Astronomy-the-science-of-the-stars

Teaching planAstronomy：the science of the starsToday I want to talk about the “Astronomy：the science of the stars” It is in unit 4 of New senior English for China students book 3. Teaching aims and demands of this unit.1. Learn to know the universe science, the origin of earth life. Developing the students interested in the astronomy. Try to encourage them to study the science.2. To learn the vocabularies, I will use some special ways to make the vocabularies easy to understand. For example, pest(拍死它).3. Learn to use the instructions languages. Let the students pay attention to the regular sentences.4. Learn the subject clauses. Make a clear distinction between each kind of clauses. The emphasis and the difficult points of this unit.1. The emphasis of this unit1.1 Know the eight planets in solar systems. Know their positions and their names. I will use PowerPoint to make the students have a clear sightseeing about the solar system. 1.2 Learn to know the origin of the earth and the origin of the life on earth. 1.3 The usages of the subject clauses.2. The difficult points of this unit. 2.1 Comprehend of the astronomy science. 2.2 Collect many materials about the astronomy. 2.3 The differences between subject clauses and other clauses. Teaching methods. Discussing, collecting materials Teaching hours. Five class hours. Teaching steps.1. Warming upAstronomy is abstract. Students will feel it difficult to learn. So I will use the PowerPoint or the pictures to help to understand it easily.Let them remember the names and the positions of the eight planets in solar system. Then ask these questions.a. What do you know about the astronomy?b. What can you see from the pictures?c. Is there life on the planet?2. Pre-reading Let the students talk about the origin of the earth they heard before. Talk about Pangu and Nvwa. Show the PowerPoint about the origin of the earth life. Make them have a understanding about the origin of the earth.2. Reading (comprehending)2.1 Reading the paragraphs and then answer the questions. Encouraging them to retell the answers in their own words.2.2 After finish reading the whole text. Let them try to do the exercise in text book.2.3 Reading the paragraphs again and give the main ideas about each part.Now read the first and second paragraphs carefully and find out the words that describe the origin of the earth.BigbangA cloud of dusk A violent solid ball Atmosphere Earth Water Oceans and seas2.4 Filling in the blanks about the origin of the life.1327896451. Small plants in water. 2. Shellfish and all sorts of fish.3. Green plant on land. 4. Insects.5. Amphibians. 6. Forests.7. Reptiles. 8. Dinosaurs. 9. Mammals.4. Grammar learning (Learning about language)Practicing the words and sentences and let the students conclude the usages of the grammar by themselves.5. Doing exercises. Spend one class hour on doing the exercises and explain the answers.6. Homeworka) Writing a paper about their understanding about the development of the earth.b) After reading the text. Doing the exercises in the text book.c) Concluding the usages of the grammars.d) Doing exercises. Teaching conclusion.1. Knowledge about the astronomy and the origin of the earth life.2. Usages of the subject clauses. Writing on the blackboard. Questions: 1. What do you know about the astronomy?2. What can you see from the pictures?3. Is there life on the planet?The origin of the life:1327896452. Small plants in water. 2. Shellfish and all sorts of fish.4. Green plant on lan