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24:介紹 Bill Gates及話題拓展) Do you think his achievements have had a great effect on our life? How? (Nowadays we can do shopping at home, borrow books from the library without leaving our home. These may have seemed strange ten years ago, but now puters have turned them into realities. Computers bring a lot of convenience to our daily life. With puters, we can find information we’ d like to know。教材由四幅圖畫和三個討論題組成。進(jìn)而讓學(xué)生總結(jié)出這些人物的共同點(diǎn),引出“ amazing people”的定義。在介紹四個人物的時候也利用多種形式在激發(fā)學(xué)生興趣的同時也擴(kuò)充了他們的課外知識,提高了他們的綜合能力。另外,朗讀( reading)課文,使學(xué)生為下一課做好充分準(zhǔn)備。 Step 3 Sharing information 1. Discussion (group work) Divide the students into groups of four and each group leader should collect the ideas on a piece of paper and report them later. ① Do you have a hero? What are the things he or she had done that make you feel that this person is amazing? (My hero is Thomas Edison. During his career, Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions, including the electric light, the phonograph and the motionpicture camera. These three inventions gave rise to giant industries—electric utilities, phonograph and record panies, as well as the film industry. All these changed the work and habits of people throughout the world. During his lifetime, he received honors from all over the world.) ( PPT 25:話題深入,討論學(xué)生自己心目中的英雄) ② What kind of people can be called “ amazing people” ? What do they have in mon? PPT: Amazing people are those who make great co