Reading

Teaching aims:

1. To infer the meaning from the key words,pictures and the context.

2. To elicit any information about the earthquakes in Taiwan or in other partsof the world. 

3. To develop the students’ ability of reading and using English.

4. let the students learn how to describe natural disasters and how to protect   themselves in the natural disasters. 

5. To use the vocabulary and sentences related to natural disasters.

Difficult points:

To grasp the language points in the text.

To develop the students’ ability of reading.

To understand the object clause.

To recite the whole text.

Emotional, attitude and values 

Moral aims: 

1.To generate ideas about earthquake.

2.To educate the students to care for our home town and try to protect it well in our daily life.

Teaching methods: reading and talking

Teacing aids:   recorder      Multi-media computer   

Teaching  procedures:

Step1 Lead in : 

The earth is our home and it is in danger. Once people did not have to think about the protection of his environment. There were few people on the earth, and natural resources seemed to be unlimited. Today things are different. The world has become more and more crowded. We are using up our natural resources,and polluting our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, human life on earth will not survive. We realize that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none left. Yet,with modern fishing methods, more and more fish are caught.We know that if too many trees are cut down, forests will disappear. Yet, we continue to use powerful machines to cut down more and more trees. We see that if rivers are polluted with waste products, we will die. Yet, waste products are still put into rivers.

To protect our earth,we should do something .We know that a little thing won’t make great changes,but if all the people on the earth do bad things.We can start from little things in our daily life.We can’t live without water,so we must save water.And we can’t live without air,so we should plant more trees.Trees can make air fresh.We shouldn’t throw rubbish everywhere.

Finally, if we educate people to think about the problems, we shall have a better and cleaner planet in the future.

It is everyone’s duty to do something to protect our earth.Let’s start right now. 

Step2 Presentation

1. Let the students guess the new words by showing the pictures and talk about the earthquake that happened in Sichuan. 

2. T: We all remember the Sichuan earthquake ,but we don’t know the Taiwan earthquake.There was an earthquake in Taiwan in 1999. Many people lost their lives in the earthquake , but a boy called Timmy surrived. Let’s listen to the story to see what happened to him

3. T:  What do people often do when the earthquake  happened? Teach some new words and phrases.  

do some shopping       shake v. （shaking n. ）  hear a big noise like thunder   in fear (be frightened) scream  v.   in all directions  fall down  not ---at all   come down  calm down  in a great hurry

4. After learning these new words ,help students finish PatrB1on P96. Check it together.

5. Read the passage ,answer the following questions:

1) Where was Timmy when the earthquake started?

2) What was Timmy doing when the earthquake started?

3) What happened to the people and buildings?

4) Where was Timmy when the shaking stopped?

5) What did Timmy do while he was waiting for help?

6) How was he saved?

Step3 Listening and skiming

1.Play the tape for Studenets and check general understanding by asking some ‘wh’ questions 

2.Students skim the passage and do exercises on PartD.

3. Students listen to the tape and read after it together.

Step4 Reading and answering

1. Listen and read after the tape one paragraph by one paragraph.Check if they understand by asking more questions about the passage.

2.Invite the students to read the whole passage in front of the class.Encourage them to mime and gesture in order to illustrate the different aspects of the experience.

Step5.Discussion

What can you do when you are in the earthquake ?

What will you do  when the others are in danger ?

Ask students to say something about natural disasters and how to survive from them?

Step 6.Practice

Finish the exercises in B2 and C. Check the answers with the whole class.

Retell the passage with keywords. Then encourage some of them to retell in front of the class.

Step7.writing

Write a report :How to protect the environment

Step8.Homework.

Read the story about Timmy and try to retell it.

Copy the new words and phrases.

Remember the language point.

Try to learn the useful words and sentences. 

 

【教学小结】 

1．学习和运用英语知识贯穿本课堂的始终，口头、听力和书面表达能力等都得到加强； 

2．本节课涉及到环保方面知识，教师采取多种方法进行教学，增加了学生多渠道获得知识的能力和对知识的综合运用能力； 

3．通过本课的学习，学生们了解到环境对人类的生存、发展是多么的重要，所以，我们要采取措施保护环境； 

4．指导学生写一份报告，并宣传环保对人类的重要性。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

英语环保教案

 

牛津英语8A UNIT6  Natural disasters

 

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