1. Unit 18 Inventions
Warming up and listening

2. The study in space

8. New Inventions
Silicon chip planted in human brain

9. Maglev
Videophone
Portable computer

10. What invention impresses you most? Top ten Inventions of All Time
人类历史上最重要的十大发明
Laser
Light bulb/electricity
Airplane
Automobile
Telegraphy
Radar
Radio
Penicillin青霉素
Microchip 芯片

11. Future inventions
Match each picture with the correct description on P57.
2.Do you think these inventions would be useful?
3. Is there anything you would like to invent? If so, what and why? Draw it.

12. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Proverb &Structure
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Structure:
It is obvious that + 句子（明显的）
It is obvious that knowledge plays an important
role in our life.
一天一个苹果，不用请医生

13. Listening on P58
Listen to two inventors describe their new inventions/scenarios to a patent officer.
What is their inventions?
Does the patent officer want to give them a patent?

14. 1.What are the advantages of Mr Jones’ new
invention?
2. How does it work?
3.What can it be used for ?
4. Why does the patent officer not want to give Mr Jones a patent?
The new invention is clean and cheap.
It’s a vehicle that doesn’t need an engine or fuel. The vehicle is powered by the person who uses it.
The invention can be used as a means of transportation, instead of cars and buses.
Because the vehicle described by the inventor has already been invented- it’s a bike-like two-wheel car.

15. 1.What has Mr Butler invented?
2. Why did he invent it ?
3. How does it work?
4. Why does the patent officer not want to give Mr Butler a patent?
He invented a device for helping people carry heavy objects.
He was tired of carrying heavy grocery bags/He got the idea when he saw a woman carrying some heavy bags.
If you put the bags into a large buckets of water. The bags will float and you won’t have to carry them.
Because his idea doesn’t work─ you would still have to carry the large buckets.

16. Inventor A has invented a car that uses water instead of petrol.
A group discussion
The patent office listens to each inventor who explains how his /her invention begins and why it is useful. Then he decides whether each invention is a good idea or not. 1
Inventor A has invented a car that uses water instead of petrol. 2
Inventor B has a new invention-a flying bicycle. 3
Inventor C’s invention is a machine that makes it possible for people to see the future. 4
Inventor D has invented a pen that translates what’s written into foreign language

17. Listening on P130
New inventions help with the development of society, but sometimes people are afraid of new inventions. Listen to part 1 of the tape and choose the best answer.
George Stephenson

18. Talking
Can you think of other examples of new inventions that people were afraid of at first?

19. Invention, discovery, or research
Part 2 Complete the chart below.
Inventor
Invention, discovery, or research
Accident
Alfred Nobel
Marie Curie
Sieur Freminet
Rudolf Diesel
Safe way to use a chemical to things up.
Several people killed in explosions.
Studied radium and other dangerous materials.
The dangerous chemicals made her almost blind…
Died when his machine didn’t work.
Breathing machine for divers.
Almost killed when he discovered a new way.
The Diesel engine.

21. First correctly explained planetary motion
Johannes Kepler
The Law of Gravity
Isaac
Newton

22. The Sun was the center
of the universe and
that the Earth had a
triple motion around
this center.
Telescope
Law of motion
Father of science
Father of modern physics
Father of modern astronomy

23. Speaking

24. What do inventors have in common?
Bi Sheng
Edison
What do inventors have in common?
They are inventors
What do they have in common?
Wright brothers
Watt
Cai Lun

25. Qualities of successful inventors
Keep an open and curious mind about the world around them.
Collect as much information as possible about an idea, a problem, or a future invention.
Use trial and error as they engage in problem solving.
Improve upon an idea or design after finding a solution.
Be devoted, determined, and optimistic.

26. What is an invention?
An invention is something produced for the first time through the use of imagination or thinking and experiments.

27. The steps of inventing Step I Learning About Inventors
Step II Finding an Idea
Step III Researching and Planning
Step IV Developing and Testing
Step V The Invention Conference

28. How much do you know about inventions and inventors?
Each number represents its difficulty of guessing.

29. Airplane This invention is made of metal. 50
This invention looks like a bird
It makes it possible for people to fly to different places in the world
It is powered by an engine and is flown by a pilot

30. Traffic light
Guess the invention by listening to the following information.
Part
Part
Part
Part
This is an invention which can help people
in the streets, especially in the big cities.
Sometimes, it looks like a tree standing
beside the street.
It directs cars and trucks at crossing.
It has colored lights; red means stop;
green means go.

31. Washing machine This invention can help people do some daily work. 70
It is helpful for housewives
The machine can move around something that you put into it
It needs soap and water to wash something in it

32. Camera It allows you to get a likeness of an object. 80
When you press a button, it works. 70
When a flash happens, it will copy a scene onto a film
When the film is developed, the scene you copied appears on a paper-like thing

33. dynamite Alfred Nobel He was a world-famous inventor. 90
Here is one of his photo
He was a Swedish(瑞典人)
He invented dynamite
Alfred Nobel

34. Toilet The invention looks like a chair. 100
It has a pipe through which the waste can go
People use it to get rid of waste in their bodies
It is usually made of china these years. 70

35. Useful expressions This invention can help people… It looks like…
It’s made of …
It will make it possible for people to…
This is a new way of...
Maybe it works like..
People will use it to…

36. More inventions
Discuss in groups of four about how to describe the invention with four sentences for others to guess, using the following expressions:

37. Useful expressions This invention can help people…
It looks like…/ It’s made of …
It will make it possible for people to…
This is a new way of...
Maybe it works like..
People will use it to…

38. Who is the winner?

39. Read through the ideas in P58 and think about:
What changes might it bring to our life?
Is it practical nowadays?
More useful expressions
That’s really a good idea.
I think the invention is practical because..
I’m impressed by…
I’m afraid it might not…
I think it can apply(申请) patent…

40. Pair discussion Necessity is the mother of invention .
In your daily life or during the study, what inconvenience have you met?
What would you like to improve?

41. Researching and Planning
Work in groups of four, first discuss the details of the invention which your group will do.
Then fill in a form about your invention in order to show to a patent officer and at a conference.
Task

42. Patent Application Question Form
Name of Invention
Group Members
How did you get the idea
Can you describe your new invention?
Other inform-
ation
If necessary
What is its contribution
The picture of invention

43. FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Invention Conference
2006
FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

44. Instructions
Some groups will show their inventions.
4 students will be the patent officers to ask questions or make comment.
All will decide which is the best invention at the end.

45. FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Invention Conference
FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

46. Summary
Imagination and creativity are the motive forces of a nation’s development.

47. Let’s keep an eye on
Invention

48. Any way, the 21st
century is in our hands

49. Homework Write the complete document of your invention after class.
Preview the reading passage with the following question:
What are the meanings of the five titles?

50. Thank you!
Thank you!

52. dynamite