高二2019-2020学年度第18期总第776期
Exciting inventions（P6）
山东省烟台第二中学 赵娜娜
Lead-in
Discussion
What kind of inventions are you in urgent need of ?
What do you want to invent for the world ?
Time magazine listed its top inventions of 2019
TIME magazine published a list on Thursday featuring the “100 Best Inventions” of 2019 that are making the world “better, smarter and even a little more fun”.

Skimming
Read and figure out where the passage may come from.
•A. A scientific study.
•B. A booklet.
•C. A magazine
答案：C
While-reading
Read the text carefully and find the following aspects of each invention.
1. The problems the invention wants to solve
2. The working principle
3. The practical significance
Detailed reading

What methods does the author use to attract reader’s attention to each invention?

Language Study
1.一定曾激励过···       must have inspired…
2.充满水蒸气           be full of water vapor
3.它被设计来···          It’s designed to…
4.复杂的                complicated
5.经历                 go through
6.让世界变得更好        change the world for the better
7.估计                  estimate
8.遵守法律              follow the law
9.安装一个设备          install a device
10.发现食物传播的疾病   spot foodborne illnesses
11.酒店管理             restaurant management
12.落后                 lag behind
13.技术发展             technology development
14.独自做手术           operate on their own
15.虚拟的实验室体验         virtual operating-room experience
16.显而易见地               apparently
17.参与者的整体手术表现     participants’ overall surgical performance
18.令人惊讶的               astonishing

Post-reading
Retell the working principle of GENNY using the following verbs.
1. collect
2. cool
3. create
4. go through
5. add

Extended reading
Discussion
Read three more inventions on the list and find out your favorite one. Share the reasons why you like it best with your partners.
MyEye 2.0
MyEye 2.0 is a revolutionary vision technology device developed for people with visual impairments. The portable, finger-sized, AI-powered device can be clipped to eyeglasses or sunglasses to read out texts from books, newspapers, product labels, and restaurant menus and scan barcodes. MyEye 2.0 can also identify faces and currency and tell time.
Temi
In the “home” category, TIME magazine featured the robot Temi as the world’s first intelligent, mobile, personal AI robot. The Temi robot is a 3-foot-tall personal robot with a 10-inch touchscreen for a head. Temi can answer questions, order groceries, play music and videos, make calls, control your smart home, follow you around your house (except up or down stairs), and call for medical assistance. Users can control Temi remotely from any location in the world via the app and command different actions.
ElliQ
ElliQ, a robotic companion appeared in the “special mentions” category on the TIME’s list. The tabletop robot is aimed at helping the elderly stay engaged, independent and connected to family and friends. The social robot mimics human movements and responds to voice, gaze and touch. ElliQ offers tips and advice, responds to questions, engages throughout the day, makes appointments and reminds those in its care about medications.
Homework
Write something you want to invent and explain the reasons for inventing it.

高二2019-2020学年度第18期总第776期
The secret of success (PII)
山东省烟台第二中学  赵霞

I. Lead-in
1. Discussion
What kinds of qualities do you think can make us successful? Why?
Good looks?
Physical health?
High IQ scores?
Working hard and long enough?
Having motivations?
2. Let’s read an article about this question, which is adapted from a speech.
First of all, meet the speaker: Angela Lee Duckworth

This article is from her influential TED speech.

II. Skimming
Read and answer:
1. What does the article mainly talk about?
(Answer: The author has been exploring what makes a person successful and discovered that grit is a significant predictor of success and growth mindset is important for building grit.)
2. In what kind of order is the article organized?
(Answer: In the order of time:
When I was 27 years old,
After several more years of teaching,
A few years ago,
So far)

III. Scanning
Read again and complete the chart:

When    What did she do?    What did she find?
When she was 27 years old        
After several more years of teaching        
A few years ago        
So far        

Answer:
When    What did she do?    What did she find?
When she was 27 years old    She left a demanding job for an even more demanding job-teaching.
    IQ was not the only difference between her best and worst students.
After several more years of teaching    She couldn’t answer her question and went to graduate school to become a psychologist. She studied kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings.    One characteristic emerged as significant predictor of success: grit.

A few years ago    She started studying grit in Chicago public schools, had thousands of high school juniors take grit questionnaires and then waited for more than a year to see who would graduate.

    It turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate.
Talent doesn’t make you gritty.
Grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.

So far    The best idea she heard about building grit in kids is something called “growth mindset”.

    It is the belief that the ability to learn can change with your effort. When kids learn that the brain grows when dealing with challenges, they tend to persevere when they fail. But more is needed to find out about grit.

IV. Language focus:
Part 1: Read for the useful grammar: Fill in the blanks and translate the sentences.  
1. ________ struck me was that IQ was not the only difference between my best and my worst students.
(Answer: What。What引导主语从句；that引导表语从句
翻译：让我吃惊的是，智商并不是我最好的学生和最差的学生之间的唯一区别)
2. ... I came to the conclusion that _______we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective.
 (Answers: that引导同位语从句，what引导的句子做从句中的主语
翻译：我得出了结论：我们在教育中需要的是从动机和心理学的角度更好地理解学生和学习过程。)

Part 2: Read for the beautiful language: translate the sentences.
1. Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.
Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality.
（毅力是对长期目标的热情和坚持。毅力就是有持久力。毅力是对未来的坚持，日复一日，不只是一周、一个月，而是几年，努力工作让未来成为现实。）
2. We need to measure whether we’ve been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.
（我们需要衡量我们是否已经成功，我们必须愿意接受失败，愿意犯错，愿意从失败中吸取教训，重新开始。）

V. Post reading: discussion
According to the article and what you have experienced, what should we do to build grit?