A teaching plan for Unit 2，Module11
一、Teaching materials:
Unit 2 He trained for five years. (Module 11 National heroes)
二、Targets for this period:
To get information from the reading material about personal information
To give a brief idea of newspaper articles
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary—an altitude of, astronaut, on Earth, national flag, flight, land, orbit, pilot, reach, rest, space, spacecraft, train, wave, background, headline, latest news, last, wave to/at, what happens to sb.
Key structures —past simple
四、Teaching methods:
Task-based approach and bottom-up approach
五、Teaching aids
Reading material, blackboard
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Lead-in (Homework)
1. Students tell something about Yang Liwei. (Activity 6)
He joined the Chinese Air Force in 1987. Eleven years later, he joined the Chinese space programme. Five years later, he traveled into space and became China’s first astronaut.
2. Question: When was the first Chinese flight in space? (Activity 5)
Answer: Shenzhou 1 launched on November 20th 1999.
Step Two To pronounce some new words and expressions of Unit 2
1. Students read the words after the tape.
2. Students practice pronouncing the words by themselves.
3. To help some students correct the pronunciations of some words.
4. Students should understand some word-formations:
(1)nation national (2)build building
(3)govern government (4)hero heroes(pl.)
(5)Russia Russian (6)space spaceship
Step Three Pre-reading (Activity 1)
1. Students look at the picture and match the given words
Picture 1: Earth, space
Picture 2: astronaut, national flag, spacecraft
Picture 3: astronaut, wave, spacecraft
2. Students make sentences about the pictures.
Picture 1: The Earth looks blue in the space.
Picture 2: The astronaut Yang Liwei shows a national flag in the spacecraft.
Picture 3: The astronaut Yang Liwei waves to everyone before the spacecraft.
Step Four To read the newspaper article fast and find the four parts (Activity 2)
The headline: China’s first astronaut
The latest news: Paragraphs 1, 2, 4
The background: Paragraph 3
Today: Paragraph 5
Step Five To read it again and write questions for the given answers (Activity 4)
Example: 14 times. (How many…?) How many times did he orbit the Earth?
1. Last Thursday. (When…?) When did he return to Earth?
2. 21 hours. (How long…?) How long did the flight last?
3. At 6:23am. (When…?) When did he land?
4. In Inner Mongolia. (Where…?) Where did he land?
5. In 1987. (When…?) When did he join the Chinese Air Force?
6. Five years. (How long…?) How long did he train for?
7. People on Earth. (Who…?) Who watched the space flight?
8. The Chinese national flag. (What…?) What did Yang Liwei show?
Step Six Language points
1. A few days ago he was Yang Liwei, the pilot, with a wife and a young son.几天前，他还只是杨伸伟，一名飞行员，有妻子和一个儿子。
1) ago 只用于过去时，放在表示“时间段”的词语之后，表示从现在算起的一段时间之前
e.g: His father died five years ago.
Cp: before 后接“时间点”， 可用于任何时态
e.g: She got to her office before 5:00.
Cp: later放在表示“时间段”的词语之后，表示从某一时间算起的一段时间之后
e.g: Three days later, they married.
2) Yang Liwei和the pilot 是同位语，with a wife and a young son介词短语作定语，修饰前面的名词
2. 被动语态的结构“be+及物动词过去分词”，常以动作承受者作为主语。
e.g: The machine is made in China.
3. reach 即可以到达某一地点，又可以达到某一数字。
e.g: They reached a small village.
The temperature reached 40℃.
4. 1) last (v)
eg. The hot weather will last until September.
2) last (adj.) last week the last meal
3) last (n.) at last
5. China is now the third country, after the Soviet Union and the USA, to send a person into space. 中国现在是继苏联和美国之后第三个把人送往太空的国家。
动词不定式作定语修饰country, after the Soviet Union and the USA可以放在句首或句末。
6. People on Earth watched Yang Liwei’s space flight on TV.
地球上的人们在电视上观看杨利伟的太空之行。
7. wave to / at sb
e.g: The manager waved to his secretary from across the hotel.
8. for +一段时间 表示做某事持续的时间
e.g: He rested for a few hours after working hard from day to night.
Step Seven Students practice reading the passage aloud
Step Eight Students match the words with their meanings (Activity 3)
Step Nine To think of a piece of news happened in the class and write sentences like the example. (Activity 7) Newspaper articles usually have four parts:
Headline: Shenzhou spacecraft in Beijing
Latest news: On Wednesday people visited China’s first spacecraft in a museum in Beijing.
Background: The spacecraft orbited the Earth 14 times in October.
Today: In the museum you can also see the space food and the astronaut’s clothes.
Homework:
1. To find information about a hero and get ready to give a talk, you can take the module task on P73 for example.
2. To finish Unit2, Module11, 点中典
Blackboard designing
Unit 2 He trained for five years.
Newspaper articles usually have four parts:
Headline: Shenzhou spacecraft in Beijing
Latest news: On Wednesday people visited China’s first spacecraft in a museum in Beijing.
Background: The spacecraft orbited the Earth 14 times in October.
Today: In the museum you can also see the space food and the astronaut’s clothes.

1. A few days ago he was Yang Liwei, the pilot, with a wife and a young son.
ago 只用于过去时，放在表示“时间段”的词语之后，表示从现在算起的一段时间之前
e.g: His father died five years ago.
Cp: before 后接“时间点”， 可用于任何时态
e.g: She got to her office before 5:00.
Cp: later放在表示“时间段”的词语之后，表示从某一时间算起的一段时间之后
e.g: Three days later, they married.
2. 被动语态的结构“be+及物动词过去分词”，常以动作承受者作为主语。
e.g: The machine is made in China.
3. reach 即可以到达某一地点，又可以达到某一数字。
e.g: They reached a small village.
The temperature reached 40℃.
4. 1) last (v)
eg. The hot weather will last until September.
2) last (adj.) last week the last meal
3) last (n.) at last
5. wave to / at sb
e.g: The manager waved to his secretary from across the hotel.
6. for +一段时间 表示做某事持续的时间
e.g: He rested for a few hours after working hard from day to night.