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Unit 2 Fruitful Questions Teaching Aims 1. Enlarge the students’ vocabulary by learning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises. 2. Help the students to get the general idea of the article. 3. Help the students understand the value of thinking by refocusing parameters. 4. Help the students to build up their language skills through more exercises on oral practice, phrases and expression, grammar, writing, etc. Key and Difficult Points 1. New Words and Phrases fruitful take out limitation version purist think up messy quest bring up evolution access nowhere shatter uncover 2. Sentences To those of us forced as kids to eat them in salads, tomatoes will always be vegetables. It was messier than a food fight and much more important than whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. Maybe that explains why so many of the world’s most brilliant scientists and inventors were failures in school, the most notable being Albert Einstein, who was perhaps this century’s most potent paradigm-shifter. . But unless we shift our paradigms and refocus our parameters, the super information highway will lead us nowhere. We need to remember that when you have only a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Teaching Methods Discussion, explanation, questions and answers Time: 6 periods Teaching procedures Step 1 Introduction Warm-up questions: Show the three pictures of of an orange, a tomato and a strawberry. Ask them which one does not belong to the same group as the other two. Background Information Sesame Street Sesame Street is an educational American children’s television series designed for preschoolers, and is recognized as a pioneer of the contemporary standard which combines education and entertainment in children’s television shows. It is produced in the United States by Sesame Workshop, and broadcasted on November 10, 1969 on the National Educational Television network. Because of its positive influence, Sesame Street has earned the disti