您正在看的高中二年级是:Making a difference。

　　Teaching aims:

　　1. To activate the Ss in classroom activities.

　　2. To help the Ss get into a good reading habit, knowing how to skim or scan the to find the general idea or special information quickly.

　　3. To develop the Ss ‘ ability and skills of guessing words and reading comprehension.

　　4. To help the Ss know more about science and scientists, especially Professor Stephen Hawking.

　　Moral Focus: Creative thinking, communication and cooperation

　　Teaching Aids: A tape recorder, the listening cassette, some pictures

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　Step 1 Warming up

　　1. Greetings.

　　2. Comment on The Ss’ report about their favorite branch of science.

　　3. Go over ways of eXPressing, asking for and making remarks towards one’s opinions.

　　4. Lead in through pictures of Professor Stephen Hawking

　　Task 1: Brainstorming

　　Ss are told to look at pictures of Professor Stephen Hawking. Ask them to answer questions as follows:

　　1. What are the pictures about?

　　2. What have you seen?

　　3. What do you know about Professor Stephen Hawking?

　　Step 2 Pre-reading

　　Task 2: Skimming (pair work)

　　Ss are asked to read the passage quickly and work in pairs to find the answers to the following questions:

　　1. Why did Stephen Hawking need a PHD?

　　2. When did Hawking become famous?

　　3. When did Hawking visit Beijing?

　　Step 3 While-reading

　　Task 3: Vocabulary and Discussion (Individual work and group work)

　　Ss are asked to read the text quickly to find the words or eXPressions in the passage according to the given meanings. Meanwhile Ss are encouraged to underline the unknown words, phrases or sentences in the text that are hard for them to understand, discussing in pairs or in groups.

　　Similar meaning to vocabulary words or eXPressions from the passage

　　1. person who has taken a university degree, esp. the first or Bachelor’s degree

　　2. everything that exists in it; all the stars, planets, their satellites, etc.

　　3. make unable to do sth.

　　4. way of doing sth.

　　5. be equal to ( in quality, colour, design, etc,)

　　6. book that is sold in very large numbers

　　7. sth. That is discovered

　　8. say all in advance

　　9. prove to be; be in the end

　　10. that cannot be cured (adj.) 1. graduate

　　2. (the) universe

　　3. disable

　　4. method

　　5. match

　　6. best-seller

　　7. discovery

　　8. predict

　　9. turn out (to be)

　　10. invurable

　　Task 4: Scanning through questions and answers:

　　Play the recorder and ask the Ss to listen to the text and try to get the answers to following questions:

　　1. How would you feel when told that you have got an incurable disease?

　　2. Did Stephen Hawking give up? If not, what did he do?

　　3. How does he travel around the world?

　　4. How does he give speeches?

　　5. What is his book “ A Brief History of Time” about?

　　6. How did Stephen Hawking make his book a best-seller?

　　7. What do people often think of science and what’s the opinion of Hawking?

　　8. How many steps should a scientific theory generally go through and what are they?

　　9. Is it difficult for people to understand Hawking’s lectures? Why?

　　10. What do people think of Hawking’s “voice”?

　　Task 5: Reading Aloud

　　Play the tape and ask the Ss to read al