英语八年级下册M3U1教案

Module 3 Journey to space
Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?
ⅠTeaching model
Listening and speaking
ⅡTeaching method
PWP approach
Ⅲ Teaching aims
1. To understand Present perfect with already, 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.
Ⅳ Teaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary: earth, moon, news, planet, reach, yet, just, model, spaceship, project, no
problem, latest, on, discover, astronaut, space travel
2. Key structures:Present perfect with already, just and yet.
Ⅴ Teaching aids
Tape recorder, OHP, video
ⅥTeaching Steps
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.
earth, land, message, moon, news, planet, reach, scientist
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.
2. Listen again and complete the notes.
3. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
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.
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?
2. Ask the students to read through the conversation in Activity 3 again.
3. Answer the questions.
Step 6 Complete the passage in Activity 4.
1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.
arrive, discover, planet, send, yet
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.
6. Read the passage together.
Step 7 Language points.
1. What are you up to? 你在做什么呢？
up to 表示“正在干，从事着”。

常用在非正式常合中。

2. I’ve just made this model of the space station.这是我刚做的宇宙空间站的模型。

3. I haven’t started it yet.我还没有开始做呢。

4. Have you heard the latest news? 你听说过这个最新消息吗？
5. That’s why it’s on the news.这就是它为什么出现在新闻报导的原因。

6. So have they discovered life on Mars? 所以他们在火星上发现生命了吗？
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。

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 Work in pairs.
1. Make lists of what we have and have not done in space travel.
We have We have not…
_____________________________ _____________________________
_____________________________ _____________________________
_____________________________ _____________________________
2. Talk about space travel with the lists in Activity 6.
—Have we sent a spaceship to Mars?
—Yes, we have. But…
3. Work in pairs.
Step 9 Exercises
B. 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 _____.
Step 10 Homework: read the dialogue with your partner.
Remember the words.。