8A Unit6 Natural disasters 教案

8a unit6 natural disasters 教案
第一課時 welcome to the unit

teaching aims:
to introduce the topic of disaters.
            to identify vocabulary related to disasters.
            to identify weather conditions and label pictures with correct words.
focus and difficulties: to recognize the weather conditions and natural disaster.
teaching methods:
communication and description
teacing aids:   recorder      multi-media computer 

teaching  procedures:
step1 lead in :
t: what’s the weather like today?
ss: it …
   revise some other words about weather.e.g. rain, snow, wind.…
step2 presentation
1.show some pictures of  snowstorm that happened inchina 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 practice
1.t:  do you know what other natural disasters ? what words do we use to talk about bad weather ?
elicit from students other bad weather conditions. ( rainstorm, snow storm,typhoon.e.g.)
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 describle them. help students to use the past continuous tense to talk about the pictures.
5.t: 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  activity
divide 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  presentation
1.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? let’s  have a look. students look at the pictures. teacher asks some open questions about each picture.