Lesson 50 of Unit 13

　　Aims and demands：Reading comprehension about Albert Einstein.

　　Aids：a recorder and a small blackboard

　　Procedures：

　　Step 1. Revision

　　1.Check the homework exercises.

　　2.Phrases translation：

　　交换意见

　　猜字谜

　　美国总统

　　为自由而战

　　互相帮助

　　著名物理学教授

　　Step 2. Presentation for reading

　　Read the passage quickly to find the answers to the questions：

　　What scientific work is Einstein famous for？

　　Where did he spend the last part of his life？

　　Step 3. Reading

　　Read the whole passage carefully and do Ex 1 in pairs or small groups. Then deal with some language points：

　　Be born

　　Used to

　　Learn by oneself

　　Enjoy very much

　　Get along with

　　Be content to do

　　Close friends

　　A government office

　　Go on with

　　Lead to

　　New discoveries in physics

　　At the end of

　　The First World War

　　Receive worldwide praise

　　Scientific research

　　The Nobel Prize for Physics

　　Be invited to give talks

　　Leave …for …

　　Be interested in

　　Refuse to do

　　Use a check as a bookmark

　　Live a life

　　Take American nationality

　　Spend a lot of time doing something

　　Human rights

　　Be fond of music

　　A world full of wars and killings

　　The 20th century’s greatest scientist

　　At the age of …

　　Step 4. Reading aloud

　　Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Pay attention to pronunciation and intonation.

　　Step 5. Note making

　　Fill in after reading easily.

　　Step 6. Practice

　　In Part 3 on P3，ask a student to read and explain.

　　Step 7. Workbook

　　Do all the exercises in pairs and discuss the answers.

　　Homework：

　　1.Recite the first paragraph of the text

　　2.Finish off all the exercises in workbook.

　　Blackboard design：

Learn by oneself Enjoy very much Get along with Be content to do Close friends A government office Go on with Lead to New discoveries in physics At the end of The First World War …

　　Aims and demands：Language points.

　　Teaching Procedures：

　　Step 1 Revision

　　1.Written work（the first paragraph of the text）

　　2.Check the homework

　　Step 2 Language points

　　1.content adj. Happy，satisfied. Usually used in a phrase“be content to do”“be content with”

　　He was content to eat simple food.

　　My grandparents are content to live quietly in the country.

　　Don’t be content with small success.

　　No one is content with what he has.

　　Content v. make sb. happy and satisfied

　　Simple praise is enough to content him.

　　John contented himself with two glasses of beer for each meal.

　　2.lead to

　　The accident led to many deaths.

　　His carelessness led to his failure.

　　Too much work and too little rest lead to illness.

　　This kind of test is bad because it leads to incorrect learning.

　　3.the First World War = World War One

　　On June 28th，1914 the relative of the Austria was killed

　　The main reason：In Germany，Austria-hungary，Italy，Russia，France，England and so on contradiction in politics，economic became acute.

　　Austria-hungary dug up the hatchet to Serbia on July 28，1914

　　Later Russia，Germany，France and England engulfed the war and formed triple entente of Russia，France and England including Italy，Rumania，America and Greece.

　　Austria-hungary belonged to the other side Confederate / Ally including Bulgary and Turkey

　　Two sides lasted four years and subscribed the ceasefire entente on November 11，1918 with the result of failure in Ally.

　　In the war，triple entente lost 5，000，000 army soldiers from the total of 42，000，000 and the Ally lost 3，400，000 from 2，3000，000

　　Two sides lost 21，000，000 in all.

　　4.the Nobel Prize

　　testament of Alfred Bernard Nobel（1833-1896 Sweden chemist，engineer and businessman invented trinitrotoluene and other more powerful dynamite and he had stocks of dynamite making all over the world and he also had property right of oil field in Russia，so he was wealthy and he always donated generously to all kinds of humanitarianism and scientific charity and the organizer of the Nobel Prize）used the fund as the prize. Every year there are four frameworks to be in charge of warding.（Three in Switzerland and one in Norway.）

　　The first time December 12，1901 five years after Nobel died.

　　Five aspects：physics，chemistry，literature，biology or medicine，peace，and added one economy offered by Sweden National Bank.

　　5.live a …（happy，hard and quiet）life

　　The peasants in the past lived a hard life.

　　My grandparents are used to living a quiet life in the country.

　　Don’t forget the past while we are living a happy life.

　　He was taken to the USA at ten and lived all his life there.

　　6.besides —— in addition to

　　We study Chinese，math and physics besides English.

　　7.expect —— no including

　　We have classes every day except Sunday.

　　8.be full of

　　He brought us a basket full of fish.

　　His composition is full of mistakes.

　　Her eyes were full of tears.

　　People full of energy are fit for the job.

　　9.such

　　Such is my wish.

　　Such was the situation we were facing.

　　Such were his words.

　　Such are the results we have got.

　　Step 3 Practice

　　Finish off all the exercises in WB.

　　Homework：

　　Have a good preview about Lesson 51

　　Write a short passage about yourself.

　　Blackboard Design：