2021学年Unit 8 Natural disasters教案设计
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Comic Stripes& Welcome to the unit
Teaching Objectives
● To get to know the topic of the unit ---natural disasters
● To identify the vocabulary related to the topic
Teaching Procedures
STEP 1 Talking about pictures
Show the following picture to the students. Get then to guess what happened.
T: Look at the picture. What’s the weather like? S: It is raining. T: Is the rain heavy? S: Yes, it is. T: What happened and what are they talking about? S: …. |
Encourage the students to be creative and try to make different kinds of guesses. Get the students to listen to the tape and find out what happened.
For weaker classes, get the students to talk about each picture.
Picture 1: What’s the weather like? What happened to Hobo? Picture 2: What happened to Hobo’s house?/How does Hobo feel at Eddie’s house? Picture 3: Why doesn't he want to go home alone? Picture 4: Will Eddie help him? |
Get the students to read and practice the dialogue and then act the dialogue out. Encourage the students to add something to make the dialogue funnier.
STEP 2 Getting to know the weather
Say ‘Rainy days are very common. Now let’s see if you know the following kind of weather. ’
BAD WEATHER | ||
| typhoon | There is strong wind. It is difficult for people to hold their umbrellas. Walking may even be difficult. Many things fly in the sky. |
| thunder and lightning | It is really frightening. We can see bright lightning and hear the loud thunder. Sometimes it may start a fire, when the lightning hit a tree or a building. |
| rainstorm (may cause flood) | It rains heavily. Water is everywhere. In some places, it is very difficult for people to walk. They have to roll up their trousers. |
| snowstorm (sandstorm) | It snows heavily with strong wind. Deep snow covers everything. It is difficult for people to walk and easy to get lost. However, it really makes a beautiful world. |
For stronger classes, it is necessary to introduce more bad weather, like storm and sandstorm etc.
Put it clear that bad weather sometimes can cause disasters (Teach the word ‘disaster’ and explain it in English ‘A natural disaster is a very bad accident caused by natural forces. It usually causes great damage or loss of life.’) Show pictures about the disasters and elicit the disasters, like flood, drought, tsunami, and hurricane, and earthquake etc.
STEP 3 Making a summary about bad weather and disasters
Bad weather | heavy rain, rainstorm, thunder and lightning, wind , strong wind , typhoon , snowstorm, sandstorm, storm |
Disasters | flood, drought , earthquake , fire, hurricane, etc. |
STEP 4 Finishing the exercises in Part A
Get the students to finish the exercises in Part A and then check the answers.
Disasters | 2. The Taiwan earthquake killed (cause loss of life) thousands of people. 5. A flood washed the village away. 6. Lightning started a big fire in a house. 8. A big storm killed 20 people. |
Accidents | 1. The school football team lost the game. 3. A car accident killed three men. 4. A coach crashed into a tree last night. 7. A young boy fell from a tree and hurt his legs. |
Emphasize that natural disasters are caused by nature forces usually with great damage and loss of life. Accidents are things that suddenly happened. No one plans it. Sometimes they are caused by people’s mistakes.
Explain some of the language used here and help the students to understand.
STEP 5 Discussing about the bad weather and disasters
Get the students to discuss about the bad weather and disasters.
What will happen if there is a …? How will you/people feel if there is a …? What will you do if there is a …? |
STEP 6 Reporting bad weather or a disaster
Suppose there is very bad weather or a disaster somewhere, get the students to work in pairs as reporters and cameramen and try to report it.
Hello, everyone. I am a reporter from ________. I am __________. As you can see,__________. People really feel frightened. So stay at home and take care. The bad weather will finish tomorrow. Thanks for watching. |
Ask the students to show their feelings and to act out the behaviors of people in the bad weather.
If there is a strong wind, they may feel hard to walk and hard to hold the umbrella.
STEP 7 Homework
a. Collect more information about bad weather and disasters.
b. Finish off the exercise in the books.
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