Unit 4 Space Exploration-ReadingFor Writing教學設(shè)計

This section is about an argumentative essay, whose themeis about the value of space exploration,

Students ought to read the text for basic understandingand begin to reflect on the question of whether exploring space is worth the moneyand effort.

1. Get students tohave a good understanding of some features about an argumentative essay.

課件教案

2. Study the organization and languagefeatures.

3. Developstudents’ writing and cooperating abilities.

4. Strengthenstudents’ great interest in writing discourses.

1. Stimulate students to have a goodunderstanding of how to write an argumentative.

2. Cultivate students to write anargumentative properly and concisely.

Step 1: Skim tostudy the organization of the passage

1.What’s the main purpose of essay?

It is to present an idea that exploring space has helps us in many ways.

2.What is the main idea of the passage?

It is to present an idea that exploring space has helps us in manyways./benefits us a lot.

3. Sum up the main idea of each paragraph.

Para1: Different opinions about space exploration.

Para2：Exploring space has made a difference in the fight against world hunger.

Para3：Space exploration has already promoted technological improvements thatbenefit us.

Para4：Sending astronauts into space has helped people to think about theworld’s problems and even to find ways to solve them.

Para5：Exploring space provides the world with many benefits, so it shouldcontinue.

Step2：Read for details.

1.Why are so many peopleagainst space exploration?

2.What has space explorationdone for food production?

3.What did the pictures ofEarth from space make people realize?

4.How does space explorationbenefit the products that people use nowadays?

5.What’s the author’s attitude to exploring space? And find out threetopic sentences that support the writer’s idea.

Step 3: outline

Different opinions about space exploration

Some people argue that we should stop exploring,while others feel this is a 1. shallow view.

Different benefits of exploring space

It has 2. made a difference in the fight against world hunger.

It has 3. promoted technological improvements.

It helps people 4. think about the worlds problems.

Draw a conclusion

Exploring space should 5. continue .

Step 4:

寫出你對太空探索的看法

本單元的寫作項目是議論文，議論文的寫作就是對某一方面的問題，通過列舉事實、講道理的方法來表達自己的看法。一般來說，議論文由論點、論據(jù)、論證三部分組成，通常按提出問題、分析問題、解決問題的邏輯順序來安排寫作。

基本框架

1．開頭(beginning)——交代或提出問題

2．主體(body)——介紹或從幾個方面來分析問題

3．結(jié)尾(ending)——寫出解決問題的方法或思路

主題詞匯

1．a(chǎn)rgue with sb.aboutsth.與某人爭論某事

2．with the developmentof science and technology隨著科技的進步

3．My reasons are asfollows...我的理由如下

4．I dont agree withthe idea that...我反對……

5．exploring space haspromoted the development of...宇宙探索促進了……的發(fā)生

6．space explorationbenefits farming宇宙探索惠及農(nóng)業(yè)

話題佳句

1．Different people havedifferent ideas about space exploration.

對于探索宇宙不同的人有不同的觀點。

2．I hold the view thatmankind should explore space.

我認為人類應該探索宇宙。

3．Different people lookat the question in different way.

不同的人對這個問題有不同的看法。

4.60%of the people hold the view that exploring space will benefit us, on the otherhand, 40% think it wastes lots of time and money.

百分之六十的人認為探索太空會對我們有益，然而另一方面，百分之四十的人認為它浪費了大量的時間和金錢。

5．I think there aremany advantages in exploring space. First，ithas made a difference in the fight against world hunger. Second, it made us realizethat our earths resources are limited.

我認為探索宇宙有很多優(yōu)點，第一，它在抗擊世界性饑餓的戰(zhàn)斗中發(fā)揮了作用。第二，它讓我們認識到地球的資源有限的。

6.On the other hand，the rest of the people are against the plan because it may result insome bad effect.

另一方面，其余的人反對這個計劃，因為它可能會導致一些不好的影響。

7.Ihold the belief that space exploration not only enable us to understand how theuniverse began but also help us survived well into the future.

我堅信探索太空不僅能夠使我們了解宇宙的起源而且能夠幫助我們更好地走進未來。

8.Ithink we should spend more time and money exploring space so as to provide newand better solutions to peoples shortterm and longterm problems.

為了給人類的短期和長期問題提供更新和更好的解決方法，我認為我們應該花更多的時間和金錢來探索太空。

9．From my point of view，it is wrong of young people to depend on their telephones too much，which may do harm to both their physical and mental health.

在我看來，年輕人過度依賴手機是不對的，因為它們可能會對他們的身心健康都有害。

最近你班同學就“人類是否應該進行宇宙探索”這個問題進行了激烈的討論。有人認為，探索宇宙不僅讓人類更好地了解宇宙的發(fā)展，還可以用來指導農(nóng)業(yè)生產(chǎn)，以及把一些探索太空的高新技術(shù)用于現(xiàn)實生活；也有一些人認為探索太空花掉了大量的人力物力；影響了人們的生活水平。請你根據(jù)以下情況寫一篇報告并發(fā)表自己的觀點。