课型：讲练课

课时：二节

ⅠTeaching Materials

  Words: spirit, inventor, invention, pupil, build, print, track, frighten, frightened, safety, telegraph, lifetime

  Phrases: try out, at the age of, rush out, New Jersey

Sentences: Thomas Edison thought that no matter how difficult something seemed, he could find the answer.

He said he thought more of a person who has one idea and makes it work than of a person who has a thousand ideas but doesn’t do anything about them.

ⅡTeaching Objectives

1.      Read the passage and try to understand it. Make sure to finish ex.1 in the workbook.

2.      Master all the teaching materials.

3.      Read the whole lesson fluently and the pronunciation and intonation should be right.

ⅢTeaching Points

1.      The main points----(1)&(2) in the teaching objectives

2.      The difficult points.

A. was always trying out  过去进行时，表示过去常常做某事。

B. so …that…  如此…以致…  

  C. thought more of…更看重…      think a lot of …对…有很高评价

ⅣTeaching Procedure

Period 1

1.      Organization of the class

Talk about Edison

2.      Revision

A.     Oral

What was David trying to do?  Why?

What was his idea?

①    Get sb. to do sth. ②be able to & can ③