unit 10 Frightening nature

period 3  listening(wb) speaking & talking
goals:
understand the listening text in the workbook.
the ss can express emotion, anxiety and fear properly.
know more about typhoon.
teaching important points:
to master the useful new words and expressions.
teaching difficult points:
how to use what the students have learned to describe a nature disaster.
teaching aids: a computer, a projector & a tape recorder

step1 revision
questions: 1 what kinds of disasters does nature give us?
         2 what kinds of disasters does man give us?

step2 pre-listening
page 144,listening. look at the picture. discuss exercise1 with the students.

step3 listening
play the tape for the students to do exercises2-4. then ask: what happened in the typhoon linda talked about?

step4 lead-in
page74,speaking.get the students to read the dialogue to find out the answers to the following questions:
1 what happened in the typhoon?
2 what else do you know will happen in a typhoon?
3 what was people’s emotion?
4 what do you think happens in a hurricane, a volcano, an earthquake, sars and bird flu?

step5 speaking
give the students some pictures. get them to make a similar dialogue. tell their partners whether these things or situations frighten them and explain why. also, talk about people’s emotion in these situations and how they would behave. get them to make with the help of the useful expressions.
model:
a: have you been in a situation that frightens you?
b: yes. it was last summer. i spent my summer vacation in my hometown, a small village in a mountainous district. one day, i went hiking with my cousin. on our way home, we met a cobra.
a: were you frightened when you saw it?
b: very! it made my hair stand on end. my cousin was too frightened to move at that time, too. because we both saw on tv that the poison of a cobra can kill a person easily.
a: what happened next?
b: fortunately it didn’t see us. we acted just as the tv programme told us. at last, it went by. the distance between the cobra and us was only three metres or so.
a: how terrible!

step6 pre-talking
ask: what do you need to do when you are trapped in a typhoon?
get the students to read the dialogue at page144, talking between xiaosong and david to find out what xiaosong suggests in case of typhoon.

step7 talking
get the students to read the roll cards and make similar dialogues.

step8 homework
make a dialogue with your partner about a disaster. it should include the following:
1) what was it like?
2) what happened?