必修三第4单元教案.docVIP

Book3 Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars Ⅰ. Teaching aims(教学目标) 1. Stimulate students’ interests of learning English by reading this text. 2. Develop students’ sense of group cooperation and teamwork. Ⅱ. Teaching important points (教学重点) 1. Develop students’ reading and speaking skills. 2. Let students read and enjoy the passage. 3. Have students learn to use the expressions and sentence structures: match ,unlike ,harmful, thus ,in time, lay eggs, give birth to, in one’s turn, protect from, block out etc. Useful sentence structures:(1) Each religion and culture has its own ideas about how life began on earth. (2) The earth became so violent that it was not clear whether the shape would last or not. (3) What is even more important is that as the earth cooled down, water began to appear on its surface. (4)They produced young generally by laying eggs. (5) They multiplied and filled the oceans and seas with oxygen. (6) They give birth to young baby animals and produced milk to feed them. (7) Thus they have, in their turn, become the most important animals on the planet.Ⅲ Teaching difficult points (教学难点) 1. Enable students to learn to use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on. 2. Get students to learn the science of astronomy. 3. Have students read books about planets. IV. Teaching procedures: 教学过程 Step 1 课前延伸 1. Ask some students to read the words of U4. 2 .重点单词 . Translate the new words and phases into Chinese or English. 1. 天文学 _______________ 2. 系统；体系 _______________ 3. 宗教信仰 _______________ 4. 学说；理论 _______________ 5. 猛烈的；激烈的_______________ 6. 及时；终于 _______________ 7. 大气层；气氛 _______________ 8. 不同；不像 _______________ 9. 基本的 _______________ 10. 有害的 _________________ 3.重点短语 1. lay eggs _________________ 2. give birth to _________________ 3. in one’s turn ________________ 4. prevent…from ________________ 5. in all directions _______________ 6. as a result of _______________ Step 2课内探究与合作 I.