1、Module 3 Journey to space一、学习目标:A. 单词和短语：earth, moon, news, planet, reach, yet, just, model, spaceship, project, no problem, latest, on, discover, astronaut, space travel, none, environment, that, solar, system, solar system, group, galaxy, universe, light, impossible, take-took-taken, out, communic
2、ate B. 交际用语：1. What are you up to?2. Sure, no problem.3. Ive just made a model spaceship for our school project.4. I havent started yet because Im not sure how to make it.5. I havent started it yet.6. Have you heard the latest news?7. Has it arrived yet?8. Thats why its on the news.9. Astronauts hav
3、e already been to the moon.10. Have we sent a spaceship to Mars?Yes, we have. But11. The spaceship has gone to Mars.12. However, we have not found life on other plants yet.二、教学目标1. Function: Talking about recent events.2. Structure: Present perfect with already, just and yet.3. Skills: 1) Listening
4、for specific information.2) Talking about space travel; participating in a role-play.3) Reading and finding out information from simple texts and choosing the best title.4) Writing a passage to describe the picture.4. Around the world: Names of the days of the week.5. Task: Making a poster about spa
5、ce travel.三、重点及难点: 1. Structure: Present perfect with already, just and yet.2. To understand the difference between have been to and have gone to.四、教学设计:Unit 1 Has it arrived yet? Teaching modelListening and speaking Teaching method PWP approach Teaching aims1. To understand Present perfect with alr
6、eady, just and yet.2. To understand the conversation about the space mission to Mars.3. To understand the difference between have been to and have gone to. Teaching Objectives 1. Key vocabulary: earth, moon, news, planet, reach, yet, just, model, spaceship, project, no problem, latest, on, discover,
7、 astronaut, space travel2. Key structures: Present perfect with already, just and yet. Teaching aidsTape recorder, OHP, video Teaching StepsStep 1 Warming up1. Enjoy news report and watch a video.2. Show some pictures to introduce the new words.3. Learn the new words.4. Read the new words.Step 2 Lis
8、ten and number the words as you hear them.1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 1.2. Play the recording.3. Listen and number the words as you hear them.4. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.5. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.Step 3 Listen
9、 again and complete the notes.1. Ask the students to read the notes in Activity 2.news about the trip to (1) _journey of (2) _ monthshas not sent back any (3) _ yethope to find (4) _ on Mars2. Listen again and complete the notes.3. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.4. Call back t
10、he answer from the whole class and check the answer. keys: Mars eight messages lifeStep 4 Listen and read.1. Show some pictures, and ask the students to talk about them.2. Ask the students to read the conversation silently.3. Play the recording and ask the students to listen and read the conversatio
11、n.4. Read the conversation.5. Act it out.6. Learn “Everyday English”1) What are you up to?2) Sure, no problem.Step 5 Now answer the questions.1. Ask the students to read through the questions in Activity3.1) What school project have Daming and Tony got?2) How does Daming feel about the school projec
12、t?3) What news has Tony heard?4) Has anyone been to Mars? Why?2. Ask the students to read through the conversation in Activity 3 again.3. Answer the questions.4. Check with a partner.5. Call back the answers from the whole class.Keys: 1）They have got a project on spaceships.2）Hes not sure how to mak
13、e the model.3）The spaceship to Mars has reached there.4）No one has been to Mars yet, because Mars is very far away, much farther than the moon.Step 6 Complete the passage in Activity 4.1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.arrive discover plane, send yet2. Ask the students t
14、o read through the passage in Activity 4.On todays news, Tony has heard that scientists have (1) _ a spaceship to Mars and it has (2) _ on the (3) _ after a journey of several months from the earth. Scientists have not (4) _ life on Mars (5) _. And no astronaut has ever been to Mars because it is ve
15、ry far away.3. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box.4. Check with a partner.5. Call back the answers from the whole class.Keys: 1. sent 2. arrived 3. planet 4. discovered 5. yet6. Read the passage together.Step 7 Language points.1. What are you up to? 你在做什么呢？ up to 表示“正
16、在干，从事着”。常用在非正式场合中。e.g. What were you up to yesterday? You didnt answer my phone.你昨天在干什么？你没有接我的电话。2. Ive just made this model of the space station.这是我刚做的空间站的模型。just 常用在现在完成时的肯定句中，常放在助动词 have/has 的后面。e.g. Weve just seen/watched the film.我们刚刚看了这部电影。3. I havent started it yet. 我还没有开始做呢。yet 表示“还（末）”，常用在现
17、在完成时的否定句中，通常放在句末。e.g. We havent finished our homework yet.我们还没完成作业。4. Have you heard the latest news? 你听说过这个最新消息吗？latest adj. 最近的；最新的e.g. The news is all about the latest meeting. 这条消息是关于最近的会议的。5. Thats why its on the news. 这就是它为什么出现在新闻里的原因。Thats why 这就是为什么e.g. Thats why they didnt like the music.这就
18、是为什么他们不喜欢这个音乐。on prep. 在(播放)中；关于e.g. Whats on the TV? 电视正在播放什么节目？6. So have they discovered life on Mars? 所以他们在火星上发现生命了吗？ discover v. 发现；找到e.g. The fact is that he did not discover it. 事实是他没有发现它。7. Astronauts have already been to the moon. 宇航员已经去过月球了。already 表示“已经”，常放在 have/ has 之后，通常用于肯定句中。e.g. Jac
19、k has already finished his homework.杰克已将完成他的作业了。have/ has been to 表示曾经去过某地，但现在已经回到他的生活所在地。e.g. Theyve already been to Suzhou twice. 他们已经去过苏州两次了。语法小结：just 用来表示“刚刚”，already 用来表示“已经”，一般置于have/has之后，两者都用于肯定句；yet 用在否定句和疑问句，表示“还未”。have been to 表示“去过某地”，但现在已经回来了； have gone to 表示“去了某地”，现在不在这里（说话人所在地）Step 8
20、Pronunciation and speaking1. Play the recording once without stopping.2. Play the recording again and ask the whole class to repeat.1) Ive just made a model spaceship for our school project.2) I havent started yet because Im not sure how to make it.3) Has it arrived yet?4) Astronauts have already be
21、en to the moon.3. Ask the students to listen and underline the words the speaker stresses.4. Now listen again and repeat.Step 9 Work in pairs.1. Make lists of what we have and have not done in space travel.We have We have not_ _ _ _ _ _Key: We have A dog has travelled in space. Men have travelled to
22、 the moon. Spaceships have taken photographs on Mars.We have not We have not built houses in space. Astronauts have not been to Mercury. Scientists have not visited Venus.2. Talk about space travel with the lists in Activity 6.Have we sent a spaceship to Mars?Yes, we have. But3. Work in pairs.Step 10 Exercises 完成句子:1. 我们已经到达上海。 We _ Shanghai.2. 他刚刚做完这个模型。 He _ this model.3. 这个女孩在干什么？ What _ this girl _?4. 你曾经去过香港吗？是的。 _ you _ Hong Kong? Yes, I _.5. 他们听说过这个最近的新闻吗？ Have they _?Keys: 1. have already reached 2. has just made 3. is, up to 4. Have, ever been to, have 5. heard this latest news
