1、Learning GoalsLearning Goals What will we learn in Unit 1?What will we learn in Unit 1?Go through the summing Go through the summing up form on p 8 up form on p 8Word study(P 99)Pair work*Read the new words aloud,and pay attention to the pronunciation n.v.adj.infectionexamination=examscience,scienti
2、stconcludeanalysis defeatvalue Use the correct form of the words in this unit to fill in the chart.infectionexaminationscience,scientist concludeanalysis defeatvalueinfectinfectiousexaminescientificconclusionanalysedefeatvaluevaluable n.v.adj.instructor,instructioncontribution,contributorcontributiv
3、ecreatecalculatemovecompletionenthusiasm instructinstructivecontributecreationcreativecalculation movementmovablecompletecomplete enthusiastic What do you know about great scientists?Try the quiz on P1 and find out who knows the most.Warming up1.Which scientist discovered that objects in water are l
4、ifted up by a force that helps them float?Archimedes (287-212 BC)an ancient Greek mathematician&physicist2.Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed?Charles Darwin(1808-1882)British author of The Origin of Species 3.Who invented the first steam engine?Th
5、omas Newcomen(1663-1729)British,improved the first steam pump and turned it into a steam engine for taking water out of mines in 1712.James Watt improved it and turned it into the first modern steam engine used on the railways.4.Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from pare
6、nts to their children?Gregor Mendel(1822-1884)Czech(捷克人捷克人)5.Who discovered radium?Marie Curie(1867-1934)(Polish and French,won two Nobel Prizes)6.Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities?Thomas Edison(1847-1931)an American inventorThomas EdisonThe Inventions of Thomas
7、 Edison Phonograph 留声机留声机LightbulbMotion Pictures7.Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people?Last SupperMona LisaLeonardo da Vinci(1452-1519)Italian artist8.Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground?Sir Humphry Davy(1778-1829)BritishMiniature Miners Saf
8、ety Lamp 9.Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened?Zhang Heng(78-139)Chinese,invented seismograph10.Who put forward a theory about black holes?Stephen Hawking(1942-)a British astronomerQ Answer1.Archimedes2.Charles Darwin3.Thomas Newcomen 4.Gregor Mendel5.Marie
9、 Curie6.Thomas Edison7.Leonardo da Vinci8.Sir Humphry Davy9.Zhang Heng10.Stephen HawkingPre-reading (pair discussion)What five most important qualities do you think a scientist should have?Give reasons.careful clever strict patient creative strong-willed honest serious intelligent humorous ambitious generous1.Listening exercise P41,Ex 1&22.Speaking task(p46)write some key words to the Qs to help your talk on your book and prepare to introduce the scientist you admire most to the class 3.Read notes-to Unit 1,p76-774.Preview the reading passage John Snow Defeats “King Cholera”(p2)
