M11 Unit 3 The secret of success
Reading (1)
Teaching goals:
Knowledge goal:
To be able to make an introduction to the life experience of an successful person—Sir Clive Sinclair.
Ability goal:
To cultivate students reading abilities, including figuring out the main idea and detailed information in the passage.
Emotion goal:
To learn from Sir Clive Sinclair and strive to be a successful person.
Teaching difficulties:
To understand the text exactly
To train students reading abilities
Teaching procedures:
Step one: lead in
Have students answer the following questions:
Can you name some successful person that you are familiar with?
What qualities do you think might contribute to their success?
(refer to word power)
(This class we’re going to learn about a successful person in reading--Sir Clive Sinclair. Let’s find out what success he has got and his secret to success.)
Step two: skimming
Have students go through the passage quickly and try to figure out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
para.1 Clive’s brilliant Childhood.
para.2 How Clive’s ran his first company.
para.3 Clive was very talented at making little things
para.4 How Sinclair’s career underwent a failure during the 1980s.
para.5 How Sinclair saved Mensa as a chairman.
para.6 Sinclair keep on inventing new things.
para.7 Sinclair’s secret to success.
Step three: Scanning
Fill out a timetable to make clear the time order Clive’s successful experience.
Answer some detailed questions based on the text.
Step four: Consolidation
Have students work in pairs and make a brief introduction to Sinclair to each other.
课件8张PPT。Reading 1
Sir Clive Sinclair
—the man who brought technology to the man in the streetUnit32. What qualities do you think might contribute to their success? British Mensa.1. Can you name some successful person that you are familiar with?Lead inRead the text quickly and figure out the main idea of each paragraphSkimmingPara1
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SkimmingClive’s brilliant Childhood. How Clive’s ran his first company. Clive was very talented at making little things . How Sinclair’s career underwent a failure during the 1980s.How Sinclair saved Mensa as a chairman. Sinclair keep on inventing new things.Sinclair’s secret to success. . The following is a timeline of important dates in Sinclair’s life. Fill in what happened in each year.He got a job as an assistant editor for a magazine.Sinclair resigned from his job.He produced the world’s first pocket calculator.ScanningHe produced the world’s first pocket TV.Sinclair introduced the ZX80 computer.Sinclair introduced his C5 car.He produced the world’s first
digital watch.Consolidation Work in pairs and make a brief introduction to Sinclair to each other.
