1、Unit 4 Space ExplorationListening and Speaking & Listening and TalkingTeaching Aims1. Students can get detailed information about how Yang Liwei became an astronaut and Maxs space life.2. Students learn to proper listening strategy to get detailed informationlistening for numbers and taking notes.3.
2、 Students can learn related sentences or phrases to express their curiosity like “I wish to know.” “Id love to know.”4. Students can learn more about the space and astronauts, even be interested in working hard to be an astronaut.Important Points and Difficult Points1. Students can get detailed info
3、rmation about how Yang Liwei became an astronaut and Maxs space life.2. Students learn to proper listening strategy to get detailed informationlistening for numbers and taking notes.3. Students can learn related sentences or phrases to express their curiosity like “I wish to know.” “Id love to know.
4、”Teaching ProceduresPart A Listening and SpeakingTalk about how to become an astronautStep 1 Lead inSmall talkLook at the picture on Page 38 and tell your classmates what you can see. Get some students to talk about it.Step 2 Before-listening1. As for the space exploration, what do you think about?A
5、nswers: space, shuttle, astronaut, spaceship, rocket, space suit, solar system.2. Can you name any famous astronauts from China or abroad? Have Ss name some.3. Do you know anything about the selection procedure for astronauts? Make a list of the possible requirements.Step 3 While-listeningTask 1List
6、en to the interview and tick the correct statements in Activity 2.Then check the answers in class.Step 4 While-listeningTask 2Listen again and fill in the blanks with the correct numbers in Activity 3.Before listening, go through “Listen for numbers”. Then get some Ss to check their answers.Step 5 W
7、hile-listeningTask 3Listen to the interview again and make a list of the requirements for becoming an astronaut.lEducation background: college degreelExperience: rich experience of fighter lHealth condition: perfect physical and mental health and body shape; proper height and weightlCourses: English
8、, science and astronomylSpecial training: using space equipment; physical and mental trainingStep 6 Post-listeningSpeakingWork in pairs. Discuss whether you would like to be an astronaut in the future and give your reasons. Use what you have learnt from the interview to help you.Go through the examp
9、le first then practice with your partners.Then Get some pairs to share the dialogues.Step 7 Pronunciation1. Read the poem. Mark the stressed syllables with O and unstressed syllables with o.2. Then try reading the poem to each other with rhythm. Then get some Ss to read the poem.3. Listen and repeat
10、 after the recording. Check whether Ss mark-ups are correct.Part B Listening and TalkingTalk about life in spaceStep 1 Before-listeningBefore you listen, look at the pictures in Activity 1 and guess whether they would be useful for astronauts in space. Have Ss discuss and share.Step 2 While-listenin
11、gMax is interviewing Captain Brown about his life in space. Listen to the interview and answer the questions.1. What did Captain Brown usually wear inside the station?2. How did he prepare his food in space?3. How did he keep himself clean in space?4. How did he spend most of his time in space?5. Wh
12、at did he do during his free time?6. What did he look forward to most during his stay in space?Then check the answers with the class.Step 3 TalkingWork in groups. Imagine you are going to a space camp and Captain Brown has been invited to give a talk. Discus the questions you would like to ask him a
13、nd then make a list. Go through the example dialogue first.Expressing curiosityId love to know.I wonder how/what/why/.Well, Id really like to find out.Id particularly like to know.Im most curious about.Im most interested to discover.Im very keen to know.I wish to know.I hope you wont mind me asking
14、about.Step 4 HomeworkFinish the exercises in Workbook.Unit 4 Space ExplorationListening and Speaking & Listening and Talking 导学案Learning Aims1. To be able to get detailed information about how Yang Liwei became an astronaut and Maxs space life.2. To be able to learn to proper listening strategy to g
15、et detailed informationlistening for numbers and taking notes.3. To be able to learn related sentences or phrases to express their curiosity like “I wish to know.” “Id love to know.”4. To be able to learn more about the space and astronauts, even be interested in working hard to be an astronaut.Impo
16、rtant Points and Difficult Points1. To be able to get detailed information about how Yang Liwei became an astronaut and Maxs space life.2. To be able to learn to proper listening strategy to get detailed informationlistening for numbers and taking notes.3. To be able to learn related sentences or ph
17、rases to express their curiosity like “I wish to know.” “Id love to know.”Learning ProceduresPart A Listening and Speaking Talk about how to become an astronautStep 1 Lead inSmall talkLook at the picture on Page 38 and tell your classmates what you can see.Step 2 Before-listening1. As for the space
18、exploration, what do you think about?2. Can you name any famous astronauts from China or abroad?China:Abroad:3. Do you know anything about the selection procedure for astronauts? Make a list of the possible requirements.Step 3 While-listeningTask 1Listen to the interview and tick the correct stateme
19、nts in Activity 2.1. The audience is curious about how Yang Liwei became the first Chinese astronaut.2. Mr Yang always believed that he would become an astronaut one day.3. Mr Yang was selected to attend pilot training with 13 other people.4. To become an astronaut in China, you have to have 1,350 h
20、ours of flying experience. 5. Astronauts not only had to learn how to use space equipment, but also had to do a lot of mental and physical training.Listen for numbers:Number questions are typically related to: time, telephone numbers, addresses, prices, weights, distances, etc. When you listen for n
21、umbers, you need to pay special attention to big numbers as well as those that sound quite similar, such as thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty, etc.Step 4 While-listeningTask 2Listen again and fill in the blanks with the correct numbers.1. Yang Liwei graduated from college at the age of _.2. Be
22、fore he joined Chinas space programme, Mr Yang trained as a fighter pilot for _years.3. Mr Yang was one of the _ pilots who were chosen to train for space flights.4. At the time when Mr Yang entered the space programmes, astronauts had to shorter than _cm in height and less than _kg in weight.5. Mr
23、Yang became Chinas first astronaut when he was _ years old.Step 5 While-listeningTask 3Listen to the interview again and make a list of the requirements for becoming an astronaut.lEducation background:lExperience:lHealth condition:lCourses:lSpecial training:Step 6 Post-listeningSpeakingWork in pairs
24、. Discuss whether you would like to be an astronaut in the future and give your reasons. Use what you have learnt from the interview to help you.Step 7 Pronunciation1. Read the poem. Mark the stressed syllables with O and unstressed syllables with o.2. Then try reading the poem to each other with rh
25、ythm. 3. Listen and repeat after the recording. Check whether your mark-ups are correct.Part B Listening and TalkingTalk about life in spaceStep 1 Before-listening Before you listen, look at the pictures in Activity 1 and guess whether they would be useful for astronauts in space. Discuss and share
26、your views.Step 2 While-listeningMax is interviewing Captain Brown about his life in space. Listen to the interview and answer the questions.1. What did Captain Brown usually wear inside the station?2. How did he prepare his food in space?3. How did he keep himself clean in space?4. How did he spend
27、 most of his time in space?5. How did he do during his free time?6. How did he look forward to most during his stay in space?Step 3 TalkingWork in groups. Imagine you are going to a space camp and Captain Brown has been invited to give a talk. Discus the questions you would like to ask him and then
28、make a list. Go through the example dialogue first.Expressing curiosityId love to know.I wonder how/what/why/.Well, Id really like to find out.Id particularly like to know.Im most curious about.Im most interested to discover.Im very keen to know.I wish to know.I hope you wont mind me asking about.Step 4 HomeworkFinish the exercises in Workbook.
