Natural disasters
第一课时 Welcome to the unit
Teaching aims:
To introduce the topic of disaters.
To identify vocabulary related to disasters.
To identify weather conditions and label pictures with correct words. Focus and difficulties: To recognize the weather conditions and natural disaster. Teaching methods:
Communication and description
Teacing aids: recorder Multi-media computer
Teaching procedures: Step1 Lead in :
T: What’s the weather like today? Ss: It …
Revise some other words about weather.e.g. rain, snow, wind.… Step2 Presentation
1.Show some pictures of snowstorm that winter?
﹙2﹚.Do you think too much snow is good or bad for people? 2.Encourage students to tell their ideas. Show more pictures of bad weather. Ask: What caused the trouble or problems?
Help students to answer : nature. They are natural disasters.They cause the bad weather .They make people get into the trouble. Step3 Practice
1.T: Do you know what other natural disasters ? What words do we use to talk about bad weather ?
Elicit from students other bad weather conditions. ( rainstorm, snow
1 storm,typhoon.e.g.)
2. Read the words in Part B and ask more able students to describe each weather condition only with simple phrases and words.
3. Help Ss to complete the task on their own and check the correct answers with the class as a whole.
4.Show more pictures of natural disasters, you distinguish natural disasters from disasters caused by other reasons?Get them to look at part A on P93 and try to finish this part
check the correct answers with the class as a whole,then read together. Teach some new words. Step4 Activity
Divide the students into groups of four to discuss. Bring some photos to each group and ask students to write a
1.T: Look at the pictures ,people suffered from these natural disasters . What can we do to teacher leads students to the comic strip. 2.T:Hobo questions about each picture. 1).What’s the weather like?( It’s raining) 2). What it started to rain? ( He was sleeping)
4).Did ? ( Half an ’t ’t think Eddie likes some language points. Step 5.games
Ask students to role-play the conversation. Step 6.Homework:
Revises the contents we about the earthquakes in Taiwan or in other parts of the world.
3.To develop the Ss’ability and skills reading comprehension and let the Ss learn the natural disasters.
Difficult points: The key words and phrases the comprehension of the story. Teaching methods: reading and talking
Teacing aids: recorder Multi-media computer Teaching procedures:
2 Step1 Lead in : T: we
1.Let the students guess the new words by showing the pictures and talk about the earthquake that Sichuan.
2.T: What do people often feeldo when the earthquake . ） fear (be frightened) 害怕，恐惧 Scream v. 尖叫
run in all directions 奔向四面八方 run wildly 疯狂地奔跑 fall down 掉下来 come down 倒塌，塌陷
3.After learning these new words , earthquake in Taiwan in 1999. Many people lost their lives in the earthquake , but a boy called Timmy surrived. Let’s listen to the story to see what PartD. Step4 Reading and answering
1. Listen and read after the tape one paragraph by one paragraph.Check if they understand by asking more questions about the passage.
2.Invite the students to read the whole passage in front of the class.Encourage them to mime and gesture in order to illustrate the different aspects of the experience. Step5. Practice
1.Ask stuednts to read the sentences in the boxes in PartC and fill in the blanks. Check the answers with the whole class.
2.Divide the students into groups of four.Retell the story ,then encourage some of them to retell in front of the class. Homework
1.Recite the new words .
2.Try to read the story as fluently as you can
3 8A Unit6 Natural disasters
Reading(2)
Teaching aims:
1.To scan the passage.
2.To explain some difficult and important language points and to use them. 3.To make an interview about the earthquake. Difficult points: some language structures Teaching methods: reading and talking
Teacing aids: recorder Multi-media computer Teaching procedures: Step1 revision
1. Revise the names of natural disasters.
2.Show the students the photos of the story of Taiwan earthquake and each paragraph and encourage the students to tell their difficulties. Teacher .)震动，摇动 Fear (n.)恐惧，害怕 一阵恐惧
a moment of fear in fear 在恐惧中 direction方向，方位 人们四处逃散。
scream 尖叫（兴奋，恐惧） Wildly失去控制地 calm down
be in a pairs . One acts as a reporter. The other acts as Timmy. Give some questions to
What can you do when you are in the earthquake ? What will you do when the others are in danger ? Homework
1. Try to retell the story .
4 2. Try to learn the useful words and sentences. 8A Unit6 Natural disasters
Vocabulary
Teaching aims:
1. Students learn to use the words and phrases to describe weather conditions.
3. Get the students to use vocabulary to make a weather forecast. Teaching Aids:
Multi-media computer
Difficult points: To use the words and phrases to describe weather conditio Teacing aids: Multi-media computer Teaching procedures: Step1 Revision
Help students to revise Reading. Step2 Presentation
1. Revise the name of natural disasters,and say‘many natural disasters are caused by bad weather. Let’s talk about the weather.’ 2.Teach the new words by showing pictures.
3.Ask students to finish PartA quickly and read aloud these words . Step3 Practice
1. Get the students to find out the rule of changing the nouns into adjectives. 2.Games. Ask students to draw pitures of different weather ,Students take turns to show the pictures ,the rest of the class say the noun and adjective describing the pictures.
3.Elicit from students as many different as weather conditions as possible.e.g.,‘dry and sunny’，‘’etc.Brainstrom the natural disasters that can be caused by bad weather.
dry and sunny-drought, -flood, lighrening-fire. 4.Get some pairs to make up the dialogue.
(What kind of weather do you likedislike? Why?)
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