Welcome to our class Module 4 reading and writing 辽阳市第四高中 杨颉

Introduction  Analysis of the students  Analysis of the lesson  Teaching aims  Teaching procedure step one: lead inlead in step two: reading step three: writing step four: homework step five: ending part

What’s your attitude towards them ???

Stephen HawkingA Brief History Of Time

New words  best-seller  cosmology  diagnose  disability  motor neurone disease  victim  brilliant  brief  physical 畅销书 宇宙生成学 诊断 残疾 运动神经元 受害者 才华横溢的 简短的 身体的

Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in the world partly because of his scientific discoveries and partly because of his physical disability. He was born in 1942 in Oxford and graduated from Oxford University. In the 1960s he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. This paragraph talks about : (A) Hawking’s personal life (B) his scientific career (C) why he is famous (D) his family members √

Victims of motor neurone disease cannot move and cannot speak but their brains may work perfectly. In Stephen Hawking’s case it was discovered that he was a brilliant scientist. Moving in a wheelchair and speaking through a special computer, he has become the voice of science. This paragraph talks about : (A) Hawking’s personal life (B) his scientific career (D) his family members √

Stephen Hawking has spent his career at Cambridge University, where he became Professor of Physics in His work was in the area of cosmology and he wrote about black holes in space. His book A Brief History of Time was published in 1988 and is still a best seller This paragraph talks about : (B) his scientific career (D) his family members √

获得奖项 1 、 1989 年获得英国爵士荣誉称号 2 、 是英国皇家学会学员和美国科 学 院外籍院士 3 、 伦敦皇家天文学会的埃丁顿勋 章 4 、 梵蒂冈教皇科学学会十一世勋 章 5 、 霍普金斯奖 6 、 美国丹尼欧海涅曼奖 7 、 马克斯韦奖 8 、 英国皇家学会的休斯勋章 9 、 1978 年获物理界最有威望的大 奖 — 阿尔伯特 · 爱因斯坦奖 10 、与彭罗斯共同获得了 1988 年 的沃尔夫物理奖 11 、 1988 年霍金的书《时间简史： 从大爆炸到黑洞》获沃尔夫基金奖

What can you learn From them??

I’m Xiaoming. I have difficulties in learning English – it is hard to remember new words, the reading passages are too long and the grammar is too complex. I often feel sleepy in English class. Could you give him some encouragement and advice??

homework write a composition about how you overcame some difficulties in your lives. (You can use the method we have just mentioned.)

today……

Tomorrow……

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward ---- Lincoln

Thank you