Unit 12 Fact and fantasy
Teaching Goals
1. Talk about science fiction.
2. Learn to express beliefs and doubts.
3. Learn about Word Formation (2).
4. Practise creative writing.
Teaching Time: Five periods
The First Period
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn about some scientific facts by doing a small science quiz.
2. Train the students' listening ability.
3. Develop the students' speakingability by talking about science fiction using the useful expressions for beliefs and doubts.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Train the students' listening ability.
2. Master the useful expressions for beliefs and doubts.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. How to improve the students' listening ability.
2. How to finish the task of speaking.
Teaching Methods;
1. Free talk to arouse the students' interest in science fiction.
2. Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through the listening material.
3. Discussion to make the students finish the task of speaking.
Teaching Aids:
1. the multimedia
2. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step II Free-talk and Lead-in
Give the Ss ten minutes to talk about the topic on science fantasy. Then teacher say the following:
Today, we are going to talk about science fiction.
Step III Warming up
First, let's look at some new words. (The multimedia shows the new words in this period.)
New words;
fantasy /  / n.
Jules Verne /   /
league /Ii:g/ n.
distance /  / n.
balloon // n,
bulb /  / n.
fiction / / n.
(Teacher teaches the words and explains them, and then says the following, )
Now, look at the covers of the two books written by Jules Verne. (The multimedia shows the two books.) Have you read them?

(Some say " Yes", while some say "No". Teacher asks two students who say "Yes" to stand up and say something they know about the books. )
Have a quiz (Teacher uses the multimedia to show the following. )
1. What is the highest mountain on earth and how high it is? (2 points):
2. What is the deepest point in the ocean; and where is it? (2 points):
3. Which is the longest river on earth: and how long is it? (2 points);
4. What is the distance from the earth to; the moon? What is it to Mars? What; is it to the nearest star? (6 points):
5. How far is it to the centre of the: earth? (2 points):
6. How high are the temperatures near: the centre of the earth? (2 points):
7. What is the longest distance around; the world? (2 points):
8. How fast does a balloon travel? How: about an aeroplane? How about a space shuttle? (6 points)
Suggested answers;
1. Mount Qomolangma; 8848. 13 m
2. Mariana Trench; in the west of the Pacific Ocean.
3. the Nile River; 6 600 kilometers
4. 380, 000 kilometers; more than 56, 000, 000 kilometers
5. 150, 000, 000 kilometers
6. 7 500 K
7. 40, 000 kilometers
8. about 30 — 40 kilometers per hour; about 500 kilometers per hour; about 7.4—11.2 kilometers per second
Step IV Listening
T: So much for Warming up. Now, let's do some listening. Look at the listening part on Page 9. Listen to the tape and write down where, when and what Sam and Betty saw. Then according to the description you hear on the tape, make a sketch of the animal. Are you clear about that?
Teacher plays the tape for the students to listen. Then give the students a few minutes to fill in the chart and make a sketch of the animal as they saw. When they finish, teacher checks their answers and picks out one sketch of the animal drawn vividly by them as an example.
Go on with the listening practice. Listen to the tape again and then finish Exercise 2. Before listening to the tap
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