S8: We need ten more people. S9: Don’t make them too happy. S10: The students must keep the classroom clean. Come to “PROJECT”. Divide the class into several groups. Let every group write the questions that they want to know on a piece of paper. Then they exchange the paper with another group. They can ask the questions in class. Take your questions home. Ask your family members about the questions. First ask your parents and write their answers down. Then ask your grandparents the questions and write their answers down. Bring the answers to school. Discuss their answers in groups. Let’s see if they have any differences between their answers. Discuss why these differences exist. Now in the group discuss the last question: What did you learn from this project. In this project, we try to find the secret of life. When we are in different age, we have different realizations to life. When we are older, we will know much about the life. Don’t you think life is a strange thing? Discuss the questions Li Ming and SumWang Mei asks in groups. Then encourage them to ask more questions mary: about life. Give them time to search on the Internet to know the secret of the life. Group activities are good styles of discussing. More practice will give the students more chances to practice their spoken English. HomFinish off the activity book. eworGo on the next reading in the student book k Teaching reflection：
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subject Lesson 8: A Universe of Thought The main preparation 崔斐 审核 Teaching Know the stories of the great people. Aims: Learn more about the foreign culture. Teaching 1. Know Einstein’s life and contributions to the world. Important 2. Grasp some words and expressions on physics. Points: Teaching Einstein’s life and contributions to the world Difficult Points: Teaching audiotape, flashcards, pictures Aids Teaching Procedure: 个性化设计 warming up: Ask the students the following questions: What do you know about Einstein? Why did Einstein succeed? Step1 If Einstein wants to make more research on physics, what difficulties must he come over? Discuss the questions in groups, and then let them report in front of the class. If you think their answers are not completely, you can let them research on the Internet to get more information. Come to “THINK AOBUT IT”. Continue to talk about the questions in formal groups. When one student Step2 in one group can’t give the complete answer the others can add what they want to say. The importance is what you think is the most important thing for a student. Let’s discuss what we can learn from Einstein. Read the text and find the answers of the following questions: What is he most famous for? Where and where was Einstein born? What did Einstein think the most important thing was? Let the students skim the text and give the right answers. Read the text further and underline the language points in this lesson. Step3 Then ask the students to present the questions in the class. Let the others try to find the answers. The teacher needs to give them right answers and explain the language points to them patients. Make a list of the language points in this lesson: famous; mind; stop doing sth.; sign; give up Now make sentences with the help of the flashcards. S1: China is famous for the Great Wall. S2: Einstein is famous for his Theory of Relativity.
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S3: Do you mind my opening the window? S4: Think hard with your mind, you will succeed. S5: The teacher came in. Let’s stop talking. S6: Don’t stop searching. I think we will know the truth at once. S7: Please sign here. S8: Do you remember the sign? S9: Don’t give up working hard. S10: Giving up smoking is good for your health. Listen to the tape and read after it in order to get perfect pronunciation. Play the tape again. Let them read with the books closed. Can they do it well? Come to “LET’S DO IT”. Let some students give a report in front of the class. If the others have the same opinion with him, he can stand up and add the necessary content. From the text, we learn not only Einstein’s stories, but also his spirit of Sumresearching. The most important thing of success is the spirit of hard mary: work. If we want to succeed and have a meaning and colourful life, we must study hard. Now our learning situation is much better than before. We must make more progress and research more. HomFinish off the activity book. eworGo on the next reading in the student book k Teaching reflection：
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subject Lesson9:China’s Most Famous “Farmer” The main preparation 崔斐 审核 Teaching Know a great man of China who has made great contribution to the world. Aims: Learn the spirit of the successful man. Teaching Grasp the words and expressions about the agriculture. Important Learn the development of the rice. Points: Teaching The words and expressions in the fields of rice. Difficult Points: Teaching audiotape, flashcards, pictures Aids Teaching Procedure: 个性化设计 warming up: Show the new words with the flashcards. Let the students read the words and expressions after you. Read more times to the difficult words. Play a game to see if they have read them fluently. Divide the class into Step1 two groups. One group asks the words, the other answers. Then change their roles. They get one score if they can read a word correctly. At last, let’s see who has the higher score. The winner is the group who gets more scores. Skim the text and tell us the main idea of this lesson. Give the students three minutes. Let’s see how many students can finish the reading task in the limited time. Step2 Ask some students to demonstrate their opinion. If others think isn’t complete, they can add others in the opinion. If the teacher thinks their answers are not perfect, he or she can pay more attention to the part in the next steps. Read the text and ask questions. Finish the task in groups. Find questions about this part. Then ask the other group to answer them. If someone wants to add his own opinion, he can stand up and say his suggestion. The questions are like these: What’s Professor Yuan’s childhood dream? Step3 When was he born? What did he succeed in developing? Did foreigner countries use Professor Yuan’s technology? They can ask more questions as they like. Make sentences with the language points with the help of the flashcards. graduate from I graduate Beijing University in 1998.
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Where did he graduate from? come up with At last, he came up with a good idea. When we are in trouble, he always comes up with good ideas. devote…to… Lu Xun devoted himself to the Chinese literature. Would you like to devote yourself to the Chinese physics? because of Because of the rain, they didn’t go to Beijing. He didn’t pass the exam because of his carelessness. Play the tape for several times. Let the students listen carefully and have the correct pronunciation. Let some students read important paragraphs. Come to “PROJECT” Finish the puzzle. Make another in groups, and then let them exchange their puzzles. When a group finishes it, present it to the other group’s members to see if they are correct. Exchange the puzzles with the groups until all the groups have the puzzle’s answers. Then check the answers in class. It is necessary for us to study the performance. What have the old scientists done for us? How great they are? We must work hard at all our Sumsubjects. Whatever you do when you grow up, we must devote ourselves mary: to the society. We must be a useful person to the world. If someone is very interested in rice, too, we can get more information on the Internet. HomFinish off the activity book. eworGo on the next reading in the student book k Teaching reflection：
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