Period 5 &6 Reading task (Workbook),

Speaking task (Workbook), Listening task (Workbook) & Writing task (Workbook)

Teaching Goals:

1. To enlarge Ss' vision of space travel

2. To let Ss get more knowledge about science and technology.

3. To improve Ss' ability in listening and writing.

4. To let Ss know more about space travel.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Reading task (Workbook)

1. Fast reading

Ask Ss to read the text quickly and silently and answer the following question

What is the text mainly about?

Suggested Answers:

It is mainly about what happened and what they saw round the "black hole".

2. Intensive reading

(1) Ask Ss to read the text carefully and explain what the "black hole" is according to the text. Then have them write it down.

(2) Ask Ss to read the form on P67 and which of the old ideas about the "black hole" is wrong.

Suggested Answers:

The fifth old idea is wrong, because objects can be thrown far from the "black hole" by the energy in the "black hole". Other old ideas are right.

(3) Ask Ss to improve their writings about the "black hole" according to the form on P67 and choose some Ss to read old their writings.

Step 2. Speaking task (Workbook)

1. Divide Ss into three groups and ask each group to think of a question which they want to ask Li Yanping most. Then write the three questions three groups have presented on the blackboard.

Possible questions:

* Can we see "black holes" with our eyes?

* If you can't see a "black hole", how did you know you had got close to it?

* Have our scientists found out whether "black holes" will do harm to the human beings or not?

* What will happened if we get close to a "black hole"?

* What was the most unexpected thing you found out about "black holes"?

* What was the most frightening thing that happened to you on this journey?

Possible answers: