طرح درس پیش دو درس 6

Teacher's name: Nasrin Mehri                              Level: pre-university  Teaching point: Reading comprehension Topic: Space exploration: lesson 6, Paragraphs 1-2-3 Estimated time: 45 minutes
Teacher provides pictures, some pieces of films, sentences and questions about the topic of the passage. The teacher applies those in the classroom relating them to the student's real life experience in order to clarify the meanings of the new words.		Pre-entry performance:
At the end of the lesson learners must be able to:  a) Read and comprehend the passage very well b) Answer the questions precisely based on the passage. c) Use the new words of the lesson to discuss with the teacher as well as with another concerning the topic of the lesson. d) Use "Reading skills" -defining, restating, and punctuation marks to guess the meaning of unknown words.		Performance Behavioral Objectives:
Time	Text book- white board- CD player	Materials:
10 mins	a) Warming up: greetings and call the roll b) Teacher introduces the topic of the lesson and writes it on the board. c) A summary of the lesson is given by the teacher.	Step 1 Introduction Procedures:
25 mins	Teacher's activity: a) Teacher relates the topic of the lesson to the student's real life experience by asking them questions and using their background knowledge. 1- Would you like to travel into space? 2- What do you imagine it would be like? 3-What problems do you think you would experience in space? 4- Is there life on other planets? 5-Do you know the first man who traveled into space? b) Teacher shows some pictures or some pieces of films about the topic of the lesson and asks students some questions. 1- Who is an astronaut? 2- Which planets have human explored? 3- What is the solar system? 4- Where is the Uranus?   5- Have you ever seen a comet? 6- Do you know the names of any constellations? c) Teacher asks students to answer the "pre-reading" questions by their prior  knowledge and previous experience. d) Teacher introduces the new words and writes them on the board and meaning some of the words. Exploration /eksplə′reɪʃn/ noun  = traveling into or around the in a place in order to learn. Her exploration led her into the deserts of central Asia- Explore /ɪk′splᴐ:r / verb = travel around a new place to learn about it. Indiana Jones explored the jungles of south America. Feature /′fɪ:tʃǝ(r) / noun = an important part of something Pictures are a feature of this book.- Kindness is all mothers feature. - Launch /lᴐ:ntʃ / verb= put a ship into water or a spacecraft in the sky. The space shuttle was launched in 1977.- The Navy is to launch a new warship today. - Artificial /a:rtɪ′fɪʃl / noun= not real- made by people These artificial flowers seem natural. - Density /′densǝtɪ:/noun= the relation of weight to volume. They want to measure the density of each liquid. Students' activity: a) Answer the related questions. b) Look at the pictures and watch the film. c) Answer the" pre reading" questions d) Elicit the meaning.	Step 2 Pre-view Pre-reading activity
40 mins	Teacher's activity: a ) Teacher reads the passage aloud –tape can be played- with good pronunciation b) Teacher asks students to read the first paragraph within specified time. c) Teacher writes some questions on the board to makes student scan and skim the paragraph.  d) Teacher asks the students to answer the questions and continue this procedure up to the end of the reading passage.  Paragraph 1: 1- half moon, full moon and new moon are the ---------- of the moon a) objects          b) features        c) phases       d) devices 2- the early people recorded their observations -------- a) on paper       b) in cave paintings       c) in their minds  Paragraph 2: 1- Telescope is used to see --------- objects. a) orbiting        b) magnified      c) wonderful      d) distant 2- Which of the following is not mentioned as something that is observed by Galileo? a) phases of venues                  b) Jupiter's moons c) milky way galaxy                 d) moon's mountains 3- sir Isaac Newton used a better telescope to observe space in ------ a)1609             b) 1957              c)1656           d)1977  4- "magnify" in line 3 is opposite of -------- a) greaten        b) make larger    c) belittle        d) increase paragraph 3 1-sputnic I was the first ----------launched by the former soviet union. a) space probe         b) space shuttle c) satellite               d) spacecraft 2- The modern age of space exploration began when the first---------- a) humans were launched into space. b) humans were landed on the moon. c) telescope was invited d) satellite was launched into space 3- Which sentence is NOT correct? a) a satellite is any objects that orbits another object. b) United states was the first country launched a satellite into space. c) the first satellite was bigger than a soccer ball. d) satellite can be natural or artificial e) Teacher locates the precise areas of difficulty f) Teacher asks the meaning of some words after the students finish reading each paragraph. Students' activity: a) Listen carefully. b) Underline the unknown word or difficult part/s. c) Read the passage on their own silently d) Answer the questions related to each paragraph.	Step3 View
15 mins	Teacher's activity: a) Asks some questions to check the students' comprehension -true/false, multiple-choice and wh questions. b) Refer to some "Reading skills" asks students to guess the meaning of unknown words. Students' activity: a) Answer the questions individually or with a group and compare their answers with each other.	Step4 Review Post-Reading activity
	- Students are asked to: a) do the post reading activities.   b) write summary. c) give a lecture voluntary. d) answer a cloze test for the next session. astronaut-atmosphere- commercial- explorers- launch- outer- simulator-weightlessness   If you have ever dreamed of travelling in space then our (1) ---------space travel program will make that dream a reality. Of course, passengers will need to prepare for this experience. However , unlike the months of training that (2)----------undergo, our passengers will be ready for (3) --------- within two days. To prepare for a truly out-of-this-world experience, passengers will spend two days in our special training facility. There the passengers will be able to experience zero gravity in a special (4) -------; this will allow the passengers to acclimatize. During the flight itself a rocket will propel the space craft into suborbital space in excess of 1000,000 m above the Earth's (5) --------. This will allow the passengers to experience (6) --------.Our space (7)------ will be able to float around the cabin and view the earth and (8) -------- space for approximately ten minutes prior to re-entry and landing.	Assignment