Students ought to read the text for basic understanding and begin to reflect on the question of whether exploring space is worth the money and effort.

1. Get students to have a good understanding of some features about an argumentative essay.

2. Study the organization and language features.

3. Develop students’ writing and cooperating abilities.

4. Strengthen students’ great interest in writing discourses.

Stimulate students to have a good understanding of how to write an argumentative.
Cultivate students to write an argumentative properly and concisely.

Step 1: Skim to study the organization of the passage

1.What’s the main purpose of essay?

It is to present an idea that exploring space has helps us in many ways.

2.What is the main idea of the passage?

It is to present an idea that exploring space has helps us in many ways./benefits us a lot.

3. Sum up the main idea of each paragraph.

Para1: Different opinions about space exploration.

Para2：Exploring space has made a difference in the fight against world hunger.

Para3：Space exploration has already promoted technological improvements that benefit us.

Para4：Sending astronauts into space has helped people to think about the world’s problems and even to find ways to solve them.

Para5：Exploring space provides the world with many benefits, so it should continue.

Step2：Read for details.

1.Why are so many people against space exploration?

2.What has space exploration done for food production?

3.What did the pictures of Earth from space make people realize?

4.How does space exploration benefit the products that people use nowadays?

5.What’s the author’s attitude to exploring space? And find out three topic sentences that support the writer’s idea.

Step 3: outline

Different opinions about space exploration

Some people argue that we should stop exploring,while others feel this is a 1. shallow view.

Different benefits of exploring space

It has 2. made a difference in the fight against world hunger.

It has 3. promoted technological improvements.

It helps people 4. think about the world's problems.

Draw a conclusion

Exploring space should 5. continue .

Step 4:

写出你对太空探索的看法

本单元的写作项目是议论文，议论文的写作就是对某一方面的问题，通过列举事实、讲道理的方法来表达自己的看法。一般来说，议论文由论点、论据、论证三部分组成，通常按提出问题、分析问题、解决问题的逻辑顺序来安排写作。

基本框架

1．开头(beginning)——交代或提出问题

2．主体(body)——介绍或从几个方面来分析问题

3．结尾(ending)——写出解决问题的方法或思路

主题词汇

1．argue with sb.about sth.与某人争论某事

2．with the development of science and technology随着科技的进步

3．My reasons are as follows...我的理由如下

4．I don't agree with the idea that...我反对……

5．exploring space has promoted the development of...宇宙探索促进了……的发生

6．space exploration benefits farming宇宙探索惠及农业

话题佳句

1．Different people have different ideas about space exploration.

对于探索宇宙不同的人有不同的观点。

2．I hold the view that mankind should explore space.

我认为人类应该探索宇宙。

3．Different people look at the question in different way.

不同的人对这个问题有不同的看法。

4.60% of the people hold the view that exploring space will benefit us, on the other hand, 40% think it wastes lots of time and money.

百分之六十的人认为探索太空会对我们有益，然而另一方面，百分之四十的人认为它浪费了大量的时间和金钱。

5．I think there are many advantages in exploring space. First，it has made a difference in the fight against world hunger. Second, it made us realize that our earth's resources are limited.

我认为探索宇宙有很多优点，第一，它在抗击世界性饥饿的战斗中发挥了作用。第二，它让我们认识到地球的资源有限的。

6.On the other hand，the rest of the people are against the plan because it may result in some bad effect.

另一方面，其余的人反对这个计划，因为它可能会导致一些不好的影响。

7.I hold the belief that space exploration not only enable us to understand how the universe began but also help us survived well into the future.

我坚信探索太空不仅能够使我们了解宇宙的起源而且能够帮助我们更好地走进未来。

8.I think we should spend more time and money exploring space so as to provide new and better solutions to people's shortterm and longterm problems.

为了给人类的短期和长期问题提供更新和更好的解决方法，我认为我们应该花更多的时间和金钱来探索太空。

9．From my point of view，it is wrong of young people to depend on their telephones too much，which may do harm to both their physical and mental health.

在我看来，年轻人过度依赖手机是不对的，因为它们可能会对他们的身心健康都有害。

最近你班同学就“人类是否应该进行宇宙探索”这个问题进行了激烈的讨论。有人认为，探索宇宙不仅让人类更好地了解宇宙的发展，还可以用来指导农业生产，以及把一些探索太空的高新技术用于现实生活；也有一些人认为探索太空花掉了大量的人力物力；影响了人们的生活水平。请你根据以下情况写一篇报告并发表自己的观点。

注意：1.写作内容应包括以上全部要点，可适当发挥，使上下文连贯；

2．词数80左右。

Recently we have held a heated discussion about the problem whether mankind should explore space or not, different people about it has different opinions.

Some people hold the view that space exploration will not only enable us to understand how the universe develop but also help farming to grow more food and apply the new technology to our life. while other people argue that we should stop exploring space because it costs too much time and money.

From my point of view，it is very necessary for human to explore space.Because it not only can provide the world with many different benefits，but also can solve people's short-term and long-term problems.