Lesson 49

Step 1 Revision
1. Ask the students to tell what they did during the winter vacation.
2. Ask the students the names of as many famous scientists as they know. Collect their names on the Bb. Ask the Ss to explain to the class what each person did. Add phrases next to the scientists’ names.

Step 2 Presentation
Ask the students if they have heard of the scientist Albert Einstein. Collect as much information as possible from the students and write this information on the Bb.
Name: Albert Einstein
Born:
Died:
Worked:
Scientific research:
What he got for his new discoveries:
Moved to the USA:
Studies:
Doctor’s degree received:
Interests:

Step 3 Listening
1. Read the introduction to the students.
2. Play the tape for the students to listen.
3. Ask the students the question: Who are the four famous people in the dialogue? (Lincoln, Marx, Bell, Einstein.)

Step 4 Dialogue
1. Play the tape for the students to listen and follow.
2. Go through the dialogue briefly and make sure the students understand it
3. Let the students to practise the dialogue in-groups of four.
4. Ask one group to act the scene in front of the class.

Step 5 Language points
1. I’m doing a word puzzle in the newspaper.
* do a word puzzle/ do a puzzle in words 猜字谜　puzzle 难题，难以解释的东西，如：
How life began is still a puzzle.
The murder case was a puzzle to the police.
* puzzle Vt. 使人迷惑不解
The murder case continued to puzzle the police.
We were all puzzled at his words.
This is a puzzling case.

Step 5 Guessing game
1. Read the instructions aloud. Demonstrate （示范) how to play this guessing game with a groups of Ss. Write the name of a famous person on a piece of paper. Fold it so that it cannot be seen. Make students to ask you questions. You are only able to answer Yes or No. Then let the students play this game in groups of four.
2. Ex.1 can be done here.

Step 6. Workbook
1. Ex.1. Do the first sentence with the whole class as a demonstration. Explain the sentence structure to them. Then pairwork. Finally check the answers with the whole class.
2. Ex.3.

Step 7 consolidation
Tell the students about a famous without mentioning his/ her name. After each sentence, pause and allow three guesses. Then say another sentence with more information about the person, and so on. When the class guess correctly, choose another person and start again.

Homework
Finish off the Workbook exercises.


Lesson 50
Teaching aims and demands:
1.Words and useful expressions:
scientific, darkness, shy, content, go on with, lead to, discovery, worldwide, the Nobel Prize, cheque, bookmark, human right, peace, prove, bent, work out, stick to, respect, leading, sadness, Swiss, take sides in, rule, fuel
2. Grammar: noun clauses used as subject.
3. Reading comprehension: references
Key points:
1.Words and grammar
2. Reading comprehension
3. References
Teaching methods: Reading—practice
Time arrangement:
These two lessons are to be finished in three teaching periods. In the first period, we are going to progress from Step 1~5. The students are supposed to get a gist of the text “Albert Einstein”. In the second period, we will smooth away the language difficulties, the in the third period, we finish off the rest steps of teaching.