italy, Rumania, America and Greece.
Austria-hungary belonged to the other side Confederate / Ally including Bulgary and Turkey
Two sides lasted four years and subscribed the ceasefire entente on November 11, 1918 with the result of failure in Ally.
In the war, triple entente lost 5,000,000 army soldiers from the total of 42,000,000 and the Ally lost 3,400,000 from 2,3000,000
Two sides lost 21,000,000 in all.
4. the Nobel Prize
testament of Alfred Bernard Nobel (1833-1896 Sweden chemist, engineer and businessman invented trinitrotoluene and other more powerful dynamite and he had stocks of dynamite making all over the world and he also had property right of oil field in Russia, so he was wealthy and he always donated generously to all kinds of humanitarianism and scientific charity and the organizer of the Nobel Prize) used the fund as the prize. Every year there are four frameworks to be in charge of warding. (Three in Switzerland and one in Norway.)
The first time December 12, 1901 five years after Nobel died.
Five aspects: physics, chemistry, literature, biology or medicine, peace, and added one economy offered by Sweden National Bank.
5. live a …(happy, hard and quiet) life
The peasants in the past lived a hard life.
My grandparents are used to living a quiet life in the country.
Don’t forget the past while we are living a happy life.
He was taken to the USA at ten and lived all his life there.
6. besides ---- in addition to
We study Chinese, math and physics besides English.
7. expect ----- no including
We have classes every day except Sunday.
8. be full of
He brought us a basket full of fish.
His composition is full of mistakes.
Her eyes were full of tears.
People full of energy are fit for the job.
9. such
Such is my wish.
Such was the situation we were facing.
Such were his words.
Such are the results we have got.
Step 3 Practice
Finish off all the exercises in WB.
Homework:
1. Have a good preview about Lesson 51
2. Write a short passage about yourself.
Blackboard Design:
Be content to do
Lead to
The First World War
The Nobel Prize
Live a life
Be full of
such
Post-class notes
th
Lead to
New discoveries in physics
At the end of
The First World War
Receive worldwide praise
Scientific research
The Nobel Prize for Physics
Be invited to give talks
Leave …for …
Be interested in
Refuse to do
Use a check as a bookmark
Live a life
Take American nationality
Spend a lot of time doing something
Human rights
Be fond of music
A world full of wars and killings
The 20th century’s greatest scientist
At the age of …
Step 4. Reading aloud
Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Pay attention to pronunciation and intonation.
Step 5. Note making
Fill in after reading easily.
Step 6. Practice
In Part 3 on P3, ask a student to read and explain.
Step 7. Workbook
Do all the exercises in pairs and discuss the answers.
Homework:
1. Recite the first paragraph of the text
2. Finish off all the exercises in workbook.
Blackboard design:
Learn by oneself
Enjoy very much
Get along with
Be content to do
Close friends
A government office
Go on with
Lead to
New discoveries in physics
At the end of
The First World War
…
Lesson 51 of Unit 13
Aims: Revise Noun Clause as Subject
Procedures:
Step 1. Revision
1. Check the homework exercises
2. Do some translation
(1) 不要满足于小小的成就。
(2) 他的粗枝大叶导致他的失败。
(3) 我们过着好日子的时候不要忘记过去。
(4) 他的作文全篇都是错误。
(5) 这些就是我们所取得的成就
(6) 除了英语我们还学数理化。
Step 2. Presentation for reading
Today we’re going to find out more about Albert Einstein. Read the passage quickly to find the answer to the question:
Why did Einstein leave Europe?
It was not safe to remain there.
Step 3. Reading
Read silently and carefully and answer the following questions:
1. Does light bend or does it travel in a straight line?
2. Did other scientists agree with Einstein at first?
3. Why didn’t he fight in the First World War?
Step 4. Reading aloud
Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat.
Step 5. Note making
A straight line
Light coming from the stars
As a result
It appeared to sb.
Work out
It was said that
Prove the idea to sb
Stick to
Go on with
Become world-famous
From that time on
Be greatly respected
The leading scientist of the century
Take Swiss nationality
Join the army
Take sides in the war
Be ruled by Hitler
In the early 1930s
Find it + adj. + to do
Write a letter to a newspaper
Leave … for
Step 6. Practice
Revise the forms of Noun Clauses as the Subject and write the following two sentences on the Bb:
What she thought was very interesting.
It was strange that some people were wearing nineteenth-century clothes.
Let the students work alone or in pairs and then check the answers with the whole class about Part 4 on P5.
Step 7. Language focus
When putting a question into the Noun Clause, the question form should be changed into a statement form the word order should be:
Interrogative pronoun / Adverb + Subject + Predicate + Object + Predicate part.
Step 8. Workbook
Let the students try to do the exercises on their own and then check the answers with the whole class.
Homework:
1. Remember the first sentence in each paragraph and talk about the contents with your classmates in your spare time.
2. Finish off all the exercises in workbook.
Blackboard design:
His new idea
Prove it to others and was respected
His opinion about the war
The reason why he left Europe
Aims: Language points
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Revision
1. Check homework
2. Translate some phrases
Step 2 Language points
1. light coming from the stars = that came from the stars
Let’s go and see the boy standing by the gate.
The woman wearing a pair of glasses is our teacher of physics.
Who is the girl speaking to the foreigner?
The big tree lying across the road was blown down yesterday.
2. it appears/seems to sb. + that clause
It is our duty to clean the classroom.
It is nice meeting you here.
It appears that he won’t come tonight.
It appeared to me that she enjoyed the food very much.
It seems to me that they are right.
It seemed that the manager was very angry.
3. work out
I can’t work out those problems.
Can you work out how much it costs to build the bridge?
He said he could work this puzzle out, but he didn’t.
4. appear to have done
The stars appeared to have moved. = It appeared that the starts had moved.
He appeared to have heard of the bad news. = It appeared that he had heard of the bad news.
They appeared to have done such a thing. = It appeared that they had done such a thing.
She appeared not to have got my letter. = It appeared that she hadn’t got my letter.
5. predictive clause
The problem is how we can stop pollution
That is how they left Germany during the war.
That is why Einstein and his family left Europe for the USA in 1933.
The problem is when you can finish the work.
The trouble is where we can get so many tools.
6. stick to --- refuse to change
No matter what you say, I shall stick to my plan.
You have made a good decision, and you should stick to it.
Do you always stick to your promises?
Insist on --- to order sth. to happen; strongly demand sth. or doing sth.
His daughter insisted on coming with him.
George’s father insisted on paying for the meal.
I’m afraid I have to insist on the return of my books at once.
7. What he wanted to see was an end to all the armies of the world.
What you need is more practice.
What he said seems all wrong.
What I want to know is the cause of the accident.
8. find it + adj./n. + infinitive
I found it possible to work out the problem without a computer.
He found it possible to leave Germany for the USA.
Do you find it a hard job to end the fighting?
9. It is + adj./n. + that-clause
It is certain that fuels like coal and oil cause a lot of pollution.
It is not yet decided when and where the test will be given.
10. It is said / reported … that-clause
It was said that only three people in the world could understand it at that time.
It is hoped that you’ll be able to visit our city in the near future.
Step 3 Practice
Finish off all the exercises in workbook.
Homework
1. Reading comprehension
2. Write a short passage with the phrases in this lesson.
Blackboard Design:
1. light coming from the stars = that came from the stars
2. it appears/seems to sb. + that clause
3. work out
.
4. appear to have done
5. predictive clause
6. stick to --- refuse to change
7. What he wanted to see was an end to all the armies of the world.
8. find it + adj./n. + infinitive
9. It is + adj./n. + that-clause
No.007
Lesson 52 of Unit 13
Aims: Listening comprehension.
Aids: a recorder and a small blackboard
Procedures:
Step 1. Revision
1. Check the homework exercises.
2. Get several students to tell something about Albert Einstein.
Step 2. Checkpoint
Go through Checkpoint 1.
Deal with any other language points that the students wish to raise.
Step 3. Test
Write the following words on the blackboard:
Who/whose/which/where/when/why/what/whether/how
1. … we should invite to open the conference is a question.
2. … it should last two days or three days doesn’t matter.
3. The question is … we shall find a hall large enough for 200 people.
4. … many people will attend the conference has not been decided.
5. That is … nothing has yet been organized.
6. It is uncertain … we should hold the conference, in May or June.
7. Is … he said really true?
8. The question is …office we should use, yours or mine.
9. It is still unknown … will be sent to the States.
10. …so many people are interested in football is what we want to know.
Step 4. Writing
Write a brief introduction about Einstein’s life.
Step 5. Workbook
Finish off all the exercises in workbook.
Homework:
1. Write down a short passage in your notebooks.
2. Have a good preview about next unit.
Blackboard design:
He wanted to write about Einstein’s life in the college magazine.
He was offered a good job as professor, life was becoming very dangerous for Jews in Germany in the 1930s.
It is very quiet. He can get on with his research. He has a lot of visitors. There are lots of good things about his fife there.
He helps her with her arithmetic homework.
How long have you been in Princeton?
Why did you choose Princeton?
What made you decide to come to America?
What do you like about living in Princeton, Professor?
What other interests do you have?
And do you have any special friends?
Post-class Notes:
No.008
Revision of Unit 13
Aims: Check the answers to all the exercises on p77
Procedures:
Step 1. Revision
1. Listen to the tape without looking at the books while I check the yellow-cover exercise book.
2. Ask the students to look up the word “content” in the dictionary
Step2. Presentation
Ask the students to learn how to sum up the knowledge they learned. I’ll use an example of keeping clothes. If you have many clothes, but you don’t keep them in order, you’ll find it difficult to find the proper one. So you’d better put them in different parts according to the seasons as follows:
spring summer autumn winter
Learning should also follow the principles above.
Step 3. Show how to sum up the points:
Imagine + Noun / v-ing form / that clause / wh-clause
How can we sum up the Gerund, we‘ve learned words “ finish, enjoy,” they are the same in the function and now we learn “imagine”. You can put them together. Later we‘ll also learn “practice, feel like and so on.”
Step 4. Check the answers to the exercises.
1. work out
2. stick to
3. lead to
4. go on with
5. be fond of
6. be content with
7. be content to
Step 5. Error correction.
1.was famous
2.Germany
3.accepted – received
4.leave .. for
5.However – Although
6.take interest in money
7.It said – It was said
8.which was missing
Blackboard design:
Join / attend
Where / there
Make up one’s mind / make a decision/decide
Make …do / get…to do
Live/living / alive
Put up / set up
Homework:
Have a good preview about Unit 14.
Do supplementary reading.