Post on 28-Dec-2015
transcript
tasks for each group
Group 1: discovery & invention
(definition, examples)
Group2: modern inventions
Group3: a short story about an invention
Group4: some information about snakes
presentations
• Group1
• Group2
• Do you think it’s easy to invent something?
• Do you know how the electric lamp were invented?
• Group3
Applying for a patent
Finding a problem
Doing research
Testing the solution
Thinking of a creative solution
Deciding on the invention
Pre-reading• Group4: some information about snakes
The purpose in writing this text isA. to show us how to trap the snakes but not to kill themB. to tell people how to apply for a patent of the writer's new ideaC. to introduce the writer's new idea of trapping the snakes and her application for a patentD. to tell the readers how to get a new idea and make it a patent
Reading: listen and find out the purpose and the main idea of the text.
The text narrates the p______ of the snakes and
presents the p_________ of catching them
and applying for a p______.
roblem
rocedures
atent
What’s the main idea of the text?
Reading for the details
• read the text by yourself in two minutes
• True or false?
• 1. I felt proud because I could help my parents kill the snakes in our yard.
• 2. I get down to searching the habits of snakes so I could trap them in the easiest way.
for me to distinguish myself by inventing something that would catch snakes but not harm them.
here was a chance
• 3. I decide to attract the snakes into a trap using male or female perfume or food to catch them.
• 4. For the first attempt I placed the frozen bowl over the snakes’ habitat in the evening.
• 5. As soon as I catch the snakes without harming them, I am truly an inventor.
become sleepy and could be easily caught.
cool the snakes so that they would
in the morning
After you have had the recognition of the
patent office
Multiple choices1.The biggest advantage of the writer's new idea is that:A. it makes the snakes move slowly
B. it makes the snakes hardly bite us
C. it is easier for us to kill the snakes without hurting ourselves
D. it is easier for us to catch the snakes without killing them
2. What instruments were used for catching the snakes?
A. a bowl, ice-cubes, male perfume
B. a bowl, a bucket, female perfume
C. a small net, ice-cubes, a bucket
D. a small net, a bucket, powders
3. Which statement is true according to the text?
A. The snakes were so sleepy in the second attempt that they couldn't bite the writer at all.
B. Your product must be different from everybody else's if you want to receive a patent.
C. The writer decided to send her invention to the patent office the moment she succeeded in catching the snakes.
D. If an application for your product proves to be valid, you can get a patent immediately.
4. According to the text, which subject do you think can be given a patent?
A. A new star discovered by a scientist.
B. A new novel written by Huo Da.
C. A new way to make dirty water clean.
D. A new kind of grass found in a mountain which can be used as a medicine.
ParaStages in the inventing process
Example in this story
1
2
Find a problem The snakes must be removed but not harmed
Do research Look for methods of removal; the habits of snakes
the stages in making an invention (have a discussion in pairs)
3
4,5,6
7
Test the solution sev
eral times
Try three times to
make it work
efficiently
Apply for a patent This means the
solution is
recognized
Think of a
creative solution
Identify three
possible
approaches: choose
one
post-reading (discussion in groups)• What are the requirements of the
character of an inventor? Can you give some details in the text to support your idea?
• For example:
• patient & persistent
• The author tried three times and finally he succeeded.
• hardworking, creative, careful, curious
sum -up
• 1. the difference between discovery and invention
• 2. modern inventions• 3. stages in the inventing process• 4. some information about snakes• 5. reading skills: predication, skim, scan,
sum up.• 6. oral practice: based on the topic of
inventions