8A Unit6 Natural disasters  教案

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 happened inChina during last Spring Festival .Get them to answer the questions about it.

﹙1﹚.Do you like snow in 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 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,help students to know their names and describle them. Help students to use the Past Continuous Tense to talk about the pictures.

5．T: Can 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 headline about natural disasters or accidents.

Step5  Presentation

1.T: Look at the pictures ,people suffered from these natural disasters . What can we do to help them.Students will discuss it warmly. Then teacher leads students to the comic strip.

2.T:Hobo has some trouble. What happened to him? Let’s  have a look. Students look at the pictures. Teacher asks some open questions about each picture.

1).What’s the weather like?( It’s raining)

2). What happened to Hobo?( He got wet.)

3).What was Hobo doing when it started to rain? ( He was sleeping)

4).Did he hear the rain? ( Half an hour later.)

5).What do you think happened o Hobo’s house?(The floor was all wet.)

6). Why doesn’t he want to go home alone?(Because he wants Eddie to mop

all the water up)

7).Will Eddie help him?(No. I don’t think Eddie likes his idea.)

2. Play the tape and students read after it.

Explain some language points.

Step 5.games

Ask students to role-play the conversation.

Step 6.Homework:

Revises the contents we have learned.

Preview Reading

牛津英语    8A Unit6 Natural disasters  教案

Reading(1)

Teaching aims:

1.To infer the meaning from the key words,pictures and the context.

2.To elicit any information 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 how to describe natural disasters and how o protect

themselves in 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:

Step1 Lead in :

 T: we have learnt some natural disastrs last time .What disasters have we leart?Encourage students to say something about the natural disasters.

Show some picturs of an earthquake that happened in Wengchuan,sichuan on May12,2008 .

Step2  Presentation

1.Let the students guess the new words by showing the pictures and talk about the earthquake that happened in Sichuan.

2.T: What do people often feel/do when the earthquake  happened? etc.Teach some new words and phrases.  

shake   v. 摇动，震动    （shaking   n. ）

hear a big noise like thunder 听到一声像打雷一样的声音

in 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 ,help students finish PatrB1. Check it together.

4.T: There  was an 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 happened to him

Step3 Listening and skiming

1.Play the tape for Studenets and check general understanding by asking some ‘wh’ questions and doing exercises PartC.

2.Students skim the passage and do exercises on 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

牛津英语    8A Unit6 Natural disasters  教案

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 help them to retell it.

Step2  Scanning

Scan each paragraph and encourage the students to tell their difficulties.

Teacher helps students to solve them. Teacher explains language points to students.

shaking (n.)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 hurry to do sth

since 因为

be trapped陷入困境

Step3 Exercise

Do some translatios.

1.响声过后，孩子们惊恐地看着彼此。

2.我们正在尽全力来保护野生动物。

3.在音乐会上，歌迷一直在疯狂地尖叫。

4.听了这首美妙的音乐后，他平静了下来。

5.地震过后，有许多人被困在砖块之下。

6.当我今天早上看到她时，她正急匆匆赶去上班。

Step3 Activity

1.Work in pairs . One acts as a reporter. The other acts as Timmy. Give some questions to help them.

After that ask who he/she thinks is the best news reporter.

Step4 Discussion

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 .

2. Try to learn the useful words and sentences.

牛津英语    8A Unit6 Natural disasters  教案

Vocabulary

Teaching aims:

1. Students learn how to change nouns to adjectives.

2. 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’，‘heavy rain’etc.Brainstrom the natural disasters that can be caused by bad weather.

dry and sunny-drought, heavy rain-flood, lighrening-fire.

4.Get some pairs to make up the dialogue.

(What kind of weather do you like/dislike? Why?)

Step4 Presentation

1.Talk about the weather forecast.

2.Finish the dialogue in the book and check the answers.

3.Look at the weather map and talk about the weather in China.

(Here is a weather forecast on the Internet. What’s the weather like in Beijing? What will the weather be like tomorrow/the day after

tomorrow?)

4. Look at the map and make a weather forecast .

Homework

1.Try to rember the words about the weather   .

2.To make a Liyang’s weather forecas .

8A Unit 6 Natural disasters   Grammar (1)

Teaching Objectives:

To learn more about the past continuous tense.

To use the tense to talk about things.

Teaching contents:

Words: discuss, terrible, break, snowball, snowman, hit

Phrases: search the Internet          discuss…with…        plan a trip to Tangshan    

on the side of the road      drive you to school      as usual     break down

Some others: project    guidebook   a terrible snowstorm

Teaching preparations:

Tape recorder

Computer

Pictures

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Revision

1. Check the homework and test the students about the new words and phrases that we learnt last lesson. Ask the students to work in pairs; one gives nouns that relate to the weather and then the other gives the adjectives quickly.
2. Talk to the students about the bad weathers that can cause natural disasters.

Step2 Presentation  

T： Here is an article, can you find out how many tenses are there in this article?

    Today is fine, the sun is shining brightly and it is a beautiful sunny day. I always get to school at 7 o’clock everyday, but I was late today because I couldn’t find the key to my bike. I think I will take a taxi to go home tonight.

(let the students think of the simple present tense, simple past tense, present continuous tense and simple future tense, write down the rules)

Compare the present continuous tense with the past continuous tense for the Ss, let them find out the differences. Then tell them when to use the past continuous tense.

Step3 Practice (game time)

T: Today we’ll learn the past continuous tense. First can you help me to find my key? The taxi is so expensive and I really want to enjoy the pretty day on my bike. I might leave my key somewhere and maybe someone took my key away. You can ask me questions to help me find my key.

T: I was having dinner at 6:30p.m. last night. What was my father doing at that time?

Do it for several times with the children and then let them try to make up sentences with the information in the timetable.

What was our teacher doing…?

What was her father/ her mother/ her little dog doing fro