课件19张PPT。A Presentation of highly efficient 6 Steps Teaching Pattern Reading PracticeUnit15 Learning Lesson 4 Understandinglearning aims:1.Understand key information of this article and learn how to acquire knowledge.
2.Use linking words and reference words to help understand the texts.
Guess who said these words: 1. Knowledge is power.
——Bacon
2.Two iron balls fall onto the ground at the same time.
——Galilei
3. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
——Aristotle
First-readingTask 1. What‘s the type of this passage?
A. Argumentation
B. Exposition.
C. Narration
D. Practical writing.
2. Divide the passage into parts according to the main idea of each part.
Para. how to acquire knowledge and understanding.
Para. people believe in religion and ancient views.
Para. we can’t say “we know it all”, and should
learn the scientific way from the great men.
12-34-5Careful-readingTask2 Answer the following questions. Read para.1 and complete question 1-21. How do we get knowledge and understanding according to the passage?
A. observe--study the facts--question--test the possible answer.
B. question--observe--study the facts--test the possible answer.
C. study the facts--observe--question--test the possible answer.
D. question--study the facts--observe--test the possible answer.
2. How do modern scitentists and thinkers deal with the world's problems?
A.They always get the information from the Internet.
B.They type the questions into the search engine.
C.They always talk about the quetions with their colleagues(同事).
D.They get the answers by asking ,observing,studying and testing.1. The reason why Aristotle assume that the sun moved around the Earth is that he thought the earth is still. [ ]
2. People in the 17the century were afraid of the church and they didn't want to challenge it,so they didn't believe in Galileo's idea. [ ]
3.The writer described the people of the church during Galileo's time as having both ''closed'' and ''open'' minds. [ ]Read para.2-3 and decide True or False
TFF1. What does the pronoun''it'' mean in the sentence''...then it must be so .''?
A. Aristotle was a great man.
B. Aristotle inspired many great men.
C. People didn't want to search for their own understanding.
D. What someone important and respected said.
Read para.4-5 and finish the following tasks.2. What's your understanding of ''these men'' in the sentence''These men knew that knowledge and understanding...''?
A. It refers to the people who didn't want to challenge what they had
always believed.
B. It refers to the great philosophers like Aristotle who believed the Earth was the centre of the universe.
C. It refers to the scientists like Galilei who kept learning and gaining knowledge.
D. It refers to some modern people who didin't want to search for their own understanding.2. Translation
So much of our knowledge and understanding of the world today is due to people like Bacon and Galilei, who were brave enough to step out from the shadows of conventional thought in order to find the kingdom of knowledge that today’s civilisation is built upon. 我们今天对世界有这么多的认识和了解,是因为有培根和伽利略这样的人,为了发现创造今天人类文明的知识王国,他们勇敢的从传统思想的阴影中走出来。Post-reading: Voice your opinion. If Mr. Frank says something you disagree with in the class, What would you do ? Why? Summary1. Knowledge and understanding is the most important in the process of acquiring knowledge.
2. We should believe in facts.
3. We should respect others’ views and never treat them violently.
4. We should fight for knowledge and understanding. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.(Of Studies from Francis Bacon)
读书时不可存心诘难作者,不可尽信书上所言,亦不可只为寻章摘句,而应推敲深思。 Generally speaking, there are (1) steps towards acquiring knowledge and understanding. First, put forward questions. Secondly, (2) the world around us and study the facts. Thirdly, (3) possible answers and eventually test each to find the right ones.
However, this was not true in the 17th century when people were accustomed to (4 ) (accept) what was generally believed. They tended (5)______ make assumptions about the world based on the experience of others. Therefore, when Galilei proved that the Earth was (6)______ the center of the universe, people got angry and put him in prison.
As pioneers, Bacon and Galilei were brave enough to (7) conventional thought. To them, knowledge and understanding is (8) to man and beneficial to mankind. They were willing to (9) for it at whatever prices.(10) to their bravery, we now know that “ we don’t know it all”fourobserveconsideracceptingnotfightchallengetovitalThanksHomework:1. Preview the language points of this passage.
2. Finish Ex.5 on page43.Clap for the winners!