課型：講練課
課時：二節(jié)
ⅠTeaching Materials
Words: spirit, inventor, invention, pupil, build, print, track, frighten, frightened, safety, telegraph, lifetime
Phrases: try out, at the age of, rush out, New Jersey
Sentences: Thomas Edison thought that no matter how difficult something seemed, he could find the answer.
He said he thought more of a person who has one idea and makes it work than of a person who has a thousand ideas but doesn’t do anything about them.
ⅡTeaching Objectives
1. Read the passage and try to understand it. Make sure to finish ex.1 in the workbook.
2. Master all the teaching materials.
3. Read the whole lesson fluently and the pronunciation and intonation should be right.
ⅢTeaching Points
1. The main points----(1)&(2) in the teaching objectives
2. The difficult points.
A. was always trying out 過去進(jìn)行時，表示過去常常做某事。
B. so …that… 如此…以致…
C. thought more of…更看重… think a lot of …對…有很高評價
ⅣTeaching Procedure
Period 1
1. Organization of the class
Talk about Edison
2. Revision
A. Oral
What was David trying to do? Why?
What was his idea?
① Get sb. to do sth. ②be able to & can ③write neatly ④keep working on it
We also talked about the inventions
① change the world more ②the second most useful ③would most like to own
B. Wb. Ex.3
3. The teaching of the new lesson
A. Lesson 26
There was a great inventor who invented more than one thousand things. Who is he? Let’s go on to learn Lesson 26.
B. Talk about Edison and answer the questions in Part 1
Learn: spirit; the spirit of a school; in good spirits
C. Read Part 2 and do wb. Ex.1&2
D. Read and learn
Part 1 Edison was a great inventor. He never gave up.
*try out; try out a radio; try out a new idea
*was always trying out; here use the past indefinite tense to describe something usually happened in the past
Part 2 Talk about Edison’s childhood.
*have nothing to do with; have something to do with
*find sb. to do sth.
*build…for sb.
*at the age of 12=when he was 12
*on the railways tracks
*rush out
*carry him to safety; in safety
*so… that …;
He was so frightened that he couldn’t move=He was too frightened to move.
He was so tall that he could reach it.= He was tall enough to reach it.
*open up
*lifetime; in his lifetime
Part 3 Edison liked a person who can work out his ideas.
*think a lot of= think much of
think more of …than of…
E. Conclusion
4. Homework
A. Wb. Ex. 3
B. Retell the story
Period 2
1. Organization of the class
We are going to read the passage and retell it
2. Revision
A. Ask and answer
What was Edison?
What was he always doing when he was a child?
Was he in school long? Why?
What did he do at the age of 10121622?
B. Do some drills
C. Wb. Ex.3
D. Reading Practice
E. Retell the story.
3. Homework
A. Go over the language points