一、Teaching materials:
Unit 3 Language in use (Module 11 National heroes)
二、Targets for this period:
To summarize and consolidate past simple wh-questions and the new vocabulary
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary- as, the next, travel to a place, sick people
Key structures-What did…? When did…? How did…? Why didn’t…?
四、Teaching methods:
Task-based approach, formal and interactive approach
五、Teaching aids
Blackboard, handouts
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Warming-up (Module task)
1. Tell how to talk about a person
Start: something about his/her life … was born…lived…worked…
Middle: what he/she did When he/she was 25,he/she… In 1975he/she…
End: why you like him/her I think he/she is great because…
2. Students give a talk about hero in the front of the blackboard
Step Two To learn about Mother Teresa (Around the world)
1. Students read the passage and ask and answer questions in pairs.
1) When was she born? She was born in 1910.
2) When did she start to work as a teacher? She started to work as a teacher in 1928.
3) Who did she help? She helped sick people.
4) How old was she when she died? She died at the age of 87.
2. Students read it aloud.
3. Detail explanation:
1) travel to India = go to India
2) as (prep.) 作為
e.g: We must work hard as a student. 作為學生，我們必須努力學習。
My brother works in Beijing as a teacher. 我哥哥在北京當老師。
3) sick people = people who are ill
4. Students give a talk about Mother Teresa in groups of four.
Step Three Vocabulary learning (Activity 3 & 4)
1. Students put the given words into the correct columns
2. Check the answers:
About Yang Liwei:
Space: Earth, altitude, astronaut, flight, land, orbit, pilot, spacecraft
Time: last, days ago, eleven years later, five years later, last month, the next year, years ago, yesterday
About Zhan Tianyou:
Nation: foreign, government, national hero, patriotic
Engineer: bridge, build, museum, railroad, tunnel
3. Words explanation:
1) land (vi.)著陸 land on the island
(vt.)使著陸 land an airplane
(n.) 陸地 on the land
2) next 指從現(xiàn)在算起的下一個，常與將來時連用。
the next 從過去某個時間算起的下一個，常與過去時連用。
e.g. What will you do next week?
The next day he went to the town.
Step Four To write questions (Activity 1)
1. Give the example questions about Soviet Union:
1) When did the first Soviet astronaut go into space?
2) Who was the first Soviet astronaut?
3) How old was the first Soviet astronaut when he went into space?
4) What was the Soviet spacecraft called?
5) How long did the first Soviet space flight last?
6) How high did the first Soviet spacecraft reach?
7) How many times did Yuri Gagarin orbit the Earth?
2. Students write questions about the USA and China by themselves.
3. Students ask and answer the questions in pairs. (Activity 2)
Step Five To translate the sentences into English.
1. 為什么中國政府不想讓外國工程師建筑那條鐵路？
Why didn’t the Chinese government want foreign engineers to build the railroad?
2. 你認為昨晚的電影怎樣？
What did you think of the film last night?
3. 當他去世時，中國人在長城附近建造了一個有關(guān)他的生平的博物館。
When he died, the Chinese opened a museum about his life near the Great Wall.
4. 宇宙飛船繞地球飛行了十四圈，并到了一個海拔343公里的高度。
The spacecraft orbited the Earth 14 times and reached an altitude of 343 kilometers.
5. 第二天早上6：23這名38歲的宇航員安全著陸。
The 38-year-old astronaut landed safely at 6:23 am the next day.
6. 中國現(xiàn)在成為第三個把人送入太空的國家。
China is now the third country to send a person into space.
7. 十一年后他和另外十三名飛行員參加了中國太空項目。
11 years later, he joined the Chinese space programme with 13 other pilots.
8. 地球上的人們看到了楊利偉的太空飛行。
People on Earth watched Yang Liwei’s space flight on TV.
9. 他向地球上的每一個人揮手致意并展示了中國國旗。
He waved to everyone on Earth and showed the Chinese national flag.
10. 作為一名工程師他是如何展示他的能力的？
How did he show his skill as an engineer?
Step Six To finish all the exercises in Workbook
Homework:
1. To review Module 11 and copy all the words and expressions in P159
2. To finish Module11, 點中典 & 輕巧奪冠
Blackboard designing
Unit 3 Language in use
How to talk about a person
Start: something about his/her life … was born…lived…worked…
Middle: what he/she did When he/she was 25,he/she… In 1975he/she…
End: why you like him/her I think he/she is great because…
Around the world
Questions:
1. When was she born? as (prep.) 作為
2. When did she start to work as a teacher? e.g: We must work hard as a student.
3. Who did she help? My brother works in Beijing as a teacher.
4. How old was she when she died?
Example questions about Soviet Union
1. When did the first Soviet astronaut go into space?
2. Who was the first Soviet astronaut?
3. How old was the first Soviet astronaut when he went into space?
4. What was the Soviet spacecraft called?
5. How long did the first Soviet space flight last?
6. How high did the first Soviet spacecraft reach?
7. How many times did Yuri Gagarin orbit the Earth?