1、Module 1,Unit 2,Skills,Great minds,Who are they?,An Italian scientist, used a telescope to observe space, said the Earth revolved(旋轉) round the Sun, dropped objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa(比薩，意大利)。,Galileo lileiu,An English scientist, discovered the laws of gravity,Newton 【nju:tn】,The biologi

2、st who wrote about evolution,Charles Darwin,The inventor of the telephone,Alexander Graham Bell,lgznd grem,A great German composer, wrote nine symphonies,Beethoven,betvn,The painter of the Mona Lisa,Leonardo da Vinci,A great Chinese poet, fond of drinking,Li Bai,Listening: Using clues to make a gues

3、s,Sometimes you do not have all the information you need to answer a question. If this happens, you will need to listen for clues and then make a guess. You should pay attention to dates, places and facts.,Germany,1879,scientist,twentieth,America,white,Albert Einstein,Albert Einstein,Listen to a rad

4、io quiz about the lives of some great minds. Fill in the blanks and use the clues to solve the mystery of who each person is.,400 years,39 plays,English language,plays,William Shakespeare,William Shakespeare,American inventor,1847,1931,1,000 inventions,he never gave up,the electric light bulb,Thomas

5、 Edison,Thomas Edison,2,000 years,travelling,wise sayings,students,the east of China,Confucius,Confucius,Speaking: Giving and accepting an invitation,When you are invited to attend an event or do any other activity, you must make sure that you get all of the necessary information. The information th

6、at you need when you give or receive an invitation includes: the date and time the place where you will meet,When telling others about your plans, remember to state:,where you will go what you will do there when you will leave and when you will return,Here is an example of two people talking about a

7、n invitation on the phone.,S1: Hello, may I speak to Peter? S2: This is Peter. Who is this? S1: Its me, John. Are you free on Saturday? S2: Im sorry, Im busy on Saturday. S1: How about Sunday? S2: Im free on Sunday. S1: Would you like to go to the zoo? S2: That sounds great. What time shall we meet?

8、,S1: Lets meet at ten oclock. Ill meet you at the entrance. S2: OK. How can I get there? S1: Take the number 911 bus and get off after the museum. S2: Thanks. What time will we come back home? S1: Around four oclock in the afternoon. S2: Great. Ill see you then. S1: All right. Goodbye.,You are phoni

9、ng a great mind that you admire and inviting him to give a lecture to your class.,Work in pairs. S1 pretends to be the great mind. S2 calls S1 and invites him/her to your school. You must tell him / her:,1 what you would like him/her to talk about 2 when you want him/her to come 3 what time you want

10、 him/her to come 4 how he/she can get to your school 5 where you will meet him/her when he/she arrives,The reporter is asking the great mind about the lecture that he is going to give.,Work in pairs. S1 is a reporter. S2 is the great mind. Follow the example below.,S1: Hello, Im a reporter from the

11、local newspaper. I hear that Stephen Hawking will visit your school. S2: Yes, thats true. He will give a lecture to our class. S1: When will he come to your school? S2: Hell arrive at 9 oclock on Tuesday morning.,S1: What will he talk about in the lecture? S2: His lecture is about time and space. S1

12、: How long will the lecture last? S2: It should last about one hour. S1: What will he do after the lecture? S2: After the lecture, some students will show him round the school.,Writing: Organizing a story,When writing a story, it is important to arrange the facts and events clearly into paragraphs.

13、This makes it easier for readers to understand how the story progresses.,Review the Reading passage and notice how it is organized. Opening paragraphs: 1, 2, 3 Other paragraphs: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Opening paragraphs: Information about the characters (Einstein and Hans) and about the main event of

14、the story (the lecture). Other paragraphs: The events of the story in time order, i.e., what happened before, during and after the lecture. Each event has its own paragraph.,Most stories are about the past, so most verbs in stories are in the past tenses except when we use direct speech (i.e., write

15、 the words the characters actually say).,Sir Patrick Moore (1923- )is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject, and who is credited as having done more than any other to raise the pr

16、ofile of astronomy among the British general public.,He is a former president of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and former president of the Society for Popular Astronomy, author of over 70 books on astronomy, and presenter of the longest running television series The Sky at Night o

17、n the BBC.,Fill in the blanks using the words in the box as well as your own ideas to complete the story. Then think about how the presentation of the story could be improved to make it clearer, and divide the story into five paragraphs. Change the form of the verbs as necessary.,instructions arrive

18、 jump obey waitwonderful agree next play,Sir Patrick Moore is a well-known astronomer with a good _ humour. He enjoys_ harmless jokes on people._ago, he _ series of talks about astronomy _ radio. After one of these talks, his producer_, “Your next_ nine oclock on the first of April - April Fools Day

19、. Why dont you_joke on your listeners?” Moore _. Moore _ busy over the,sense of,Some years,playing,gave a wonder,said,on the radio,play a,talk is at,was very,agree,next few days and _ not think of _. However, _ way to the radio station on the first of April, he _ some children jumping up and down _ street. That _him an _. He _ station and gave _. It _ about gravity. At the end of _, he_ listeners, The planets Jupiter and Pluto are very close to each other this morning. This will reduce the gravity of Ear