unit 10 Frightening nature

 
teaching procedures
step 1 warming up
q1: what’s the weather like today?
    it’s sunny (rainy, windy, etc).
q2: do you often care about the weather?
    yes. / no, sometimes.
q3: how do you hear about it?
    on tv. / over the radio.
q4: have you ever heard of typhoon?
    yes, quite often.
q5: what words can you think of to describe the typhoon weather?
heavy wind (blow hard)            storm (show a picture of stormy weather.) 
roaring thunder (also roaring forties: part of the atlantic ocean, often very stormy, between latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees south.)
q6: what will you feel in such kind of weather?
    frightened, scared, terrible, happy (ask the students why they feel happy? ---- because typhoon will often release the drought. what’s more there is enough water, which can be used to make electricity.)
q7: what about the hurricane? have you ever heard about it?
    it is something like typhoon.
q8: what about volcano?
q9: look at the picture. find out as much as you can to describe it.
    eg.    eruption    lava
q10: how is a volcano formed?
     1). show a video about the eruption of a volcano.
     2). show a picture of the boiling water kettle, which means the eruption of a volcano is something like the boiling water from the kettle. that is, the rocks is very, very hot and melted to gas and liquid. and they try to get out like the steam and boiling water. 
q11: where is the most possible place that a volcano may erupt?
     near the ocean. eg. fujiyama mountain in japan.
q12: do you know how a volcano works, if you do, describe it?
    rocks from under the earth becomes hotter and hotter and many things erupted from the
volcano, such as:
gas: vapour, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulphur, etc.
    solid: bits of rock and volcanic ash, etc.
    liquid: lava.
step 2 pre reading
1. show a picture. ask the students: what can you see in the picture? (the body of the people, exactly, the body of the people in the town of pompeii in the southern italy.----show a picture of the relics of the town of pompeii.)
2. show another picture. ask the students to guess what happened in the town of pompeii? (a volcano erupted suddenly and after 18 hours all were damaged, including the people, animals, plants and the town itself.)