U2 Heroes Lesson 1 Modern Heroes

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u2 heroes lesson 1 modern heroes
teaching aims:
to practise extensive reading in order to understand the main idea of each paragraph and guess the meaning of new words from the context.
to use time linkers, especially  adverbs and conjunctions
to revise the use of past simple and past continuous
to practise oral english
teaching difficulties:
to use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctions
to revise the use of past simple and past continuous
teaching aids: computer and cassette
teaching procedures:
ⅰ. warming up
t: who can explain hero’s meaning in english? have a try.
s:
t: a person, especially a man, who is admired by many people for doing something brave or good.
   now think about who is hero in your mind?
s: possible ansewers (wen tianxiang, yue fei, lin zexu, song zhongshan, mao zedong and zhou enlain and so on)
t: yes. they are great heroes. they names have been recorded in history books. what character do you think heroes should have?
s:
t: brave, selfless, calm, honest, generous, intelligent, warm-hearted, romantic…
today we talk about modern heroes who do you think can be called modern heroes?
s:
t: teacher can show students some pictures. finally picture is yang liwei. have you heard of yang liwei? how do you feel about him?
s:
t: show a slide about information yang liwei (born: june 21, 1965, liao ning  height:168cm; weight: 65kg; training : 1998-XX; crowned: space hero.
and say yang liwei is the first man to stand for chinese to fly into space. he has become a spokesman of space industry. we can say he is national hero?
show some pictures about shenzhou v
how did you feel about china’s first manned space flight?
s:
t: the launch of shenzhou v shows china is becoming stronger and stronger. as chinese, we are proud of being chinese.
ⅱ reading
do you want to know about yang liwei? now let’s read the text and do the exercise to see how much you understand,
1. when the spaceship separated from the rocket, yang could feel the high gravity.
2. yang liwei spoke with the ground control when the spaceship was circling the  earth the sixth time.
3. shenahou ⅴcan change red because of the earth’s atmosphere.
4. when yang liwei was doing its sixth circle, he showed the flags of china and the us, expressing he wishes …
5. yang liwei felt the ship was shaking when shenzhou v landed.
6. when he came back from space, he felt very excited.
answers: 1.f 2.t 3.t 4.f 5.f 6.t
after reading the text the teacher ask “can you say some words about space flight?”
answers: capsule, spacesuit, spaceman (astronaut), spaceship, parachute, rocket, helicopter, launch.共2页，当前第1页12

U2 Heroes Lesson 1 Modern Heroes
in order to consolidate these words to show pictures and ask student to use these words to describe them.
ⅲ  further reading
do the exercise 3and the exercise 4
read the article and you describe the course of shenzhouⅴ
picture1. the spaceship was lifting off, i could really feel the high gravity.
picture2 the spaceship separated from the rocket i suddenly got a feeling of soaring into the sky
picture3 the shenzhou v circled the earth.
picture 4 yang liwei was speaking with his wife and 8-year-old son
picture 5 yang liwei showed the flags of china and the united nations.
picture6  shenzhou v released its parachute.
picture7  millions of people all over china were watching tv when the spaceship touched down safely.
do the exercise 5
read through the questions with the class so that students know what information to look out when reading the text.
students then read the text and answer the questions.
ⅳ  free talk:
why do you think yang liwei is a hero? what can we learn from him?
ⅴ vocabulary
do the exercise 5 and 6.
ⅵ  grammar
guide student to study grammar summary 3, on page 92
do the exercise excise 8
students look at the sentences and work out the differences( past continuous , past simple)
do the exercise 9and 10
ⅶ  language in use
students prepare the questions for the interview in pairs. they may need to go back to the text and get more information. they may also use other information which they can collect from newspapers and the internet
students roleplay an interview between yang liwei and a reporter with the reporter asking what happened, what yang liwei did and how he felt.
ⅷ  homework
read the article space heroes on page 32
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U2 Heroes Lesson 1 Modern Heroes