Three Dimensional Teaching Aims

　　Knowledge Aims

　　Get the students to know about Copernicus and his theory.

　　Learn about persuasive writing.

　　Ability Aims

　　Master the skill of gist reading.

　　Develop the students' reading ability, such as skimming and scanning.

　　Improve the students' writing ability.

　　Emotional Aims

　　Arouse the students' interest in science and devotion to science.

　　Teaching Procedure

　　Step 1 Greeting

　　T: Hello, everyone.

　　Ss: Hello, Miss Wang.

　　Step 2 Reviewing

　　T: Last class we talked about Qian Xuesen and Carl Linnaeus. Can you say something about them?

　　S: Qian Xuesen is a famous Chinese physicist.

　　S: Qian Xuesen once studied in the USA and then returned to China.

　　S: Qian Xuesen made great contributions to space research.

　　S: Carl Linnaeus developed a system to classify plant species according to the male and female organs in the followers.

　　S: Carl Linnaeus earned the title "Father of classification".

　　Ss: ...

　　Step 3 Pre-reading

　　T: You have done a good job. So we have learned about a lot about great scientists, such as John Snow and Qian Xuesen. Who else would you like to learn about?Why?

　　S1: I'd like to know something about Madame Curie, because she was one of the great women scientists.

　　S2: I'd like to know about Albert Einstein, because he plays an important part in the development of Physics.

　　S3: Stephen Hawking because he has made great achievements although he is disabled.

　　Ss: ...　

　　T: I find you are interested in science and scientists. But today we are going to read about Copernicus. Do you know something about him?

　　S1: He was born in Poland.

　　S2: He believed the earth moves around the sun.

　　S3: It was said that he was burned to death because of his theory.

　　Ss: ...

　　T: Do you want to know more about him?

　　Ss: Of course.

T: So let's come to the passage Copernicus' revolutionary theory.