Teaching Aims:

1. Learn and master the words and expressions in the text:

2. Train the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Learn to use the words and expressions in the tex t:

2. Train the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Difficult Points:

How to help the students understand the text exactly, especially the following sentences:

Teaching Methods:

1. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text.

2. Careful reading to get the detailed information.

3. Asking-and-answering to help the students understand the text exactly.

4. Pair or group work to make every student work in class.

Teaching Aids:

1. the multimedia

2. a tape recorder

3. the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step Ⅰ Greetings

Greet the whole class as usual.

Step II Lead in

1. When was Clive Sinclair born?

2. What was Clive’s first job?

3. What society was Clive chairman of?

Step III Skimming

Read the text quickly and decide which of the following can best express the main idea of the text.

A. Sir Clive’s stories.

B. Sir Clive’s mini inventions.

C. How Sir Clive ran his company.

D. Sir Clive Sinclair’s life and inventions.

Read Para One and chose the correct topic sentence for it.

A. Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British businessman and inventor.

B. Clive’s brilliant Childhood.

C. Clive got a job at 17.

D. Sinclair invented the calculator and was saddened.

Read Para Two and chose the correct topic sentence for it.

A. Sinclair was unfortunate.

B. How Clive’s ran his first company.

C. Sinclair produced his pocket radio in bulk.

D. Sinclair registered his own company.

Read Para Three and chose the correct topic sentence for it.

A. Sinclair was the first to make pocket-sized things in the world.

B. Sinclair’s computer cost only 100 pounds.

C. Sinclair’s company expended rapidly.

D. Clive was very talented at making little things.

Read Para Four and chose the correct topic sentence for it.

A. Sinclair studied Economics atCambridge University.

B. The advantage of Sinclair’s new inventions.

C. Sinclair’s new invention was laughed at in the newspaper.

D. How Sinclair’s career underwent a downward slide during the 1980s.

Read Para Five and chose the correct topic sentence for it.

A. Sinclair became chairman of British Mensa.

B. How Sinclair saved Mensa as a chairman.

C. Sinclair paid personally for an annual Mensa conference at Cambridge.

D. Sinclair has been an inventor and a business man.

.Step V Language points

1. -the man who brought technology to the man in the street.

句中the man in the street意思是“普通人”, “常人”, “大眾”, 也可為“man on the street”。

2. Sinclair was blessed with brains and spent much of his time educating himself.

短語“be blessed with”意思是“賦有（能力等）”，“享有（幸福等）”。比如：

Though in his eighties, he is blessed with good health.

盡管他八十多歲了，身體卻很好。

Sinclair’s big picture was to produce in bulk and to sell cheaply so that everyone could afford electronic goods.

短語in bulk意思是“大量地”，比如：

She prefers buying things like tissues in bulk.

她喜歡批量購買東西，比如面巾紙。

4. As soon as he advertised, the company was flooded with demands for the little, cubic-shaped radios.

“was flooded with” 如洪水般涌至，比如：The office was flooded with companies.

5. The company expanded rapidly, and he even had to open a new center in the USA to cope with the increased demand.

“cope with” 對付，應對，比如：

There was too much work for our computer to cope with.

我們的計算機要干的事情太多，簡直應接不暇。

名詞“demand”在這里是“需求”，比如：There is a growing demand in

China for enviromentally-friendly cars.

中國對環保汽車的需求量越來越大。

6. When Sinclair joined in 1959, membership was falling, and the society was on its last legs.

短語“on its last legs”意思是“奄奄一息”

比如：

The company was on its last legs after the manager retired.

公司在經理退休后到了快解體的地步。

7. He was honoured in 1983 with a knighthood from the Queen of England in recognition of his efforts and achievements.

recognition在這里意識是“承認”，“認可”，比如：

He was rewarded with a pay increase in recognition of his contribution to the company.

他被獎勵加薪，作為他為公司所做貢獻的肯定。

.Step V Homework

Finish Exercise in the work book..