4月6日Unit 4-More practice.ppt

本页和此后三页中标记为“土黄色”的单词并非链接，而是要求学生在阅读的过程中猜测含义，从而完成第11张幻灯片上的练习。 * Do you know who is the man on the 100-dollar note? Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin did a lot of jobs in his life.Tick the jobs he did. writer ? inventor ? traveller ? president ? scientist ? musician ? ? ? ? ? ? ? B Benjamin Franklin had done a lot of things forthe USA and its citizens. Tick the things he did. invented the lightning conductor ? set up the first fire company ? set up the first hospital ? set up a printer and published newspapers ? studied the weather ? studied electricity ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the USA on 17 January 1706. He had a very big family—his parents had seventeen children. He was a man of many talents and interests. Among other things, he was a scientist and an inventor. He was naturally curious about how things worked and was always searching for ways to make them better. Now, read the newspaper article about Benjamin Franklin. When and where was he born? What was he like? About his family In 1747, Benjamin began his experiments on electricity with some very simple equipment. Although these experiments led to the discovery of some very important findings on electricity, Benjamin did not actually invent it. However, he did invent the lightning conductor , which protects buildings and ships from damage caused by lightning. As an inventor Benjamin had poor vision and needed glasses. He was tired of always taking them on and off, so he decided to invent a pair of glasses that would let him see both near and far things at the same time. He took the two different types of glasses, cut each lens in half, and then put half of each lens into another frame. Nowadays, this type of glasses is known as bifocals. During his life, he travelled across the Atlantic Ocean eight times. These long journeys gave him a lot of time to learn about how ships worked. He developed a way to make them sa