古人有“书中自有颜如玉”之说。杜甫所提倡的“读书破万卷, 下笔如有神”等，无不强调了多读书广集益的好处。这篇高三上册英语说课稿，希望可以加强你的基础。

Teaching aims:

1. Promote the Ss to know sth. about great scientists.

2. Learn some new words and expressions.

3. To examine a new scientific idea.

4. Comprehension.

Main points: Warming up and Reading passage

Difficult points: Comprehension

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Warming up

1. Show the Ss some pictures of great scientists and ask them to talk about them.

2. The Ss discuss in groups and walk along to offer them help if needed.

3. Work out their answers by themselves.

4. Check their answers.

Step 2. Pre-reading

1. The Ss discuss the stages in examining a new scientific idea in pairs by asking the questions in the pre-reading.

2. Ask the Ss to put them in order and get their answers.

Step 3. Reading passage

1. Let the Ss go over the passage and try to find the hard words, expressions and sentences they have.

2. Explain the difficulties.

3. Ask the Ss to read the passage more carefully and then try to complete the chart in the comprehending by discussing in groups.

4. Choose some Ss to answer the questions in the comprehending.

5. Ask the Ss to choose one of the paragraphs to read aloud fluently.

Step 4. Homework

Read the passage again and go over Learning about language.

Period Two

Teaching aims and demands：

1. Discover the useful words and expressions.

2. Learn and improve the use of useful words and expressions.

Main points: Learn to use the words and expressions that the Ss discover.

Difficult points: Improve the use of the words and expressions.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Learning about language

1. Discover the useful words and expressions in this unit in groups of four.

2. Ask the Ss to show their results to the class.

3. Ask them to study the words and expressions in Ex.1.

4. Ss have a discussion and do the exercises.

5. Check their answers.

6. Change the verbs into nouns and make sentences by using "make a ..."

Step 2. Using words and expressions

1. Make sure the Ss know the words and expressions.

2. Let the Ss work in groups to complete the blank in Ex.1.

3. Check their answers.

4. Do the translations. Ss discuss the sentences and the translate them into English, using the words and phrases in brackets.

Step 3. Words learning

1. Show the Ss a list of prefixes to talk about them.

2. Ask them to work in groups to find some words with the prefixes and study their meanings.

3. Let them show their results to the class.