25.山東省臨沂第二十一中學  胡曉萌

教學材料
Traffic Jams—A Problem
Traffic jams happen anywhere. People can get very frustrated if they are stuck in a traffic jam.
If a person is driving a skycar, they wouldn’t have to worry about traffic jams. Drivers could just move over to the side of the road, get their car ready and zoom into the sky. The traffic jam would be far below them.

Inventing a Flying Car

For many years, people have tried to invent a car that could fly. Some were too expensive, and others just did not work.
But one day, an inventor named Gilo Cardozo put a motor onto a sand buggy. The motor had a big propeller and a sail. As Gilo zoomed over the ground, the buggy went up into the air. Gilo had turned the sand buggy into a skycar.

The skycar

Gilo’s flying car is called a skycar. It has a racing bike engine. The engine moves the skycar along when it is on the ground. The engine uses fuel made from plants.
When the car is flying, a parasail helps to move it along. As the car speeds over the ground, the parasail fills up with air.
If the parasail gets damaged or collapses, the skycar uses a parachute. The parachute will unfold so that the skycar can glide safely back to the ground.

Testing the skycar

The skycar idea couldn’t be sold until it was tested. People had to see if it was really safe. They had to see if it could fly long distances as well.
So Gilo Cardozo and his team went on a long journey to Timbuktu. This was a dangerous journey. They had to cross the sea and travel over a desert. It was hot and dusty in the desert. They were a long way from anywhere.

A Successful Journey

The most dangerous part of the journey was crossing the sea. The strong winds made the skycar swing around but no one was hurt.
Some people thought that the trip would fail. It didn’t. The skycar was a success. It could drive on motorways. It could go over sand dunes and rocky ground. And, it could fly safely a long way, too.

A Future for skycars

Skycars aren’t used yet to fly in and out of cities. They are noisy and they need space to take off.
Skycars  would  be  useful  in  many  ways.  They  are  easier  to  fly  than  a

helicopter and not as expensive. They could get to places where  helicopters and other vehicles couldn’t.
Someday soon, skycars could be zooming around in the sky like giant birds.

教學設計

 

課文標題：	Skycar
單元名稱：	第 15 級
教材版本：	多維閱讀
授課年級：	八年級

 

整體設計思路	這是一個非故事性的科普類文本。本書邏輯緊密，主要圍 繞 Skycar 展開。從發明過程、運作原理、測試過程等方面介 紹了 skycar，并基于現狀對其未來進行展望。文本分析采用 哲學方法—詮釋學，即：文本字面意思、文本背后的意思、作 者想表達什么、讀者對文本的評價。與此同時兼顧預測并調研： 學生的興趣點在哪里？學生的學習困難在哪里？
教學目標	1、了解文本所講的基本信息， 即 skycar 的發明過程、運作 原理、測試過程和作者對飛車未來的態度。 2、通過所學內容以及教師的信息補充，更全方位的了解飛車 的背景知識和飛車作者所體現出的科學探索精神。 3、引導學生形成對事物的客觀評價能力并激發學生不斷探索 的欲望。
教學重難點	1、降低難度，因為本文生詞較多，尤其是飛車運作原理部分。 2、將學生語言與思維進行有機結合。
教學過程
教學步驟	教師活動	學生活動	設計意圖 及資源準備
Lead in-- Have a free talk.	教師詢問學生上學的 交通方式。	回答問題。	本環節旨在實 現從已知到未 知的切入、過 渡。
Read and think	教師引導學生找出目 錄中的關鍵詞。	根據教師指令找出 文本每個標題的關 鍵詞。	旨在激發學生 的閱讀興趣， 引導學生初步 感知文本大致 脈絡。
Close reading	教師引導學生閱讀文 本、激發學生閱讀欲 望、培養其思維品質。	觀察圖片并結合自 身的體驗回答老師 提出的問題。	通過問題引 導，讓學生對 飛車的設計靈 感、發明過程、 工作原理和測 試過程等進行 了解和思考。