1、优质文档优质文档Module 3 Journey to spaceI. Teaching objectives 教学目标听 Listen for the sentence stressesListen for finding out about a news broadcast说 Talk about recent events读 Read a dialogue and a passage about space travelRead and choose the best title技能目标写 Write a narrative storyWrite a poster about space
2、 travel功能句式Talk about recent eventsI/ You/ We/ They have just heard the news.He/ She /It has already I/ You/ We/ They havent yet.He/ She/It hasnt yet.Have you/ we/ they yet? Yes, we/ you/ they have.No, we/ you/ they havent.Astronauts have already been to the moon.词汇1. 重点词汇Earth, already, just, model
3、, station, latest, several, month, discover, recently, show, over, planet, also, none, environment, air, grow, part, billion, universe, light, beyond, alone, cost, prefer, diary, even, secret, real, twice, explore2. 认读词汇Mars, panic, solar, grown, galzxy, entrance, Jupiter, mission, unmanned3. 短语spac
4、e station, space shuttle语言目标 语法 The Present Perfect Tense with already, just, yet. Teaching materials analyzing 教材分析本模块以 Journey to space 为话题，设计了三个单元的内容。旨在通过模块教学使学生了解太空的有关知识，学会运用现在完成时做事情，学会制作关于太空旅行的海报。Unit 1 学习和太空科学有关的词汇；听和太空旅行有关的对话；接触含有just, already 的现在完成时；听句子，并标明重读词汇。Unit 2 读关于外星生命的文章，选择最佳题目；看图作句子
5、并写故事；学习本模块新词汇与短语。Unit 3 通过练习复习本单元重点词汇、句型和语法；了解 planets and days的有关知识；制作一份关于太空旅行的海报。IIIClass types and periods 课型设计与课时分配 Period 1 Listening and speaking (Unit 1)优质文档优质文档Period 2 Reading and writing （Unit 2)Period 3 Language in use (Unit 3) . Teaching plans for each period 分课时教案 Period 1 Listening and
6、 speakingTarget language 目标语言1. Key vocabulary 重点词汇message, Earth, just, hear, hear about, several, month, discover, recently, 2. Key sentences 重点句子 Ive just heard the news.And have the astronauts discovered life on Mars?I hear theyve gone to Shanghai on business. Ability goals 能力目标Enable students t
7、o listen to and talk about space travel.Learning ability goals 学能目标Help students to learn how to listen to and talk about space travel, using the Present Perfect Tense. Teaching important/difficult points 教学重难点How to listen to and talk about space travel, using the Present Perfect Tense. Teaching ai
8、ds 教具准备A projector or some pictures about space travel, a tape recorder .Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式 StepWarming up and lead-inIn this procedure, ask students to look at the projector or some pictures about space travel. Learn the words about it. Learn to ask and talk about the space travel
9、, using the Present Perfect Tense.T: Hello, boys and girls. Nice to see you again. Do you know Yang Liwei, Fei Junlong and Nei Haisheng? This class well begin with a projector about space travel. Are you interested in it? Please look carefully. Can you say some words about it?Show the following. Wri
10、te down the words and help them learn the words related to space travel. T: This is a projector about space travel. Do you know something about space travel? Please talk about it in groups.优质文档优质文档After a few minutes, ask students to report the discussion result. While the students report the result
11、, write down the important words as follows. Earth, Mars, moon, scientist, spacecraft, space station, astronauts, space shuttle Encourage or help the students to say something about the words.e.g: T: Do you know “Mars“?S: Yes, it is a small red planet. S: The fourth in order from the sun. S: The fir
12、st planet outside the Earths orbit. Go on with the others in the same way. Step II Listening and readingT: Next lets listen to a passage. In this passage Daming and Tony are talking about space travel. Please listen carefully and answer two questions. Show the following. 1. Has the spacecraft reache
13、d Mars yet? 2. Have we discovered if there is life on Mars yet?Play the tape for the first time. Ask students to answer. Sample answers: 1. Yes, it has. 2. No, we havent. T: Now listen again. This time please underline the new words of this passage. After listening, ask students to discuss in groups
14、 and try to explain them in English. Sample words: Mars: a planet in solar system mission: taskdiscover: to findT: Please listen to the recording for the last time and answer the questions in Activity 4.Play the recording. Then check the answers. After this, ask students to repeat after the recordin
15、g. Then read in pairs.Then ask students to finish Activities 5 and 6. Check the answers. Sample answers to Activity 6: Something youve borrowed this week:Ive borrowed some books about space travel this week. Ive borrowed a map of the world this week.Something youve done recently:Ive finish reading a
16、 novel about an astronaut recently. Ive received three letters from my friends recently. A model of something you have seen:Ive seen a model of Zhang Hengs seismograph.Ive seen a model of spacecraft in Science Museum. Something scientists have discovered:American scientists have discovered that some
17、 plants are able to correct mistakes in their own genetic (遗传的) material.优质文档优质文档Then show the following and tell students something about the present perfect tense. 1. Ive just heard the news on the radio about the space mission to Mars.2. I havent heard about this yet.3. Has it reached Mars yet?T:
18、 In these sentences we can find the structure: have / has +pp. Can you find more sentences like these in the passage? We use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. Show the following. EXAMPLES:I have seen that movie twen
19、ty times.I think I have met him once before.There have been many earthquakes in California.Has there ever been a war in the United States?People have traveled to the moon.Step III Pronunciation and speaking Play the recording. Ask students to underline the words the speaker stresses. Then check the
20、answers. Then ask students to read after the recording and repeat the sentences. Speaking T: We have known much about space travel in this class. Can you write down things weve done and the things we havent done yet about space travel? Check the answers with the class. Sample answers: Weve sent astr
21、onauts to the moon.We havent sent astronauts to Mars.Then ask students to exchange the things they wrote and check who has the longest list. Step IV Homework1. Ask students to learn the new words and expressions in this unit.2. Ask students to write a short passage to introduce space travel.【教学反思】Pe
22、riod 2 Reading and writingTarget language 目标语言优质文档优质文档1. Key vocabulary 重点词汇planet, alone, also, part, light, beyond2. Key sentences 重点句子 just (already) have/ has +p.p havent/ hasnt + p.pyet. Have/ Has + +p.p +yet?Ability goals 能力目标Enable students to read and write a story about space travel.Learnin
23、g ability goals 学能目标Help students learn how to read and write a story about space travel.Teaching important/difficult points 教学重难点How to read and write a story about space travel.Teaching aids 教具准备Some pictures or a projector. Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式Step I Revision and lead-inCheck the
24、homework. Talk about space travel.T: Looking up the sky, we can see the sun, the moon and stars in the sky. But what is the sky like? We didnt know until we have traveled in space. With the development of science, our dream of space travel has come true.T: Please look at the picture on page 20. What
25、 can you see?S: A spacecraft.T: Yes, we have sent some spacecraft into universe. What is in the universe? Help to answer and write down some important words.S: The sun, the earth, the moon, and some stars.S: And 9 planets. They are called the solar system.S: Galaxy. T: Well done. We have known so ma
26、ny words about the space. Please write them down. Show the following. galaxy, planet, solar system, star, universe T: Can you put these words and expressions in order: from small to large?Check the answers and ask students to read the words. StepReading (2:P20)T: Boys and girls. Well read a passage
27、about the life on other planets. First please look at Activity 2. There are four titles. (Go through with students) Please read the passage and choose the best title. Then ask students to read the passage again and check the true statements in Activity 4.Check the answers. After that, ask students t
28、o work in groups and discuss the questions in Activity 5. Sample answers to Activity 5:1. Living things needs air. 优质文档优质文档2. Most often. 3. Some stores. 4. About 3 inches. 5. A spacecraft. 6. About 2 hours by plane. Step Writing (4: P21)T: Have we found any life on other planets? Please look at the
29、 cartoon picture. What happened?Ask students to work in pairs and ask and answer the questions. Then ask them to to write a story “Life on Mars“ according to the answers in part 6. Sample version:Weve just had some news about the mission to explore Mars. Scientists have just heard a message from a s
30、pacecraft. It has landed Mars. And it has discovered people there. But they havent sent us a message because they cant hear us. They prefer life on Mars, so they havent visited us on Earth. They also made TVs, radios, cars and so on with the other spacecraft. I think they are having a good time.Step
31、 IV HomeworkAsk students to try to find more information about space.【教学反思】Period 3 Language in use Target language 目标语言1. Key vocabulary 重点词汇even, secret2. Key sentences 重点句子Have you heard the latest news?Some scientists have sent a spacecraft to Mars.And have the astronauts discovered life on Mars
32、?But astronauts have already been to the moon.Ability goals 能力目标Enable students to use the Present Perfect Tense.Learning ability goals 学能目标Help students learn how to talk about and write something using the Present Perfect Tense.Teaching important/difficult points 教学重难点How to use the Present Perfec
33、t Tense.Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式Step Revision 优质文档优质文档1. Check the homework.2. Ask students to retell the passage in Unit 2.Step GrammarMake some explanation about the present perfect tense. (1) just, already, yetT: Now weve learned how to use the present perfect tense. Theres something
34、more we should pay attention to. Now please finish Activities 1 and 2 on page 22 first. The help students to make a conclusion about the use of just / already and yet. S: Just /already is usually used in affirmative sentences after have/has.S: Yet is usually used in the end of negative sentences. Th
35、en check the answers with the class. (2) Help students sum the grammar: the present perfect tense. Show the following. 动词构成: have/ has +p.p句子构成:肯 定 句 否定句S +have/has +p.p S +have/has+not +p.p特殊疑问句 回 答WhatWhoWhen have/has +p.p?WhereWhyHow S +have/has+p.p一般疑问句 回 答Have/Has+ S+p.p? Yes, S+ have/has. No,
36、S +havent/hasnt.(3) have/has been, have/has goneCreate a situation as follows to help students make clear about the different usage of have/has been, have/has gone.T: Liu Mei, will you please go to the office to bring my book here? (Liu Mei goes to the office.) Class, where is Liu Mei?S: She has gon
37、e to the office.(After a while Liu Mei comes back with a book.) T: Thank you, Liu Mei. OK. Has Liu Mei been to the office? S: Yes, she has.T: Now, do you know the differences between have/has gone and have/has been?S: Yes. have/has gone: 去了某地，还没回来。 have/has been: 去过某地，已经回来T: Great. Lets finish Activ
38、ities 3 and 4.Ask them to do them one by one. Then check the answers. (4) The forms of the verbsAsk students to complete the passage in Activities 5 and 6 and summarize the 优质文档优质文档building ways of past form, and past participle.Check the answers and then show the following. 一般在动词原形末尾直接加上-ed。如：look-
39、looked。以不发音的字母 e 结尾的动词，去 e 再加-ed。如：live-lived。末尾只有一个辅音字母的重读闭音节，先双写这个辅音字母，再加-ed。如：stop-stopped。末尾是辅音字母+y 结尾的动词，先变 y 为 i，然后再加-ed。如：study-studied。Step III Practice Ask students to read the letter in Activity 7 and complete the letter. T: Boys and girls, do you want to know more about space? Well read M
40、arys letter. Ill give you 3 minutes to complete it. If you finish it, please put up your hands and read it to us, OK?Ask one of the students to read it to the class. The others check the answers.Then ask students to listen to an interview and finish Activity 8.Word competition T: Now lets have a com
41、petition between the boys and the girls. Lets see who can write more words about space. Ill give you two small boards and boys write on Board A, girls Board B. Begin!Then go through Around the world with students.Step IV Module taskT: Do you know the first Moon landing or Chinas first manned space t
42、ravel? Please work in groups and make a poster about space travel. You can look for more photos and information on the Internet. A sample poster:Making History: Chinas First Human SpaceflightOct. 15, 2003, China launched an astronaut into Earth orbit. Shenzhou V takes off优质文档优质文档China Prepares for Second Piloted Space Mission China Launches Experimental SatelliteStep V Homework1. Ask the students to summarize what they have learned in this unit and preview the next unit.2. Ask students to finish the exercises in the workbook.【教学反思】
