Unit 2 Fruitful Questions I.Teaching Aims 1.Help the students grasp and the main ideaand structure of the article 2.Enlarge the students'vocabulary by leaming the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises 3.Help the students the importance of looking at things in new ways. 4.Help the students to build up their language skills through more exercises on oral practice,phrases and expression,grammar,writing.etc. II.Key and Difficult Points 1.New Words and Phrases Outdo,abandon,contract,bring up,clamor shatter 2.Sentences 1.To those of us forced as kids to eat them in salads,tomatoes will always be vegetables 2.It was messier than a food fight and much more important than whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. 3.But unless we shift our paradigms and refocus our parameters,the super information highway will lead us n where 4.We need to discover,as my kids did,that there is more than one right answer. there is more than one right question and there is more than one way to look at a body of information. 5.We need to remember that when you have only a hammer,you tend to see every problem as a nail. III.Teaching Methods Discussion,explanation,ask and answer IV.Time:4 periods V.Teaching procedures: Step one Introduction 1.Warm-up questions: Give the students the following topics to discuss and then ask them to answer these questions (1)Look at the three pictures of a.Which does not belong to the same group as the other two?Why? (2)Do you think it is important to develop students'ability to see things in fresh ways? Why or why not? (3)What do you think of the idea that the purpose of education is to develop a taste Unit 2 Fruitful Questions I. Teaching Aims 1. Help the students grasp and the main idea and structure of the article. 2. Enlarge the students’ vocabulary by learning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises. 3. Help the studentsthe importance of looking at things in new ways. 4. Help the students to build up their language skills through more exercises on oral practice, phrases and expression, grammar, writing, etc. II. Key and Difficult Points 1. New Words and Phrases Outdo，abandon, contract，bring up，clamor shatter 2. Sentences 1.To those of us forced as kids to eat them in salads, tomatoes will always be vegetables. 2. It was messier than a food fight and much more important than whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. 3. But unless we shift our paradigms and refocus our parameters, the super information highway will lead us nowhere. 4. We need to discover, as my kids did, that there is more than one right answer, there is more than one right question and there is more than one way to look at a body of information. 5. We need to remember that when you have only a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. III. Teaching Methods Discussion, explanation, ask and answer IV. Time: 4 periods V. Teaching procedures: Step one Introduction 1. Warm-up questions: Give the students the following topics to discuss and then ask them to answer these questions. (1) Look at the three pictures of an orange, a tomato and a strawberry. Which one does not belong to the same group as the other two? Why? (2) Do you think it is important to develop students’ ability to see things in fresh ways? Why or why not? (3) What do you think of the idea that the purpose of education is to develop a taste