Module 3 Journey to space
Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?
课 题
Module 3 Journey to space
第一课时
Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?
课型
New
教学目标
知识目标
1. 学习并掌握下列词汇: earth, moon, news, planet, reach, yet, just, model, spaceship, project, no problem, latest, on, discover, astronaut, space travel
2. 掌握以下句型:
①What are you up to?
②I haven’t started yet because I’m not sure how to make it.
③Has it arrived yet?
④Have you heard the latest news?
能力目标
1. To understand present perfect with already, just and yet.
2. To understand the conversation about the space mission to Mars.
情感目标
通过中国“神舟五号”、“神舟六号”载人航天飞船太空探索增强民族意识和自豪感。让学生了解一些航天知识、空间站的生活情况: 八大行星的基本情况及适合人类生存的基本条件等, 实现跨学科交流的目的。
教学重点
1. Present perfect with already, just and yet.
2. To understand the conversation about the space mission to Mars.
教学难点
1. Present perfect tense: the difference between “have/has been to” and “have/has gone to”
2. To understand the conversation about the space mission to Mars.
课前预习
Preview the new words
教学方法
Situational approach; Listening and speaking approach;
Communicative approach
教学过程
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 1
Warm up
1. Lead students to enjoy a short film about space travel.
What’s the film about?
Then show the title.
2. Free talk:
Ask the students some questions like this:
A: Have you heard the latest news about space travel?
B: Have astronauts arrived in the space yet?
1. Watch the video.
Review words:
earth, moon, news, planet, reach etc.
2. Enjoy the short film and answer the question.
让学生观赏影片, 进行课前热身, 以轻松方式导入新课, 创造轻松愉快的学习气氛, 激发学习兴趣。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 2
Pre-task
(Act. 1)
1. Show some pictures to get the students to say out the new words.
2. Let Ss read the new words.
3. Check the new words.
1. Look at the pictures to say out the new words.
2. Read the new words together.
检查学生对词汇的掌握程度, 训练学生的表达能力, 通过图片、句子学单词。
Step 3
Listening
(Act. 1 and
Act. 2)
1. First let Ss listen to the conversation in Act. 1. Then ask them to number the words.
2. Guide the students to listen again and complete the notes (Activity 2).
1. First listen to the conversation. Then number the words.
2. Listen again and complete the notes in Act. 2.
3. Check the answers with a partner.
通过第二遍听对话, 让学生深化对对话的理解, 从而可以理解关于太空的对话。
Step 4
Listening
(Act. 3)
Tell students Da Ming’s friend Tony has made a model of a space station, and now they are talking about the model. Ask students to listen and tell true or false.
①Daming has just made a model spaceship for the school project. ( )
②The spaceship to Mars has arrived. ( )
③No one has been to the moon. ( )
④There aren’t any astronauts in the spaceship to Mars. ( )
⑤They have discovered life on Mars. ( )
Listen and tell true or false:
①T ②T ③F ④T ⑤F
Check the answers.
带着问题听课文, 可以让学生有目的地听录音, 并学会综合所获的信息作答。
Step 5
Reading
(Act. 3)
1. Let students read the dialogue in Act. 3 in pairs.
2. Ask the students to answer the questions in Activity 3.
3. Call back the answers.
1. Read the conversation and complete the table in Activity 3.
2. Check the answers and correct it/them.
小组活动能通过学生间的自主、合作学习, 让学生充分地实践运用语言, 并培养团结合作精神。
Step 6
Practice
(Act. 3)
1. Organize students to read the conversation with the video, and underlined the sentences including “have/has been to” and “have/has gone to”.
2. Ask students to read the conversation in groups.
3. Organize the students to have a competition: Read the conversation in groups.
4. Let several pairs of students role play the conversation in front of the class.
1. Read the conversation with the video and underline the sentences with “have/has been to” and “have/has gone to”.
2. Practice reading in groups.
3. Read the conversation in groups and choose the best group. Try to read the best. Read the conversation together, then in pairs.
4. Role play it.
通过观看视频代替枯燥乏味的凭空想象, 同时获取正确的语音语调。
在听力练习和小对话口语练习的基础上, 进行角色对话表演 , 开展有实际意义的交际运用活动。互相纠正错误, 培养团结合作精神。
Step 7
Language
points
1. Organize students to read the conversation again and find the language points. Let them discuss in groups and solve their problems.
2. Ask three little teachers to help the students solve their problems.
Students read the conversation again and find the language points. Discuss in groups and solve their problems.
小组合作探究, 共同完成学习任务, 培养他们自主学习的能力。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 8
Role play
Organize the students to make up a conversation in groups with the tips below.
1. Make a new conversation in groups.
2. Give a dialogue show.
创设情境开展语言交际活动。
Step 9
Exercises
1. Ask students to complete the passage(Activity 4).
2. Ask Ss to retell the dialogue.
Complete the sentences with the words in the box. (Activity 4).
通过活动4习题巩固本课所学内容, 加深印象。
Step 10
Speaking
practice
1. Pronunciation and speaking:
1) Guide the students to listen and underline the words the speaker stresses, then check the answers.
2) Play the recording again and ask the whole class to repeat, then check their speaking.
2. Show some information about the things what we have and have not done in space travel. Help the students make lists of what we have and have not done in space travel in groups. (Act. 6)
We have. . .
We have not. . .
3. According to the lists, help the students talk about them like this:
A: Have we sent a spaceship to Mars?
B: Yes, we have. But no one has been to Mars yet.
A: Why haven’t we been to Mars?
B: . . .
4. Have the Ss work in pairs. Talk about space travel with the lists, then check their ideas with their workmates.
—Have we. . . ?
—Yes, we have. / No, we haven’t.
5. Ask students to do some exercises and then check.
1. Pronunciation and speaking:
1)Listen and underline the words the speaker stresses, then check the answers.
2) Listen and repeat the sentences, then show speaking.
2. Think about the pictures about the things what we have and have not done in space travel. Make lists of what we have and have not done in space travel in groups. (Act. 6)
We have. . . /We have not. . .
3. According to the lists, talk about them like this:
A: Have we sent a spaceship to Mars?
B: Yes, we have. But no one has been to Mars yet.
A: Why haven’t we been to Mars?
B: . . .
4. Work in pairs. Talk about space travel with the lists, then share their ideas with their workmates.
—Have we. . . ?
—Yes, we have. / No, we haven’t.
5. Do some exercises and then check.
通过做口头表达训练学生说的能力, 能使学生加深对课文内容的理解, 适量的口头练习, 让学生巩固本课时的语言重点。
通过笔头练习, 进一步巩固所学知识。
Step 11
Summarize
1. Get the students to sum up the language points.
T: What have we learned today?
S: . . .
2. Let the students choose the best group in this lesson.
1. Sum up the language points:
①the differences between
“have/has been to” and “have/has gone to”
②Useful sentences:
I haven’t started yet because I’m not sure how to make it.
. . .
2. Choose the best groups.
引导学生对这节课做总结, 培养学生自主学习, 自主总结的良好学习习惯。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 12
Consolidation
教师设置巩固检测练习:
Ⅰ. 用just, already, yet填空
1. They’ve _________seen the film twice. It’s wonderful. ?
2. Has David come back from New York ______? ?
3. Mum, I’ve ___
finished my homework. Can I play football? ?
4. They’ve _________
heard the news. Now, they’re talking about it. ?
5. Xiao Ming hasn’t returned _________. His mother is angry. ?
Ⅱ. 用have/has gone或 have/has been填空
1. —Where are the boy students?
—They _________to the school factory. ?
2. —Is your father at home?
—No, he _________to Shenzhen. ?
3. —_________ he ever _________there before? ?
—Yes, he _________there several times. ?
Keys:
Ⅰ. 1. already 2. yet
3. already
4. just 5. yet
Ⅱ. 1. have gone
2. has gone
3. Has; been; has been
独立完成检测练习, 进行自我评价。
通过检测练习, 便于学生了解自己对本节课的词汇、句型、语法等的掌握情况。
Step 13
Homework
1. Search the Internet, and try to find some materials about the eight planets of the sun. Talk about the space mission to Mars.
2. Read the conversation of Activity 3 after the tape.
3. Copy the new words.
板书设计
Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?
1. New words and phrases: earth, moon, news, planet, reach, yet, just, model, spaceship, project, no problem, latest, on, discover, astronaut, space travel
2. Sentences:
①What are you up to?
②I haven’t started yet because I’m not sure how to make it.
③Has it arrived yet?
④Have you heard the latest news?
3. have/has gone to与have/has been to的区别
教学反思
在教学过程中应注意处理好知识学习与能力发展的关系、语言操练与语言运用的关系以及常规教学与考试的关系, 使教学活动更加有效, 使课堂上设计的活动有明确的交流目的、真实的交流意义和具体的操作要求。
Module 3 Journey to space
Unit 2 We have not found life on any other planets yet.
课 题
Module 3 Journey to space
第二课时
Unit 2 We have not found life on any other planets yet.
课型
New
教学目标
知识目标
1. 学习并掌握下列词汇:
none, environment, that, solar, system, solar system, group, galaxy, universe, light, impossible, take-took-taken, out, communicate
2. 掌握以下句型:
①Scientists think that there has been life on the earth for hundreds of millions of years.
②However, we have not found life on any other planets yet.
③Scientists have also discovered many other galaxies in the universe.
④It is impossible to imagine.
能力目标
能够读懂以太空为主题的文章, 能简单描述人类对太空的探索。
情感目标
通过了解中国在太空探索领域取得的伟大成就, 增强民族自豪感, 通过太空知识的学习, 培养学生对天文知识的兴趣和对未知事物的探索精神.
教学重点
1. To understand the conversation about the space mission to Mars.
2. How to use present perfect tense to describe the space.
教学难点
1. Use present perfect tense to describe the space.
2. Write an article about the space.
课前预习
Preview the new words
教学方法
The Cooperative Learning approach ; Reading approach; Cooperative Learning Method
教学过程
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 1
Warm up
1. Guide students to watch a video about Shenzhou-9 and answer a question.
What’s the video about?
2. Let students look at the pictures of spaceships and talk about something about Chinese spaceships.
Shenzhou-10 is a manned spaceship. . .
3. Show some pictures about some planets and lead into this lesson.
How many planets have you learned?
…
1. Watch the video and answer the question.
(Shenzhou-9 has gone into space. )
2. Look at the pictures and talk about what they know about Chinese spaceships.
3. Look at the pictures and describe them.
通过观看神州九号飞船升天这个环节, 让学生了解我国在太空探索领域取得的伟大成就, 同时也引导学生轻松地进入本节课的主题。
Step 2
Pre-reading
(Act. 1)
Learn the new words.
1. Show students some pictures and check the new words.
2. Organize the students to read the new words together.
1. Look at the pictures to say out some new words.
2. Read the new words together.
3. Check the new words.
引导学生通过描述图片来学习新单词和句型, 为学生扫清阅读障碍。
Step 3
Fast reading
(Act. 2)
1. Ask students to read the passage and choose the best title for it. (Activity 2)
2. Check the answer.
1. Scan the passage and choose the best title for it.
2. Show the answer.
通过让学生快速阅读来了解文章的主题。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 4
Careful
reading
(Act. 2)
Careful reading(细读)
1. Ask students to read the Paragraph 1 and answer the questions:
①Has there been life on the earth for hundreds of millions of years?
②Have we found life on any other planets yet?
2. Read Paragraph 2 and fill in the blanks after reading it.
The Earth is a planet and it (1)_________ _________the sun. Seven (2)_________ _________also go around the sun. (3) _________them has an environment like the earth. So scientists haven’t (4)_________ life on them. The sun and its planets (5)_________ _________the solar system and our solar system is called the (6)_________ or the Milky Way. There are (7)_________ _________stars in the Galaxy and our sun is only one of them. ?
3. Paragraphs 3 and 4:
Let students tell true or false after reading them:
①The light from the stars in other galaxies has travelled for a long time to reach us. ( )
②Scientists have received many messages from space. ( )
③Spaceship have visited most of the universe. ( )
4. Ask students to read Paragraph 5 carefully and answer the following questions.
①Have there been visitors to the earth from other planets?
②Has anyone communicated with us?
1. Make sure to read Paragraph 1 and answer the questions:
Keys:
①Yes, there has been.
②No, we haven’t.
2. Read Paragraph 2 and fill in the blanks after reading it.
Keys:
(1)goes around (2)other planets (3)None of
(4)found (5)are called
(6)Galaxy (7)billions of
3. Read Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4 and tell true or false.
Keys:
①T ②F ③F
4. Read Paragraph 5 and answer the questions.
①No, there haven’t.
③No, he hasn’t.
让学生带着任务(问题)去阅读课文, 去找答案, 有助于学生更加准确地获取信息, 提高阅读效果和技能。学生通过分层次阅读文章, 获取具体信息, 从而更好地理解课文内容。
Step 5
Reading and
retell
(Act. 4)
1. Let students watch a video and read with it, then let them read loudly in groups.
2. Let the students fill in the blanks according to the passage. (Activity 4)Then retell.
1. Read the passage.
2. Practise reading.
3. Try to retell the passage.
复述课文能使学生加深对课文内容的理解。
Step 6
Language
points
1. Organize students to read the passage again and find the language points. Let them discuss in groups and solve their problems.
2. Ask three little teachers to help the students solve their problems.
1. Read the passage again and find the language points. Discuss in groups and solve their problems.
2. Little teachers come to the front and help other students solve the language points, the other students listen carefully and note .
小组合作探究, 共同完成学习任务, 培养他们自主学习的能力。
通过小老师讲解语言点, 让学生更有兴趣进一步理解课文内容。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 7
Writing
1. Let students look at the cartoon picture carefully and answer the questions. (Activity 5)
2. Check the answers.
3. According to the Activity 5’s answers, guide students to discuss in groups, then write a short story about the people on Mars.
1. Look at the cartoon picture and answer the questions. (Activity 5)
2. Check the answers.
3. According to the Activity 5’s answers, discuss in groups, then write a short story about the people on Mars.
Fox example:
We have just received a message from our spaceship to Mars. The spaceship has landed on Mars and has discovered people. These people haven’t sent us a message because they can’t hear us. . .
通过写作来加强对语言的运用。
Step 8
Summarize
1. Get students to sum up the language points.
T: What have we learned today?
Ss: . . .
2. Let students choose the best group in this lesson.
Sum up the language points:
New words: none, environment, solar, system, solar system, universe, impossible,
communicate. . .
Phrases:
billions of; communicate with;
go around. . .
Sentences: Scientists think that there has been life on the earth for hundreds of millions of years.
引导学生对这节课做总结, 让学生做自由发言, 培养学生自主学习, 自主总结的良好学习习惯。
Step 9
Consolidation
教师设置巩固检测练习:
Ⅰ. 根据句意及所给汉语提示语写出所缺单词。
1. I know _________(没有一人) of the people was at the party last night. ?
2. The population of China is much larger than _________(那) of America. ?
3. How many stars are there in the _________(宇宙)? ?
4. Lots of people want to know if there’s life _________(在远方) there in space. ?
5. He asks all his friends to take care of the _________(环境). ?
Ⅱ. 用所给动词的适当形式填空。
1. There are twelve studying _________(group) in my class. ?
2. Jerry is very busy so I think it’s _________(possible) for him to come to dinner this evening. ?
3. His sister often _________(communicate) with her classmates. ?
4. There’s no _________ (light) in the room so it’s very dark. ?
5. Do you know how many _________(galaxy) there are? ?
Keys:
Ⅰ. 1. none 2. that
3. universe 4. out
5. environment
Ⅱ.
1. groups
2. impossible
3. communicates 4. light
5. galaxies
独立完成检测练习, 进行自我评价。
通过检测练习, 便于学生了解自己对本节课的词汇、句型、语法等的掌握情况。
续表
Step 10
Homework
1. Copy the new words and expressions.
2. Search for information on space travel. (with words and pictures)
3. Write a passage to describe the information on space travel.
板书设计
Unit 2 We have not found life on any other planets yet.
1. New words and phrases: none, environment, that, solar, system, solar system, group, galaxy, universe, light, impossible, take-took-taken, out, communicate hundreds/ thousands /millions/ billions of, communicate with sb.
2. Sentences:
①Scientists think that there has been life on the earth for hundreds of millions of years.
②However, we have not found life on any other planets yet.
③Scientists have also discovered many other galaxies in the universe.
④It is impossible to imagine.
教学反思
本课的设计中, 遵循了课文的整体教学原则。按照总—分—总的原则, 让学生从整体感知, 到细节理解, 再到整体把握, 由易到难, 由浅入深, 使学生在轻松快乐的氛围中学完本课。整个设计符合学生的认知规律, 体现了由不会到会的学习过程, 符合新课改的理念。以后在阅读理解的方面应加大学生的阅读量, 提高学生的阅读能力。
Module 3 Journey to space
Unit 3 Language in use
课 题
Module 3 Journey to space
第三课时
Unit 3 Language in use
课型
Revision and application
教学目标
知识目标
1. To summarize and consolidate the use of present perfect tense.
2. Structure: to describe the space.
能力目标
能够读懂以太空为主题的文章, 能简单描述人类对太空的探索。
情感目标
通过了解中国在太空探索领域取得的伟大成就, 增强民族自豪感, 通过太空知识的学习, 培养学生对天文知识的兴趣和对未知事物的探索精神。
教学重点
1. Task: Writing an article about the space.
2. Key structures: Present perfect tense.
教学难点
1. Present perfect tense.
2. Use present perfect tense to describe the space.
课前预习
Recite the new words and expressions in this module.
教学方法
The Cooperative Learning Method
教学过程
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 1
Warm up
Show some pictures and ask students to discuss in pairs and make sentences like these:
Scientists _____ ____ spaceship to Mars. ?
The journey ___ ___
several months. ?
Astronauts _________
already _________to the moon. ?
Look at the pictures, discuss in pairs and make sentences like these:
Scientists have sent spaceship to Mars.
The journey has taken several months.
Astronauts have already been to the moon.
给学生展示现在完成时态的句子, 让学生学会造句, 复习现在完成时态的用法, 给学生一种心理准备, 利于后面的学习。
Step 2
While-task
1. Explain the grammar to the students:
现在完成时:
have / has +动词过去分词
2. To consolidate the present perfect tense with already, just and yet.
Ask the students to do Activity 1 and Activity 6, then check the answers.
1. Listen to the teacher to
explain the grammar.
2. Do Activity 2. Look at these sentences and choose the correct answers.
1. 通过复习现在完成时态, 对already, just, yet的用法作进一步的理解。
2. 通过习题的训练, 加强对知识的巩固。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 2
While-task
3. To consolidate the uses of have been to & have gone to.
Ask the students to do Activity 2 and Activity 3 individually, then check the answers.
4. Let the students do Activity 4, then check the answers.
5. To work in pairs. Role-play the conversation in Activity 4.
6. Do a listening.
Ask the students to listen and complete the notes, then check the answers. (Activity 7)
7. Let the students do Activity 8. Complete the word map with the words and expressions in the box. Then check the answers from the whole class.
8. Let the students do Activity 9, then check the answers.
9. Ask students to read “Around the world”, and then answer the questions after reading.
Q1: What do European languages use for the days of the week?
Q2: What day is named after the planet Saturn?
Q3: Is Monday the day of the moon?
10. Check the answers.
3. To consolidate the uses of have been to & have gone to.
Do Activity 3. Complete the sentences with the expressions in the box, then check the answers in groups.
4. Do Activity 4: Complete the conversation with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
5. To work in pairs. Role-play the conversation in Activity 4.
6. Listen and complete the notes, then show the answers. (Activity 7)
7. Do Activity 8 individually, then show the answers.
8. Do Activity 9, then show the answers.
9. Read“Around the world”, and answer the questions after reading.
Q1: What do European languages use for the days of the week?
Q2: What day is named after the planet Saturn?
Q3: Is Monday the day of the moon?
10. Correct the answers.
3. 通过活动1, 2, 3, 4, 6的反复练习, 复习巩固前面两个单元所学习的语法。
4. 通过角色扮演, 让学生更加体会到现在完成时态在实际对话里的应用。
5. 听录音填写正确信息, 无疑是学生的“老大难”, 反复的听力训练有利于学生听、说能力的提高。
6. 学生通过阅读Around the world可以获取有西方国家和中国的文化差异的信息。语言和文化密不可分, 相互依存, 相互影响。
Step 3
Post-task
1. Ask students to work in groups of six: Making a poster about space travel.
2. Help students choose a subject, for example, the first moon landing or China’s manned space travels. And look for some photos and information about it.
3. Guide students to write captions for the photos and use the information they found to write a description of each one and give the poster a title. Let them put their posters up for their classmates to see after finishing.
4. Let students share their compositions in groups.
5. Choose some good compositions and share them in class.
1. Work in six: Making a poster about space travel.
2. Choose a subject, for example, the first moon landing or China’s manned space travels. And look for some photos and information about it.
3. Write captions for the photos and use the information they found to write a description of each one and give the poster a title. Put their posters up for their classmates to see after finishing.
4. Choose the best poster.
学生通过本模块的学习获得了语言储备, 为语言的输出做好了铺垫。
写作能客观地反映学生各方面的语言运用能力, 英语学习也真正地延伸到了课堂之外。
此环节设计的目的是让学生在说的基础上, 能够通过书面表达进一步巩固所学的内容。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 4
Summarize
Help the students summarize .
Students conclude the knowledge that they learn.
引导学生对这节课做总结, 培养学生自主学习, 自主总结的良好学习习惯。
Step 5
Consolidation
教师设置巩固检测练习:
Ⅰ. 用already, still, yet, ever或never填空
1. It’s eleven o’clock at night. But the light is _________on. Mr Li is busy working. ?
2. Shirley is free now. She has finished the work _________. ?
3. Have you done your homework ______? ?
4. My brother has _________made a kite before, so it’s his first time. ?
5. Have you _____been to the Great Wall? ?
Ⅱ. 用所给词的适当形式填空
1. Lucy _________(go) to the park. She isn’t at home. ?
2. Scientists _______
(discover) many other galaxies since a long time ago. ?
3. A big storm made it _________(possible) for us to go out. ?
4. There _________
(be)many people since ten o’clock this morning. ?
5. —Where is Miss Li? I can’t find her.
—She _________(go) to the mountains to teach the poor children. ?
Ⅲ. 单项选择
1. —What does Mr Ma do?
—He is a driver. He _________a car for over thirty years. ?
A. drivers B. is driving
C. has driven
D. drove
2. John and I _____
friends for eight years. We got to know each other at a Christmas party. ?
A. had been
B. have been
C. been
D. has been
3. —I hear your father _________to Japan once. ?
—Yes. He _____
there last year. ?
A. went; went
B. has gone; went
C. has been ; went
D. has gone; has gone
4. —Have you ever been to Water World, Tom?
—No, I’ve _________been there. ?
A. ever
B. already
C. never
D. just
5. (2018·德阳中考)I _________to the West Lake four times, but I will go there again this summer. ?
A. have gone
B. have been
C. went
D. had gone
Keys:
Ⅰ. 1. still
2. already
3. yet
4. never
5. ever
Ⅱ. 1. has gone
2. have discovered
3. impossible
4. have been
5. has gone
Ⅲ.
1~5. CBCCB
独立完成检测练习, 进行自我评价。
通过检测练习, 便于学生了解自己对本节课的词汇、句型、语法等的掌握情况。
续表
Step 6
Homework
Write a composition about the space.
板书设计
Unit 3 Language in use
The present perfect : have/ has +done
already, just and yet
have/ has been to &have/ has gone to
教学反思
综合语言运用课对学生的语言技能、知识等方面都提出了一定的要求, 要求学生能够综合自己在本模块学习到的各方面知识, 进行系统全面的应用, 因此也就要求教师要具备一定的教材整合能力, 为学生设计既能激发兴趣, 又能够巩固复习知识点的教学环节。
