授课章节名称 授课时间 Unit 4 The Professor and the Yo-Yo 课次：37-48 周次：7-8 Teaching Aims【教学目的】: To enable the students (Ss) to — 教学目的 和要求 1. learn a lesson from Einstein and be a modest man. 2. understand the main idea and structure of this text. 3. grasp the language points and grammatical structures in this unit. 4. appreciate the difference between formal language and colloquial (spoken) language. Teaching Focus【教学重点】: 1. Key expressions — ambition, application , approach ,bewilder, profound, frustrate , come to terms with, mean nothing to , off balance, work out, single out , etc 2. Understanding the text structure and important sentences 教学重点 和难点 3. Structure : 1) be made to do sth.(被动态中小品词不能省略) 2) using the subjunctive in a that clause 4. Grammar Focus Usage: pieces and amounts Difficulties【教学难点】: 1. Structure analysis of the text 2.Rearranging sentences in logical order 3.How to write a passage by citing examples 教学方法 和手段 Teaching Methods【教学方法】: Question and answers, explanation, analysis, sentence-making, oral practice, group discussion and exercises. Teaching Aids【教学手段】: Multimedia teaching facilities 0 / 13
课后作业 和思考题 1.Finish the exercises for Text A 2.Finish the reading passage 3.Write a paragraph of about 120 words to 150 words about two aspects of Albert Einstein’s personality. Group discussion: the great virtues of Albert Einstein. 教学过程 STEP 1 — Introductory Remarks (5 minutes) Einstein is one of the greatest scientists of all time. His ideas and theories have, directly or indirectly, influenced many areas of the modern world--- science, art , and philosophy. In spite of his great achievements and fame, he always remained a simple man: he was honest and open, very easy to get along with; he lived a plain life and had simple habits, caring very little for material well-being. And the text The Professor and the Yo- Yo, whose author is the son of a close friend of Einstein’s, sheds more light on Einstein’s personality both as a scientist and as a man. STEP 2 — Warming-up (20 minutes) 1. Discussion Teacher: Before we study the text, let me ask you some questions. 1) Was Einstein bright in his early childhood? Give examples. 2) What is his greatest contribution to the mankind? 3)What do you know about the life of Einstein? 4)Do you think Einstein was responsible for the search work on the atomic bomb? Why? 5) Describe the appearance of Einstein. 2. Questions about the Text 1) Based on the title: Professor and the Yo-Yo just guess the Professor’s Personality. . 2) Why does the author want us to learn from the professor? 3) Do you want to be famous? What’s your idea towards famous people? 3. Information Related to the Text 1)Albert Einstein Albert Einstein, whose Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity revolutionized scientific perceptions of the universe, is acknowledged, along with Newton, as one of history’s greatest physicists. 备注 1 / 13
Son of free-thinking, cultured Jews, Einstein was unable to speak until he was three and displayed no special promise. Anti-Semitism also hampered his talent when it began to emerge. He became a Swiss citizen in 1901, obtaining a doctorate from the University of Bern in 1905. His research, which ended in the famous equation E=mc2, was published in the same year. After World War I, Einstein’s fame extended beyond the scientific community and in 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. During the 1920s he regarded the rise of the Nazis in Germany with horror, eventually emigrating to the U.S. where, in 1933, he took up a post at Princeton University. In 1939 his early warnings of German scientific attempts to make an atomic bomb prompted the start of the Manhattan Project. 2) The Yo-Yo The Yo-Yo is a simple toy consisting of a grooved double disk with a string about the center. The player holds the end of the string which unwinds itself as the disk is dropped. Then by a slight jerk on the string, the player causes it to rewind itself, and to reel up back to the hand. The toy is said to have originated in the Philippines. Since 1930 it has become a popular toy and even today children in different countries play the Yo-Yo and compete in various contests. 3) The Nobel Prize Nobel Prizes are annual monetary awards granted to individuals or institutions for outstanding contributions in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, international peace, and economic sciences. The Nobel Prizes are internationally recognized as the most prestigious awards in each of these fields. The prizes were established by Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who set up a fund for them in his will. The first Nobel Prizes were awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of Nobel’s death. 4) Woolworth’s Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852~1919), an American merchant, was born in Rodman, New York. He established in 1879 a five-cent store at Utica, New York, which failed, and the same year he started a successful five-and-ten-cent store at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Woolworth opened many others and soon extended business throughout the United States and to several foreign countries. In 1911 the F. W. Woolworth Company was incorporated with ownership of over 1,000 five-and-tens, and he became director of various financial firms. (The last Woolworth stores were closed in 1998.) Woolworth had the Woolworth Building erected in New York City in 1913, the highest building in the world (792 ft / 241.4 m) at that time. STEP 3 — Comprehension of the Text (25 minutes) 1. Directions: To show Einstein is purely and exclusively a theorist, the author gives us three examples in this part. You are required to write three sentences to summarize the three examples. Each sentence should be fewer than 20 words. 2 / 13
Keys: (1) He wouldn’t walk down the street to see a reactor create atomic energy. (2) He didn’t have any curiosity in observing how his theory made TV possible. (3) He pursed various theories for the work of a toy but failed to know its operating principle. 2.Multiple Choice 1) When the young visitor came to Einstein’s home, he was __( B)_____. A) frightened B) uneasy C) self-confident D) frustrated 2) What did Einstein do after the author suggested him try shaving cream? (A) A) He tried the shaving cream the next morning and was really satisfied with it. B) He declined the offer and used razor and water as before. C) He thought the cream was of no use. D) He became curious about the components of the cream. 3) The watermark—W—for Woolworth’s in Einstein’s stationery suggests that ___(C)_____. A) he didn’t have enough money to buy the better stationery B) he was intended to show that he as important as other people C) he did not take any interest in prestige D) he didn’t have personal ambition though he was world-famous 3. An Analysis of Einstein’s Personality Statements---- Supporting Details Einstein had no personal ambition. 1) He was ready to come to terms with himself and the world around him. 2)He knew there were answers beyond his intellectual reach. 3) He was content to go as far as he could. 4) He never showed jealousy, vanity, bitterness, anger, resentment, or personal ambition. Einstein believed in simplicity. 1) He was beyond pretension. 2) He bought his stationery in Woolworth’s, a five-and-ten-cent variety store. 3) He never carried money with him because he had no use for it. 4) He used only water and safety razor to shave. 5) He needed only a pencil and a pad of paper to Einstein was purely and exclusively a theorist. 1) He did not have the slightest interest in the practical application of his ideas and theories. 2) He would not walk down the street to see a reactor create atomic energy. 3)He did not have any curiosity in observing how his Photoelectric Theory could make TV possible. 4) He tried in vain to deduce the operating principle of a toy bird but refused to take it apart to see how it actually worked. 3 / 13
Einstein was easy to approach and was beyond any pretension. 1) He wrote a long poem of thanks to a small boy who had sent him a Yo-Yo. 2) He corresponded with many of the world's most important people with ordinary stationery. 3)He thought that his ideas had been accepted because he was a lucky man. STEP 4 — Text Organization (10 minutes) 1. What type is the text? A. narration B. exposition C. description D. argumentation Key (A) 2. Analyze the structure of the text 1) Part I (para.1 – para.6): Einstein was a plain and simple man in his daily life. 2) Part II (para.7 – para.9):Though he was world famous, Einstein remained purely and exclusively a theorist. Part I ( para.10 ):Einstein never understood his fame. STEP 5 — Language Study & Difficulties Explanation (50 minutes) I. Language Study 1). modest: a. having, showing , not a too high opinion of one’s merits, abilities, etc. For example: Asian women are more modest and shy, yet they tend to have an inner force. b. moderate; not large in size or amount. For example: The police came to suspect the man who lived a luxurious life on a modest income. 2). balance: Useful phrases: keep one’s balance; lose one’s balance; be in balance; be out of balance; off balance. Special attention: ‘in the balance’ means ‘undecided’. For example: Though her life was in the balance, she thought only of the safety of her fellows. 3).impress: have a strong effect on the mind or feeling of. For example: I was deeply impressed by the scenery there. He impressed me as a modest scholar. My parents impress on me the importance of honesty time and again. 4). immune: be immune to: be free from or unaffected by. For example: Vaccination makes people immune to smallpox. It seems to me that few people are immune to vanity or jealousy. 5). exclusively: only; completely. 4 / 13
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