Unit 6 Space and Beyond Period 4 Reading 学案- 2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第四册

Unit 6 Period 4 Reading 【学习目标】 Learning Objectives 1 To know the development of the telescope by reading, cultivate a sense of exploring the unknown 2 To use the key language points from the passage correctly 【学习过程】 Learning activities 目标一: To know the development of the telescope by reading, cultivate a sense of exploring the unknown Activity 1: Look at the title of the passage and predict what “eyes” refers to. ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Now read the passage and check your prediction. Activity 2: Read the passage quickly and put it into three parts, summarise main idea of each part. Parts Paragraphs Main idea Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Activity 3: Think about how the author organised the passage and complete the timeline with information from the passage. Learning to learn The order in which a series of ideas is conveyed in an essay is called “sequencing”. Time sequencing is a common method to explain how events change and develop with time. It is often used to discuss changes and development. Thousands of years ago, people already regarded the night sky as an 1______________________. It was believed that the huge eyes of the large-eyed bronze statues from the Chinese archeological site at Sanxingdui were able to 2________________________. Our power to see the sky changed dramatically when 3____________________. It extended 4_______________ and caused us to realise that the universe is a far larger place than we ever imagined. In 1990, the Hubble space Telescope was launched into orbit. For the first time, people could 5_________________. These ranged from 6_________________, and even to new planets. In 2016,7_________________ was built in China. It is used in the search for dark matter, which cannot be observed by ordinary telescopes. Its 8_________________ has the ability to make discoveries beyond our imaginations. Act