Lesson plan--- reading course(Unit 4) Background information:School: Changshou senior middle school, Grade 1Class: 4Students: 50Lesson duration: 45minsTime: 8:00—8:45amDate: March 14, 2014Methods: setting the scene, predicting, skimming, scanningTeaching aids: black board, PPT.Type of lesson: readingTeaching objectives:1.Instructional aims (language knowledge and language skills)1) By the end of the class, students should be able to know some information about the beginning of universe at the end of the class.2) By the end of the class, students should be able to learn some new words about the universe and animals and phrases.2. Educational aims (affect, learning strategy and cultural awareness)1)By the end of the class, students should be able to build up the interest ofreading.2) By the end of the class, students should be able to develop their ability to find and summarize main ideas and information through reading at the end of the class.3) By the end of the class, students should be able to develop the ability to predict in pre-reading at the end of the class.4) By the end of the class, students should be able to raise the awareness of protecting our earth.Teaching contents:1.V ocabulary + phrase: astronomy, globe, atmosphere, atom, Solid, globe, nitrogen,vapour….2.Pre-reading, predicting exercise, reading, reading exercise, post-reading,homework.Presentation:T: Good morning, class!Ss: Good morning.T: How are you today?Ss: I’m fine, thank you! And you?T: I’m fine too. And I’m also ve ry happy because of the nice weather, do you love the season--- spring?Ss: Yes.T: That’s nice. Spring is my favorite season, because of the fine weather, the blue sky, and many beautiful flowers. So, I love spring very much and I think our life is very nice, do you think so?Ss: Yes!T: Good, and there are also varieties of creatures exist in our earth to make our life more colorful, such as different kinds of animals and plants, right?Ss: Yes.T: OK, so, could you name some animals in English as much as you can?Ss: Dog, cat, tiger, horse, frog, snake, fish......T: Oh, you are so brilliant! So look at these words, which class do these animals belong to? Do you know what the Chinese m eaning of “class” is? It means “种类”Ss:......T: Very good! Do you know the main difference between mammals and other animals?Ss: 哺乳动物是胎生动物，其他动物可以下蛋。

T：Yes, you are so clever! Mammals give birth to young baby animals directly and produce milk to feed them, while other animals produce young animals by laying eggs. (W rite “give birth to; lay eggs” on the Bb and ask students to guess their meanings) Now, can you distinguish different animals?Ss: Yes!T: Good, let’s move on, just now we have reviewed some animals in our earth, and do you know what are the necessary conditions for animals to live?Ss: Air, waterT: Very good! And the air consists of many gases, right?Ss: Yes.T: could you list some names of them?Ss: oxygen, carbon, dioxide, hydrogen....T: Good! And do you know what the“N” represents in chemistry?Ss: 氮气T：Yes, and “N” represents “nitrogen”. Please remember it. And besides air, water is also very important for us, right?Ss: YesT: So pleas e guess what’s the meaning of “water vapour”? It m eans “ 水蒸气”. And many gases inclu de all these gases and water vapour make the earth’s atmosphere. Can you guess the meaning of atmosphere?Ss: 大气，空气T: Very good! It means”空气，大气”. O ur earth has air, does the outer space have air? Ss: NoT: Oh, your answer is very confident, so can you tell me why?Ss: ....T: Who tells you the answer?Ss: scientist./（天文学家：Those who study the universe）T: Yes, very good. Scientist is the person who studies the science, right?Ss: Yes.T: And in the outer space, there are some planets and stars, such as the sun, the moon, right?Ss: Yes.T: And there is also a group of person to study these planets and the universe, we call them what?Ss: 天文学家T：You are so cle ver! In English, we call them “astronomer”. And we call the science they are studying --“astronomy”,so what’s the meaning of “astronomy”?Ss: 天文学T：Good! And that’s the new unit we will learn today. First, Please look at the screen, this is the definition of astronomy:Astronomy is the scientific study of the universe and the heaven bodies (su ch as the sun, the moon, and stars), gas, and dust within it. Are you clear now?Ss: Yes!T: Good, let’s move on. Now, I want to ask you a question. Do you know what the opinion is of how the universe began in astronomy?Ss: Big Bang.T: Right, there is a widely accepted theory in astronomy, the universe began with a “ Big Bang”. What’ the meaning of Big Bang?Ss: 大爆炸T：Yes, 大爆炸. And do you all agree with this theory: the universe began with a “Big Bang”? If you don’t agree with it, please speak out your ideas.S1: PanguT: Very good. Pangu did what?Ss: 开天辟地T：well, please in English. That is Pangu separated the sky from the earth. He is a giant. Right? Do you know what happened after he died?Ss: ....T: After he died, his body became different parts of the world. His hair became what? Yes, it became trees, grass and forests, and his left eye became the sun, his right eye became the moon, and his arms and legs became mountains and four directions. Very good, anything else?Ss: 女娲T: Yes, Nuwa, a woman, she did what?Ss: ....T: She mended the heaven and created human beings from the clay(粘土). Right? Anything else? From some western cultures?Ss: God created the world.T: Yes, you are so clever! God created the world in 7 days. In the third day, god created the earth, we are very familiar with it, because we all live on the earth and weall depend on the earth, right? And from the far distance to see, our earth looks like a blue globe, it’s a solid globe. It means, 实心的球体。