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Lesson Plan of Space: the Final Frontier
----重庆育才中学金洋1. Guiding Ideology
The type of this lesson is Reading for Speaking. It bases its thoughts of design on the principl es of Communicative Language Teaching and Tasked-based Language Teaching. In fact, the key a ssumption in CLT is that students learn the language through engaging in a variety of communicati ve activities. Activities of this case in this lesson includes identifying pictures and constructing sto ries through pictures. On the other hand, Task-based Language Teaching is factually a further deve lopment of Communicative Language Teaching. Tasks are specially designed for students to achie ve the objectives in three aspects, namely, knowledge, skills and emotions, among which form filli ng, word reordering, sentence reordering and summarizing are typical ones. To conclude, outcome of this plan not only takes the principles of CLT and TBLT into account, but also corresponds wit
h the requirements on an English class implemented after the New Curriculum Reform.
2. Analysis of Teaching Information
Teaching material: the reading part of Module 5, Book 8, published by Foreign
Language Teaching and Research Press----Space: the Final Frontier.
Type of Lesson: Reading for Speaking.
Teaching Stage: This is the third period of class in this module, following a
period of new words learning and a period of the Introduction part.
Detailed Analysis of the Text: The passage consists of two parts, the first of which introduces thr ee historic events on space exploration. They are the first Moon landing journey, the launch of the Columbia and the explosion of the Challenger, which poses readers’ priority of deep thinking on th e theme of the passage. Part 2 works as a description of the event--the challenger--from the perspe ctive of a schoolboy who was excited initially but eventually witnessed the whole shocking disaste r in human progress of space exploration ever.
3. Analysis of Students’ Information:
Background information: The students are from Class 7, Senior Grade 3 of Yucai Middle Scho ol. There are 59 students in total.
Detailed Analysis of Students’ English Competences: After two years of English study in Grade 1 and 2, students have acquired a good command of five English skills in listening, reading, speaki ng, writing and translating. Currently speaking, they have little difficulty in understanding this pas sage. Besides, most of them can output their opinions fluently and logically on the related topic aft er getting involved in various activities of reading for their input.
4. Teaching Objectives:
Objectives of Knowledge:
1. Students are able to obtain the information of the first Moon landing journey, the launch of the f irst space shuttle and the explosion of the Challenger.
2. Students are able to revise the uses of attributive clauses when asked to summarize the main ide
a of a whole paragraph.
3. Students are able to consolidate their memory of the new words in this module, such as launch, shuttle, witness, civilian, explosion, etc.
4. Students are able to understand and interpret why the writer call the passage Space: the Final Fr ontier.
Objectives of Skills:
1. Students are able to get the answers of related questions after scanning the whole passage.
2. Students are able to summarize the main idea of each paragraph when provided some key infor mation by using an attributive clause.
3. Students are able to express their opinions on space exploration after engaging in enough guidi
ng activities.
Objectives of Emotions:
1. Students are able to have a sense of grief when a disaster like the Challenger happens in human progress in spite of diversity in nations.
2. Students are able to realize what good characters people might need in the process to achieve a significant historic event and strengthen an individual’s value on courage and perseverance especi ally when facing failure.
5. Focal Points and Difficult Points:
Focal Points:
1. Students are able to obtain the information of the first Moon landing journey, the launch of the first space shuttle and the explosion of the Challenger.
2. Students are able to understand and interpret why the writer call the passage
Space: the Final Frontier.
3. Students are able to summarize the main idea of each paragraph when provided some key infor mation by using an attributive clause.
4. Students are able to realize what good characters people might need in the process to achieve a s ignificant historic event and strengthen an individual’s value on courage and perseverance especial ly when facing failure.
Difficult Points:
1. Students are able to understand and interpret why the writer call the passage
Space: the Final Frontier.
2. Students are able to express their opinions on space exploration after engaging in enough guidin
g activities.
6. Teaching tools:
PowerPoint, blackboard, chalks, pictures, paper, crayons, envelopes, notes.
7. Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Put the words in order to make a complete sentence.
mankind one was step for that but
man leap small giant one for
Step 2. Skimming and scanning: read paragraph 1-3 and fill in the form in groups of 6.
Step 3. Summarizing: combine the two sentences by using an attributive clause to summariz e each paragraph.
Step 4. Brainstorming: what characters do you think we need to make a significant historic b reakthrough?
Step 5. Reading for Information:
Read the following 5 sentences and put them in order to make the following paragraphs about wha t happened to the Challenger then.
A. The world was in shock--maybe they assumed this space flight would be no more dangerous th an getting on an plane.
B. But how wrong they were--in one moment excitement and success turned into fear and disaster .
C. Sadly, she never came back to her classroom again, as the shuttle exploded just over a minute after taking off in Florida and all seven astronauts were killed.
D. As one Russian said at the time, “When something like this happens we are neither Russians no r Americans. We are just human beings who have the same feelings.”
E. It was the worst space accident ever.
Step 6. Story-Constructing: watch the given pictures and describe each picture with three se
Step 7. Group Work:
If you were the schoolboy, please draw something on the fourth picture to convey your idea thro ugh your work.
Step 8. Pair Work: Why does the author call the passage Space: the Final Frontier?
Step 9. Final Summary breakthrough = break + through
As is implied in the word“breakthrough”, we have to run the risk of the breakdown of every ex ploration, but if we stand together to face and get through each obstacle with courage and persever ance, we are bound to make a significant historic breakthrough in human progress.
Step 10. Assignment: Make a time line of Chinese space exploration.。