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1 New Standard English SH Book 3 Module 3 The Violence of Nature By Chen Hongying from No 4 Middle School of Haikou Teaching Contents Reading and Vocabulary Teaching Objectives Knowledge Objectives 1 Master the key words and phrases furniture bury feather occur violent strike wave take off on average end up etc 2 Learn some information about natural disasters 3 Get the students to have a better understand of the whole passage Ability Objectives 1 Develop the students reading ability 2 Enable the students to learn to describe a natural disaster Learning Strategies 1 Develop the abilities of getting information and the students reading skills e g scanning and skimming 2 Learn to make a prediction before reading 3 Learn to make notes about useful information while reading Affection and Attitudes Develop the students love for the people who suffer from the big natural disaster Teaching important points Enable the students to have a better understand of the passage Teaching difficult points Enable the students to describe a natural disaster Teaching Aids Multi media a blackboard Teaching Methods Whole Language Approach Task Based Language Teaching Teaching Procedures Step 1 Revision and Lead in 1 Revise what they learned yesterday by showing the pictures of natural disasters T As you know nature plays an important part in our daily life We sometimes meet the violence of nature by accident The terrible weather has a bad effect on our daily life Yesterday we learned the definitions of some natural disasters Can you tell the names of these natural disasters 2 Lead in the topic of the Gulf Stream by asking the questions 2 1 In your geography lessons have you learned about warm current 暖流 and cold current 寒流 2 Do the features of a stream 洋流 have a great effect on the weather of the place 3 What do you know about the Gulf Stream Step 2 Pre reading Task 1 What is the Gulf Stream 1 Get the students to read about the Gulf Stream and find out what the Gulf Stream is 2 Lead them to understand the definition of the Gulf Stream by showing the maps 3 Let them read the passage and answer the questions of Activity 1 Task 2 Word study Match the words in the box with the definitions bury disaster feathers fur occur tropical rotate violent affect furniture 1 you can see this on an animal 2 describe the hottest parts of the earth north and south of the equator 3 a terrible event 4 you can see these on a bird 5 to place in the ground or tomb 6 to happen 7 have an influence on 8 very strong 9 things needed in a house 10 move around a point Task 3 Prediction 1 Lead them to make a prediction before reading the passages T Look at the title What do you think the passages are about If you are a writer what will you introduce in the passages 3 2 Write down their predictions on the Bb Bb definition 定义 place speed damage the worst example you know a story an event connected with a tornado or a hurricane Step 3 While reading Task 1 Fast reading Get them to read the three passages quickly and grasp the definition of hurricane and tornado and know the general idea of the passages by answering the questions 1 What is a tornado 2 What is a hurricane 3 What was the extraordinary event connected with Task 2 Scanning 1 Read Part 1 What Is a Tornado carefully and decide if the following statements are true T or false F 1 All tornadoes have winds of more than 400 kilometers per hour 2 There are more tornadoes occurring in the US than in other parts of the world 3 Tornadoes can t destroy furniture because they are not violent enough 4 On average there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year 5 The worst tornado in history killed at least 700 people 2 Read the second and last parts of the passage carefully Answer the questions 1 What happens at sea during a hurricane 2 When was the worst hurricane of all time 3 Was the actor Charles Coghlan killed in it 4 What happened to him after the hurricane Task 3 Third reading 1 Read the passages again and complete the chart This can help the students to have more details of the passages TornadoHurricane Definition Speed Place Damage 4 The worst example 2 Read the last part again and fill in the blanks An extraordinary event Coghlan went to live in Canada He then moved to where he became He then moved to Galveston where he in 1889 The hurricane Galveston in 1900 then Coghlan s coffin in the sea The Gulf Stream carried it to Canada So the extraordinary event is A person to his motherland after he was Step 4 Discussion Lead them to discuss the question What shall we do for the people who suffer from big natural disasters Step 5 Summary Lead them to summarize what they have learned in this period by asking the following questions 1 Do you know how to describe a natural disaster 2 If you are to write a passage on What Is a Typhoon what will you introduce Step 6 Homework 1 Read the passages again and find the words and phrases you can t understand 2 Search information about typhoon on the Internet and write a passage on the topic What Is a Typhoon Bb Design Module 3 The Violence of Natur