Teacher:

Student level: Grade 8

Book version: FLTRP

Title: M12U2 Stay away from windows and heavy furniture

Length: 40 mins

Learners analysis

As Grade Eight students, they have got a great number of English language knowledge, including Imperative Sentence and Model Verbs, which will help them a lot in mastering and using this lessson’s key structures. However, because of the lack of “first aid” and “avoiding danger” education, it will be hard to develop and expand their ideas of this topic.

Lesson type

Reading and speaking (New lesson)

Teaching aims

Knowledge aims:

1. To master new words and expressions.

2. To enable Ss to use Imperative Sentence and Model Verbs fluently.

3. To understand the main idea and details by reading and speaking.

Skills aims:

To improve Ss’ reading and speaking skills.

Emotional aims:

To develop Ss’ awareness of the importance of being safe in a sudden disaster and the value of life.

Important and difficult points

Important points:

1. How to use Imperative Sentence and Model Verbs.

2. How to develop speaking and reading skills.

Difficult Points:

How to enable Ss to retell “how to help yourself and others in an earthquake?”

Teaching aids

Tape recorder; Multimedia; Handouts

Teaching procedures

Step 1. Leading-in

Activity 1 Warming-up (4 mins)

    1. Play a video about earthquake and ask Ss “what did you see in the video” and “how do you think of earthquake”

2. Teacher pretends to be a “CCTV propogandist”, introducing some basic knowledge about earthquake.

Step 2. Language practice

Activity 2 Free Talk (5 mins)

    Show some pictures of Ss’ earthquake drill and talk freely:“what should we do during an earthquake?”

Activity 3 Game Time (3 mins)

    Play a game: to choose the correct methods to help yourself during an earthquake.

Activity 4 Watch and say (3mins)

    Look at the pictures in Activity1 in Page 98 and answer:

    1. Where are the people?

2. What are they doing? Why?

Activity 5 Read and answer (7 mins)

    Read the passage and answer questions (Multiple Choice; T/F; Fill in blanks; questions)

Activity 6 Listen and repeat (10 mins)

1. Play a cartoon video. Ss repeat sentence by sentence with stops.

    2. Repeat the whole passage without stops.

Activity 7 Brief summary

    Briefly summarize important usages and expressions in book.

Activity 5 Read and choose the correct answer to each question

1. Ask the students to do this individually.

  Goals

视频及常识普及：

让学生迅速进入课堂环境，为地震的主题营造氛围，调动学生的积极性。

自由讨论：

结合文本与学生自身实际。初步切入“避险”的话题。

游戏：

继续深入“避险”话题，通过游戏体验不同情境下的避险措施。

双人活动：看图说话

回到课本，进入主题。

阅读训练：

多角度训练学生的阅读能力与技巧。

跟读、模仿：

加深学生对课文的理解，帮助学生正确发音。

句型小结：

为复述准备材料

Teaching procedures

Step 3. Extension

Activity 8 Retell

    Retell the whole passage with pictures and some simple clues.

Activity 9 Group work-- make a report (7 mins)

Ss work in groups and make a report “How to save yourself in an earthquake”.

Step 4. Summary

Activity 10 Jingle (1mins)

Show a Jingle about saving yourself in an earthquake.

Step 5. Homework

Write a short passage (1min)

How to help yourself and others in an earthquake?

复述：

依据提示复述课文，加深对文章的理解，既是检测又是输出。

小组活动：作报告

基于文本又高于文本，为下一课时“写”做准备。

总结：顺口溜

基于文本，知识拓展，活跃气氛

作业：

与课堂内容紧密相关的话题作文，完成输入与输出。

Blackboard

design