老师：Hello, everyone. Welcome to my class. Today we'll keep talking about people of achievement. In this class, you will collect information about a great scientist through reading a biography and study the organization and language features of the biography to improve your writing skills. Here you can see biography is the keyword. It means.
老师：Now you may wonder who is the great scientist we are going to read about? Let me show you his picture. He is Albert Einstein, class. What do you know about him? Some of you may say he was a genius, one of the smallest men in the world, and he had a strong passion for science. Passion here means great love for something. He produced the general theory of relativity and he was the winner of Nobel Prize for physics.
老师：Looking at this picture, what would you use to describe him? Some of you may say he was slightly odd. Looking out here means strange, unusual. Some LBO say he was clever and wise. He was well known around the world and famous. He was both brilliant and intelligent. He was kind and gentle. Gentle here means doing something in a graceful way. And he was outstanding. And extraordinary means not ordinary. It is similar to outstanding.
老师：Before reading a text, read the headline first and you will tell you a lot about the content. By reading the headline, the man who changed our understanding of the universe. Can you predict what you will read from the text? Some of you may say his contributions and achievement, and there could be his scientific discovery. The text may describe his personal qualities, his likes and dislikes. Different people may have different predictions. Is your prediction right? Let's read the text and check it out. Now let's check whether your prediction is right. Class, which of these are in the text? His contributions and achievements, his scientific discovery, his personal qualities. Good. We are going to read the text for the second time. This time, I would like you to sum up the main points of each paragraph. While reading, please underline the keywords, especially some verbs and verb phrases. They will help you sum up the main points of the paragraph.
老师：In paragraph 1, what keywords have you underlined? I have underlined the greatest, the smartest, a genius, courageous, made numerous contributions to the world. From these keywords, we can see this opening paragraph gives us a whole picture of what kind of man Einstein was and his contributions.
老师：In paragraph two, what keywords have you found? I found was born, tried to enter university after studying, entering university, graduating. From these verb phrases, we can see this paragraph is mainly about his early life and education. In paragraph 3, what keywords have you picked? I have picked, took a job, walking the
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