高二英語Unit10.Frightening nature
1. which books on the list interest you? give reasons why you might want to read them.
2. choose one book from the list which you don’t want to read and explain why you think it won’t interest you.
(this activity is to help the ss develop the ability of scanning and express their own opinions with their own words.)
4.post-tasks
group work.
imagine your teacher asks you to write an essay about human experiences and how people suffer during natural disasters. which books would you choose to help you write your essay? what information do you think you could use from them?
stage 3 writing
1. brainstorming
what natural disasters do you know?
2. writing
divide the class into six groups. each group discuss a topic and writes a composition together. after they finish the writing, they should do peer-revision. then the teacher will post the compositions on the wall. each composition should contain the following parts:
1.how is the disaster formed?
2.what happens when the disaster comes?
3. what is the damage after the disaster?
4.what do people do after that?
5. what lesson have you learn?
(this step tries to develop the ss’ cooperative ability and writing ability. the ss look up information in many different ways.)
stage 4 homework
read more passages about natural disasters. they can refer to the following websites:
~kwroejr/violent.html
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period 6 grammar & word study
goals: 1. learn and master grammar: ellipsis
2. review the usage of the present participle & past participle.
teaching important points:
1.learn about ellipsis of different types.
2.enable ss to learn how to choose the present participle & the past participle.
teaching difficult point: how to use ellipsis to make a sentence brief and clear.
teaching aids: a computer & a projector
procedures:
step 1: word study
1. check the answer to exercise 1 at page 77.
2. the present participle & the past participle
t: look at the 2 sentences on the blackboard.
this is a moving story.
the boy is deeply moved by the story.
can you tell the difference between “moving” & “moved” ?
s: yes. the present participle “moving” expresses an action that happens around the same time as the main verb with an active meaning while the past participle “moved” expresses an action that is completed with an passive meaning. am i right?