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Unit 3
Inventors and inventions
An amphibious car
DNA
Invention or discovery?
What is an invention?
An Invention is something that is created by a human being. Inventing is a scientific activity.
What is a discovery?
A discovery merely makes known something that already existed in nature.
If snakes in your courtyard……
The Problem of the Snakes
What does the text mainly talk about?
A. How to apply for a patent
B. The solutions to preventing snakes from biting people
C. The best procedure for trapping snakes
D. How to become a true inventor
Skimming
1
3
2
4,5,6
7,8
Find a problem
Do research
Test the solution
Para Stages
Think of a creative solution
Apply for a patent
get rid of
harm
habits
three
third/last
Careful reading
Para Stages Examples in this story
1 Find a problem To ___________ snakes but not ________ them.
2 Do
research Set about researching the ______ of snakes
3
Think of a creative solution Decided on _______ possible approaches .
Decided to use the ____________approach.
The differences of the three attempts ( Para 4--6 )
after two hours
early in the morning
in the evening
early the next morning
bowl, ice cubes, bucket
disappeared
bowl, ice cubes, bucket
bowl, ice cubes, bucket, net
Once picked up, the snakes tried to _______ her.
bite
in the evening
the next morning
Collected and released
Time Tools Results
1 Begin:
End: The snakes abruptly
____________.
2 Begin:
End:
3 Begin:
End: The snakes were ________ .
Attempt 3
Retell the third attempt.
...collected...
Consolidation
Firstly…froze …
Secondly...placed…over...
Finally...covered …with…
The next morning.....removed…
How to catch?
can get
truly novel
new
creative
can't get
Para 7-8 Apply for a patent
Criteria
A discovery
A scientific theory or
mathematical model
Literature or art
A game or a business
A computer program
A new animal or
plant variety
Finding a star
Can they get a patent?
A trap for insects
A discovery
A creative idea
A new book
A pig with new genes
Group work
Literature
A new animal
When I ___________ my mother, she told me that some snakes came near the house ______________ and wanted me to ___________ them. I thought it was a chance to distinguish myself, so I set about researching the _______of snakes to find the _______ way to trap them. I decided on three approaches and decided to use the last one. I tried ________ times. Finally I _______ them with great caution and released them into the wild. I decided to _______ the opportunity to apply for a ________. So I filled in the form and ____ my patent application with the Patent Office.
called up
now and then
get rid of
habits
easiest
three
collected
seize
patent
filed
Summary
The text tells us ________________________ and ______________________________
and ______________________.
the problem of the snakes
the procedures of catching them
applying for a patent
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Unit 3 Inventors and inventions
Reading II
Unit 3 Inventors and inventions
Lead-in
Telephones become part of our life. But do you know who invented the telephone?
A British inventor called Alexander Graham Bell.
Read the passage quickly and find out the main idea of it.
Scanning
It mainly talks about the life of Alexander Graham Bell and how he made the great inventions.
Do you know the following scientists and what things they invented? Match the following two columns.
Galileo
Einstein
Newton
Watt
Edison
Alexander graham Bell
Wright brothers
telephone
telescope
steam engine
bulb
Theory of Relativity
Newton’s law of gravity
plane
T or F:
1/Alexander Graham Bell was born deaf in 1847 in Scotland.
2/He found that by pressing his lips against his mother’s forehead, he could make his mother hear what he was saying.
3/It was this exploring around problems and his dynamic spirit that led to his most famous invention—telegraph in 1876.
4/The patent was given in 1876, after Bell sent his first telephone message to his assistant Watson.
5/Bell made his first invention in 1858.
F
F
F
F
T
1. What did he think was the key to his success as an inventor?
2. What inventions did Bell make by chance?
3. Why will he always be known as the inventor of the telephone?
Post-reading
1. What did he think was the key to his success as an inventor?
He believed that his curiosity was the key to his success.
Para2:He believed that one should always be curious and his most famous saying was.
2. What inventions did Bell make by chance?
Bell invented the telephone and the tetrahedron
shape by chance. Both of these are extremely
useful and still used today.
Para4 line2: Bell never set out to invent the telephone and what he was trying to design was a multiple telegraph.
Para9 line3:While searching for a kite..., Bell experimented putting triangles together and discovered the tetrahedron shape.
3. Why will he always be known as the inventor of the telephone?
He will always be known as the inventor of the
telephone because it was a very popular invention
and the patent made the most money ever.
2. He believed that one should always be curious and his most famous saying was: “Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.”
他认为人应该保持一颗好奇心,他最著名的一名话是: “偶尔离开平路,去寻求困境。当你这么做的时候,你一定会发现你从未见过的东西。跟踪下去,不断探索,不知不觉中,你就会发现某种值得思考的东西占据着你的头脑。所有真正伟大的发现都是思考的结果。”
What does Bell’s saying mean to you?
Sharp mind
Perspiration
Escape from comfort zone
Curiosity
Inspiration
Achievememt
Learning ability
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
--Thomas Edison
1.work out the rules 2.go through the stages
3.work out a suitable order 4.apply for a patent
5.decide on the invention 6.call/ring up
7. now and then 8.get rid of…
9.distinguish oneself
10.set about doing/set out to do
11.adjust one’s/the plan
12.with (great) caution 13.bend down
14.pick up
15.go according to plan
16.seize the opportunity (to do sth.)
17.in addition 18.be different from…/differ from…
19.a large number of… 20.fill in the form
21.it is a matter of… 22.bank balance
23.lead sb. to do sth. 24.beaten track
25.dive into 26.set out to do sth
27.electrical current 28.be fully aware of…/that…
29.interest oneself (in…)
30.be associated with…