Unit 3 Warming up & Reading

Part 2(para.2-3) the research on the approaches to solve the
problem
Part 3(para.4-6) the attempts to catch the snakes
Part 4(para.7-8) the requirements of
(2) An invention is something that created by human being, such as the lighting rod.
Discoverie Inventions s 1. Electricity 1. Systems of delivering electrical light and heating to homes and offices 2. Household machines for washing, ironing, keeping food cold, etc 3. Computers, telephones, television, etc
1. What’s the main idea of the text? The text narrates the problem of the snakes and presents the procedures of catching them and applying for a patent, from which we have got a better understanding of how to do scientific researches and how to apply for a
light without electricity.
Grammar
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Thomas Edison invented the electric bulb.
getting a patent
3) to put the frozen bowl over the snakes’ habit in the evening and carry a net to collect the snakes without harming them the next morning.
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Identify three Think of a creative solution possible approaches: choose one
4,5,6 Test the solution Try three times to make it work several times efficiently 7
discovering and considering
carefully the problems in daily life.
We are also encouraged by the writer to be creative and hardworking as well as thinking independently.
show discoverers?
Stephenson’s “Rocket”
An amphibious car
DNA
伽利略的望远镜
X射线广泛用于医学领域
牛顿制造的反射望远镜
谷腾堡发明的印刷机
英国钟表匠阿克莱特发明的水力纺纱机
3. Work out rules that will help you decide what is discovery and what is an invention? (1) A discovery is A discovery merely makes known something that already exist in nature, such as the discovery on the New Continent by Columbia.
patent. After learning, we know
that it usually costs some time
and continuous efforts in order
to solve some practical problems in a scientific way.
2. What’s the writing purpose of the writer? The writer wants to inform us of the scientific methods to solve present problem so that we students can not only broaden the horizons but become more skilled in
6. Why did cooling the snakes
make them less active ?
The cooling made the snakes
less active because they are
reptiles and their body
temperature depends on the
4. Now in pairs discuss any modern inventions you know. Describe them to your partner and how useful they are in life today.
Pre-reading
Do you know the stages every inventor must go through before they can have their invention
disease (like kidney
failure)
Discoverie Inventions s 4. X-rays 1. Body scanners to see
whether you are ill 2. Machines to treat illnesses (like cancer)
Reading
As you read the following
passage, check the order
you wrote above to see
whether it follows the
correct stages in producing an invention.
Fast reading
Carlson
Peter Goldmark
1942
Electronic digital American
computer
scientists
1945 Atomic bomb 1950 Credit cards 1985 Windows OS
American
scientists
Ralph Schneide Microsoft Company
3. The stages in making an invention. Stages in the Para inventing process 1 Example in this story The snakes must Find a problem be removed but not harmed Do research 2 Look for methods of removal; the habits of snakes
Did Edison invent electricity? Can electricity be invented? Is electricity an invention or discovery? Why?
2. Which of this pictures show
inventions? Does any of them
Unit 3
What are the important inventions of the 20th century? Which do you think is the most important one?
Year
190 2 3 0 192
Invention Air condition
Inventor (s) Willis Carrie Wright
Apply for a patent This means the solution is recognized
4. Divide the passage into several
parts and find out the main idea for
each paragraph. Part 1(para.1) the discovery of the problem of the snakes
Discoveries Inventions 2. The movement 1. Airplane jet engines
of air 3. The circulation of the blood 2. Air balloons, etc Machines to help people with serious
1990 World Wide Web Timg up
1. Discussion: Who was Edison? Do you know how many inventions he made? Can you mention some of them? Everybody knows he invented the electric bulb. A lamp can’t give
brothers Thomas Edison
190 Gas-motored and
manned plane film 191 The first talking