1. 北师大版 高二 Module 7 Unit 20

2. Warm-up

4. Match the branches of science with the following objects. biology physics information technology astronomy

5. biology The microscope

6. astronomy A Radio Telescope

7. biology DNA

8. physics An Atom

9. Information technology A Microchip

10. artificial intelligence, bacteria, black hole, date processing, deep space, energy, gravity, light year, mass, radioactive, radium, search engine, solar system, universe Match the Key Words with the four branches of science in biology ( ), physics( ), information technology( ), astronomy( ) bacteria,artificial intelligence, date processing, search engine, energy, radium, radioactive,mass,gravity, universe solar system, light year, deep space, black hole,

11. Listen to four extracts and identify these different programmes. educational quiz news interview extract 1 extract 2 extract 3 extract 4 news interview quiz educational

12. listen to the dialogues again and try to answer the following questions 1why was the launch delayed? 2,What are the new international crew planning to do ? 3,when did Alpha get damaged?

13. Who is Rosalind? What exactly is she doing?

14. What is going to be talked about in Science Today? What has been put forward in a study in the New England Journal of Medicine?

15. How many and what Nobel Prizes did Marie Curie win? Why did she die?

16. 1.Why didn’t the shuttle take off ? A. Because of the bad weather. B. There was something wrong with solar panels C. The shuttle suffered slight damage last week. Listen to four extracts and finish the exercise.

17. 2. Rosalind is a______ A. a writer who writes science fiction B. A person searching human’s mood. C. An expert developing Emotional Computer.

18. 3. The conversation will talk about __. A. human genome B. medicine C. ethical issues in biotechnology

19. 4. Marie Curie achieved the following achievement except______. A. won two Nobel Prizes B. discovered radium and polonium C. correct the process of producing radioactivity for the first time

20. It is/was announced today that …. …due to/ because of/owing to bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Useful phrases and sentences:

21. A pioneer in … Affective computers: sense our mood and react to us ethical issues The Nobel Prize

22. Think about the answers to these questions. 1. How has science affected our lives in the last two hundred years? Think about: communication, entertainment, housing, medicine, transport, war, work

23. transportation

24. ancient war

25. modern war

26. 2. Which of the changes in our lives have not been beneficial? Why? What’s the result? Air pollution → Acid rain

27. Can we benefit from it? Atom bomb explode

28. white pollution

29. 3. In what areas do you think we need to do more research? AIDS biotechnology bird flu Do research to save human beings

30. New energy solar energy wind energy Ice that can burn