新人教选修8 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions-Using language

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Unit 3 Inventors and inventions

Alexander Graham Bell

Do you know the following scientists and what things they invented? Match the following two columns. Galileo Einstein telephone

telescopesteam engine

NewtonWatt Edison Alexander graham Bell

bulbTheory of Relativity Newton’s law

Have you ever wondered why telephone companies often have the word "Bell" as part of their name? Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Alexander Graham Bell 1876 - and this is the was an inventor that lived phone company's way of between 1819 and 1905. honoring his achievement! The very first phone call He was born in Scotland was from Bell to his lab and later lived in the U.S. assistant, and he said "Mr. He spent much of his Watson, come here at career teaching the deaf. once. I want you."

Lead-inTelephones become part of our life. But do you know who invented the telephone? A British inventor called Alexander Graham Bell.

Pre-readingDiscuss the following questions ingroups:

1. What do you know about the inventor?2. How useful is his invention to human

society? Why?

ScanningRead the passage quickly and find out the main idea of it. It mainly talks about the life of Alexander Graham Bell and how he made the great inventions.

ListeningListen to the tape and try to answer

the questions on Page 26.1.What does Bell’s saying mean to you? 2.What do you think Led to his success as an inventor of telephone? 3.What inventions did Bell make? 4.Why will he always be known as the inventor of the telephone?

1.What does Bell’s saying mean to you? His saying means that it is important to be experimental. By being curious and exploring around a subject you may by chance come up with some new and original ways of solving a problem.2.What do you think led to his success as an inventor of the telephone? His curiosity and exploring spirit led to his success as an inventor of the telephone.

3.What inventions did Bell make? Bell invented the telephone and the tetrahedron shape by chance. Both of these are extremely useful and still used today. 4.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.

Language studyALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Scotland, but when he was young his family moved to Boston, USA. His mother was almost entirely deaf, so Alexander became interested in helping deaf people communicate and in deaf education. This interest led him to invent the microphone.

Language studyHe found that by pressing his lips against his mother’s forehead, he could make the bones move in such a way that she could understand what he was saying.他发现当他把嘴唇放在母亲的前额上， 他就会让骨头以一种能让他母亲明白的话 的方式运动。

这是一个复合句。found后接了一个宾语

从句; way后面接了由t

hat引导的定语从句，在这个定语从句中又包含了一个what引导的 宾语从句。注意way作先行词, 后面的定语从 句一般不用引导词, 也可用that/in which引 导。

What surprised me was not what he

said but ____ he said it.A. the way B. in the way that

C. in the way

D. the way which

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.

1. 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.” 他认为一个人应当具有好奇心，他最著名的一句话 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。”

beaten track 踏平的路；一贯的路；惯例。如： We followed a well-beaten track through the forest. 我们沿着一条人们他出来的路穿过森林。 dive (vt)

to go headfirst into water 潜入；跳水。例如：He dived into the river and rescued the drowning child. 他跳到水中，救起那快要溺死的小孩。

The boy dived into the river from the bridge这男孩从桥上跳人河中。

dive into 作 “潜心于……” 讲时和devote oneself to sth. 的意思一样，但devote oneself to sth. 还有“投身于……; 把自己奉献给……” 的意思。