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Step 6 Summary

In this period, we mainly focus on the listening and speaking abilities. They are very important. If your listening or speaking is poor, you had better practice more. The more you listen to or speak English, the better your listening and speaking is. Remember: Practice makes perfect.

Step 7 Homework

Finish the Workbook exercises.

Read the listening texts again and try to learn about gravity and space travel.

The sixth period: Using Language: Extensive reading

The teaching emphasis will be put on developing students` reading ability by reading extensively. We will deal with two parts: A VISIT TO THE MOON IN Using Language on page 30-31 and CAUGHT BY A BLACK HOLE in Reading Task on page 66.

Difficult points: develop students` reading skills by extensive reading.

Important points: enable students to learn to use reading strategies as skimming, scanning, and so on. Get students to understand the science fiction stories.

Step 1 Revision

1. Check the homework exercises.

2. Ask some students to come to the front and act out their dialogues to review the expressions of giving instructions.

3. Get the students talk something about Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking as well as their ideas on the gravity.

Step 2 Warming up

Let students brainstorm the following questions:

What country first sent people into space?

How many countries have succeeded in sending people into space so far?

Who first landed on the moon?

Who is the first Chinese astronaut to go into space?

Do you want to visit the moon?

Step 3 Reading

1. Ask students to read the passage and then describe the three ways in which gravity changed for Li Yan ping and how his weight changed.

2. Fill in the two tables:

Write down the way in which gravity changed for Li Yan ping.

The way gravity changed Left the earth The gravity became very strong. In space The gravity disappeared. On the moon The gravity became very light.