Unit4 Unforgettable experience

5.  ask ss to describe the three pictures on p23. then the teacher introduce the three different situations.
pic1. you have just been saved from a terrible earthquake and you worry about your family.
pic2. your neighbor will take cars of your favorite pet while you go on a holiday.
pic3. your house is on fire but there is still a little girl sleeping in the bedroom on the second floor.
then ask ss to make dialogues according to these situations, using these useful expressions, and choose several pairs to act out.
step 4. talking
1.  give the brief introduction of the situation: one discovered the tomb of a chinese king while he was working. he went in and had a look, but didn’t touch anything. then a scientist came 3 days later, so they began to talk about the tomb.
2.  role-play: ask ss to work in pairs to make up a dialogue. one acts the person who find the tomb. the other one acts the scientist from beijing. they can read questions on p103 first, and then choose some of them to make up their dialogues.
step 5. homework
workbook 
revise the key points of this unit.
evaluation of teaching:

period 3. reading

teaching objectives
1. develop the students’ comprehension of reading explorative passages, especially their
ability of analyzing the structure of such kind of articles.
2. offer the students chances of self-culture by working in groups and seeking information about the film outside the class.
3. infuse the students with basic knowledge about the friend and friendship
4. learn some words and useful expressions from the text.
teaching approach
1.communicative approach should be used throughout the class. stress should be laid on:
2.learner-centeredness; learning-centeredness
3.task-based learning
4.activity-based teaching (class work; individual work; group work)
teaching type: reading comprehension
teaching procedure
step 1.  pre-reading
1. tell ss: do you remember hank stram’s terrible experience? he was trapped in the earthquake for
about 14 hours .it is really an unforgettable experience for him. as we all know, the earthquake is a kind of natural disasters. then can you list some other natural disasters?
2.  write down their answers on the blackboard---- flood, typhoon, hurricane, volcanic eruption, thunder storms, snow storm, fire …
3.  tell ss: among these disasters, i think most of us have experienced the typhoons, right? then can you describe what it was like and how you felt?  ask some ss to give their ideas.