whole class.
Give the students some more background information about spaceships without people: Some
spaceships have been sent to visit different planets, such as Mars, Venus and Jupiter.
Ask the students to write down the answers in the exercise books. The suggested answer to the last
question is: With the help of the man-made satellites, it is easy for different countries to send and receive messages. We can also use
satellites to help us make telephone calls to foreign countries.
V. Practice
Play Speech Cassette or video for the students to listen or watch. For the second time, let the
students repeat after it, at last, the students can read the passage at the same time while playing the
sounds.
Give the students some free time to practice reading aloud. Then ask some of them to read in class.
Check their reading. Explain:
so far: We have learned 2000 words so far.
With one’s help: With the teachers help, he caught up with the other students.
Knowledge: Our knowledge of the USA is not so good.
Thanks to: Thanks to Tom’s help, we finished the work on time.
VI. Do Exercise below:
The universe means the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars, and the space ______ them. Many
of the stars are so ______ away that we ______ see them.
The moon, our ______, travelled ______ the earth. It has been visited _____ man in spaceships.
Man-made ______ have been sent up ______ space by many countries. They go ______ the earth. They
are used for helping us to learn more ______ the earth, the weather and other things. They are also
used for sending and ______ messages. It makes people ______ different countries understand
each other better. So people say the world itself is becoming a much ______ place. People call the
small place “the global village”.
The answers: between, far, can not, satellite, round, by, satellites, into, round, about, receiving,
from, smaller
VII. Consolidation
Read the passage again, ask the students to find sentences what replace those in text.
1) Text —Many of the stars cannot be seen because they are too far away.
Exercise —Many of the stars are so far away that we cannot see them.
2) Text —The moon travels round the earth. It is our satellite.Exercise —The moon, our satellite, travels round the earth.
VIII. Homework
1.Fill in the blanks。
Man-made s ________ have been s ________ up into space by many countries. They can be used for
sending and r ________ messages. For example, w ________ their help, China can send its TV and
radio p ________ to the other side of the w ________. We can also use them to help us m _______
_ telephone, calls to f ________ countries. T ________ to them, the world itself is becoming a
much s ________ place and people from different countries. Now u ________ each other better.
2. Let the students retell the text.
3. Make six sentences using the Present Perfect Tense.
Lesson 47
Period: The Third Period
Content: Lesson 47
Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector.
Teaching Objectives: Revise the distance and dialogues.
Language Focus: the modal verbs, numbers.
