高中英语Unit 4 Space Exploration教学设计

这是一份高中英语Unit 4 Space Exploration教学设计，共3页。教案主要包含了教学目标，教学重难点，教学过程等内容，欢迎下载使用。
【教学目标】
1. Read quickly t get detailed infrmatin accrding the timeline; read carefully t summarize the main idea.
2. Learn the reading skills—finding the timeline and summarizing the main idea by finding the wrds r ideas.
3. Have a passin fr ur cuntry and be prud f the space explratin.
4. Learn t think critically abut the space explratin.
【教学重难点】
1. Read quickly t get detailed infrmatin accrding the timeline; read carefully t summarize the main idea.
2. Learn the reading skills—finding the timeline and summarizing the main idea by finding the wrds r ideas.
【教学过程】
Step 1 Lead in—Small talk
Watch a vide abut Space experiment and discuss what yu have learnt frm it.
Step 2 Befre reading—Predict the cntent
Space: the final frntier
Chinese meaning: 太空：最后的边境
Frntier: the brder, which might mean the human’s recgnitin edge r explratin edge.
Frm the title and the pictures and the title, we can knw that the article might be abut the develpment f space explratin. It bradens us human’s recgnitin edge r explratin edge. S it is an expsitin.
Step 3 While reading—Task 1
Read the text. Several sentences have been remved frm it. Chse the crrect sentences A—D t fill each gap in the text.
Summarize the main idea
When the main idea is nt clearly stated in a tpic sentence, yu shuld read the full paragraph r passage carefully and find the wrds r ideas that repeat themselves. They are likely evidence f the authr’s main idea.
A. Althugh scientists try t make sure nthing ges wrng, accidents can still happen.
B. They als really wish t discver ther planets that are suitable enugh t supprt life.
C. The future f space explratin remains bright.
D. After many experiments, they succeeded in making rckets that culd escape Earth’s gravity.
Answers: BDAC
2. Scan the text and match the main idea.
Para 1A．China has made great prgress in explring space.
Para 2B．The future f space explratin remains bright.
Para 3C．The achievements that the USSR and America made.
Para 4D．Peple have always wanted t explre space.
Para 5E．The desire f peple t explre the universe never died.
Answers: DCEAB
3. The main idea f the passage is the space explratin f humankind.
Step 4 While reading—Task 2
Read the text and fill in the table
Step 5 While reading—Task 3
Read the text again and answer the fllwing questins. Then have Ss share their answers.
Q1: Wh was the first persn in the wrld t g int the space?
Q2: Wh was the first man t rbit Earth in Shenzhu 5 spacecraft?
Q3: In which satellites all the astrnauts died during their missins?
Q4: What is the functin f the Internatinal explratin?
Q5: What can yu learn frm Para 4?
Q6: What is the attitude t the space explratin?
Step 6 Pst reading
1. Retell
Have sme Ss try t retell the text.
2. Critical thinking
Q1: What d yu think f the space explratin?
I think it is beneficial t us. Thrugh further study f space, peple will make full use f it in the future, such as the space experiments by Wang Yaping in Tian Gng 1.
Q2: If yu are determined t be an astrnaut, what shuld yu prepare at present?
First f all, I shuld study hard t get a related cllege degree. Besides, I must keep mental and physical healthy.
Step 7. Hmewrk
Try t summarize the structure f the article by a mind map.time
events
On 4 Octber 1957
The Sputnik 1 satellite was 1.launched by the USSR and successfully 2.rbited arund Earth.
On 12 April 1961
Yuri Gagarin became the first persn in the wrld 3.t g (g) int space.
On 20 July 4.1969
Armstrng stepped nt the mn，saying，“That's ne small step fr a man，ne giant 5.leap fr mankind.”
On 5 September 1977
America launched Vyager 1 t study 6.deep space，and it still 7.transmits data tday.
In 8.2003
China became the third cuntry in the wrld t 9.independently send humans int space and Yang Liwei successfully rbited Earth in the Shenzhu 5 spacecraft.