China's first manual space docking successful Teaching objectives1. Get students to have a good knowledge of China’s first manual space docking.Knowledge objectiveAbility objectiveMoral objective3. Arouse the students’ interest in space exploration.2.The students will master some new words about space exploration. Teaching important and difficult points.1. How to make the students understand the process about manual space docking.2. How to enlarge the students’ vocabulary in science. Lead-in(5’)1. Name the countries which have acquired technologies and skills necessary for space exploration.Teaching proceduresthe United StatesRussiaChina2. Give some examples about the achievements that China made in the field of space exploration.｛ Fast reading(8’)1.What’s the first attempt in China’s history of space exploration this passage tells us?2. Who are the three astronauts in Shenzhou IX?Three Chinese astronauts Sunday successfully completed a manual docking between the Shenzhou IX spacecraft and the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module Liu Wang Jing Haipeng Liu Yang 3. What’s are the three factors behind the manual docking success?Firstly, Liu Wang has grasped the sophisticated manual docking technologies very well and his psychological status has been sound. Secondly, the three astronauts were in close cooperation. Thirdly, the domestically-made docking system was reliable. 4. What’s the significance of the manual docking?The manual docking is a significant step for China's manned space program that celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, as China has fully grasped space travel, space walk and space rendezvous and docking technologies that are essential to building a space station, Careful reading(20’)1. Find out some sen...
