Unit 4 Space Exploration Reading and thinking 教学设计-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

Unit 4 Space Exploration Reading and thinking教学设计 教材分析 该语篇选自人教版高中英语必修三第 4单元“Reading and Thinking”。文本探讨的主题是“太空探索”，该主题涵盖了太空探索的发展历程及其探索意义。该语篇类型是科普文，文章按时间顺序简要介绍了人类探索太空的历史。该文为总分总式的段落结构，“分”的部分按照并列方式安排。说明顺序主要为时间顺序，从 1961年第一个人上太空到阿姆斯特朗上月球再到 2003年神舟五号标志着我国首次载人航天飞行获得圆满成功，逻辑清晰，语言客观准确。通过比较中西方太空探索的成就、举例子列举了一些著名的历史性事件等说明方法，准确客观地展现了人类进行太空探索的内容。本文时态多为一般过去时和一般现在时，语言多用被动语态。本文涉及太空探索，航空航天核心词汇和短语，如 vehicles, universe, satellite, launched, mankind, agency, data等。本文的价值取向在于促进学生多维度深入了解“太空探索”这一前沿科学研究行为，同时对本国的航空航天事业有所了解，引导学生理性看待“太空探索”对人类发展的深远意义，从而树立学生正确的科学观。通过阅读该语篇能让学生了解人类探索太空的发展历程及重大历史事件，从而引起学生思考探索太空的意义和价值所在，增强民族自信心，学习科学家们的优秀品质，树立远大目标，体会到人类命运共同体的生存意义。通过仔细研读语篇和设置有效任务，能帮助学生识别语篇类型，提炼语篇主题，挖掘科学家和宇航员们的精神以及树立个人正确的价值观和远大目标。通过本板块的学习，学生能够实现单元目标中的以下几点： 1.能够列举太空探索的发展历程，形成对太空探索的认识。 2.能够关注并判断文本衔接与连贯，总结段意。 3.能够了解科普文的语篇特点。 4.能够列举中国在太空探索方面所取得的成就，表达自己的情感态度。 I. Teaching aims: 1.Learn about the development of space exploration. 2.Summarize the main idea of each paragraph. 3.Express your opinions on space exploration. 4.Cultivate interest in space exploration. II. Teaching key points: 1.Lead students to learn about the development of space exploration. 2.Help students learn about China’s achievements on space exploration. 3.Help students analyse the structure of the article and summarise the main idea. III. Teaching difficult points: 1.Enable students to figure out the structure and summarise the main idea. 2.Lead students to express their opinions on space exploration. IV. Teaching methods: 1. Task-based Language teaching method 2. Co-operative teaching method3. Communicative teaching method V. Teaching Aids: Multi-media, text book and learning paper. VI. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Lead -in ( watch a video ) 1.What does the video mainly talk about? 2.How do you feel about people’s achievements in space exploration? Step 2. Pre-reading Can you predict what we will learn according to the title and pictures in our text? Step 3. Fast Reading Activity1: Read the text. Several sentences have been removed from t