外研版八年级英语下册教学设计Module 3 Unit 1教案

Module 3 Journey to space

Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?

着重介绍了火星探索以及宇宙中太阳系的部分知识。本节课是一节听说课型的新授课。作为模块的第一课，它为第二、三单元不仅提供了话题和语境，同时也为学生们后来的学习扫清语言和文化的障碍。在第一单元中，学生的听说活动都是围

绕科学家已经完成和还未完成的太空任务而展开。本单元通过Daming 和Tony 的谈话，介绍了人类太空探索的壮举。通过开展听、说、读等语言实践活动展示现在完成时态，为第二单元的学习奠定基础。

本单元的重点是学生对听力材料主题和具体信息的捕捉训练。难点使学生能够有效地掌握信息，并运用所学词汇和现在完成时进行交流。

能够用现在完成时描述人类太空探索计划，正确使用just, already, yet 。

能够正确使用下列单词：earth, yet, planet, latest, project, discover;

【能力目标】

能够听懂对火星计划的陈述,能够介绍人类对太空的探索经历

【情感目标】

通过学习中国“神州九号”、“神州十号”载人航天飞机太空探索的相关知识增强民族意识和自豪感。引导学生学习一些太空科学知识，实现跨学科交流。

1. To learn some expressions in the passage.

2. To learn the present perfect tense.

【教学难点】

1. To get information from the article.

2. To write a composition by using the present perfect tense.

Step 1 Warming up

1. 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 Listen 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 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) __________ months

has not sent back any (3) ___________ yet

hope to find (4) ____________ on Mars

2. Listen again and complete the notes.

3. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.

4. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.

keys: Mars eight messages life

Step 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 conversation.

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 project?

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:

They have got a project on spaceships.

He’s not sure how to make the model.

The spaceship to Mars has reached there.

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.

2. Ask the students to read through the passage in Activity 4.

On today’s 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 very 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. yet

6. Read the passage together.

Step 7 Language points.