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课件网) UNIT 4 Scientists who changed the world Making a plan for the school Science Festival To be able to listen for the detailed information. To learn to take notes of useful information while listening. To know what to include in making a plan for a school Science Festival. Discuss the questions with your partner. What is a school Science Festival What do you expect to do at a school Science Festival What is included in the plan for a school Science Festival 1. when it will take place 2. where the activities will be held 3. who will get involved 4. what equipment they need to prepare 5. why to make these arrangements 6. how to make sure things will go well What are included in the plan for a school Science Festival The chairperson of the school Science Club is talking about the school Science Festival. Listen to the talk, circle the incorrect information in each statement and correct it in the blanks. 1 The Science Festival is coming up in two months. _____ 2 The Science Festival was started five years ago. _____ 3 The Science Festival aims to encourage students to take an interest in science and develop skills that may help them in their studies. _____ 4 Students who take part in the workshop can design different experiments. _____ 5 The plan should be handed in next week. _____ next month three future lives try by this Friday If you need to write down information quickly, it is important that you make your notes as brief as possible. You can: use abbreviations and contractions; write down only the keywords; use symbols. Taking notes Abbreviations: IT: information technology; Dr: doctor; ICU: Intensive Care Unit; Contractions: it’s: for it is; haven’t: have not; doesn’t: does not; Use abbreviations and contractions Write down keywords Keyword is a word that tells you about the main idea or subject of something, like the word that you type into a search engine so that it will search for information related to the word on the Internet. Use symbols Symbol can be a number, a letter or a sign used to represent something. For example, the sign “O2” can stand for the oxygen; “$” stands for the dollar. Listen to the chairperson’s talk again and complete the notes below. What to include in the plan _____ of the Science Festival Events of the Science Festival (2) _____ by a well-known scientist The person to be invited The time and place for the event (3) _____ that students might be interested in Theme A lecture The topic Science Workshop Experiments to be done Equipment and (4)_____ needed (5)_____ Suggestions on how each class can design activities and (6)_____ materials Science Fair decorate their classroom Summarize what to do by writing down keywords or symbols: festival, plan, interested, skills, theme, lecture, who, when, where, topic, workshop, experiment, equipment, materials, fair, activity, decoration, suggestions… 3yrs, 3dys, Fri… Our annual Science Festival is coming up n ... ...
