1. UNIT 1 GREAT SCIENTISTS

2. Period 1 warming up & vocabulary

3. How did you spend your summer holiday?
Free talk TV
computer
air-conditioner
How did you spend your summer holiday?
plane
train
car

4. Do you remember them? I put forward the theory about black holes.
I’m the father of super hybrid rice

5. Guessing game
Who are they?

6. Who is he? 今日事,今日毕. He has made a famous kite experiment.
He learned a lot from it and invented lightning
rod(避雷针).
He is …
Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that until tomorrow, which you can do today.
今日事,今日毕.

7. Imagination is more important than knowledge
Who is he?
He is called the greatest scientist in the 20th
century.
He is famous for the Theory of Relativity.
He is …
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge
"想象力比知识更重要."
imaginative

8. 天才就是百分之九十九的汗水加上百分之一的灵感.
Who is he?
He invented electric bulbs.
He made more than 1,000 inventions during
his life.
He is …
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
天才就是百分之九十九的汗水加上百分之一的灵感.

9. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Who is she?
She is a woman scientist.
She discovered radium(镭)and polonium(钋).
In her life, she won the Nobel Prize twice.
She is …
Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
生活中没有什么可怕的东西,只有需要理解的东西.

10. Who is he? He made the first telescope in the world.
His observations show that the earth moves
around the sun.
He is …
Galileo Galilei
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within himself.
你不可能把一切都教给一个人， 你只能帮助他从内心去发现（和了解）事物。

11. Do the quiz and see who knows the most.
Warming up
Do the quiz and see who knows the most.
What other scientists
do you know?

12. Answers 1. 2. 3. Archimedes 4. 5. Charles Darwin 6. 7. Thomas NewcomenQ
Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10.
Archimedes
Charles Darwin
Thomas Newcomen
Gregor Mendel
Marie Curie
Thomas Edison
Leonardo da Vinci
Sir Humphry Davy
Zhang Heng
Stephen Hawking

13. Brainstorming positive common characteristics strict persuasive
Co-operative
enthusiastic
positive
common characteristics
bright
strict
creative
cautious
persuasive

14. draw a conclusion They all... Brainstorming made a great contribution
made great achievements
succeeded in their scientific career
overcome many difficulties

15. Pair work What would they talk about?
It’s very pity that these scientists couldn’t
get together to have a talk. Now let’s organize
a party for them. Because of an advanced
machine called Time Machine, all the scientists
from all different times can come to attend
(join in) the party.
What would they
talk about?

16. …… They may talk about these 1.I wonder if you’re…
2.I know you because I’ve heard that you…
3.Thank you for knowing so much about me.
4.I’m the one who…
5.I’m really interested in your invention. ……
They may ask about these
What’s your nationality? (I’m from…)
What are you interested in?
What conclusion have you drawn?
What are you proud of?
What leads to your success? (My cautiousness/ creativeness/ determination…leads to…)

17. Homework Tell your partner about the great scientists
and their achievements.
2. Revise the new words and expressions
learned in this lesson , and preview those
of the reading text.
3. Finish the words practice.

18. Give me a place to stand on, and I can move the earth.
Archimedes 阿基米德 (ancient Greek)
Give me a place to stand on, and I can move the earth.

19. Charles Darwin 达尔文(British)
“The Origin of Species”

20. Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) British
托玛斯 ·纽科门
It was he who invented a steam
engine. James Watt improved it and turned it into the first modern steam engine used on the
railways.
Newcomen’s steam engine

21. Gregor Mendel
门德尔( ) Czech (捷克)
Inheritance遗传

22. Marie Curie (Polish) Pierre Curie
The Only person ever to receive two Nobel Prizes , one in physics and the other in chemistry.
Pierre Curie

23. Thomas Edison
Phonograph 留声机
Thomas Edison
lightbulb
Motion Pictures

24. Leonardo da Vinci 达芬奇
The Last Supper

25. Humphry Davy (British ) 汉弗莱 戴维
The safety lamp invented by him , also called the Davy lamp

26. seismograhp
Zhang Heng

27. Stephen Hawking 斯帝芬· 霍金 The theory about black holes
What is a black hole?