江苏省盐城市阜宁县明达初级中学八年级英语上册《Unit 6 Natural disasters》（第3课时）教案 牛津译林版.doc

unit 6 natural disasters 第三课时 reading(2) teaching objectivesto revise what they learned about the earthquake and help the students to understand the passage betterto read the passage again and help them to highlight the important language points and sentence patternsto learn to write or read a passage following the sequence of how things happenedto develop students ability to learn things by themselvesteaching proceduresstep 1 brainstorming and free discussion1. what can you see in this picture?2. what happened? (an earthquake.)3. what happened to this building? (it fell down.)4. what kind of sound can you hear? (bomb! a big noise like thunder.)5. how do you know that there is going to be an earthquake? how will you feel at the very beginning? (feel everything is shaking.)6. if this building is shaking now, what will you do? will you be afraid / be frightened? (you will be in fear.) are you going to shout (scream)? are you going to run / jump? (people will run in all directions / run wildly.) you should calm down and think what the best way to escape is, so that you can stay alive (be safe).7. suppose you are in danger, that means there are lots of bricks around you, you cannot move your body, youre trapped. what are you going to do? (use the mobile phone? / shout (scream) / wait for help)8. if you have a packet of chocolate, youre hungry, are you going to eat it? why or why not? (stay for a very long time.)step 2 making lists of words and phrasesget the students to make lists of words and phrases used in the text that describe noise and movement/destruction, fear and hope.noise: big noise, thunder, screamed, real noise, bombs, shoutedmovement/destruction: slight shaking, earth started to shake, ran (wildly), pieces of glass and bricks fell down, walls began to come downfear: screamed, frightened, dark, could not at all, a moment of fearhope: calm down, still alive, bright daylightget the students to finish the exercise in part b1 b2 to check their understanding of these words. give the students 3-4 minutes and ask them to complete the exercise. invite the students to check the answers in pairs. step 3 doing ask and answer orallydo ask and answer orally help the students to focus on the most important information in each paragraph. go through each paragraph and then help the students to highlight some important sentences structures. para 1: where was timmy? what happened in the shopping center?he was doing some shopping when it started. at first, he felt a slight shaking through his body. people in the shopping center looked at each other in fear. para 2: what happened to the building? how did people react? what did timmy do?people ran in all directions. some people ran out of the shopping center. he tried his best to run out to the street, too. people were running wildly while pieces of glass and bricks come down. para 3: where was timmy when the shaking stopped? how did timmy feel?he calmed down and asked himself, did i really survive?he could not see anything at all. and didnt know if anyone was around him. i am trapped, he said to himself. para 4: what did timmy do while he was waiting for help? he shouted for help.para 5: how was he rescued?he was trying to find the way out when he suddenly heard some noise above me. they were in a great hurry to move away the bricks and stones. step 4 reading the passage aloud togetherget the students to read the passage aloud together. then give them some key wor