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to solve the problem.
4. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids: 1.a computer 2.a tape recorder 3.the
Do you know who the person is?
( Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest physicists of our time, A Brief History of Time )Today we are going to learn a passage about Stephen Hawking. It will tell us Hawking’s determination, thoughts and some theories. First let’s learn some new words and phrases. Then turn to P3. Look at the questions in Pre-reading quickly and then scan the text as quickly as possible and find the answers to them.
Answers:1 Because he wanted a job.
2 Hawking became famous in the early 1970s, when he and American Roger Penrose made new
discoveries about the Big Bang and black holes.
3 In 2002, Hawking visited China and spoke to university students in Hangzhou and Beijing.
Step II Reading
T: Well done. Now read the passage once as carefully as possible. Then answer some detailed
questions on the screen. You may discuss them in pairs if necessary.
What did Stephen Hawking do when he was told that he had an incurable disease?
1. How would most people feel when they were told that they had incurable disease?
2. What did Hawking write in 1988?
3. What did Hawking explain in the book ?
4. According to Hawking, how do people misunderstand science?
5. What are the basic steps of the scientific method?
6. What is it that Hawking doesn’t like about his speech computer?
Step III language points
There didn’t seem much point in working on my PhD—I didn’t expec to survive that long·
取得博士学位对我来说没有什么意义,我没有期望活那么久。
PhD(Doctor of Philosophy ) 指“博士学位”
There is no point in doing sth.表示“做某事没有作用或没有意义”。
例:There is no point in arguing further.
继续争执下去没有意义了。
There is no point in protesting.It won’t help much.
抗议没有什么用处,于事无补。
that在此处为副词,意为“那么”,可以修饰形容词。this也有此用法。
例:I didn’t expect he was that rude.
我没料到他会那么粗鲁。
I have never been out this late before.
我从未在外面呆到这么晚过。
Please cut my hair about this much.
请把我的头发剪掉这么长。
4.Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse.
但两年过去了,我的情况却没那么糟糕。