U2 Heroes Lesson 1 Modern Heroes

u2 heroes lesson 1 modern heroes
teaching aims:
to practise extensive reading in order to understand the main idea of each paragraph and guess the meaning of new words from the context.
to use time linkers, especially  adverbs and conjunctions
to revise the use of past simple and past continuous
to practise oral english
teaching difficulties:
to use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctions
to revise the use of past simple and past continuous
teaching aids: computer and cassette
teaching procedures:
ⅰ. warming up
t: who can explain hero’s meaning in english? have a try.
s:
t: a person, especially a man, who is admired by many people for doing something brave or good.
   now think about who is hero in your mind?
s: possible ansewers (wen tianxiang, yue fei, lin zexu, song zhongshan, mao zedong and zhou enlain and so on)
t: yes. they are great heroes. they names have been recorded in history books. what character do you think heroes should have?
s:
t: brave, selfless, calm, honest, generous, intelligent, warm-hearted, romantic…
today we talk about modern heroes who do you think can be called modern heroes?
s:
t: teacher can show students some pictures. finally picture is yang liwei. have you heard of yang liwei? how do you feel about him?
s:
t: show a slide about information yang liwei (born: june 21, 1965, liao ning  height:168cm; weight: 65kg; training : 1998-; crowned: space hero.
and say yang liwei is the first man to stand for chinese to fly into space. he has become a spokesman of space industry. we can say he is national hero?
show some pictures about shenzhou v
how did you feel about china’s first manned space flight?
s:
t: the launch of shenzhou v shows china is becoming stronger and stronger. as chinese, we are proud of being chinese.
ⅱ reading
do you want to know about yang liwei? now let’s read the text and do the exercise to see how much you understand,
1. when the spaceship separated from the rocket, yang could feel the high gravity.
2. yang liwei spoke with the ground control when the spaceship was circling the  earth the sixth time.
3. shenahou ⅴcan change red because of the earth’s atmosphere.
4. when yang liwei was doing its sixth circle, he showed the flags of china and the us, expressing he wishes …
5. yang liwei felt the ship was shaking when shenzhou v landed.
6. when he came back from space, he felt very excited.
answers: 1.f 2.t 3.t 4.f 5.f 6.t
after reading the text the teacher ask “can you say some words about space flight?”
answers: capsule, spacesuit, spaceman (astronaut), spaceship, parachute, rocket, helicopter, launch.