Unit 1 Madame Curie
Ⅰ. Teaching aims and demands:
1. Words and phrases
go over, from then on, go by, work hard at, set off, ground floor, post, pay off, disappoint, willing, devote to, overcoat, succeed (in), graduation, endless, effect, shock, admire, determination, courage, have…to do with, in honour of, give off, heart and soul…
2. Daily expressions in communication
Perhaps I’ll go to that one.
Maybe it was useful for some people.
I’m not sure if/whether…
I doubt if he’ll be asked to speak again next year.
I’m not sure that…
I’m sure…
3. Grammar
Revise the Attributive Clause.
4. Language use
运用所学语言，完成教科书和练习册中规定的听、说、写的任务；阅读课文“Madame Curie”,确切理解，让学生了解科学家居里夫妇一生为人类作出的贡献，引导他们学习居里夫妇从事科学事业所表现出来的毅力、勇气和献身精神，并完成有关课文内容的练习。
Ⅱ. Time arrangement:
This unit is going to be finished in 6 teaching periods, including a unit test.
Ⅲ. Key and difficult points of this unit:
1. Grammar: the attributive clause
2. Words and useful expressions
3. Daily expressions in communication
4. Listening and writing practice
Lesson 1
Ⅰ. Teaching aims:
1. Students are required to master the following words and useful expressions:
Madame; disappoint; disappointing; willing; devote to; go over; have…to with;
2. Students are supposed to master and use the everyday English for communication: dialogue presentation.
3.Grammar: revision of attributive clauses (in real- situation dialogues)
4. Language use: Manipulate listening, speaking practice for the students to use the language.
Ⅱ. Teaching aids:
tape recorder; slide show; computer; multimedia education software
Ⅲ. Key points:
1. Dialogue presentation
2. Vocabulary and grammar usage in real-situation dialogues
3. Free dialogue making
4. Learn the expressions of express your ideas.
Ⅳ. Teaching crux:
1. have something to do with ------ have nothing to do with
e.g. What he said and what he did had nothing to do with what had already happened.
You have to prove yourself to be innocent, that is, you had nothing to do with the murder.
2. be willing to do : ----- be eager to do sth , and at same time , he himself likes to do so, with no other’s influence
e.g. I am unwilling to help such a mean person , but now he is really in trouble , I think it my duty to do so .
3. devote…to ( doing )
e.g. . Albert Einstein devoted himself to the study of Relativity.
That person devoted himself to finding the valuable treasure hidden by the Pirates hundreds of years of ago.
Ⅴ. Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Revision
(1) Revise the expressions of expressing your ideas. Get the students to give some examples.
(2) Revise giving comments (about a conference).
Step 2. Presentation
SB Page 1, Part 1. Tell the students that we are going to learn a dialogue in which four doctors are having comments on the meeting.
Step 3. Listening
Now listen to the dialogue and find out this information:
① When were the meeting held? (Last week)
② What were meeting about? (Medical conference)
③ How many doctors were there in the dialogue? (Four)
Pick out some students to answer the questions loudly to the rest of the class.
Step 4. Reading and explanations
Now get the students to read the dialogue in pairs and underline the difficulties and the key points that they think.
(1) have something to do with ------ have nothing to do with
e.g. What he said and what he did had nothing to do with what had already happened.
You have to prove yourself to be innocent, that is, you had nothing to do with the murder.
Similarly we have “have nothing/little to do with.
(2) I’m sure that….
I’m not sure whether….
(3) How do you find…? = How do you like…
Step 5. Practice
SB P1, Part 2. Tell the students this part is compiled to practice the expressions of expressing your ideas that your are not sure about something. Get the students to make sentences using the phrases given in the box. Pick up students to yell out their sentences and give some more sentences of expressing your ideas.
Step 6. Consolidation
WB Ex.1, get the students to do this exercise orally to consolidate the sentence pattern of expressing your ideas.
Get some students to read their answers to the rest of the class.
Step 7. Workbook
Workbook Lesson 1, Exx.2 and 3. Get the students to do the exercises individually and then check the answers with the students.
Answers: See Wb P73.
Homework
(1) Finish off the exercises of Lesson 1 in the workbook.
(2) Look up “Madame Curie” in an encyclopedia or in the web.
Ⅵ. Evaluation of teaching:
Lesson 2 Madame Curie (1)
Ⅰ. Teaching aims:
1. After learning the text, the students are required to master the following words and useful expressions:
willing; devote to; go over; have…to with; radium; Poland; overcoat; succeed in; graduation; industrial; uranium; give off; ray; radioactive; mineral; polonium; in honour of; motherland; from then on; go by
2. Revise the grammar: the attributive clause.
3. Get the students to read the text using the following reading skills: skimming and scanning
Ⅱ. Key points: 1.Words and grammar 2. Reading comprehension
Ⅲ. Teaching methods: Reading-practice
Ⅳ. Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Revision
(1) Check the homework exercises.
(2) Revise the key points of Lesson1.
Step 2. Pre-reading report
Pick out some students to report to the class their research in the encyclopedia or the web.
Step 3. Scanning
Now get the students to read the text and answer the following questions:
① When and where did Madame Curie finish her university study?
② What was the main contribution that Madame Curie did to science?
Step 4. Scanning
Tell the students to read the text more carefully to find out the specific information. Answer the questions in Part 3 and 4. Pick out some students to yell out their answers to the rest of class.
Step 5. Language points
(1) At that time women were not admitted to universities in Poland, so Marie was determined to go to Paris and study there. 当时在波兰妇女是不允许进大学的，因此，玛丽决定去巴黎学习。
admit vt.接纳，许可（人/物）进入(allow sb. / sth. to enter)。 例如：
Only two hundred boys and girls are admitted to our school every year.
我们学校每年只收二百名男女学生。
My sister was lucky to be admitted to Beijing University.
我的姐姐很幸运，被北京大学录取了。
She had a bad headache and was admitted to hospital this morning.
她头疼得很厉害，今天上午（被接收）住院了。
The windows are small and do not admit enough light and air.
窗户都很小，不能让足够的光线和空气进入室内。
(2) She succeeded in taking a first-class degree in physics two years after arriving in Paris.
到巴黎两年以后，她顺利地取得了一级物理学位。
① succeed vi. 成功，获得成功。succeed 后面常跟 in 引起的短语，构成succeed in sth. / doing sth. 的结构，表示“在......方面取得是成功”的意思。succeed in doing sth. 常可以有灵活的译法（见本句译文）。例如：
If you do not succeed at first, you must try again.
如果起初没有成功，你必须再试一次。
He didn't succeed in his first experiments.
他头几次试验都没有成功。
Did they succeed in their performances last week?
他们上周的演出成功了吗？
The Curies succeeded in discovering polonium in 1898.
居里夫妇于1898年成功地发现了钋。
I am sure they will succeed in passing the examination.
我肯定他们会顺利地通过考试。
② a first-class degree 大学学位分三级。第一级是最高级，第三级是最低级。
(3) Not long before another scientist had found that uranium gave off rays ...
不久以前，另外有位科学家发现过铀元素放出射线的现象.....。
① 句中所说的 another scientist 系指法国物理学家贝克勒尔（Antoine Henri Becquerel,1852-1908）.他从1895年起一直研究磷光现象。1896年发现铀的放射性，这是科学实验中认识放射性的开端。贝克勒尔首先发现放射现象，居里夫妇在此基础上进一步发现了钋。因此，1903年，贝克勒尔和居里夫妇一起共获诺贝尔物理奖。
② 短语动词give off 作“散发”、 “放出”（to send out sth., especially a liquid, gas or smell）解。例如：
Boiling water gives off steam. 沸腾的水散发出蒸气。
The gas gave off an unpleasant smell. 煤气散发出一种难闻的气味。
Let's go out and see the flowers. They're giving off a sweet fragrance.
咱们出去看看花吧。花儿正散发出一片芳香。
(4) There was a certain mineral which was even more radioactive than uranium.
有一种矿物，它具有放射性甚至比铀还强。
本句的定语从句中的形容词比较级 more radioactive 前用了副词 even, 以加强比较的语气和程度。在比较级前可以加的这类词或词组还有 much, far, still, a lot 等。例如：
This problem is much more difficult than that one.
这个问题比那个问题难得多。
The next day they got to a far bigger forest (than the first one).
第二天，他们来到一个大得多的森林。
Let's work harder to win still greater success.
让我们更加努力以取得更大的成功。
(5) In 1898 she discovered the first of these new radioactive minerals, which she named "polonium" in honour of her motherland - Poland ... 1898年，她现了这些新放射性矿物中的第一种。为向她的祖国-波兰表示敬意，她把这种矿物取名为“钋”......。
介词短语 in honour of sb. / sth. 意思是“为了纪念/尊敬某人/某事”。例如：
A monument was built in honour of their heroic deeds.
为了纪念他们的英雄事迹，建立了一座纪念碑。
A memorial meeting was held in honour of Dr Bethune.
为纪念白求恩医生而举行了悼念会。
(6) They devoted all their hours to working in their laboratory.
他们把全部时间投入了实验室工作。
短语动词 devote...to的意思是“专心致志于干某事”(do sth. in a very single-minded way), 短语中的 to 是介词，后接名词或 -ing 形式。 例如：
She devoted all her life to scientific work.
她毕生从事科学工作。
He devoted part of his time to the study of history.
他用一部分时间研究历史。
He devoted every effort to helping the disabled people.
他竭尽一切努力帮助残疾人。
They devoted themselves to the work of children's health care.
他们致力于儿童保健工作。
(7) We must work, and above all we must believe in ourselves.(=We must work, and first of all we must trust ourselves. ) 我们必须工作，尤其重要的是，我们必须对自己有信心。
① 句中的 above all 是插入语，意思是“首要的是”(of first importance) 或“尤其是”(most especially)。例如：
This is an important question and, above all, a question of which road to take.
这是一个重要的问题，尤其是走什么道路的问题。
Never waste anything, but above all never waste time.
任何东西都不可浪费，尤其不可浪费时间。
② believe in (= have faith in, trust) 信赖，信任；而 believe的意思则是“相信某人的话”。试比较：A: Do you believe him? 你相信他的话吗？
B: Yes, I do. But still he isn't a man to believe in.
我相信他的话，不过他还是一个不能信赖的人。
又如：
To live, one must have something to believe in.
为了生活，人们总得有某种信奉的东西。
(8) We must believe that each one of us is able to do something well, and that, when we discover what this something is, we must work hard at it until we succeed.
我们必须相信，我们每一个人都能把某件事情办好；而且，当我们发现这事情是什么的时候，我们就必须努力干下去，直到成功为止。
① 句子分析：这是一个复合句。主句是 We must believe ... ，后跟两个由 that 引导的宾语从句。第一个宾语从句是 each one of us is able to do something well;第二个宾语从句又是一个复合句，其中主句是 we must work hard at it, 后跟一个时间状语从句 until we succeed. 另外还有一个时间状语从句 when we discover ... ,紧接一个宾语从句 what this something is.
② 不定代词 something, anything, nothing 前通常不加定语。此句中的 this something是作者的特殊用法，指上文中 to do something well 中的 something。居里夫人思想中的这个something 是指人们的“生活目标”。something, anything, nothing 等词的定语通常是加在这些词的后面，如 something new, nothing important, anything else等。
③ work hard at 意思是“为了......而努力工作”。例如：
He is working hard at a maths problem.
他正在用心做一道数学题。
You can make rapid progress in your English if you work hard at it.
如果你努力学习，你的英语会迅速取得进步。
(9) She refused to treat these new discoveries as though they belonged to her, ...
= She refused to regard these new discoveries as her own, ...
她不同意把这些新发现看作是属于她自己的东西， ......。连词词组 as though / if 含义是“好似”，“就好像”，通常接方式状语从句。 例如：
I remember the story as though/if it happened only yesterday.
我记得这件事的经过，就好像是昨天才发生似的。
This American girl speaks Chinese as if/though she were a Chinese.
这个美国女孩说起汉语来就像中国人一样。
They talked as if / though they had been old friends.
他们说话的神情好像是老朋友似的。
Step 6. Reading comprehension
SB P3, Part 3. Get the students to mark the sentences with T or F, and then pick out some students to tell their answers to the rest of the class.
Step 7. Discussion
SB P3, Part 4. Divide the students into groups of four and tell them to choose one or two of the seven topics to talk about. After they have finished the topics, get the students to choose one of them to report to the rest of the class.
Step 8. Workbook
Get the students to do the wb exercises individually and then check the answers with the class. Answers: See Wb P74.
Homework
(1) Finish off the exercises of Lesson 2 in the workbook.
(2) Revise the key points of this lesson.
Ⅴ. Evaluation of teaching:
Lesson 3 Madame Curie (2)
I. Teaching objectives (the students are supposed to master the following items and conduct the following practices):
1.Words and useful expressions: motherland; from then on; go by; endless; above all; believe in; work hard at; ground floor; bench; lead; false; set off; cure; disadvantage; effect; shock; post; gram; institute; admire; determination/ courage; battlefield; heart and soul; pay off; debt
2. Grammar: Revise the attributive clause.
3. Reading practice: reading and discussion.
4. Ethic teaching: the students are supposed to learn from Madame Curie of her devotion to science and her love of her motherland.
Ⅱ.Key points: grammar and useful expressions
Ⅲ.Teaching methods: Reading - practice
Ⅳ.Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Revision
(1) Check the homework exercises.
(2) Revise the key points of the previous lesson.
(3) Revise the sequence of the events that Madame Curie did.
Step 2. Presentation
Tell the students that this lesson will continue to tell something about Madame Curie.
Step 3. Scanning
Tell the students to read the text carefully and answer the questions on Wb P75. Do orally with the class.
Step 4. Language points
Tell the students to read the text and underline the language points. Talk about the language difficulties with the students.
(1) Polonium is used to set off a nuclear bomb. =... is used to make a nuclear bomb explode. 钋用来引爆核弹。
短语动词 set off 作不及物动词时，意思是“出发”；用及物动词时，意思是“使爆发/爆炸”，“引起”。在本句中是后一种用法。又如：
We'd better set off at 7 tomorrow morning.
我们最好明天早晨七点出发。
An explosion was set off by the burning gas.
燃烧的煤气引起了爆炸。
A slight touch will set the bomb off.
稍一触动就会使炸弹爆炸。
Martin's speech set off a wave of anger.
马丁的演说激起了愤怒的浪潮。
(2) Radioactive matter is dangerous to work with because it has a bad effect on the blood.从事放射性物质的工作是危险的，因为它对血液有不良影响。
① 本句的主句属于“主语+be+形容词+不定式”的句式。类似的句子有：
He is hard to work with. 同他共事是很难的。
I shall be happy to accept your invitation. 我将很高兴接受你的邀请。
This question is very important to pay attention to.
这个问题很重要，须得注意。
She's always ready to help others. 她总是乐于帮助别人。
② have effect on 对......产生影响。例如：
Loud noises have a bad effect on hearing.
噪音对听力有很坏的影响。
The sudden change of weather may have some effect on his health.
天气突然变化对他的健康可能有影响。
His family life had a bad effect on the boy's behaviour.
家庭生活对这个男孩的行为有很坏的影响。
(3) In fact, radium not only damaged their health but also made the laboratory equipment with which they were working radioactive. (= In fact, radium not only harmed their health, but also caused their laboratory equipment to become radioactive.)
事实上，镭不仅损害了他们的健康，而且还使他们工作用的实验室设备也都具有放射性了。
第二个并列谓语 made the laboratory equipment radioactive 是一个“make + 复合宾语（宾语+宾语补足语）”的结构。本句中的宾语补足语是形容词 radioactive,表示宾语的性质或状态。本句的宾语 laboratory equipment 后面有一个限制性定语从句 with which they were working, 说明“他们所用以工作的实验设备”也具有放射性。
例如：
Disney's new ideas made his movies more lively and interesting.
迪斯尼的新设想使他的影片更加生动有趣了。
They are trying to make things easy and comfortable.
他们尽力使事情变得轻松而又愉快。
Long years of research made her almost blind.
多年的研究工作使她几乎失明了。
Step 5. Writing
SB P4, Part 2, Fill in the gaps with a appropriate word and then pick out an eloquent student to read to the class. Check the answers if they have any questions.
Step 6. Practice---- grammar revision
SB P5, Part 3~5, Tell the students to do the exercises about the attributive clause in groups and then get a reporter to report to the rest of the class.
Step 7. Workbook
Workbook Lesson 3, Ex. 2~3. Get the students to do the three exercises and then check the answers with the students if time permits.
Homework
(1) Finish off the exercises of Lesson 3 in the workbook.
(2) Revise the grammar of attributive clause.
(3) Ethic teaching: Discussion ---- What can we learn from Madame Curie?
Ⅴ. Evaluation of teaching:
Lesson 4
Ⅰ. Teaching aims and demands
1. Provide the chance for students to have a listening practice
2. Revise the grammar with the students: -ing form used as attribute and adverbial.
3. The students are required to practice the words and useful expressions in Checkpoint
Ⅱ. Key points: 1. Grammar; 2. Listening 3. Useful expressions.
Ⅲ. Teaching methods: Listening - practice
Ⅳ. Teaching procedures
Step 1. Revision
(1) Check the homework exercises.
(2) Revise the previous two lessons.
Step 2. Listening
(1) Pre-listening: Tell the students turn to Page 133 and read the instructions to get a gist of the listening passage.
(2) While-listening:
① Play the tape for the students to answer the questions.
② Check the answers with the students.
(3) Post listening activity: get the students to talk about the listening passage.
Step 3. Checkpoints
Go through Checkpoint 1 with the students. Get the students to make up sentences using the useful expressions if time permits.
Step 4. Word study
SB P6, Part 2. Read the instructions and get students to fill in the blanks with the words given in the box. Check the answers with the students after they finish them.
Step 5. Writing
SB P6, Part 3. Read the instructions and tell the students to develop a paragraph by completing the notes from the text. Assign the work as their homework.
Step 6. Workbook
Workbook Lesson 4. Ex. 1~3. Get the students to do the two exercises and then check the answers with the students.
Homework
(1) Finish off the wb exercises of Lesson 4.
(2) Revise the key points of this unit.
(3) Writing: See Step 5.
Ⅴ. Evaluation of teaching:
本单元语法要点小结：
1.be sure和doubt用于对事物确信与不确信的表达。
①be(not) sure+宾语从句句型，从句可以由whether, if, that, what, when, where等 连接词，连接代词或副词引导。
We are not sure when they will visit us.
我们不知他们何时来拜访我们。
②be not sure+连接代词或连接副词+to do sth 句型，一般用否定式或疑问式。
I am not sure whether to go to that speech.
我不知是否会去听那个演讲。
③be sure to do sth 句型表示说话人对主语的推测判断。
You are sure to work out to problem.
你一定会解出这道题。
The job is sure to be finished.
这项工作一定会完成。
④be sure about/of+名词、代词、动名词等。
Most students are not sure about English grammar.
大多数学生对英语语法没有把握。
He is sure of passing the driving test.
他对通过驾驶测试有把握。
⑤doubt与don't doubt可以接名词、代词等作宾语，也可以接宾语从句作宾语。
I don't doubt the truth of the news.
我不怀疑那条新闻的真实性。
I doubt whether they told him the bad news.
我不知道他们是否告诉了他那不幸的消息。
2.副词off表示“离开”或“动作的完成”动词与其搭配构成的短语可以联系记忆。
set off:出发，使…爆发 pay off：还清
give off:放出(烟、气味等) get off：下车
see sb off：送行 ring off：挂断电话
take off：脱掉衣物等 turn off.关掉(电源)等。
3.believe in sth 信仰某事；believe in sb 信任某人；believe sb 相信某人的话。
Most Chinese never believe in God.
绝大多数中国人不信仰上帝。
I don't believe him, for he seldom tells the truth.
我不相信他说的话，因为他很少讲真话。
Our monitor does well in everything, so we all believe in him.我们的班长在各方面都表现好，因此我们都信任他。
4.succeed in sth/doing sth. 在…取得成功。
be successful in sth 在…成功了。
success 作可数名词时，可表示“成功的人或事”。
He hopes to succeed in everything, but he is successful in nothing.He is not a su ccess.
他希望事事成功，但是他却一事无成，他是一个失败者。
5.have something (nothing) to do with 表示与其它事物的关系
be connected with 既可表示与其它事物的关系，也可表示事物在位置上相连接。
The young man has nothing to do with the traffic accident.
那个年青人与那起交通事故无关。
Asia is connected with Africa at the Suez Canal.
亚洲与非洲在苏伊士运河相连。
He is not connected with the Smiths.
他与史密斯家族毫无关系。
6.heart and soul 名词短语作状语，其它常见的作状语的名词有表示时间、距离、重量等的数量词。
We should do everything heart and soul.
我们做一切事都应该全心全意。
We have worked five hours.
我们工作了五个小时。
He walked three kilometres yesterday.
他昨天走了三公里。
The box weighs five kilogrammes.
那个盒子重五公斤。
7.动词+介词 to 构成的短语，不要把to误认为是不定式符号.
devote…to 献身于… prefer … to … 宁愿…而不
stick to 坚持 lead to 导致、通向
pay attention to 注意 be/get used to 习惯于
help oneself to 随便…