Lesson 1 Modern Heroes 教案

Lesson 1 Modern HeroesTeaching aims:To practise extensive reading in order to understand the main idea of each paragraph and guess the meaning of new words from the context.To use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctionsTo revise the use of Past Simple and Past ContinuousTo practise oral EnglishTeaching difficulties:To use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctionsTo revise the use of Past Simple and Past ContinuousTeaching Aids: computer and cassetteTeaching procedures: . Warming upT: who do you think is modern heroes?S:T: what have they done? Why do you think they are heroes?S:T: Who is it ? (picture is Yang Liwei). Have you heard of Yang Liwei? How do you feel about him?S:T: Is he called hero? Why or why not?S:T: show a slide about information Yang Liwei (Born: June 21, 1965, Liao Ning Height:168cm; Weight: 65kg; Training : 1998-2003; Crowned: Space Hero.How did you feel about Chinas first manned space flight?S: ReadingTrue or false1. When the spaceship separated from the rocket, Yang couldnt feel the high gravity.2. Yang Liwei spoke with the ground control when the spaceship was circling the earth the seven time.3. Shenahou can caught fire because of the earths atmosphere. 4. When Yang Liwei was doing its seventh circle, he showed the flags of China and the UN.5. Yang Liwei felt the ship was shaking when Shenzhou V landed.6. When he came back from space, he felt very tired.Answers: 1.T 2.F 3.F 4.T 5.F 6.FAfter reading the text the teacher ask “Can you say some words about space flight?”Answers: capsule, spacesuit, spaceman (astronaut), spaceship, parachute, rocket, helicopter, launch. Further readingDo the exercise 3and the exercise 4 Read the article and you describe the course of ShenzhouDo the exercise 5Read through the questions with the class so that students know what information to look out when reading the text. Students then read the text and answer the questions. Free talk:Why do you think Yang Liwei is a hero? What can we learn from him? vocabularyDo the exercise 5 and 6. GrammarGuide student to study Grammar Summary 3, on page 92Do the exercise excise 8Students look at the sentences and work out the differences( Past Continuous , Past Simple)Do the exercise 9and 10 Language in useStudents prepare the questions for the interview in pairs. They may need to go back to the text and get more information. They may also use other information which they can collect from newspapers and the internetStudents roleplay an interview between Yang Liwei and a re