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课件网) FREE TALK Do you think most great inventions are planned or accidental Why Look at the pictures: Who invented them Benjiamen Franklin / bend m n/ / fr kl n/ Wan Hu Zhang Heng a “flying chair” 飞行椅 an earthquake detector 一个地震探测器 a lightning rod 避雷针 Pre-reading What drives inventors to invent Inventors are_____ and _____. They _____ make_____. Some of them are scientists or _____. They try to _____ new things. curious brave do research to new discoveries pioneers discover They have a deep curiosity about life . Lead-in Pre-reading While-reading Post-reading Diversify assessment 1 Albert Einstein once said, "l have no special talents. l am only passionately curious," The greatest inventions in history would be impossible without curiosity. 2 Curiosity can bring new discoveries, Benjamin Franklin is a great example. He was drawn to electricity and had a deep curiosity about its nature. He did lots of research to try to understand it. For example, he flew a kite during a storm. His curiosity led him to invent the lightning rod. This invention protects buildings from lightning. 3 Curiosity can also make people brave. Just look at Wan Hu, the Ming Dynasty pioneer of space exploration. He was so curious about space that heinvented a “flying chair"! He lost his lifewhile testing this invention. Despite thefailure, his curiosity gave future explorers ideas. People learnt from his example, and created safer ways to explore space. 4 But curiosity is more than just taking risks. It also drives people towards certain goals. Zhang Heng, a Chinese scientist andinventor, was curious about the world: how did everything in the world move He spent years studying the sky and the earth.Finally, he drew China's first star map, and invented the firstearthquake detector. His curiosity continues to influence scientists today. 5 As Jacques Cousteau said, "What is a scientist after all It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,trying to know what's going on." Curiosity is the key. It opens onedoor after another for us to discover a new world. What is the style of the article A. Exposition. (说明文) B. Narration. （记叙文） C. Argumentation. （议论文） Global reading Lead-in Pre-reading While-reading Post-reading Diversify assessment 1 Albert Einstein once said, "l have no special talents. l am only passionately curious," The greatest inventions in history would be impossible without curiosity. 2 Curiosity can bring new discoveries, Benjamin Franklin is a great example. He was drawn to electricity and had a deep curiosity about its nature. He did lots of research to try to understand it. For example, he flew a kite during a storm. His curiosity led him to invent the lightning rod. This invention protects buildings from lightning. 3 Curiosity can also make people brave. Just look at Wan Hu, the Ming Dynasty pioneer of space exploration. He was so curious about space that ... ...
