Lesson Plan-How life began on the earth.docVIP

Draft plan I. Teaching aims: The main task for this lesson is to dub a video introducing how life began on the earth. Language: To accomplish the main task, the students will be able to understand the new vocabulary in this text and pronounce them correctly. religion theory billion globe violent carbon atmosphere unlike fundamental harmful acid chain multiplied oxygen lay exist give birth to thus in their turn prevent… from Language skills: Students will be able to get the information they want from the text through skimming and scanning. Students will be able to organize information logically they get from the text. Learning strategy: Students will be able to do a project through teamwork with others. Culture awareness: Students will be able to know better of the Big Bang theory and Evolution. II. Teaching procedure: Pre-reading: Introduce the topic of the lesson to the students T: What is the end of the world? It’s “D”. Then what is the beginning of the world? “W”? I wish it was that easy. T: There are different theories of the beginning of the world. Show pictures of different concepts of the “beginning” on PPT. (show the Pan Gu and the Creation) T: What do you know? (Teacher point at the pictures and get the students to tell the general idea of them. T: Each religion and culture has its own ideas about how life began on earth. Today we are going to talk about it in a scientific way instead of religions. (Play a video for the students and ask them to bare this question in mind: Questions to choose from according to the students’ level: Tell me what impressed you most after you have watched the video? What is the most important thing for all types of life on the earth? How many types of life on the earth have you seen in the video? Name them. T: Now please allow me to show you a video. And bare this question in mind: ___________. (Students tell everything they have seen in t