必修一unit2lesson1-modern-heroes-教案.doc

Teaching Plan
Module1 Unit2 Lesson1 Period 1
Title
Lesson1 National Hero (Reading Page22-23)
Teaching Objectives
Knowledge Aims
1. Know the launch of Shenzhou V and our national hero Yang Liwei’s activities in space.
2. Learn several key words and phrases.
Ability Aims
1. Enable students to talk about the moving process of Shenzhou V and Yang Liwei’s activities in space to improve their oral skills.
2. Enable students to use the way of skimming and scanning to get general ideas and detailed information to help them improve their reading skills. 
3. Enables students to learn to retell a text.
Emotional Aims
1. Arouse the students’ pride in our space flight and our national hero.
2. Learn from our national hero and love our school and study hard in their daily life.
Teaching importance
1 Practice retelling a text with what they learnt and their our knowledge.
2 Grasp the use of scanning and skimming to get general ideas and detailed information.
Teaching difficulties
1. Students may have problems in skimming and scanning the text.
2. Students may have difficulties in expressing themselves in class.
Teaching Aids
Multi-media,
Teaching methods
1. Multimedia teaching        
2. Task-based language teaching      
Learning strategies:
1. Learning by doing tasks
2.Cooperative learning method
3. Indirect learning method
Teaching procedures

Teacher
Students
Purposes
Pre-task
1 Warm up
l Present some pictures of heroes and
a heroine
Ask: Do you know who she/he is?
What is he/she?
What are they?  
Is he /she a hero/heroine?
2 Lead in
l Present a picture and guess who he is.
lAsk students how Yang went to space and present the picture of China’s first manned spaceship.

l Look and enjoy the pictures.

l Think and answer

l Think, look and say

lWarm them up.

lPresent some basic
information about Yang and
ShenzhouV
lShift into the following teaching contents

While-task

Task 1 Skimming
lSkim the passage and match the headings with each paragraph.
(the 1st sentence of each paragraph )
a. Astronaut lands safely
b. Welcome home
c. International good wishes
d. An exciting lift-off
e. Introduction
f. During the flight
lCheck answers

l Learn the reading strategies.
lRead the text quickly and match.

lSay out the answers.

lImprove students’ reading speed and learn to use the way of skimming a passage to get main points of each paragraph.
Task 2 Scanning
Read Para1 together and find the background information:
when: ________ where:_______
who: ________ what: _______

Task 3 Careful- reading
l1.Read Paras2-6,circle the words
related to a spaceship's moving (与……相关)process.

l 2. Read Paras2-6 again underlining
the words related to Yang Liwei’s
activities, and fill in the following
table.
Shenzhou V
Yang Liwei
lifted off
felt 1._______;
separated from
the rocket
got a feeling of 2.________________the sky ;

circled the
earth 14 times
3. _____________ ground control and his wife and son;
4._________________ of China and the UN , expressing the wishes of the Chinese people;
let out the parachute
felt 5._______;
landed safely
6.______out of the spaceship
smiled and 7._________.

lRead together aloud and find the background information.
lSay out the answers together.

lRead silently and circle the words related to a spaceship’s moving process.

l Read again and underline the words.
l Train their ability in reading and getting specific information.

l Train their ability in reading and getting specific information.

lPractice using reading strategies to understand more about the text.

lCheck answers
lRead quickly and find out the answers
lSay out answers
lTrain the students’ ability in scanning.
Task4 Retelling
Look at the pictures and retell :
---moving process of Shenzhou V
---Yang Liwei’s activities.
E.g When Shenzhou V…
Yang Liwei…
(Attention: Try to use the new words
or phrases 短语)
lRead, look at the pictures and blackboard and try to retell.

lExamine their reading result.
lTrain the students’ ability in
retelling.
lImprove students’ spoken English.
l Consolidate the contents for this lesson.
Post- task
Task 5 Watch a video and discuss
What kind of people do you think
a hero/heroine should be?
Useful expressions:
in my opinion/personally/ I think…
selfless, patriotic, peace-loving,
calm, brave, hard-working, generous, full of exploring spirits…
Summary
Yang Liwei is a real hero.
He is not afraid of death.
He is so brave ,calm ,selfless,
patriotic ,peace-loving…

What can we do in our daily life?
Learn from our role model—
Love our country ,school…
Be brave enough to overcome
difficulties and study hard.
l Watch and think carefully.

lGroup discussion.

lReport.

l Listen carefully and think again

lEncourage students to think and express themselves bravely in class.

lTeach students and learn from our role model.
Assignment
Compulsary(必做的) task:
A. Read the text and write down your opinion about Yang Liwei
or other astronauts.
B. Finish Ex.7 on P22.
Optional(选择的) task:
Look for some information or videos about China’s space flight
and other astronauts at home during National Holiday.
lHelp students further understand the text

板书
Lesson 1 National Hero
Words: Selfless/ patriotic/peace-loving/process/responsible
moving process of Shenzhou V

lifted off/separated from/circled the earth/let out/landed

felt the high gravity/ soaring into/ spoke&showed/ shaking/ climbed, smiled&waved