Unit4 Task
一、教学目标
1. 完成一张流程图，并用流程图组织话题。
2. 写一份在另一个星球上生活的指南。
3. 复习本单元所学词汇和语法项目。
4. 通过练习增强学生的信心。
二、教学内容
1. 单词：goods, electronic, entertainment
2. 句型：
(1)Here is a guide to living on Mars in the future.
(2)Mars dollars are electronic and are stored in the Planet Mars Bank.
(3)A very popular form of entertainment is online games.
(4)But most people may prefer to watch the amazing low-gravity basketball games instead.
3. 完成一份流程图，并用流程图组织话题。
4. 运用本单元所学词汇和句型，写一篇火星上的生活指南。
三、重点难点
1. 完成一份流程图，并用流程图组织话题。
2. 运用本单元所学词汇和句型，写一篇火星上的生活指南。
四、教学过程
Step 1 Discussion
Ask one student to organize a topic talk. He or she can divide the class into four groups. And each group has a specific topic about Mars. Eg:
Group 1: The appearance of Mars.
Group 2: Eating on Mars.
Group 3: What to wear on Mars.
Group 4: Studying on Mars.
Students in each group should present their ideas about their topics in class.
Step 2 Reading
Ask students to read through the phrases at the top of Part A. And make sure that they understand the meanings of these phrases. The teacher should give some explanations if necessary. Then have students read the phrases again by themselves.
Step 3 Complete the spidergram
Divide the class into small groups and let them talk about the spidergram. Ask students in each group to work together to complete the spidergram using the information above. After the students finish the work, ask some of them to present their spidergram on the slide show. Check the work with the whole class.
Step 4 Writing
1. Would you like to imagine your life on Mars? Write a passage to introduce a student’s life on Mars. The questions below may help you organize the information for your writing.
(1)What is your house like?
(2)When do you begin and end your school day online?
(3)What do you study in online schools?
(4)How much is your homework?
(5)What do you do in your free time?
(6)How do you spend your pocket money?
(7)How do you make friends on Mars?
(8)How do you get along with your parents?
2. Present their writing in class. Let one student from each group read his or her article to the class. Their articles can be put on the back wall after class.
Step 5 Individual Work
Open the books, and look at Part B. Explain the context of the draft. For students have discussed the flow chart, they should complete the draft by themselves. See if everyone can do it individually. Ask six students to read the six paragraphs, and check the answers with the whole class.
Step 6 Homework
Write an article about their own life in the future.
五、板书设计
Unit4 TaskVocabulary: specially, keep away, a guide to living on Mars, somewhere quiet, feel like
Unit4 ReadingA
Learning Aims
知识目标：To understand the context of a future life on another planet.
能力目标：To recognize and understand vocabulary about life on Mars.
To recognize and list differences between life on Earth and life on Mars.
情感目标 To arouse the Ss’ awareness of misery.
Main points and difficult points
Learn vocabulary about life on Mars.
Recognize and list differences between life on Earth and life on Mars.
Learning procedures:
1. 自学展示
词组翻译:
(1) 难以想象
(2) 到2100年
(3) 目前
(4) 变得越来越拥挤，污染
(5) 以光速的一半
(6) 八分之三的
(7) 使许多人感觉不舒服
(8) 漂浮在太空
2. 探究学习
Step 1: Leading in
We all know that we live on the earth. But our earth is too crowded. Can we live on a different planet? If can, which planet can we live on? And why?
Step2: Read the passage on page 52 to page 53 quickly and find out the answers to the following questions:
By which year will we live on the planet Mars?(By the year 2100)
Will life on Mars be better than life on Earth?(Yes)
Food will be the same, right ? (No)
Step3: Read paragraph 1 and answer the following questions:
What is happening to our planet, Earth?
How can we solve the problem?
Read paragraph 2 and answer the following questions:
How long does it take to fly to Mars at present?
How about by the year 2100? Why so fast?
Read the third paragraph and answer the following questions
What do humans need if they want to survive?
What will plants produce?
Is it sure that these plants could produce water?
Read the fourth paragraph and answer the following questions
Why will gravity be a problem on Mars?
The boots won’t become very fashionable, will they?
Read paragraph 5 then answer the following questions:
Why will people have more time for their hobbies?
Read paragraph 6 then answer the following questions:
Will there be schools on Mars?
Where can students study, and do their homework?
What will every student have at home?
Step 4. Please read the passage again then do exercise B3 on page55.
4．当堂练习
1. Our own planet, the Earth, is becoming more and more crowded and polluted because of rapid increase in population.
(more and more 越来越…)
e.g.1) 南京正变得越来越美
Nanjing .
2)这种长筒靴可能会变得越来越时髦。
The boots will probably become .
2. Our spacecraft are too slow to carry large numbers of people to Mars.
(注意a large number of 和the number of的区别)
e.g.我们学校学生的数量有2300人。
the students in our school 2300.
教后记：
Unit4 Integrated skill and Study skills
一、教学目标
1. 听一段电视节目广告，从中获取信息，完成笔记。
2. 补全一段对话。
3. 讨论火星生活的利弊并表达个人见解。
4. 学会略读和寻读一篇文章，找到重要信息。
二、教学内容
1. 单词：carry out, percentage disadvantage, risk。
短语：live on another planet, be worried about, be afraid of, after all, get ill, a different kind of, make a plan to, enjoy doing, make mistakes, keep an English diary, new grammar rules, get good grades, keep doing, write down, listening skills。
句型：
(1)It started with a discussion about a guide to living on Mars.
(2)Some students said living on another planet such as Mars would be very interesting.
(3)However, some other students were worried about living there.
(4)I’m not sure if it’s worth the risk. It worries me.
(5)I need to work harder to learn new words and grammar rules. I plan to copy the new words in my notebook and read them every morning.
(6)Grammar rules are difficult, so I will keep an English diary and try to use the new grammar rules I have learnt.
三、重点难点
1. 掌握相关的词汇。
2. 学会听懂一段电视节目广告，并从中获取信息，完成笔记。
3. 学会略读和寻读一篇文章，找到重要信息。
四、教学过程
Step 1 Revision
Ask students to show us the dialogues they made up after class, choose the best group and reward them with three red stars.
Step 2 Presentation
1. Present the words and phrases through talking.
T: Are you busy every day?
Ss: Yes, we are.
T: Do you want to have robots do most of your work?
Ss: Yes.
T: Clever. And robots can’t do harm to us. If we live on Mars, there are no schools and we have more time for our hobbies. Living on Mars has some advantages, but on the other hand, it also has some disadvantages.
2. Drill and use the underlined words or phrases on the screen.
Step 3 Listening
T: Now Daniel will watch a TV programme on this topic. Let’s help him make notes about it.
1. Play the tape for students to grasp the information.
2. Discuss and check the answers together.
3. Ask and answer according to the notes.
Step 4 Further listening
1. Look at the information on Part A2. Try to fill in the blanks without listening, just- guessing. Some answers may be clear.
2. Play the tape for them to finish this part.
3. Get some individuals to give answers.
4. Show them the answers on the screen.
Step 5 Practice
1. Ask students to do Part A3 on their own. Then have them practice the conversation in pairs. Ask two groups to act out the conversation in front of the class. For top students, they are expected to close the books and act out the conversation.
2. Do a survey.
Ask one student to act as a journalist, and he or she can interview the other students about life on Mars. Some questions can help him or her complete the interview:
Would you like to live on Mars?
How do you like living on Mars?
What will life be like on Mars?
Step 6 Learning Speak up
1. Presentation.
Show them some pictures about the Earth and Mars. Then have a free talk.
A: What do you think of our Earth?
B: It’s more and more crowded and polluted.
A: Would you like to live on Mars?
B: Yes. I’d like to.
A: I’d like to live there because I can have robots do all the homework.
2. Listening and role-play.
(1)Play the recording of Speak up for students, and ask them to imitate the intonation and pronunciation. Get students to have a scanning for main information while they are listening. Then ask them to read the conversation in pairs.
(2)Role-play.
Ask students to role-play the conversation in pairs. Then ask some pairs to act out their conversations for the class without books.
(3)Drill the phrase.
have sb. do sth. (Eg: Have Helen copy the words twice.)
Step 7 Homework
Finish the relative exercises.
五、板书设计
Unit4 Integrated skill and Study skills1. Words and phrases:disadvantage—advantage safe—safely(adv.)—safety(n.)discuss—discussiondo harm to sb. 2. Sentence pattern: It would be+ adj. +to do sth.
Unit4 Grammar
一、教学目标
1. 正确熟练地运用从句和简单句。
2. 掌握简单句和复合句之间的转换。
二、教学内容
掌握词汇：aware, circle, agreement, distance, possibility, alien, stranger。
词组：as tasty as, remind of, how far, be away from, two earth years, circle around the Sun. work hard, come true, be different from, try to do, be similar to, sign of, be happy to do, indoor playground, the football field, the same as, hear from。
句型：
(1)People might float in space because of the low gravity.
(2)Humans cannot survive without food, water, or oxygen.
(3)The smell of the pills reminds them of the tasty food on the Earth.
(4)It takes Mars about two Earth years to circle around the Sun once.
(5)I wonder how many people would like to move to Mars.
(6)It is difficult to breathe on a planet that has much thinner air than that on the Earth.
三、重点难点
1. 正确熟练地运用从句和简单句。
2. 掌握简单句和复合句之间的转换。
四、教学过程
Step 1 Revision
Make sentences with at the age of, because of, without.
eg: I could ride a bike at the age of five.
He didn’t go to school because of his serious illness.
Fishes can not live without water.
Step 2 Learning Part A
1. Tell students that we can rewrite adverbial clauses in simple sentences with preposition phrases beginning with at the age of, because of and without.
I could rick a bike when I was five years old. =I could ride a bike at the age of five.
He didn’t go to school because he had a badly ill. = He didn’t go to school because of his serious illness.
Fishes can not live if there is no water = Fishes can not live without water.
2. Ask students to do the exercise on P56 in pairs or on their own. Check the answers with the whole class.
(1)Neil Armstrong took his first flight at the age of six.
(2)Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into outer space when he was seventeen years old.
(3)People might move to another planet in the future because of the bad population.
(4)Meals will not be as tasty as they are today without the fresh food.
(5)It would be funny to play football on Mars because there are low gravity.
(6)If there isn’t special boots, we cannot walk on Mars.
Step 3 Learning Part B
Tell the students that we can rewrite some object clauses in simple sentences with prepositions like of and about.
Ask students to do the exercise on P57 in pairs or on their own. Check the answers with the whole class.
1. Are you aware of the distance from Mars to the Sun? (be aware of)
2. Do scientists agree with the possibility of living on Mars?
3. Do they thought about the low gravity problems on Mars?
4. Are you aware of the transports on Mars?
5. I wonder about the number of the people who would like to move to Mars.
6. I think people should know about the differences between Mars life and the Earth life.
Step 4 Learning Part C
Remind the students that rewrite some defining relative clauses in simple sentences with prepositions like with and in. Let the students do the exercise on P58 in pairs and check their answers.
1. Mars is a planet with an environment similar to the Earth.
2. Astronauts in space suits and helmets might stay on Mars for hours.
3. It is difficult to breathe on a planet with much thinner air.
4. On Mars there might be people with air tanks on their backs.
C2
1. Humans are... because of the serious pollution on the Earth.
2. Many people do not doubt of the interesting life on Mars.
3. We could not play football on Mars with the low gravity.
4. Life would be boring for me without football.
5. Maybe this problem… with the same football fields as those on the Earth.
Step 5 Conclusion
The students go through the knowledge according to the big screen.
Step 6 Homework
1. Review the grammar.
2. Preview Integrated skills and Study skills.
五、板书设计
Unit4 Grammar1. Useful expressions:at the age of, because of, as ... as, be sure about, be aware of, be different from, ... 2. Useful sentences: 复合句和简单句之间的转换。
Unit4 Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
一、教学目标
1. 思考未来的生活。
2. 思考在另一个行星上生活会是什么样子。
3. 讨论某一特定环境的优点和缺点。
二、教学内容
1. 掌握词汇：Mars, helmet, air tank, dried food, power pack, sleeping bag。
词组：sleeping bag, air tank, on Mars。
句型：
(1)What would it be like to live on Mars?
(2)We’d probably need to wear special boots.
(3)There’s no fruit or vegetables, so we would have to eat dried food.
(4)But there would be no pollution on Mars.
三、重点难点
1. 讨论生活在火星上会是什么样子及其优点和缺点。
2. 用英语表达在火星上生活会是什么样子。
四、教学过程
Step 1 Leading in
1. Show a picture of Earth to students and have a short talk.
T: Do you know the place in the picture?
Ss: It’s Earth.
T: Yes, our home. Why is it blue? Can you guess?
Ss: It’s covered with water.
2. Name the other planets in solar system. They can say them in Chinese if they don’t know the English names.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
3. Show another picture about Yang Liwei and present some words.
T: Do you know the man?
Ss: He is Yang Liwei.
T: Great. He is a hero and our country’s pride. Humans have been to the moon. And they have to wear helmets and take cameras with them to take photos. Do you want to have a space travel to Mars?
Ss: Yes, we do.
Step 2 Listening and Practising
1. Tell students Eddie and Hobo are now living on Mars. And listen to their conversation and find out how Eddie likes life on Mars.
2. Listen again for students to follow it.
3. Read the dialogue in pairs and then act it out.
4. Learn the sentence patterns.
How do you like...? = What do you think of...?
Step 3 Presentation
1. Show them several pictures and find out the problems with Earth, such as polluted, crowded.
2. Tell them the scientists think Mars is the most probable planet in solar system for humans to live on.
We can imagine what life will be like on Mars.
3. Two or four students in a group discuss if life on Mars is better than that on Earth at present. Encourage them to think over the reasons.
4. Read each sentence in Part A and do a survey about advantages of living on Earth.
Step 4 Discussion
1. Read the words twice in Part B.
2. T: People have been to the moon already. Daniel is dreaming about camping on the moon. Do you also want to go there? Look at the items in the picture in Part B and choose what you will take with, talk about your reasons. Discuss them with your partners.
3. Choose several groups to state their choices and reasons, then recommend two best groups and give them each a red star as a reward.
Step 5 Word game
T: Guess the word according to its meaning.
1. When you travel to space, you should wear it on your head. What is it? (helmet)
2. You often wear them on a hot sunny day to protect your eyes. (sunglasses)
3. A kind of machine like a person. (robot)
4. It’s a simple house that people can live in when they go camping, (tent)
Step 6 Practice
Do the exercises on Students’ Book.
Step 7 Homework
Remember the important words and expressions.
五、板书设计
Unti4 Comic strip and Welcome to the unit1. Phrases: special boots, sleeping bags, space helmet, think about 2. Sentences: How do you like life on Mars? = What do you think of life on Mars?
