9B Unit 1 Life on Mars

9B Unit 1 Life on Mars 9B Unit 1 Life on Mars Teaching Plan 常州外国语学校九年级备课组 赵刚， 沈金仙 Title 9BUnit 1 Comic strip,Welcome to the unit ,Vocabulary Teaching aims Say and practice something about the life in space. Style New Period 2 Important Points Practice the useful expressions. Difficult Points How to use the new words? Procedures: Step1 Lead-in Show the picture on the solar system. And tell students that the sun is called star. The others are called planets and the earth is one of the planets. Something terrible has happened to the Earth. ( 超链接)Show pictures about pollution and population. So people are now trying to travel in space and live on another planet. Which planet? Maybe Mars which is the nearest one. Do you know anything about Mars? After the free talk, show the surface of Mars. Step 2 Welcome to the Unit 1. Ask students : Do you want to live on Mars? What do you think of the life on Mars?Is the life on Mars better than that on Earth at present? Do exercise A on p7.Write yes or No in the blanks 2. Ask students to show their ideas. Step3 Comic strip 1. Eddie and Hobo are now living on Mars. Look at them. What are they wearing? (helmets) Do they like life on Mars? Let?s listen to their conversation and find out. 1.How does Eddie like life on Mars? 2. What does Eddie hate? Why? 2. Fill in blanks Step 4 Vocabulary 1. Guessing: Who is wearing the helmet now? (an astronaut) 2. Do you know what an astronaut uses in space? Show pictures and the descriptions. 3. Ask students finish exercise A and check the answers. 4. Read part B and talk about which is the most/least important for an astronaut. Step5 Welcome to the Unit 1. Which place have astronauts traveled to so far? Is it possible for us to camp on the moon? When an astronaut camps on a planet, should he take the following with him? (P7 B) 1.Name the items 2. Put a tick in the box if you think he should take that item. 3. Talk about the reasons for your choices in pairs. 2. Do Space Camp and check the answers. 3. Discussion: If you are given a chance to the moon one day, what three things will you take? Why? Step6. Useful expressions Step7. Homework Title 9B Unit1 Reading Teaching aims 1. Develop the students? reading skills (predicting, skimming and scanning ) 2. Improve students? abilities to summarize, co-operate and participate. 3. Practice the new words. Style New Period 2 Important 1. Help students learn the new expressions naturally to give a hint about the Points story. 2. Make students understand the article correctly. 3. Let students know the main idea of the article by learning the new expressions and reading it. Difficult Points Design and finish some exercises according to the article by students themselves. Step1. Revision Review something about Grammar students learnt yesterday. Step2. Lead-in 1. What?s life like on the earth? It is becoming more and more crowed and polluted. Hopefully, we can build a better world on another planet. 2. Mars is nearest to the Earth in the solar system. Maybe moving to Mars is a good choice. But how can we go to Mars? (space shuttles spacecraft) How can we live there? (oxygen) Who can help us do many things?(robots) We will float because of gravity. So we have to wear special boots with various designs. 3. Check the new words. (B1 on p10) Step3. Presentation Here is a text about moving to Mars. 1. Skimming: Read the passage quickly to find out the answer: Will life on Mars be better than life on Earth? 2. Read paragraph1 (Scanning) 1.Why do we need to move to Mars ? 2.When can we live on Mars? 3. Read paragraph2-4 (Scanning) What will life be like? 1) transport 2) food 3) gravity Answer some questions and fill in blanks. 4. Listen to paragraph5-7 1.) Do T/F 2) The better life on Mars 3) some worse ways Step4. Exercise C2 Talk about difference between life on Earth and life on Mars Step5.Discussion Advantages/ Disadvantages of life on Mars Advantages / Disadvantages of life on Earth Step6.Read a poem Step7. Homework 1. Read the text again and again. 2. Practice the useful expressions. 3. Finish some exercises. Title 9B Unit 1 Grammar 1&2 Teaching aims 1. Learn to use “can, could, may, might” to talk about permission. 2. Learn and practice some other modal verbs 3. Learn and practice the object clauses introduced by “that” and “if/ whether”. Style New Period 2 Important Points 1. Using „can?, „could?, „may?, „might? to talk about permission 2. Using more modal verbs such as, „must (mustn?t)?, „need (needn?t)?, ought to 3. Using modal verbs can (can?t), may, must 4. Practicing the object clauses introduced by “that” and “if/ whether”. Difficult Points Different modal verbs in different contexts The object clauses. Grammar 1 Step 1. Lead-in Ask the students a question “Could you tell us something about the life on Mars?” Tell the students to show us the life on Mars in different ways, such as, transport, food and water, what to wear, how to work, how to study, etc. Step 2. Presentation 1) Ask the students what they should say in the following situations. This morning ×××was late. If he wanted to come into the classroom, he should say, “________________” If I want to borrow a dictionary from a student, I should say, “_______________________________________”. Now If a student wants to borrow a book from me, what should he/she say? 2) Ask the students to find out the difference between the two sentences. Could I use your dictionary? Can I use your dictionary? From the words above, the students can know that we can use „can?, „could?, „may?, „might? to talk about permission, and these four words have different degrees of formality. Step 3 Practice 1. Show the students some pictures and ask them to choose the better words. 2. Remind the students of the usages of the modal verbs by giving them two dialogues and asking them to fill in the blanks. Fill in the blanks with may, can(not), must(not), needn?t, ought to. S: Mum, ________ I use your computer? I want to search for some information. M: Sorry, you ________ use it now. I am busy. And I think you _____ ______ spend more time on your homework. S: ______ I do it now? M: Well, you ________. After lunch, you ______ have a rest. Then do your homework. You _______ use the computer after you finish your work. But you _________ play computer games. Fill in the blanks with may, can(not), must. M: Someone is knocking at the door. ______ It be Lucy? S: It _____ be Lucy. I didn’t call her. I think it ____ be Daniel. Ah, yes! Daniel, come in. (5 minutes later, someone else knocks at the door.) S: Mum, please open the door. It _____ be Millie. I’m sure! 3. some more exercises about modal verbs. Step 4 Homework Finish the exercises in the workbook. Grammar 2 Step 1 Revision Check the exercises about modal verbs in the workbook. Step 2 Lead-in Ask the students two questions about the life on Mars. What do many people think of the life by the year 2100? Who will do most of the work on Mars? Step 3 Presentation 1 1) According to the students? answers, show them the sentences with object clauses. People think (that) robots will do most of our work. Many people believe (that) we will live on the planet Mars by the year 2100. Many people are sure (that) they will have more time for their hobbies. Then tell the students to find out the rules with the hint: From the sentences, we know (that) an object clause can be put after some _______, such as „think?, „believe?, „know?, or after some ___________, such as „sure?, „certain?. 2) Ask the students to change one sentence into the negative one, and give them two items and make the students choose the better one. Many people believe (that) we will live on the planet Mars by the year 2100.(改为否定句) Many people don?t believe (that) we will live on the planet Mars by the year 2100. Many people believe (that) we will not live on the planet Mars by the year 2100. And then tell the students we always put „not? before „think? and „believe?. Step 4 Practice 1 Ask the students to find out whether it is an object clause or not. Step 5 Presentation 2 1) Another 2 questions Can any plants grow on Mars now? Many people are sure that some plants can produce enough water on mars, aren?t they? Then show the students object clauses to introduce a „yes/no? question. Then tell the students to pay attention to the order and the tense. Step 6 Practice 2 1) Use „if? or „whether? to make object clauses 2) Fill in the blanks with „that?, „if? or „whether?. Step 7 Homework 1) Translate the following sentences. 2) Finish the exercises in the workbook. Title 9B Unit1 Integrated skills and Study skills Teaching aims 1. Listen, read, say and write something about living on Mars. 2. Learn skimming and scanning. Style New Period 2 Important Points 1. Try to describe the life on Mars. 2. Skimming and scanning. Difficult Points / Step1. Revision Do some exercises about Grammar. Integrated skills Step2.lead-in 1. Discussion: Would you like to live on Mars? Why? (advantage, disadvantage) 2. Make a survey: Ask students to put up their hands if they would like to live on Mars. Conclusion: From the survey conducted in our class, the percentage of the students who want to live on Mars is_________.( read new words: conducted, percentage) Step3. Presentation 1. Part A1: a.Simon wants to live on Mars. However, Daniel is still not sure if he wants to. He is listening to a preview on this topic. Listen with him and try to help him to make notes about it. b. Check the answers together and then practice the new words with the teacher. 2. Part A2: a.Daniel is watching the TV programme. Listen to the discussion and answer the questions. 1.How many students are invited to the programme? 2. Which grade are they in? 3. How does each of the students on the TV programme feel about living on Mars? b. Listen again and help him complete the lists. c.Check the answers one sentence by one sentence. Then read them by the students themselves. 3. Part A3 a.With the help of the information in A1and A2, complete the dialogue in Part A3 and read it to check the answers. b.Analyze and practice the useful expressions in the dialogue. c.Read it by the students themselves. Step4.Debate Divide the class into two groups to discuss the following topic: Living on Mars will be better or not? Step5: Speak up 1.listen and answer Simon and Daniel are talking about the life on Mars. Listen to their conversation and find out their opinions on it. 1.Would Daniel like to live on Mars? Why (not)? 2.Where does Simon prefer to live? Why? 2.Read the dialogue together and then practice the useful expressions. 3.Practice the dialogue in pairs or make a similar dialogue in pairs. Step6.Useful expressions Study skills Step7.lead-in We have learned a lotr about Mars. Today we are going to learn more about mars. What?s the colour of Mars? So we call it Red Planet. Why is it red? Because of its atmosphere. The main Part of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide instead of oxygen. How much carbon dioxide? 95 per cent. However, the surface of Mars is more like the surface of the earth than other planets And it has two moons: Phobos and Deimos Step8. presentation 1. To know better about mars, please read the text on p18 and answer the question: What?s the text mainly about? Do we need to read every word to get the answer? We just need to run over the text quickly---read the first and the last paragraphs, the title and the headings. We call this kind of reading skill skimming. 2. Answer another question Is there any life on Mars? Why ? Also, we don’t need to read every word. Instead, just look for the key information that will answer your questions. So we call this kind of reading skill scanning. Step9 practice 1. Using skimming and scanning to do the exercises and check the answers on p18. 2. Read the text together and practice the useful expressions. 3. Read it by the students themselves. Step10. Homework 1. Practice the useful expressions. 2. Do some exercises. Title 9B Unit 1 Main task Teaching aims Learn to write something about a guide to living on Mars. Style New Period 1 Important Points Learn to write something about a guide to living on Mars. Difficult Points How to write something about a guide to living on Mars? Step1. Free talk Review something in reading Part: Talk about the life on Mars (food and clothes, travelling, home, school life) Step2. Main task 1. ask students to talk about more for living on Mars. (transport, animals, shopping, money, free time…) 2. Daniel is writing a guide to living on Mars in 2100. Complete the flow chart for him. 3. Check the answers together and then read the phrases after the teacher. 4. Ask students try to remember as much information as they can. Then complete the draft without looking at part A. 5. Read the passage and go through it one paragraph by one paragraph. 6. Useful expressions Step3. Task 1. First, make a flow chart like Daniel?s on page 19. 2. Second, write the guide about living on Mars. 3. Then check the writing. Title 9B Unit 1 checkout Teaching aims Go over the knowledge we have learned in this unit Style New Period 1 Important Points Revise and practice object clause Step 1 Revision Check the students? compositions. Step 2 Lead-in Ask the students to imagine the different lives on Mars and On Earth. Step 3 Practice 1) Simon is very busy these days. He is so tired that he falls asleep and dreams the he is on the way to Mars. Ask the students to fill in the blanks. 2) After Simon wakes up, he decides to write down his dream. Ask the students to fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the verbs given. Then tell them to find out how many object clauses there are in the passage. Step 4 Homework Make new sentences according to the requirement.