英语必修5人教版新课标Unit 1第3课时教案
Period 3 Listening and speaking (Using Language)
Teaching Goals: 1. To use the language points and grammar of this unit.
2. To develop Ss’ listening and speaking abilities.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Leading-in
Purpose: To activate Ss and arouse them to talk about scientific subjects.
Show the pictures about the scientists and ask Ss whether they know them. And make sure they know some famous scientists in China.
Step 2. Warming Up
Purpose: To lead Ss to the topic of this unit.
1. Group work
The above pictures are all Chinese famous scientists. Let Ss talk about the stories of them. And they can also talk about other scientists in China. Get some Ss to present their stories to the rest of class.
2. Conclusion
All of them have made contributions to the development of Chinese science and technology. But do you know who the father of the Chinese space program is? (Qian Xuesen)
Step 3. Pre-listening
Purpose: To help Ss learn about the context of the Listening part.
Pair work
Ask Ss to discuss the pictures with their partners.
2. Discussion
Discuss the following three questions and present your opinions to your classmates.
(1) How can you describe the space?
(2) If we human beings go into the space, what are needed?
(3) Suppose you are an astronaut, what kind of qualities are necessary?
Step 4. While-listening
Purpose: 1. To get the main information in the Listening part.
2. To develop Ss’ listening ability.
3. To learn something from Qian Xuesen.
1. Listen to the dialogue, focusing on the subjects mentioned in the passage.
2. Listen to the tape and answer the questions.
Q1. What did Qian Xuesen study first?
Q2. What experience did he get in America that was very useful for China?
Q3. What was Qian Xuesen’s achievement when he returned to China from America?
Suggested answers:
A1. Qian Xuesen first studied to be an engineer.
A2. In America he began to work on space rockets so that he was able to develop a space programme when he came back to China.
A3. When Qian Xuesen returned to China he set up a Space Institute to begin training people in how to design and build rockets.
3. Listen to the tape again and make sure the answers are right.
Step 5. Speaking
Purpose: 1. To develop Ss’ speaking ability.
2. To learn about the words for character description.
1. Pre-speaking
Purpose: To arouse Ss’ interest and get them to focus on the topic of the Speaking part.
Show the pictures again.
Pair work
Let Ss discuss in pairs and present how they achieved their success in their future scientific job.
What kind of words can be used?
For your reference:
talent, intelligence, hard work, persistence, confidence, curiosity, enthusiasm, luck…
2. While-speaking
Purpose: To get Ss to talk about their favorite scientific jobs.
(1) Work in groups of four and discuss what scientific job each of Ss would like to choose in the future. The following questions and expressions can be helpful.
Questions:
What job do you want to do?
What personality will be needed?
What education will you need?
What personality will be needed?
How lone will the training take?
What work experience would be useful?
How will you prepare for this career?
Expressions:
I always wanted to … because … I might find it difficult to …
My greatest problem will be to … The experience I will need is …
I need to practise …
(2) Act out the dialogue and show to the class.
When describe someone’s character, the following words can be used.
patient, creative, hard-working, co-operative, confident, brave, positive, pleasant, polite, determined, energetic, strict with …
Sample dialogue:
A: What do you want to do when you grow up?
B: I want to build robots. I will have to do a physics and mathematics degree in china. After that I hope to go abroad to Reading University in England where you can study all about robots. There is a special cybernetics department there.
A: Why personality will be needed for that job?
B: They have a lot of uses: for example, in making cars on a popular line or doing other repetitive jobs.
A: What personality will be needed for that job?
B: I think I need to be patient for my ideas will take a long time to develop. I also need to be creative enough to have good ideas.
A: What experience will be most useful to you?
B: I think technology and engineering projects. I hope to work in a factory in my holidays.
A: What kind of person makes a good inventor?
B: I think someone who is happy to persevere at something and learns from his mistakes.
A: Thank you. I think designing robots sounds fun.
3. Post-speaking
Ask some Ss to give a speech to their classmates about their scientific jobs in the future
Step 6. Extension
Purpose: To make a conclusion from the Speaking part.
Discuss the questions below with your partners.
We know that a scientific job is challenging and difficult, but there are still many persons doing very well at their positions. What can you learn from them?
Share your views with your classmates.
Step 7. Homework
Write a short composition to introduce Qian Xuesen.
Get on the line and find out more scientists and their stories.
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