Unit 12 Why Are You So Smart?
Ⅰ Objectives
1. Understanding the text
2. Mastery of some language points
3. Learning the hereditary factors that determine thought process Ⅱ Key points 1. Better understanding of the text 2. Mastery of some difficult language points
3. Learning the hereditary factors that determine thought process Ⅲ Difficult points 1. Students may have never paid attention to the the hereditary factors that determine thought process
2. Students might have difficulty in some of the words and phrases.
3. Students need to learn some general knowledge of genes and their influece
IV Time Arrangement
passage itself.
Total class hours: three periods V Teaching procedures 1. Information related to the text About the author:
Karen E. Wright, Ph.D. Associate Member, Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education, and Associate Professor, College of Nursing.
Teaching areas: Counseling; family dynamics; grief, loss and bereavement; health and wellness.
Research interests: Loss, grief & bereavement; grief & bereavement counseling; family coping; health psychology; child & adolescent development; quality of life; chronic & terminal illness; counselor education; women's issues.
2. Text analysis
1) Warm-up question:
Have you ever taken a IQ test? Do you believe it? What is the advantage and
disadvantage of being measured by such test?
2) Language notes:
1. whether you wind up in jail. (是否你将身陷牢狱。)
wind up: finish by (doing sth or becoming sth) 最终成为；以…告终
? About two periods of class will be used for the analysis and discussion of the
The criminal wound up in jail.2. Most recently, the controversy incited by the 1994 book The Bell Curve has revived the nature-nurture debate:
(最近，由那本1994年出版的书《钟曲》所引发的争议再次引起了人们对先天禀性和后天培育这个问题的争论：)
nature-nurture: 本性和教养, 遗传和环境
3. Once a heredity pattern for a trait is established, researchers can home in on the genes responsible.
(一旦一个特征的遗传模式建立起来，研究者们就可以确定有关的基因。)
home in on: aim exactly towards a target; be guided to a target automatically 瞄准目标；（依靠导航系统）自动飞向（目标）
The enemy plane homed in on the arms factory and destroyed it with one bomb.
4. Plomin would need a lot more people and a thousand times as many DNA markers. (普洛明就需要更多的人和上千倍的DNA标记。) as many: the same number of 同数；同样多 He made six mistakes in as many paragraphs.
5. Such large-scale studies seemed impractical until Plomin's colleague Michael Owen suggested scrapping the laborious genetic profiling of individual subjects.
(这样大规模的研究看起来是不可能的，直到后来普洛明的同事迈克尔·欧文建议省去费力的对个别实验对象的基因描绘。)
suggest 和下句的propose 后都可跟动名词作宾语。又如： He suggested our returning home as soon as possible. “scrap” here means “abandon”
3. Topic for Discussion
Cite examples to show hereditary factors that influence human behavior. 4. Exercises about text A. 5. Fast Reading & Exercises VI Homework. 1. Home reading: The Different Ways of Being Smartr 2. Preview Unit 13