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Period 4 Reading and Writing The General Idea of This PeriodIn this period the teaching and learning will center on reading and usual, the teacher can begin the teaching with reviewing the former following part is the leadin—talking about some scientists, because this unit talks about great scientists and this passage is about Nicolaus Copernicus and his theory. As to reading training, the teacher should still develop the students’ ability of scanning and at the beginning, get the students to prepare some knowledge for reading. For that purpose, the teacher will firstly ask for information about Copernicus according to what the students already know.Then the teacher can have the students listen to the tape and find out whether the statements are true or is designed to train the students’ listening and to check whether the students have previewed the passage , the teacher will ask the students to skim it and find out the main idea for each purpose of doing these is to help the students to form the good habit of reading with some reading a passage, we had better first read it as a whole, that is, understand the structure of the passage and catch the main idea with the help of the structure and title.The following step is to read the passage for the teacher can design some teaching activities to help the students to know about more and more information by taking part in the reading a result, the teacher should be careful, cautious and creative when designing the reading reading activities had better be various, which can catch more students’ attention.At the end of reading, some activities should be designed to check the students’ understanding by saying something about Copernicus and making up a dialogue between Copernicus and his practicing helps the students improve their speaking and arouse their petition is held to make the students take part in the class activities the same time, let the students consider the writing purpose.Besides reading, the students are also expected to learn and practise their writing studying the passage, the students should learn to do persuasive writing to change someone else’s teacher should give the students some advice on how to plan the writing and develop the writing—beginning, body and conclusion.Teaching Important PointsHelp the students know about Copernicus and his theory.Develop the students’ reading ability.Improve the students’ writing ability.Teaching DifficultyDevelop the students’ reading ability.Teaching AidsMultimedia classroom and other normal teaching tools.Three Dimensional Teaching AimsKnowledge AimsGet the students to know about Copernicus and his theory.Learn about persuasive writing.Ability AimsMaster the skill of gist reading.Develop the students’ reading ability, such as skimming and scanning.Improve the students’ writing ability.Emotional AimsArouse the students’ interest in science and devotion to science.Teaching ProcedureStep 1 GreetingT: Hello, everyone.Ss: Hello, Miss Wang.Step 2 ReviewingT: Last class we talked about Qian Xuesen and Carl 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 Lin