In this period the teaching and learning will center on reading and writing.As usual, the teacher can begin the teaching with reviewing the former knowledge.The following part is the lead-in—talking about some scientists, because this unit talks about great scientists and this passage is about Nicolaus Copernicus and his theory.ª¥

 As to reading training, the teacher should still develop the students’ ability of scanning and skimming.So 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.ª¥

Then the teacher can have the students listen to the tape and find out whether the statements are true or false.It is designed to train the students’ listening and to check whether the students have previewed the passage well.Later, the teacher will ask the students to skim it and find out the main idea for each part.The purpose of doing these is to help the students to form the good habit of reading with some strategy.When 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.