Unit 8 Natural disasters 教学设计1.doc

Module 2 Nature and environmentUnit 8 Natural disasters教学设计1一、教学目标1. To introduce the topic of disasters.2. To identify vocabulary related to disasters.3. To identify weather conditions and label pictures with correct words.二、教学重难点To recognizes the weather conditions and natural disaster.三、教学过程Step1 Lead inT: Whats the weather like today?Ss: It Revise some other words about weather. e.g. rain, snow, wind.Step2 Presentation1. Show some pictures of snowstorm that happened in China during last Spring Festival .Get them to answer the questions about it.1.Do you like snow in winter?2.Do you think too much snow is good or bad for people?2. Encourage students to tell their ideas.Show more pictures of bad weather.Ask: What caused the trouble or problems?Help students to answer: nature. They are natural disasters. They cause the bad weather .They make people get into the trouble.Step3 Practice1. T: Do you know what other natural disasters? What words do we use to talk about bad weather?2. Read the words in Part B and ask more able students to describe each weather condition only with simple phrases and words.3. Help Ss to complete the task on their own and check the correct answers with the class as a whole.4. Show more pictures of natural disasters, help students to know their names and describe them. Help students to use the Past Continuous Tense to talk about the pictures.5T: Can you distinguish natural disasters from disasters caused by other reasons? Get them to look at part A on P93 and try to finish this part Check the correct answers with the class as a whole, then read together.Teach some new words.Step4 ActivityDivide the students into groups of four to discuss. Bring some photos to each group and ask students to write a headline about natural disasters or accidents. Step5 Presentation1. T: Look at the pictures, people suffered from these natural disasters. What can we do to help them. Students will discuss it warmly. Then teacher leads students to the comic strip.2. T: Hobo has some trouble. What happened to him? Lets have a look. Students look at the pictures. Teacher asks some open questions about each picture.1).Whats the weather like? (Its raining)2).What happened to Hobo? (He got wet.)3).What was Hobo doing when it started to rain? (He was sleeping.)4).Did he hear the rain? (Half an hour later.)5).What do you think happened to Hobos house? (The floor was all wet.)6). Why doesnt he want to go home alone? (Because he wants Eddie to mop all the water up. ) Will Eddie help him? (No. I dont think Eddie likes his idea.)3. Play the t