湖南教师资格高中英语教案：Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars Teaching P

　　Aims:

　　Knowledge Aims:

　　1. Students have a better understanding of the passage.

　　2. Students can repeat the content by the time line.

　　Ability aims:

　　1. Students’ reading ability can be improved by the end of the class, especially their scanning and skimming ability.

　　Emotional aims:

　　1. After this lesson, students will have more interest of the science and learning English.

　　2. Students can behave themselves to protect the earth.

　　Teaching Key Points:

　　Students can grasp and remember the main idea and details of the passage.

　　Teaching Difficult Points:

　　To improve the students’ reading ability and retell this story fluently.

　　Teaching Aids: Multimedia

　　I. Teaching aims

　　Knowledge aims:

　　1. Students can understand the main idea and some details of the passage.

　　2. Students have a better understanding of the passage and introduce the development of lighting

　　Ability aim:

　　1. Students can use different methods to read the passage.

　　2. Students’ reading ability can be improved by the end of the class, especially their scanning and skimming ability.



 

　　Step 3: Presentation (21mins):

　　(1) General reading (5mins):

　　Read the whole passage quickly and find the main idea

　　Q: What does it mainly talk about?

　　(Justification: help students understand this passage easily and improve their ability of fast reading).

　　(2) Careful reading (16mins):

　　a. Read the passage again and find the meaning of each paragraph.

　　(Justification: Train the students’ reading ability of scanning and summarizing for the general information of each paragraph)

　　b. Ask the students to read the passage carefully and de the exercise 2 on page 27.

　　(Justification: Train the students’ analytical ability to search the useful information fast)

　　c. Ask students to answer two questions.

　　Q1: Why was the earth different from the other planet?

　　Q2: Why is it wrong to show films with dinosaurs and people together?

　　Q3: What problem is caused by Human beings?

　　(Justification: Improve students’ reading skills for the detailed information help students understand the passage logically.)


 

　　Step 4: Consolidations, 12mins:

　　(1) Listen to the tape and then read this passage loudly in 5 minutes.

　　(Justification: Enhance students’ understanding of this passage.

　　(2)Play music of Michael Jackson and let students discuss that why Michael made this song and what we can do for our planet.

　　(Justification: Encourage students to go out from the book and have more chance to think about our real life. Students’ speaking and listening can be improved at the same time.)

　　Step 5: Summary & Homework, 5mins

　　(1)Teacher makes a summary that this class we learn a new passage about Lighting.

　　(2) After class, please search some information of other stars such as Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and so on, and then write an article to introduce it.

　　(Justification: Different from the traditional way of assigning homework, searching information can help students get more interest of science, it also combine English class with physic to meet the needs of syllabus. Students can get more knowledge after school).

　　Step 6: Blackboard design