[00:28.68]This man is one of the greatest physicists in the world.
[00:47.62]He was born in Germany in 1879.
[00:53.26]He loved peace and hated war.
[00:57.42]He moved to the USA during the Second World War
[01:02.67]and spent the last part of his life there.
[01:07.11]He is famous for the theory of relativity.
[01:25.76]This great woman scientist was born in Poland in 1867.
[01:35.61]As women were not admitted to universities in Poland at that time,
[01:42.97]she went to study in Paris.
[01:46.95]There she worked very hard and spent all her time doing experiments.
[01:54.49]Finally she succeeded in discovering
[02:00.69]an element which can be used to cure cancer.
[02:06.43]Her contribution to science
[02:10.19]was so great that she was given the Nobel Prize twice.
[02:36.76](1)Who are the four famous people in the dialogue?
[02:42.01]They are Lincoln,Marx,Bell and Einstein.
[02:49.64](2)What were they?
[02:54.79]Lincoln:a president of the USA
[03:00.85]Marx:a great communist
[03:05.70]Bell:the inventor of the telephone
[03:11.16]Einstein:a famous professor of physics
[03:25.53]Abraham Lincoln was bron in a poor farmer's family in 1809.
[03:34.07]Because of poverty,he had very little shooling.
[03:39.53]However,he studied hard on his own in his spare time
[03:45.70]and because a very good lawyer.
[03:49.75]He was a against slavery and worked hard for the freedom of the slaves.
[03:56.62]In 1860and 1864,he was elected President of the USA.
[04:05.76]He was shot by his enemies not long after his second election.
[04:12.00]He is still considered one of greatest of all American presidents.
[04:18.06]Karl Marx was born in a Jewish family in Germany.
[04:29.84]When he was young,he liked reading very much,
[04:35.77]Karl Marx was especially good at learning foreign languages.
[04:41.63]He studied French and Enlish successfully at school.
[04:48.39]In the 1870s,when he was already in his fifties,
[04:54.95]he began to learn Russian.
[04:59.02]Six months later,he could read articles and reports in Russian.
[05:05.87]He was so diligent and hard-working all his life
[05:12.35]that he became a very learned person.
[05:17.60]Alexander Bell(1847-1922)was an American scientist,He was born in Scotland.
[05:31.15]As a child,he showed much interest in the world around him
[05:37.21]and liked to ask questions.
[05:41.76]He was so talented that he was admitted to Edinburgh University
[05:49.13]when he was only sixteen.
[05:52.68]During his life,he made more than thirty great inventions;
[05:59.21]the telephone which is so widely used today was just one of them.
[06:05.45]Language points
[06:17.42]1.Four American students are comparing notes on famous people.
[06:25.67]compare notes :exchange ideas or opinions.
[06:40.95]We often compare notes after class.
[06:47.61]Compare this book with that one,we think this one is better.
[07:13.58]Children are compared to flowers while teachers are compared to gardeners.
[07:36.12]Compared to (with)many teachers,I'm indeed very lucky.
[08:09.40]2.I'm doing a word puzzle in this newspaper.
[08:21.97]a word puzzle:a puzzle in which you have to work out the missing words
[08:30.80]do a word puzzle
[08:38.37]do a puzzle in words
[08:43.94]puzzle n.v.
[08:59.98]The murder case was a puzzle to the police.
[09:18.24]The murder case was a puzzle the police.
[09:25.60]4.A.Is it...?
[09:48.88]B.No,it's not him/her.
[09:53.74]C.Is he/she...?
[09:58.10]D.Who is he/she?
[10:03.45]E.What did he/she do?
[10:10.61]F.It must be him/her...
[10:16.78]1.What scientific work is Einstein famous for?
[10:48.44]He's famous for scientific research/new discoveries in physics.
[10:57.79]2.Where did he spend the last part of his life?
[11:02.96]He spent the last part of his life at a university in the USA.
[11:10.30]1.Einstein was born in Switzerland.(F)
[11:36.35]2.He studied in Germany from the age of seventeen.(F)
[11:49.62]3.He didn't enjoy school very much.(T)
[11:58.26]4.He married three times.(F)
[12:11.90]5.He never worked as a teacher.(F)
[12:32.25]6.He was given a famous prize for chemistry.(F)
[12:45.10]7.He was never interested in earning a lot of money.(T)
[12:54.74]8.He died in 1855.(F)
[13:11.09]Language points
[13:17.62]1.Albert Einstein
[13:55.68]2.All through his life Einstein was content to spend most of his time alone,
[14:06.13]although he married twice and ha lots of close friends.
[14:20.81]All through his life:throught his life
[14:28.75]be content to(do sth.)
[14:42.10]be content with(sth.)
[14:46.96]My grandparents are content to live quietly in the country.
[15:04.23]Don't be content with small success.
[15:13.76]Simple praise is enough to content him.
[15:33.83]content n.
[15:45.89]I don't like to content of his writing.
[15:53.44]3.The period between 1905 and 1915 was an important one for Einstein.
[16:05.88]he began the research and studies
[16:10.63]which led to his new discoveries in physics.
[16:46.68]lead to + n./lead to +代词/lead to + doing
[17:05.62]The accident led to many deaths.
[17:14.55]His carelessness led to his failure.
[17:27.22]4.At the end of the First World War in 1918,
[17:36.29]Einstein received worldwide praise for his scientific research.
[17:53.03]receive praise for...
[18:02.10]5.He was given the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921,
[18:09.46]and was invited to give talks in many countries.
[18:23.91]the Nobel Prize for...
[18:31.85]the Nober Prize
[18:44.00]6.Einstein lived the rest of his life quietly in the USA.
[18:54.86]live a... life
[19:02.13]live a happy life
[19:07.59]live a hard life
[19:13.54]live a quite life
[19:19.60]The peasants in the past lived a hard life.
[19:26.16]Don't forget the past while we are living a happy life.
[19:38.70]7.Besides his work in physics,
[19:43.74]he spent a lot of time working for human rights and progress.
[20:15.37]Three girls went to the party besides Xiao Hong.
[20:32.61]All of us passed the English exam besides Alice.
[20:39.59]except
[20:58.53]All the girls went to the party except Xiao Hong.
[21:10.91]All of us passed the English examination except Alice.
[21:24.55]8.It was said that he found in music peace
[21:33.01]which was missing in a world full of wars and killings.
[21:38.57]He found that music brought him peace.
[21:45.10]He was upest that there was so much wars and violence in the world.
[22:00.15](be)full of
[22:16.19]He brought us a basket full of fish.
[22:36.54]His composition is full of mistakes.
[22:41.40]9.Such was Albert Einstein,
[22:47.46]a simple man and the 20th century's greatest scientist.
[23:00.21]Such is my wish.
[23:18.57]Such are the results we have got.
[23:39.02]Why did Einstein leave Europe?
[23:59.69]It was not safe to remain there.
[24:06.06]Language points
[24:13.01]1.But Einstein was able to prove that light coming from the stars
[24:19.25]was bent as it passed the sun.
[24:23.61]Einstein proved that light does not travel in a straight line.
[24:32.26]It bends as it passes the sun.
[25:23.93]Let's go and see the boy standing by the gate.
[25:40.47]Who is the girl speaking to the foreigner?
[25:48.72]2.As a result,it appeared to scientists on earth that the stars had moved.
[26:23.07]It is our duty to clean the classroom.
[26:30.52]=To clean the classroom is our duty.
[26:37.96]It appears that he won't come tonght.
[26:45.62]It seemed that the manager was very angry.
[26:52.17]3.He worked out just how much the light would be bent;
[26:59.23]he could also work out how far the stars would appear to have moved.
[27:22.50]I can't work out those problems.
[27:31.15]Can you work out how much it costs to build the bridge?
[28:05.19]He appeared to have heard of the bad news.
[28:16.55]=It appeared that he had heard of the news.
[28:25.40]She appeared not to have got my letter.
[28:34.76]It appeared that she hadn't got my letter.
[28:45.10]4.The difficulty was how he would prove his ideas to other scientists.
[29:20.18]The problem is how we can stop pollution.
[29:25.15]That is how they left Germany during the war.
[29:38.42]That is why Einstein and his family left Europe for the USA in 1933.
[29:53.99]The problem is when you can finish the work.
[30:03.42]The trouble is where we can get so many toobls
[30:10.18]5.But Einstein stuck to his opinion and went on with his research.
[30:42.65]No matter what you say,I shall stick to my plan.
[30:51.40]You have made a good decision,and you should stick to it.
[31:02.58]His daughter insisted on coming with him.
[31:31.74]George's father insisted on paying for the meal.
[31:38.50]6.He had taken Swiss nationality in 1901
[31:45.27]and therefore did not have to join the army,
[31:50.13]as Switzerland did not take sides in the war.
[31:55.17](He had become a citizen of Switzerland)
[32:17.61]7.What he wanted to see was an end to all armies of the world.
[32:48.77]What you need is more practice.
[32:56.71]What I want to know is the cause of the accident.
[33:05.38]8.When Germany was ruled by Hitler in the early 1930s,
[33:12.83]Einstein,who was a Jew,found it impossible to continue living in Germany.
[33:37.20]Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933.
[33:43.73]Einstein was a Jew,
[33:47.18]and Jew is Germany were tortured and had their jobs taken away.
[33:53.35]In World War II,on Hitler's orders,
[33:58.91]six million Jews in Europe were systematically killed.
[34:04.76]I found it possible to work out the problem without a computer.
[34:41.72]Do you find it a hard job to end the fighting?
[34:49.09]His words made the teacher angry.
[35:27.75]What he said made the teacher angry.
[35:46.82]What he wanted to see was and end to all the armies of the world.
[36:26.97]Who killed the scientist remains a question.
[36:38.13]Whether the broadcast station will be ready is unknown.
[36:45.88]How they went to the USA is what I want to know.
[37:07.15]1.It is + adj./n + that-clause.
[37:38.42]2.It is said/reported...+ that-clause
[37:49.96]It is certain that fuels like coal and oil cause a lot of pollution.
[38:03.23]It is not yet decided when and where the test will be given.
[38:14.00]It is said that only three people in the world could understand it at that time.
[38:25.93]It is hoped that you'll be able to visit our city in the near future |