Module 3 Journey to space
一、学习目的: A. 单词和短语：
earth, moon, news, planet, reach, yet, just, model, spaceship, project, no problem, latest, on, discover, astronaut, space travel, none, environment, that, solar, system, solar system, group, galaxy, universe, light, impossible, take-took-taken, out, communicate B. 交际用语： 1. What are you up to? 2. Sure, no problem.
3. I’ve just made a model spaceship for our school project. 4. I haven’t started yet because I’m not sure how to make it. 5. I haven’t started it yet. 6. Have you heard the latest news? 7. Has it arrived yet? 8. That’s why it’s on the news.
9. Astronauts have already been to the moon. 10. —Have we sent a spaceship to Mars? —Yes, we have. But…
11. The spaceship has gone to Mars.
12. However, we have not found life on other plants yet. 二、教学目的
1. Function: Talking about recent events.
2. Structure: Present perfect with already, just and yet. 3. Skills:
1) Listening for specific information.
2) Talking about space travel; participating in a role-play.
3) Reading and finding out information from simple texts and choosing the best title. 4) Writing a passage to describe the picture.
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4. Around the world: Names of the days of the week. 5. Task: Making a poster about space travel. 三、重点及难点:
1. Structure: Present perfect with already, just and yet.
2. To understand the difference between have been to and have gone to. 四、教学设计:
Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?
Ⅰ Teaching model Listening and speaking Ⅱ Teaching 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 Ⅵ Teaching 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.
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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. 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?
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2020-2021学年外研版八年级英语下册Module 3 Journey to space 教案
