内容正文:
Unit 4 Listening and Speaking 导学案
学习目标
1. To learn and talk about how to become an astronaut and life in space by listening to two interviews with astronauts.
2. To learn and use some expressions about the topic as well as cultivating the spirits of astronauts and scientists.
3. To learn and practice some listening strategies such as listen for numbers and listen for details.
学习重难点
1. 学会根有效获取关于数字的信息。
2. 结合已有背景知识,运用话题词汇描述航天相关内容。
本单元听力策略预习
Listen for numbers
Number questions are typically related to: time, telephone numbers, addresses, prices, weights, distances, etc.
When you listen for numbers, you need to pay special attention to big numbers as well as those that sound quite similar, such as thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty, etc.
课堂练习
Activity 1 Warming up
Before you listen, Can you name any famous astronauts from China or abroad?
Activity 2 While listening
1. Listen to the interview and tick the correct statements.
⑴The audience is curious about how Yang Liwei became the first Chinese astronaut.
⑵ Mr. Yang always believed that he would become an astronaut one day.
⑶Mr. Yang was selected to attend pilot training with 13 other people.
⑷To become an astronaut in China, you have to have 1,350 hours of flying experience.
⑸Astronauts not only had to learn how to use space equipment, but also had to do a lot of mental and physical training.
2. Listen again and fill in the blanks with the correct numbers.
⑴Yang Liwei graduated from college at the age of ________.
⑵Before he joined China’s space programme, Mr Yang trained as a fighter pilot for ____ years.
⑶ Mr Yang was one of the _____ pilots who were chosen to train for space flights.
⑷ At the time when Mr Yang entered the space programme, astronauts had to be shorter than ________ cm in height and less than ____ kg in weight.
⑸Mr Yang became China’s first astronaut when he was _____ years old.
3. Listen to the interview again and make a list of the requirements for becoming an astronaut.