初中英语人教版八年级下册Unit-5-Section-A-3a.doc

Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came?Section A 3a The Storm Brought People Closer TogetherTeaching objects：1.Knowledge Object：1） Students can learn new words: storm, wind, light, area, window, match, against, rise and phrases: fall asleep, in a mess, die down, break apart2) Students will be able to use the “when/ while” in sentences.2. Ability Object: 1) Try to find necessary information through fast reading and careful reading.2) Students can talk about past events and tell a story with the language chunks.3. Emotion Object: The teacher encourages the students to think more of others and try to help each other in time of difficulty. Remember that helping others is just helping ourselves.Teaching importance：1. Reading skills: fast reading and careful reading.2. New words and new sentence structures.Teaching difficulties：1. To master the structure: When + the past tense While + the past progressive tense 2. The new words and the language points.Teaching methods：fast reading careful readingTeaching procedure:Step 1 Question-guided learning T: Do you know the storm?Whats the storm like?When the storm is coming, what can you see?Show Pictures S: (strong winds, black clouds, no light, fallen trees and broken windows.)T: The storm sometimes brings disasters , bad things , to us. But it also brought people closer together. As a report says.A heavy rainstorm was in the area - Alabama.Ben went through a rainstorm. Lets go with him and feel the storm. And find the reason.Now, lets come into our lesson, The Storm Brought People Closer Together. ( write the title on the blackboard )Step 2 Self learningFast reading T: This is the article. We can see one , two , three, four paragraphs here. What are they talking about?Match the paragraphs with the meanings. Which paragraph or paragraphs are talking about things happened before the rainstorm? Which is during the rainstorm, while the rainstorm is happening, which is after the rainstorm? Check answers in groups. One student stands up to match.Step 3 Group workCareful readingParagraph1T: Before the rainstorm, what was the weather like?S: Ben could hear strong winds outside. Black clouds were making the sky very dark. With no light outside, it felt like midnight. (because there is so dark outside that we are seem to be in midnight even now is the daytime. )Paragraph 2T: What were people doing before the rainstorm? Was everyone busy? What about Bens dad?S: He was putting pieces of wood over the windows.T:What was Bens mom doing while his dad was putting pieces of wood over the window? S: She was making sure the flashlights and radio were working She was putting some candles and matches on the table.(Bens dad was covering the windows while , at the same time, Bens mom knows everything is in order. ) Step 4 Guided learningParagraph 3T: Before the rainstorm, Bens family are busy to prepare for the bad weather. The rainstorm is coming. What were Bens family doing during the rainstorm? Answer questions. Write down your answers with full sentences.1.What was Ben doing when the rain beat heavily against the windows?( it rained hard and knocked on windows/when leads the past tense) S: He was helping his mom make dinner when the rain beat heavily against the windows.2. What were they doing while the storm was happening outside? (after dinner) S: They was trying to play a card game while the storm was happening outside. (while was happening, herewas trying ) (while leads the past progressive tense)3. Were Bens family happy to play a card game? S: No, they werent. It was hard to have fun with a serious storm happening outside.(It was difficult to be happy to enjoy a card game when the storm was outside.) Paragraph 4T: During the rainstorm, Bens family were all at home.What happened after the storm?How was the neighborhood? (you can find the neighborhood , this word and find the information quickly.)S: It was in a mess. Fallen trees, broken windows and rubbish were everywhere. (一团糟)T: Except things were in a mess, how about the people? Lets do Exercise 4 True or false. 1.Ben could sleep at first. ( ) couldnt , why? Why couldnt Ben sleep at first?2. He finally woke up , when the wind was dying down at around 3:00 am. ( ) fell asleep , went to bed the wind weakened gradually When he woke up , the sun was rising. He opened eyes in the morning, a new began. 3.Although the storm broke many things apart, ( )it brought families and neighbors closer together.(broke apart: break into pieces , brought closer: united together ) Why?They joined the neighbors to help clean up the neighborhood together.(Bens family with other families all swept their neighborhood together.) Step 5 Assessment and reflection 3b. Complete the sentences using information from the passage.Notice when and while.(1) When the news on TV was reported, strong winds _outside.(2)While Bens mom was making sure the radio was working, his dad_ . (3) Ben_ when the heavy rain finally started.(4) When Ben _ at 3:00a.m., the wind_ . In this lesson, at last, we know the reason why the storm brought people closer together.Before the storm, the weather was getting worse and worse, everyone in the neighborhood was busy including Bens family. They tried to prepare well for the terrible rainstorm. During the rainstorm, the rain beat heavily and every body could not focus what they were doing. After the rainstorm, things were broken apart. The nei