英语九年级全册Lesson 7 A Famous Inventor获奖教案设计

Unit 3 Creativity

Lesson 7 A famous inventor

教材分析

 本课是本单元的第一课，主要内容是意大利画家及发明家的发明和在未来实现的科技设想，要学习的语法是表示原因的连词because、since和as，以及表示添加信息的as well as。通过本课的学习，学生将了解到达芬奇在科技上的成就，学会用连词表示不同种类的原因。

教学目标

【知识目标】

通过阅读，体会因果连词用法。

【能力目标】

通过精读获取文章中主人公的实际。

【情感目标】

根据获取的信息，学习体会达芬奇勇于创新，赶超时代、成为先锋的精神。

教学重难点

【教学重点】

1. 通过阅读，获取达芬奇作为工程师和发明家的成就等信息及他的成绩不为人所知的秘密。

2. 通过阅读，体会因果连词用法。

【教学难点】

根据提示，口头介绍发明家达芬奇。
课前准备

1. 课前准备：调试光盘与课件、给学生分组、为学生布置预习作业等；

2. 教具学具：光盘、大卡片等。

教学过程

Step1. Warm-up

1. Let students match the photos of famous figures with their jobs.

2. Look at Mona Lisa and ask students the information about the painting.

Step2. Reading

1. Read the Para. 1 to get da Vinci’s basic information Para.1 tell us via table.

2. Read Para.2 and answer the questions in the slide.

3. Skim Para. 2 and circle the things that da Vinci planned or invented.

4. Get students to match the inventions with pictures.5.Let students read the excerpt loudly.

5. Let students add the inventions into the information table.

6. Read Para.3 and tick da Vinci’s ideas which were realized.

7. Read Para.4 and answer the questions about da Vinci’s codes in his diary.

8. Complete the information about da Vinci and his achievements.

9. Let students read the passage loudly with the recording.
Step3. Discussion

1. Let students talk about their opinions on his characteristics with bringing up words.

2. Ask students to give some information of the famous inventor da Vinci.

3. Discuss what creative things we can do in our daily life or at school.

Step4. Language points

1. be considered +n./adj.   被认为

e.g. The paper does not explain why foreign ownership should be considered bad.

注意：不要用be considered as

2. pioneer N-COUNT 先驱；先锋；创始人；倡导者

e.g. one of the leading pioneers of British photo journalism

3. ahead of 在…之前

e.g. The election was held six months ahead of schedule.

4. work out  解决； 作出； 锻炼； 了解某人的本质

e.g. The three parties will meet next month to work out remaining differences.

5. code   N-COUNT.行为准则； 代码，密码； 法典； 信号

e.g. They used elaborate secret codes.

6. backwards   adv 向后； 往后； 倒； 逆

e.g. He works backwards, building a house from the top downwards.

Step5. Consolidation

1. Match the half sentences appearing in the text.

2. Read the sentences containing causal conjunctions loudly.

Step6. Grammar

1. Let students take a look at the sentences including the conjunctions indicating causational relationships.

2. Teach the difference among because, as, and since.

3. Teach the meaning of as well as.

4. Summarize the occasions in which these conjunctions are supposed to use.

5. Read the sentence and try to guess the right meaning of the word from the context.

6. Let students find out the meanings of the underlined words in Ex. 6.

7. Fill in the sentences with appropriate conjunctions in Ex.7.

Step7. Speaking

Ask students to do the pair work: Do you think Leonardo da Vinci was a great inventor? Why? Who do you think was the greatest inventor? Why?

Example:

I think Leonardo da Vinci was a great inventor because …

Step8. Homework

1.整理由不同连词引导的原因状语从句以及since, as well as 在不同语境中的用法。

2.笔头描述自己喜爱的发明家的主要成就，运用状语从句描述自己喜欢的原因。