8A Unit8 Natural disasters第一课时教案

牛津初中英语8A Unit 6 Natural disasters教案PERIOD 1: Comic strips & welcome to the unitTeaching aims:1.To learn some new words about the weather;2.To remember the names of natural disasters;3.To be able to describe natural disasters.Focal points:1.words for four skills: natural earthquake accident wash village lightning storm rainstorm thundereful expressions start to rain half an hour later kill thousands of people a car accident wash the village away start a big fire fall from a treeDifficult points: To be able to describe some disaster weather using the words.Teaching aids: A tape-recorder Some pictures of disasters Teaching procedures:Step 1 GreetingsStep 2 Studying aimsStep 3 Lead-inTalk about today’s weather with stude nts. Review the words about weather, like rain rainy snow snowy wind windy,ect.Step 4 PresentationSay ‘Some bad weather may cause natural disasters. Now let’s see if you know the following disaters. ’BAD WEATHERtyphoon There is strong wind. It is difficult for people to hold their umbrellas. Walking may even be difficult. Many things fly in the sky. thunder and lightning It is really frightening. We can see bright lightning and hear the loud thunder. Sometimes it may start a fire, when the lightning hit a tree or a building.rainstorm(may cause flood) It rains heavily. Water is everywhere. In some places, it is very difficult for people to walk. They have to roll up their trousers. snowstorm(sandstorm) It snows heavily with strong wind. Deep snow covers everything. It is difficult for people to walk and easy to get lost. However, it really makes a beautiful world.For stronger classes, it is necessary to introduce more bad weather, like storm and sandstorm etc.Put it clear that bad weather sometimes can cause disasters (Teach the word ‘disaster’ and explain it in English ‘A natural disaster is a very badaccident caused by natural forces. It usually causes great damage or loss of life.’) Show pictures about the disasters and elicit the disasters,like flood, drought, tsunami, and hurricane, and earthquake etc.Step 5 PracticeStudents listen to the descriptions and tell if they are accidents or disasters.Get the students to finish the exercises in Part A and then check the answers.Disasters 2. The Taiwan earthquake killed (cause loss of life) thousands of people.5. A flood washed the village away.6. Lightning started a big fire in a house.8. A big storm killed 20 people.Accidents 1. The school football team lost the game.3. A car accident killed three men.4. A coach crashed into a tree last night.7. A young boy fell from a tree and hurt his legs.Emphasize that natural disasters are caused by nature forces usually with great damage and loss of life. Accidents are things that suddenly happened. No one plans it. Sometimes they are caused by people’s mistakes.Explain some of the language used here and help the students tounderstand.Step 6 PresentationShow the following picture to the students. Get them to guess what happened.T: Look at the picture. What’s the weather like?S: It is raining.T: Is the rain heavy?S: Yes, it is.T: What happened and what are they talkingabout?S: ….Encourage the students to be creative and try to make different kinds of guesses. Get the students to listen to the tape and find out what happened. For weaker classes, get the students to talk about each picture.Picture 1: What’s the weather like?What happened to Hobo?Picture 2: What happened to Hobo’s house?/How does Hobo feel at Eddie’s h ouse?Picture 3: Why doesn't he want to go home alone?Picture 4: Will Eddie help him?Get the students to read and practice the dialogue and then act the dialogue out. Encourage the students to add something to make the dialogue funnier.Step 7 AskingStudents read the words and sentences on these two pages and try to find out anything they don’t understand.Step 8 Language pointsTeacher explains something important to students. Students try to remember them.Step 9 ActivityDiscussing about the bad weather and disasters, get the students to discuss about the bad weather and disasters.What will happen if there is a …?How will you/people feel if there is a …?What will you do if there is a …?Suppose there is very bad weather or a disaster somewhere, get the students to work in pairs as reporters and cameramen and try to report it. Hello, everyone. I am a reporter from ________. I am __________. As you can see,__________. People really feel frightened. So stay at home and take care. The bad weather will finish tomorrow. Thanks for watching. Ask the students to show their feelings and to act out the behaviors of people in the bad weather.If there is a strong wind, they may feel hard to walk and hard to hold the umbrella.Step10 Exercises。