一．Aims:
Talk about inventors and inventions
Learn about the stages used in scientific research
二．Contents:
Step I words and phrase
1. Do you know the stages every inventor must go through before they can have their invention approved?
go through
(1)经历(2)通过,成功,成交(3)审阅,检查(4)翻找,查看(5)穿过,通过
Most families went through a lot in the war.
2. I was researching into the habits of snakes so I could trap them in the easiest way.
do research on /into /in... 从事, 进行, 做研究
They are carrying out a research into the causes of cancer.
They are doing research into electricity.
3. when I called up my mother in the countryside on the phone.
call up 打电话，使......回忆起
I’ll call you up tonight (call sb. /ring sb. up )
The old photo calls up memories of my childhood. (recall sth.)
4. Snakes come near the house now and then.
now and then 有时, 偶尔
I see them now and then, but not often.
5. Here was a chance for me to distinguish myself by inventing something that would catch snakes but not harm them.
distinguish oneself 显扬自己, 使自己扬名
