人教版英语Book4Unit4教学设计.doc

How life began on the earth Teaching Plan Teaching aims: The learners will be able to: 1. understand and practice using the following words and phrases: religion, theory, billion, violent, atmosphere, unlike, fundamental, harmful, chain, multiply, exist, thus, give birth to, in one’s turn, prevent…from, in time; 2. talk about and get the information of the development of life on the earth from the text through skimming and scanning; 3. pay attention to discourse markers and sentence connectors in the passage and organize information logically they get from the text in the order of time; 4. learn to use noun clauses. Important points: Students will learn and understand the development of life on the earth. Difficult points: Students can use their own words to retell the development of life on the earth logically. Teaching methods:??????????Task-based teaching method Teaching aids:??????? Multimedia and the blackboard Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warming up and lead in T: Today, let’s explore a new unit-Unit4 Astronomy. 1. What’s astronomy? (The scientific study of the sun, the moon, stars, planets, etc.) 2. What are the eight planets that circle around the sun in the solar system? What is their order from the sun? (show the picture of the solar system) 3. What interests you in astronomy? Do you know any questions that astronomers are interested in? (Possible questions: How did the universe form? How did life begin on the earth?) 4. Each religion and culture has its own ideas about the origin of life. What do you know about it? In Chinese culture： _______separated the sky from the earth. His whole body then turned into all kinds of things in the universe. The Goddess__________mended the heaven and created human beings from the clay.(Nvwa) In western countries: According to Bible (圣经), it is_______that created the world and all living things in _______days. Day 1: God spoke and separated light from darkness, creating Day and Night. Day 2: God spoke and se