外研版高中英语必修三教案：Module-3-The-Violence-of-Nature-Word版.doc

Module 3: The Violence of NatureTeaching Aims:1. Knowledge and Skilla. Get the general information about the violence of nature.b. Improve the students ability to give definitions of words.c. Know the common enemies of our human being natural disasters and the ways of surviving when one occurs.d. To grasp the usage of the past perfect passive and indirect speech.2.Emotion and Valuesa. Fully realize the characteristics of different natural disasters and the danger they caused, improve the confidence of overcoming them, and try to make contributions to the development of the whole society.b. To encourage the Ss to be active and cooperative in the class3. Cross-cultural awareness:a. Understand the natural disasters of different area and multi-form intensity of all parts of the world 4. Character-building:a. To strengthen their confidence of learning well in order to make a better world for our next generation.b. To let them know the ways of keeping them safe when some natural disasters occur.Teaching Important Points and difficult pointsa. Learn how to definite words, using the Attributive Clauseb. How to change the direct speech into the indirect ones.c. Improve the students ability of grasping the general idea of the passage. Teaching Method:a. Task-based methodology b. Communicative ApproachTeaching Time:Five periods:Period 1 Listening and SpeakingPeriod 2 Reading Period 3 WritingPeriod 4 Language studyPeriod 5 ConsolidationPeriod 1Listening and Speaking Teaching Content and Goals:1. The topic: the Violence of Nature2. Knowledge goals: (1) Listen to sentences and paragraphs covering new words and phrases about natural disasters, and the grammar of past perfect passive tense as well as indirect speech are concerned(2) Practise to describe natural disasters with new words and phrases fluently and use past perfect passive tense and indirect speech if it is necessary3. Teaching goals：Students are able to write and talk about a natural disaster Teaching Important Points and Teaching Difficult Points:1. Teaching important points：Pronunciation of new words; Talk about the natural disasters in the world.2. Teaching difficult points：To describe a natural disaster you have experienced. Teaching Methods and Approach:1. Teaching methods：Student-centered interactive classroom; communicative and heuristic teaching method2. Teaching approach: the use of multimedia teaching approach Teaching procedures：Step 1: Warming up (5 minutes)1 Remind the students of the tsunami in 2004 with a picture and talk about it.2 Ask the students to talk about it, such as Sri Lanka , Indonesia , Thailand , India, Malaysia and East Africa destroyed by the monster waves, causing millions of deaths. 3 Ask the students to talk about the pictures in the Introduction, page 21.Step 2: Lead-in (part 1, page 21) (5 minutes)Get students to match the words in the box with the definitions below. Then ask individuals to show their answers. Step 3: Discussion (5 minutes)1. Put the students into groups of four to discuss the questions.2. Then open up the discussion to the whole class. Make notes on the board, especially of relevant vocabulary which may be new.Step 4: Words study (Workbook Page 80) (5 minutes)Ask the students to turn to Page 80 and begin the task in vocabulary. (Exercise 5) Choose one student to read out the answers and check them with the whole class. Then the students read the sentences together.Answers: volcano, eruption, ash, lava, tidal wave, flood. Step 5: Practice of speaking (10 minutes)1. Personal Experience: Ask the students to talk about their personal experience on natural disasters and share the experience with each other.2. Role-Play: Ask the students to work in pairs and make a dialogue as a reporter and a survivor; the content of the dialogue should cover the questions as “What has happened? When did it happen and how long did it last? How did you survive it? etc.” Step 6: Listening and Vocabulary(10 minutes)1. Ask the students to turn to Page 25 and complete the first part.2. Try to finish the Part Three.3. Listen to a paragraph and underline the words which the speaker stresses. Step7: Summary (4 minutes)Every student is asked to think about what he learns in the period and tell what he learns to his partner.Step8: Homework(1 minute)1. Read the “Everyday English ” part in the Power Point and get familiar with the adverbs.2. Surf the Internet for ways to avoid much damage from disasters.3. Make three sentences to define the words earthquake, volcanic eruption, and plane crash, using the Attributive Clause. Period 2Reading Teaching Content and Goals:1. The topic: the Violence of Nature2. Knowledge goals: Read the text with new words and phrases, as well as sentences with past perfect passive tense and indirect speech; get the information about different kinds of disasters and have a good understanding about them.3. Teaching goals：Students are able to l read about the Gulf Stream and check the meaning of the words.l know what a Tornado is without looking at their books.l talk about something about a Hurricane.l learn some words like tropical, occur, disaster and so on by heart by finding them and match them with the definitions. Teaching Important Points and Teaching Difficult Points:1. Teaching important points: Read and get certain information about what a tornado is; what a hurricane is, and an extraordinary event2. Teaching difficult points: How to help students improve their reading ability? Teaching Methods and Approach:1. Teaching methods：Student-centered interactive classroom; communicative and heuristic teaching method2. Teaching approach: the use of multimedia teaching approach Teaching procedures：Step 1: Revision (4 minutes)Ask three or four students to read the word list and ask other students to correct their wrong pronunciations. Step 2:Work in pairs on a special report about disasters and interview some students. (5 minutes)Questions may like these:1 Have you ever experienced (a flood, a tornado a thunderstorm, a hurricane)? 2 Do you know anyone who has experienced one of the events?3 Have you ever read a news story about one of the events? Can you describe it?4 Do you know anything about the events? For example, what causes them?Step 3: Read about the Gulf Stream and check the meaning of the words on Page 22. (5 minutes)Step 4: Skimming (3 minutes)Skim the three articles on Page 23 and match the article with its main idea.Step 5: Scanning (7 minutes) Scan the three articles and then answer the questions on the Power Point. Step 6: reading(10 minutes)Read again for the specific details and fill in the form.TornadoHurricaneDefinitionPlacePhenomenaBad resultsThe worst exampleStep7: Find the words and expressions in the passages and match them with the definitions. (6 minutes)Step8: Summary (4 minutes)Summarize the information what we have learned about the natural disasters in the articles together.Step 9: Homework (1 minute) 1. Collect more information on Internet about one of the disasters (for examples: hurricane; tornado; thunderstorm; volcanic; eruption; earthquake tsunami flood).2. Read it and have a good understanding about it.Period 3 Writing Teaching Content and Goals:1. The topic: the Violence of Nature2. Knowledge goals: write essays with the words and grammar points we have learned; complete the requested practices in the book and be able to compare the differences between different natural disasters in different areas.3. Teaching goals：Students are able to write essays proficiently with what we have learned in the class. Teaching Important Points and Teaching Difficult Points:1. Teaching important points：Language Points2. Teaching difficult points：How to make an essay coherent? Teaching Methods and Approach:1.Teaching methods：Student-centered interactive classroom; communicative and heuristic teaching method2. Teaching approach: the use of multimedia teaching approach Teaching procedures：Step 1: Brainstorming (5 minutes)Step 2: Read the passage aloud. (2 minutes)Step 3: Complete the exercise on Power Point by yourselves (3 minutes)Step 4: Topical Writing (34 minutes)1. Volcano (17 minutes)(1) Language points about volcano(2) Exercises on writing an essay about volcano2. Earthquake (17 minutes)(1) Language points about earthquake(2) Exercises on writing an essay about earthquakeStep 5: Homework (1 minute)l Please surf the Internet or read some related news to collect the information about Wenchuan Earthquake first.l Then read and organize the information.l And you need to write a report about the earthquake with 150 words.Period 4 Language Study Teaching Content and Goals:1. The topic: the Violence of Nature2. Knowledge goals: Learn the grammar of past perfect passive tense and indirect speech; learn about new words and their usage.3. Teaching goals：Students are able to use new words and the grammar of past perfect passive tense as well as indirect speech proficiently. Teaching Important Points and Teaching Difficult Points:1. Teaching important points：Language Points2. Teaching difficult points: the grammar of past perfect passive tense Teaching Methods and Approach:1.Teaching methods：Student-centered interactive classroom; communicative and heuristic teaching method2. Teaching approach: the use of multimedia teaching approach Teaching procedures： Step 1: the grammar of the past perfect passive (17minutes)(1) Introduction of the past perfect passive(2) Related exercises on Page 24Step 2: the grammar of indirect speech (17minutes)(1) Introduction of the indirect speech(2) Related exercises on Page 26Step 3: Words (10 minutes)(1) Introduction of the new words (e.g. rotate ;violent; occur; pick up; take off; on average)(2) Instruction of the usageStep 4: Homework (1 minute)1. Be familiar with the grammar the past perfect passive the indirect speech2. Be familiar with the wordsPeriod 5 Consolidation Teaching Content and Goals:1. The topic: the Violence of Natu