北师大版高二 Module 7Unit 20

Warm-up

Match the branches of science with the following objects.

biology physics information technology astronomy

biology

The microscope

astronomy

A Radio Telescope

biology

DNA

physics

An Atom

Information technology

A Microchip

artificial intelligence, bacteria, black hole, date processing, deep space, energy, gravity, light year, mass, radioactive, radium, search engine, solar system, universe

Match the Key Words with the four branches of science in biology ( ), physics( ), information technology( ), astronomy( )

bacteria,artificial intelligence,date processing,

search engine,

energy,

radium,

radioactive,

mass,gravity,

universesolar system,

light year,

deep space,

black hole,

Listen to four extracts and identify these different programmes.educational quiz news interview

extract 1 extract 2extract 3 extract 4

news

interview

quizeducational

listen to the dialogues again and try to answer the following questions

• 1why was the launch delayed?• 2,What are the new international crew

planning to do ?• 3,when did Alpha get damaged?

• Who is Rosalind?• What exactly is she doing?

• What is going to be talked about in Science Today?

• What has been put forward in a study in the New England Journal of Medicine?

• How many and what Nobel Prizes did Marie Curie win?

• Why did she die?

1. Why didn’t the shuttle take off ? A. Because of the bad weather. B. There was something wrong with solar panels C. The shuttle suffered slight damage

last week.

Listen to four extracts and finish the exercise.

2. Rosalind is a______ A. a writer who writes science

fiction B. A person searching human’s mood. C. An expert developing Emotional Computer.

3. The conversation will talk about __. A. human genome B. medicine C. ethical issues in biotechnology

4. Marie Curie achieved the following achievement except______. A. won two Nobel Prizes B. discovered radium and polonium C. correct the process of producing radioactivity for the first time

It is/was announced today that ….…due to/ because of/owing to bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Useful phrases and sentences:

A pioneer in …Affective computers: sense our mood and react to us ethical issuesThe Nobel Prize

Think about the answers to these questions. 1. How has science affected our lives in

the last two hundred years? Think about: communication, entertainment, housing, medicine, transport, war, work

transportation

ancient war

modern war

2. Which of the changes in our lives have not been beneficial? Why?

What’s the result?

Air pollution → Acid rain

Can we benefit from it?

Atom bomb explode

white pollution

3. In what areas do you think we need to do more research?

AIDS

biotechnology

bird flu

Do research to save human beings

New energy

solar energy

wind energyIce that can burn