Language Focus:

Words: spirit, inventor, invention, pupil, build, print, track, frighten, frightened, safety, telegraph, lifetime

Phrases: try out, at the age of, rush out, New Jersey

Sentences: Thomas Edison thought that no matter how difficult something seemed, he could find the answer.

He said he thought more of a person who has one idea and makes it work than of a person who has a thousand ideas but doesn’t do anything about them.

Teaching Objectives: Master some useful expressions. Get the students to know about Edison. Master the Infinitive.

Properties: Recorder, pictures

Teaching Procedures:

Ⅰ. Organizing the class

Ⅱ. Revision

1.    Check the homework

2.    Revise the useful expression

Ⅲ. Presentation

Tell the students to look at the picture.

And ask them: Do you know who this boy is?

Tell the students his full name: Thomas, Alva and Edison.

He is a great inventor.

Then say: Today we’re going to read a story about this great inventor.

Ⅳ. Reading Part 1 Edison was a great inventor. He never gave up.

*try out; try out a radio; try out a new idea

*was always trying out; here use the past indefinite tense to describe something usually happened in the past

Part 2 Talk about Edison’s childhood.

*have nothing to do with; have something to do with

*find sb. to do sth.

*build…for sb.

*at the age of 12=when he was 12

*on the railways tracks

*rush out

*carry him to safety; in safety

*so… that …;

 He was so frightened that he couldn’t move=He was too frightened to move.

He was so tall that he could reach it.= He was tall enough to reach it.

*open up

*lifetime; in his lifetime

Part 3 Edison liked a person who can work out his ideas.

*think a lot of= think much of

think more of …than of…

Ⅴ. Practice

Have the students the text and make them understand the text (in group, in pairs).

Let the students make sentences with the useful expressions,

see if they use them freely.

Ⅵ. Discuss

Ask: What else do you know about Edison?

Have the students think over.

Then give out their answers.

Ⅶ. Workbook

Do Exercise 2 in class.

Then check with the whole class.

Ⅷ. Homework

Finish off the exercises in the workbook.