3. Discussion after reading the passage to make the students learn how to use the scientific method to solve the problem.

2. Careful reading to answer some detailed questions.

1. Scanning the text to get some information about Hawking.

2. How to make the students understand the following sentence.

There didn’t seem much point in working on the PhD.

Teaching Methods:

1. How to make the students understand the reading text better.

3. Improve the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Difficult Points:

2. Enable the students to understand the text better.

1. Master the following phrases and sentence pattern:

work on, go by, be engaged to, go on with sth, dream of, turn out

There is no point (in) doing sth.

3. Let the students learn from Stephen Hawking.

Teaching Important Points:

2. Train the students’ reading ability.