unit-2-heroes.doc

Unit 2 Heroes
Lesson 1 Modern Heroes
Part 1 Analysis of Teaching material
The topic of this unit is Heroes, including national heroes, history makers, sports stars and superhero. Different fields have different heroes.
The first lesson is about national hero Yang Liwei’s first journey with Shenzhou V to the outer space.
The lesson not only tells the first manned spaceship’s movement from lift-off to landing, but also trains the students’ English learning abilities including reading, writing and speaking abilities.
The senior students have built the basic foundation to learn English.
They are more mature than before, so they are able to analyze some primary materials.
They are just lack of chances to practice and courage to express their ideas.
According to the new standard curriculum and the syllabus, after analysis of the teaching material and the students, I think the teaching aims are as follow:
1. Knowledge and skill aims:
a. To practise skimming and scanning skills to get a general idea of the text and find answers to some specific questions.
practise intensive reading in order to get the main idea of each paragraph and work out the meaning of the new words, new phrases and key structures.
c. To practise writing skills with the new words, new phrases and structures.
d. To improve oral English.
Process and method aims:
To train the students’ self