Module 4 Unit 7 The unknown world More practice
教案
Topic? Do?aliens?exist??
Class?type ?Reading?
Time?40min?
Teaching?objective?
Knowledge?objective?
1. Students?can?use?some?sentence?patterns?to?express?their?opinions?
2. Students?can?use?some?words?properly?related?? to?the?UFO?
Ability?objective?
1. Students?develop?the?skill?of?finding?sentences?from?the?passage?to?support?their?ideas.?
2. Students?can?discuss?about?the?UFO?topics?through? reading?a?series?of?materials?about?Crop?circles?and?Roswell?Incident?and?hold?their?own?position?about?the?existence?of?aliens?through?a?critical?thinking?
Emotional?Objective? Students'?curiosity?about?aliens?can?be?aroused? Cultural?awareness??objective?Students?know?about?some?UFO?reports?in?western?countries.?
Key?teaching?points?
1. Key?words:?alien,?evidence,?exist,?incident,?crop?field,?crop?? circle,?metal expert,?pieces?
2. Key?sentence?patterns:? I?think?that….? In?my?opinion… It?happens?because…People?do?it?as… lie/?make?up?stories,?For?these?reasons,?Teaching?difficulty?Students?may?have?difficulty?in?understanding?some?special?terms?about?aliens?and?expressing?themselves?
Teaching?Tools?Multi-media, blackboard,?handout?
Teaching?Methods? Task-based method，Team?work，Mind-map?
Teaching?procedures?
stepⅠ Warming-up?
Students?can?read?the?new?words?correctly?and?fluently?? and?be?clear?about? their?meanings,??having?fun?in?learning?words? Describe?the?rules?of?the?word?games?Play?a?word?game:?Students?are?in?boys?‘team and?girls'?team.?The?first?student?says?"evidence",?the?second?student?says?"exist" and?puts?up?his?hands,?the?third? student?says?"incident",?students?play?it?in?circulating,?if?anyone?does?it?wrong,?the?opposite?team?gets?a?point.?3min?
stepⅡ Reading?
A? Students?can?develop?a?critical?thinking?about?the?truth?of?crop?circles?through?reading?this?article? Ask?students?to?read?reading?A?and?lead?them?to?understand?the?truth?of?crop?circles?by?designing?five?questions?and?check?the?answers?with?students? Students?read?an?article?about?crop?circles?from?the?comprehensive? exercise?book?and?find?sentences?to?find?out?the?truth?of?crop?circles?and?further?summarize?some?reasons?of?some?unexplainable?incidents??4min?
stepⅢ Reading?B?
Students?can?develop?a?critical?thinking?about?the?truth?of?Roswell?Incidents?by?reading?a?report?and?information?from?the?Internet?Ask?students?to?read?about?Roswell?Incident?and?lead?them?to?understand?the?passage;Check?the? answers?to?some?leading?questions;Show?a?piece?of?information?about?the?truth?from?Wikipedia?website?? Students?read?another?passage?about?Roswell?Incident?and?find?out?the?truth?from?the?passage? 10min?
stepⅣMake?a?dialogue?about?aliens?
Students?prepare?to?discuss?about?their?own?ideas?about?the?existence?of?aliens?by?making?a?set?dialogue? Ask?students?to?practice?the?dialogue?related?to?aliens?with?their?partners?and?help? students?summarize?all?the?possible?reasons?of?the?truth?of?all?the?reports?related?to?aliens.?? Students?show?the?dialogue?and?try?to?add?more?information?about?their?opinions?to?their?dialogue? 8min?
Step?Ⅴ Group?
Discussion?and? students?make?a?report?on?their?opinions?about?the?existence?of?aliens? Students?can?discuss? and?summarize?their? own?opinions?about? the?existence?of? aliens?after?all?the? class?activities.? Ask?students?to?discuss?and?summarize?their?own?opinions?about?the?existence?of?aliens?and?give?some?guide?when?students?have?problem?in?expressing?themselves?Students?discuss?with? their?neighbors?about? the?existence?of? aliens?and?summarize? their?own?ideas?about?the?existence?of?aliens?5min?
stepⅤ Homework?
Students?can?write?about?their?opinions? and?develop?a? critical?thinking? Continue?to?discuss?the?existence?of?aliens?with?your?classmates? after?class?and??write?an?article?about?your?opinions?with?more? than?80?words?
Teaching??Feedback? Merits:
1?In?warming-up?part,?I?designed?a?word?game?to?help?students?be?familiar?with?the?new?words?and?those?new?words?are?the?key?words?in?understanding?the?passages?and?it's?a?creative?way?to?help?students?to?practice?the?pronunciation?of?new?words.?
2.?All?the?class?activities?are?closely?focused?on?the?topic?of?aliens?and?unexplainable?incidents;?the?passages?are?integrated?based?on?the?same?topic?
3.?This?class?is?designed?to?develop?students'?critical?thinking?through?reading?materials?and?closely?related?to?students'?real?life. step?Ⅲ,?after?students?finish?reading?passage?B,?it's?better?to?ask?students?to?surf?the?Internet?by?themselves?to?find?out?the?true?information?about?the?Roswell?Incident.-But?in?my?class,?they?didn't?have?any?access?to?Internet,?so?it's?impossible?to?apply?my?design?in?this?procedure.?step?Ⅳ,?some?students?didn't?discuss?actively?and?after?class?they?told?me?that?they?didn't?understand?the?word?"discuss"?and?they?were?in?a?hurry?to?write?down?their?opinions.?Next?time,?I?will?add?some?Chinese?to?help?some?students?understand?the?instructions?
课件12张PPT。 Did aliens do these things?existevidenceincident 证据 存在 事件Crop fieldCrop circleAfter reading report A, try to be clear about the following information
1. How was the crop circle formed?
2. Where did the crop circles appear?
3. What are the forms形式 of crop circles?
4. Who made the crop circles, people or aliens?
5. Why did they make crop circles?
Crop circles are large circles in crop fields. These circles are formed when the crops have been pushed down
To many people, crop circles were formed by aliens’ spaceships when they landed during the nights. Crop circles have been appearing in the USA, the UK and other countries since the late 1970s. Most of these circles appeared in the south of England and all of them were quite large.
However, not all of them were circles. Crop circles could take many different forms. Some of crop circles were even of cartoon characters. Of course, aliens will probably not make cartoon characters.
In 1991two men in England told the world their secret: they made most of the crop circles and other people had copied抄袭 them. They were just having fun and wanted to trick people. Today, there are still crop circles, but many are made by people as advertisements for companies…13452Report B：Roswell Incident词汇：
Metal 金属（n.）
Expert专家（n.）
Pieces碎片（n.）
Major Marcel
马塞尔少校Find out the answers to these questions in the passage; mark the sentences with question numbers
1. What is the article about?
2. What did Mr Brazel find on his farm?
3. What did the US army expert专家 say about the pieces of metal?
4. Did Person D believe there were aliens? Why or why not?Person A（匿名）: My wife and I were sitting outside because it was a warm night. Suddenly we saw something very bright flying through the sky.
Person B (William Brazel, a farmer): I found some pieces of strange metal （金属）on my farm. I called the army. Major少校 Marcel came and collected the pieces. He told me not to talk to anyone about this.
Person C (Major Marcel): I went and collected the pieces. I gave them to an army expert（专家）. He said the pieces came from a weather balloon（气象气球）. However, since I have not seen this kind of metal before, I think this was a lie.
Person D （匿名）：My parents and I were in the countryside. Suddenly we saw a silver spaceship on the side of the hill. There were the bodies of three aliens lying on the grass. Then some soldiers came and told us to leave.
So what is the truth? We can guess some possibilities.
①Perhaps some or all of the people lied.
②Perhaps a US rocket crashed and people thought it had come from space. ③Perhaps an alien spaceship really crashed in Roswell.From a website:
The Roswell UFO incident took place in the U.S. in June or July 1947, when an object crashed on a farm near Roswell. The crash was caused by a secret U.S. military experiment（军事实验）. The US government （政府）wanted to keep it secret.C Make a dialogue: Max and Rose are talking about life on other planets.
Rose: Do you believe in aliens?
Max: Yes. I think there must be life on other planets.
Rose: Why?
Max: Well, first of all, there are so many stars out there and space is so large. Life must exist （存在）in space. Maybe aliens have already visited Earth. For example, there was the Roswell Incident.
Rose: But many people have looked into（调查） the Roswell Incident, and no one has found any real evidence of aliens!
Max: I don’t agree----several people saw aliens at Roswell. There have also been many other reports of aliens.
Rose: These always happen on lonely places, to people who are not important. Why? Why not come to New York or go on TV?
Max: Maybe the aliens want to keep themselves a secret. Maybe they’re studying us, so they can attack us later on!
Discuss and report: Do you believe that aliens exist? Why？I think that…. In my opinion…
It happens because…
People do it as…
lie/ make up stories
man-made satellite人造的卫星
make the truth public让真相公开
For these reasons,….Homework:
Continue to discuss the existence of aliens with your classmates after class and write an article about your opinions with more than 80 wordsModule 4 Unit 7 The unknown world More practice
阅读素材
Report A crop circles（麦田怪圈）
Crop circles are large circles in crop fields. These circles are formed when the crops have been pushed down
To many people, crop circles were formed by aliens’ spaceships when they landed during the nights. Crop circles have been appearing in the USA, the UK and other countries since the late 1970s. Most of these circles appeared in the south of England and all of them were quite large.
However, not all of them were circles. Crop circles could take many different forms. Some of crop circles were even of cartoon characters. Of course, aliens will probably not make cartoon characters.
In 1991, two men in England told the world their secret: they made most of the crop circles and other people had copied抄袭 them. They were just having fun and wanted to trick people. Today, there are still crop circles, but many are made by people as advertisements for companies…
After reading this report, try to be clear about the following information
How did the crop circle form?
Where did the crop circles appear?
What are the forms of crop circles?
Who made the crop circles, people or aliens?
Why did they make crop circles?
Report B Roswell Incident罗斯威尔事件
Many people say they have seen UFOs. Here is one famous story. It is called the Roswell Incident and it happened in the US in 1947.
Person A（匿名）: My wife and I were sitting outside because it was a warm night. Suddenly we saw something very bright flying through the sky.
Person B (William Brazel, a farmer): I found some pieces of strange metal （金属）on my farm. I called the army. Major Marcel came and collected the pieces. He told me not to talk to anyone about this.
Person C (Major Marcel): I went and collected the pieces. I gave them to an army expert（专家）. He said the pieces came from a weather balloon（气象气球）. However, since I have not seen this kind of metal before, I think this was a lie.
Person D （匿名）：My parents and I were in the countryside. Suddenly we saw a silver spaceship on the side of the hill. There were the bodies of three aliens lying on the grass. Then some soldiers came and told us to leave.
So what is the truth? We can guess some possibilities.
Perhaps some or all of the people lied.
Perhaps a US rocket crashed and people thought it had come from space.
Perhaps an alien spaceship really crashed in Roswell.
Find out the answers to these questions in the passage; mark the sentences with question numbers
What is the article about?
What did Mr Brazel find on his farm?
What did the US army expert say about the pieces of metal?
Did Person D believe there were aliens? Why or why not?
C Make a dialogue: Max and Rose are talking about life on other planets.
Rose: Do you believe in aliens?
Max: Yes. I think there must be life on other planets.
Rose: Why?
Max: Well, first of all, there are so many stars out there and space is so large. Life must exist存在 in space. Maybe aliens have already visited Earth. For example, there was the Roswell Incident.
Rose: But many people have looked into the Roswell Incident, and no one has found any real evidence of aliens!
Max: I don’t agree----several people saw aliens at Roswell. There have also been many other reports of aliens.
Rose: These always happen on lonely places, to people who are not important. Why? Why not come to New York or go on TV?
Max: Maybe the aliens want to keep themselves a secret. Maybe they’re studying us, so they can attack us later on!
词汇:
exist 存在
look into调查
D Discuss in groups and make a report: Do you believe that aliens exist? Why?
句型提示：
I think that…. In my opinion,
It happens because… People do it as…
lie/ make up stories
man-made satellite
make the truth public让真相公开
For these reasons,….
Report: Do aliens exist?
In my opinion___________________________________________________________________
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