Teaching Plan of Unit 1

Making a difference

Tasks which should be achieved in this unit:

a. Achieve language skills and related knowledge about the topic of science and scientist;

b. Learn to use the following sentence structures:

That’s correct /true.

There is no doubt that ……

It’s clear that…..

It’s hard to say.

I doubt that … …

Well, maybe, but … …

What’s your idea ?

Have you thought about … …

c. Vocabulary in this unit:

undertake, analysis, obvious, within, agriculture, gravity, debate, biologist, scan, boundary, promising, graduate, disable, theory, seek, misunderstand, scientific, observe, observation, match, predict, unhappiness, astronomer, curious, microscope, telescope, heaven, punish, intelligent, patient, experiment.

d. Useful expressions:

work on, go by, be/get engaged to sb. , go on with, dream of, turn out, take a look at, what if, the other way around, hope for, in fact, in the 1970s, mean to do sth. , according to , believe in, a number of, test th