Making a difference

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Unit 1
Making a difference
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Task 1
Warming up

• There are many outstanding scientists in the
  world, who made great contribution to society and
  science?

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Scientists Contributions
Maria Curie
Radium/polonium
Zhang Heng
Seismograph
Charles Darwin
The Theory of Evolution
Thomas Alva Edison
The light bulb
Albert Einstein
The Theory of Relativity
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Who are they?
Albert Einstein
Madame Curie
Thomas Alva Edison
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Whom do you think these quotes are from and do
you know what they mean?
1.Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninety-nine percent perspiration.
2.Imagination is more important than
knowledge.
3.Nothing in the world is to be feared it is
only to be understood.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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Nothing in the world is to be feared it is
only to be understood.
Maria Curie
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• It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the
  analysis of the obvious
• Alfred North Whitehead
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• You cannot teach a man anything you can only
  help him find it within himself.
• Galileo
  Galilei
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Task 2
Speaking
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Branches of science Why?
Biology Essential to protecting the ecological balance and environment people cant live without living things and medicine.
Chemistry Is the key to the progress of human being it is chemical reaction that produce many new things.
Physics Widely used in many fields, such as medicine, industry and agriculture.
Mahts You cant learn physics or chemistry well without a good knowledge of maths. It is a tool in science and engineering.
Computer science It is now an indispensable tool in many fields. It can settle all kinds of problems at a high speed and can help people work easily.
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Language points(warming up/listening/speaking)
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• Genius is one percent inspiration and
  ninety-nine percent perspiration.
• genius
• --U great and rare powers of thought, skill or
  imagination.??
• --C a person of very great ability or very
  high intelligence????????.
• e.g. Wuthering Heights is one of
• the most extraordinary books
• that human genius has
• ever produced.

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??????????????????????? she has a genius for
music. have a genius for??????? 2)inspiration
(n.) inspire (V.) e.g. She was an
inspiration to all who knew her.
These events provided the inspiration for her
first novel.
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• 2. Some things need to be believed to be seen. We
  see only what we know.
• ?????????????????????????????
• sth. needs to be done sth. needs doing
• ??
• This watch needs ____ , for it
• loses five minutes per day.
• A. to repair B. be repaired
• C. repairing D. being repaired

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• 3. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake
  the analysis of the obvious.
• It take n. to do sth. ?????
• e.g. It will take a lot of courage to tell the
  truth.
• It takes about thirty minutes to walk
  from here to the station.
• It took him a lot of money to buy her a
  fur coat.

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• ??
• 1.It ___ a lot of nerve to do a thing like that.
• needs B. takes C. spends D. A or B
• 2.Some passengers complain
• that it usually ___ so long to fill
• in travel insurance documents.
• costs B. takes
• C. spends D. spares

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2) undertake (undertook/undertaken) ? We can
undertake the work for the time being. ?He
undertook the leadership of the team. ?He
undertook to pay the money back within six
months. undertake ???,????,?????????????
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?? They have ____ their support whenever
we need it. A. promised B.
taken C. given D. undertaken
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• 4.You cannot teach a man anything you can only
  help him find it within himself. Nothing in the
  world is to be feared only understood.
• help sb (to) do sth.
• We all helped him_____ the application
  form.
• A. with filling out
• B. to filling out
• C. in filling out
• D. by filling out

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2)???to be feared???????,?????be to
do???,????,???? e.g. No one is to leave this
building. The form is to be filled in and
returned within three weeks. be to do
???????? ???????? e.g. Their daughter is to be
married soon. No a sound is to be heard.
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?? In such dry weather, the flowers will
have to be watered if they_____ . A. have
survived B. are to survive C. would survive
D. will survive ???????????????,?????
C,D??,A???????,????????????????be to do
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5. This great mind was on fire for ?????????????
(be) on fire ??????(for)
????( burning) e.g. As a child, he was on
fire for drawing something freely. The
house is on fire.
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6.Each group member represents a branch of
science. e.g. Economics is a branch of
science. He was hanging from the branch. The
river has a lot of branches.
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• 7. You are going to debate each other to see
  which branch of science is the most important and
  useful for society.
• v. debate sth. (with sb.)
• debate wh- to do sth./clause
• debate on sth.
• e.g. ?We must debate the question with the rest
  of the members.
• ?They were debating whether to go to the
  cinema or to watch TV at home.
• ?We debated for over an hour on the
• advantages and the disadvantages of the
• computer.

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• 2)n. ??,??
• e.g. After much debate, he was chosen captain of
  the team.
• ??
• The two sides debated ____ each other
  ____ who was the better for a
• whole day.
• A. to to B. with about
• C. over on D. between in