Unit1 Tales of the unexplained- Word power教案

Teaching Aims:

1. Enlarge the students' vocabulary

2. Get the students to know about space exploration

Teaching important points:

Learn the words by heart and try to use them

Teaching different points:

1. How to develop the students' imagination

2. How to use the new words to solve problems

Teaching Methods:

1. Practice to get the students to master what they've learnt

2. Discussion to make every student work in class

Teaching procedures and ways:

Step 1. Greetings

Step 2. Brainstorming

Ask students to think about the questions.

Questions:

1. Do you know him?

2. When did space exploration begin in the world?

3. When did the first man land on the moon? And how?

4. When was the first manned spaceship launched in China?

5. Are you interested in making discoveries in space?

A scientist is making a speech to a group of students of high school students.

　Ask students to read the speech. Tell them to try to guess the meanings of some new words.

Step 3. Vocabulary learning

　Ask students to guess the meanings of the unknown words from the context.

　Space exploration began with the launch of the first artificial satellite.

　What does "launch" mean? What word can be used to replace "artificial"?

What about the word "man-made"?