Listening and vocabulary教学设计

Module 1 my senior high at school

Reading and Vocabulay Teaching Aims 1. Target language

Vocabulary tornado, rotate, thunderstorm, violent, feather, destroy, occur, disaster, hit, strike, bury, homeless,

pick up, put down, take off, on average, tropical storms, in a population of, end up, be situated in, in all, lose one’s life, do a damage, a total of

2. Ability goals

Improve the students’ ability to read for specific facts, Learn how to describe natural disasters with useful expressions and sentences. 3. Learning ability goals

By discussing some natural disasters and reading the passage, lead the students to learn about the rescue skills once a disaster happens. Teaching Important Points

1. Discussing to help the students learn about natural disasters. 2. Scanning to look for specific information. 3. Skimming to get the general idea of the reading materials. 4. Careful reading to help the students focus on some useful expressions and sentences. Teaching Difficult Points

Learn to look for the general idea and specific information. Teaching Methods

Talking, discussing, eliciting, induction, task-based, students-centered. Teaching Aids

A projector and a computer Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Revision

Ask three or four students to read the word list and other students to correct their wrong pronunciations. Step 2 Leading-in A. Look at the pictures and have a discussion: What does “violence of nature” refer to?

B. Get the Ss to tell some other disasters.

C. Give the words according to the pictures and their definitions.

Step 3 Reading A. Read the three passages quickly and answer the questions

1). What is a tornado?

2). What is a hurricane?

B. Read the text carefully and answer the following questions:

1). How strong are tornado winds?

2). What can happen to furniture when a house is destroyed by a tornado?

3). How many tornadoes are there in the US every year?

4). How many people died in the worst tornado of all time?

5). What happens at sea during a hurricane?

6). When was the worst hurricane of all time?

7). Was the actor Charles Coghlan killed in it?

8). What happened to him after the hurricane?

Step4

While-reading Activity 1

What is a Tornado? Questions-asking

1. Read this passage aloud and answer the following questions. 1). How can tornadoes destroy houses? They can destroy houses, but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was. 2). Where do tornadoes mainly occur? In the US, with area from Texas in the Southeast to South Dakota in the north

3). Do a thorough reading and fill in the blanks. A tornado is a _____

______of air from a__________ to the ground. On (the) average, there are ______ tornadoes each year, ________ about 80______ and 1500_________. The worst occurred in____, _______ three US states and making 700___________ and 2700________.

The key: rotating

column

thunderstorm

800

causing Deaths injuries 1925 affecting dead/killed

injured Activity2

What is a hurricane? 1.

Give the definitions of Tornado and Hurricane. A tornado is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. A hurricane is a strong tropical storm. 2. Read and answer the questions 1）What happens during a hurricane?

Why?

There are huge waves, heavy rains and floods. Because there are violent winds of 120 kilometers per hour or more 2) Where do they usually occur? In the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. 3) When and where did the worst hurricane happen?

It occurred on the 8th September 1900 in Galveston, Texas. So we call it the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. Activity 3

An Extraordinary Event 1. Understand this sentence

The Gulf Stream had carried it 3000 kilometers up the eastern US to Prince Edward Island.

墨西哥湾流沿着美国东海岸把棺材一直带到爱德华王子岛，行程3000公里。

2. Fill in the blanks according to the blanks.

_______ the late 1890s, he _____ _____ to Galveston, _____ he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane ____. The cemetery _______ Coghlan was buried was____ by the hurricane and Coghlan’s coffin ____ _____ in the sea.

The key: By; had moved; where; struck; where; destroyed ; ended up.

Step 5 Detailed-reading (True or False)

1.All tornadoes have winds of more than 400 kilometres 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.In the US, there are usually about 80 people killed in tornadoes every year. 5.The worst tornado in history killed at least 700 people. 6.Every year there are six Atlantic hurricanes. 7.Both the worst tornado and the worst hurricane occurred in the US. 8.The worst hurricane of all time killed about one-sixth of the population in the US. 9.Charles Coghlan didn't become famous until he moved to New York. 10.Coghlan’s coffin was destroyed by the 1900 Galveston hurricane. 11.It was only because of the hurricane that Coghlan’s body could travel back to Canada. The key: 2,5,7,9, are true.

Step 6 Discussion

“

If we unexpectedly meet with natural disasters, what can we do to protect ourselves and others?”

Step 7 Homework:

Collect more information on Internet about one of the disasters. Examples: hurricane tornado thunderstorm volcanic eruption earthquake

tsunami

flood