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What does the title mean?

How can you make a difference?

Find something that we like to do and that we are good at—discover what we do best

Making a difference

与众不同/有所作为

Warming up

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

Who are they?

Albert Einstein

Madame Curie

Thomas Alva Edison

Who are they?

Galileo Galilei

Francis Bacon

Copernicus

Newton

Who are they?

杨振宁

Alfred North Whitehead

Darwin

袁隆平

Aristotle

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

Copernicus

heliocentric theory

Galileo Galilei

The theory of falling objects

Whom do you think these quotes are from and do you know what they mean?

Genius is one

percent

inspiration

And ninety-nine

percent

perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison

the light bulb

“天才就是百分之九十九的汗

水加上百分之一的灵感.”

“Imagination is more

important than

knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

“想象力比知识更重要.”

“Nothing in the

world is to be

feared; it is only

to be understood.”

Maria Curie

“生活中没有什么可怕的东西,

只有需要理解的东西.”

Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Alfred North Whitehead:

a British mathematician

It takes a very unusual

mind to undertake

analysis of the obvious.

Knowledge

is power.

Francis Bacon

知识就是力量。

Quotes

It is more valuable to seek truth than to own it.

------ Einstein

对真理的追求要比对其占有更有价值.

Genius only means hardworking all one’s life.

-------- Menjelev

天才只意味着终生刻苦奋斗.

He that can have patience, can have what he will.

--------- Benjamin Franklin

有耐心的人才能到达其目的.

Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.

--------- Archimides

给我一个支点, 我将移动地球.

In science, the importance is something that has been reached out,

not the researcher himself.

------------ Marie Curie

在科学上, 重要的是研究出来的东西, 不是研究者本人.

Task 2

Listening

Who are the famous scientists described on the tape?

Great mind No 1:________________

1. This great mind was on fire for_________ .

? rockets ? agriculture ? gravity

? radioactivity ? outer space

2. The scientist’s name is similar to the English word curious,meaning________________________.

? something not old ? something not short

? being interested in something

Madame Curie

radioactivity

being interested in something

Great mind No 2:_________1.This great mind was on fire for______. ?rockets ? agriculture ? gravity ? radioactivity ? outer space 2. The scientist’s name is similar to the English word for__________________. ? something not old ? something not short  ?being interested in something 

Sir Isaac Newton

gravity

something not old

Great mind No 3:________1. What is this man known for?__________________________2. He wants to be called the______.Why?3. What do these three great minds have in common?

Yuan Longping

He is known for his work with rice/in agriculture.

farmer

Great mind No 4: You

What are you interested in ? Write a short paragraph about what you would like to invent, discover or be.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Essential to protecting the ecological balance and environment; people can’t live without living things and medicine.

Is the key to the progress of human being; it is chemical reaction that produce many new things.

Widely used in many fields, such as medicine, industry and agriculture.

You can’t learn physics or chemistry well without a good knowledge of maths. It is a tool in science and engineering.

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.

Speaking

2. What makes a scientist successful? Make

a list of good qualities you think the scientists

should have.

Hard work, intelligence, patience,

persistence, passion, interest,

imagination ,creativity. diligence

Pre-reading & Reading & Post reading

★ How did Hawking face the situation

Discussion

Skimming

What’s Hawking’s life like?

What does he think a scientist should be like and how science should work?

Because he is disabled, his life must be full of hardships, as we can see from the picture.

A scientist should know that his job is never finished and that even the best theory can turn out to be wrong and science is not about “true” facts that never change.

Scan the text to answer the following questions.

Why did Stephen Hawking need a PhD?

When did Hawking become famous?

When did Hawking visit Beijing?

He needed a PhD so that he could get a job and get married.

He became famous in the early 1970s.

In 2002.

What kind of student was Steven Hawking when he was in university?

What did he suffer from and what might have happened to him?

Did he think of giving up his work on PhD?

Why did he go on with his research later?

What is his research about?

What made him famous in the early 1970s?

Why did A Brief History of Time become a best-seller?

Scanning

1 Why did Stephen Hawking think, “There did not seem much point in working on my PhD”?

Because there was no point in being a PhD.

Because there was no hope of being a PhD.

Because he thought he would die soon.

Because he had no place to work.

2. Hawking became famous in the 1970s because ___________.

he was disabled

he was a PhD.

he was sitting in a famous chair

he made new discoveries about universe

C

D

3. According to the passage, what does “an American accent” mean?

Hawking’s accent

Hawking’s voice

Sounds translated by the computer

Accent of some British people

4. From the text we can infer that _________.

Hawking got married to Jane Wilde before he fell ill

Science is always true

Hawking is an American

great scientists always want to know more

C

D

5. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the text?

A Hawking is famous for his new discoveries.

B People should come to terms with their fate.

C A scientific theory is always wrong.

D Anyone with great determination will achieve his success.

D

Discussion:

Can you tell from the reading what kind of person Stephen Hawking is?

The disease did not stop him from living the king of life he had always dreamed of. What is his dream life like?

Universe doesn’t have any boundary or edge, the

laws of science would hold everywhere,including at the beginning of the universe.Knowledge has no boundaries, scientists should be always on fire for seeking truth.

How do you understand the title “NO BOUNDIRIES”?