【新课教学过程（二）】选修8 Unit 5 The Conquest of the Universe（外研版）
Period 1 Reading—Space: the Final Frontier
▇ Goals
● To learn about some important space exploration
● To learn to read with strategies
● To master important words and expressions and use freely
▇ Procedures
Step 1: Leading in by introducing the given pictures
Before we begin the reading of Module 5, let’s have a look at of several pictures and learn something about the important events in space exploration.
The first picture is about Yang Liwei, the first Chinese astronaut, who was sent into space in 2003. The astronaut in the second picture is Neil Armstrong, who is the first man to set foot on the moon. The old man is the first space tourist called Denis Tito, spending 8 days on board the Russian part of a joint USA-Russia space mission in 2001. The young man is Yuri Gagarin, who is the first man in space. The seven American astronauts died just over a minute after taking off in Challenger in 1986. The spacecraft in this picture is the Cassini space probe, which reaches Saturn in 2005 and sends beautiful images of Saturn’s rings back to Earth. The spacecraft in this picture is the American Viking 1 mission, which lands on Mars and sends back good quality photos in 1975.
Step 2: Before you read
