英语（九年级下册）

Unit 2 Great people

Reading I

1. Teaching aims and learning objectives

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. know about Neil Armstrong and his space travel;

2. understand the new words and phrases.

1. Teaching contents
2. New words and phrases: pilot, licence, navy, serve, test, aircraft, astronaut, spacecraft, spin, control, pacific, ocean, land, step, giant, leap, mankind, surface, further, citizen, pride, order, out of control, cut …short
3. New structures: Armstrong received the order to cut the fight short.

He was the pride of the world.

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty

1. To guess the meaning of new words from context.

2. To improve students’ reading ability, especially their skimming and scanning ability.

IV. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Pre-reading

Lead-in

T: Today I’ll show you some great people in aerospace history.

(1) What about this man? What is he?

(2) Do you know who this astronaut is? Can you say something about him/her?

(Yang Liwei, Liu Yang, Wang Yaping, Neil Armstrong)

【设计意图：通过学生熟悉的人物迅速导入本课话题，并引出部分生词。】

Step 2 While-reading

1. Guess the meanings of new words

T: This article is a about Neil Armstrong. Go through it quickly and finish Part B1 on page 24.

2. Work out a timelinefor Neil Armstrong

T: Read the article again and work out a timeline for Neil Armstrong. It’s not necessary for you to read each paragraph carefully. You can read the first sentence of each paragraph to get the main idea.

【设计意图：引导学生通过快速阅读猜测生词意思，并整理出大事年表，渗透阅读策略。】

T: How is the article organized? Obviously, it is organized in time order.

【设计意图：引导学生关注文章结构，让他们了解传记文体。】

3. Neil Armstrong’s first trip into space

T: In 1966, Neil Armstrong and David Scott went into space by spacecraft Gemini 8. Read paragraph 3, and answer the following questions.

(1) What did they do during their trip into space?

(2) What unexpected thing happened on their way back?

(3) How did they deal with the problem?

(4) To solve the problem successfully, what qualities do you think Neil Armstrong should have?

4. Neil Armstrong’s trip to the Moon

T: Seven years after the trip into space，Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the spacecraft Apollo 11 on the Moon. Watch the video of the trip and find out sentences in paragraphs 4 and 5 to describe what you have seen.

【设计意图：通过视频，让学生直观了解人类的首次登月，帮助他们加深对文本的理解。】

T: What did Armstrong mean by saying