Learning Procedures
Step 1 Warming-up
Daily report
1). Class work
Watch a video about the successful launch of ShenZhou V manned space flight in China.
Nowadays, more and more new inventions and discoveries are made all over the world.
2). Brainstorming
List the words they’ve learned about the new scientific inventions and discoveries. Then have a short introduction to Maglev train.
Step 2 Pre-speaking
1). Pair work
Read the dialogue aloud to finish the following form:
inventions advantages disadvantages
Maglev train
2). Group work
Discuss how you can talk about the advantages and disadvantages about some new inventions and list the relevant words and phrases an many as possible.
Advantages Disadvantages
It’s good for… It is too eXPensive
It can help… It is dangerous to…
It is important for… It is unnecessary to..
It brings people… Some people will use it for…
It doesn’t pollute… It is bad / or harmful for…
Step 3 While speaking
1). Group work
Enjoy some pictures about some new inventions. (Cloning, Nuclear energy, Computers and Space flight ) Each group is to choose one of them to have a discussion and list the advantages and disadvantages. Exchange the ideas with the whole class.
2). Pair work
Make a dialogue in pair to talk about one of the inventions, using the structures to show your agreement and disagreement, such as I’m afraid…/ I can’t agree with you./ I don’t think so. / In my opinion… And then act it out.
Step 4 Post-speaking
1). Debate
The scientific technologies are improving very fast. Some of them are widely accepted and applied, while some are still being argued about by people. Cloning humans is still one of them. In your opinion, do you think it good to do so all over the world?
Divide the whole class into two groups to have a debate and see which group will perform better.
2). Imagination
If you were a scientist many years later after you graduated from universities. Do you think what you would try to invent or discover? And why do you think so?
Period 3 & 4 Reading
Learning Aims
1. To get to know something about the story of famous scientists.
2. Enable students to understand the given material better using different reading skills.
3. To have a better understanding about the importance of eXPeriments in science.
Learning Procedures
Step 1 Warming up
Daily report: Share your poems with the other students.
1). Group competition
In the 18th and 19th century, scientists all over the world made many important discoveries and inventions in different fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, biology and so on. Divide the whole class into four groups to name some of them.
Physics chemistry medicine biology
2). Group work
A match competition. Match Column B with Column A correctly.
Column A Column B
Alexander Bell the Theory of Relativity
Thomas Edison the first telephone
Wright Brothers the electric lamp
Madame Curie black holes in Universe
Heinrich Dreser electricity
Franklin the first plane
Steven Hawking the Theory of Gravity
Elbert Einstein Radium
Isaac Newton aspirin
Teaching Plan