初中英语Unit 8 Natural disasters教学设计

牛津译林版八年级英语上册

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TASK

Teaching Objectives

● To collect information and generate ideas about natural disasters

● To talk about what they hear, what they see and how they feel during the disaster and after the disaster

● To help the students develop an awareness of audience and register

Teaching Procedures

STEP 1 Talking about pictures

Show a picture of a snowstorm and get the students to talk about it.

STEP 2 Writing an article about a natural disaster

Explain that Sandy wants to write an article about a natural disaster. Write the following sentences on the board beforehand with blanks.

a.   we lost our umbrella in the wind

b.   I was at school and Mr. Wu told us to go home

c.   could hear the wind

d.   I shared an umbrella with Millie

e.   heard the noise of traffic in the morning

f.    I looked out of the window at Millie’s home after I heard the noise.

g.   worried that there would be no buses

h.   It was Friday, 28th January

i.     snowstorm hit Beijing

j.     the snowstorm was terrible

k.   snow on the roads

l.     many people at the bus stop

m. People remove the snow

n.   Could only walk slowly in the snow

Get the students to fill in the blanks. In this ways, they can get some idea about what sandy saw, what she heard and how she felt.

Get the students to read the sentences one by one. Motivate the students to read it aloud.

STEP 3 Making a flow chart

Tell the students that Sandy also makes a flow chart to organize her ideas. Divide the students into groups of 4. Invite the students to help Sandy complete the flow chart. Then ask them to discuss the answers in groups of 4. Check the answers.

Direct students’ attention to the way that the flow chart was organized. Point out that introduction gives us some facts.

Then Sandy is going to talk about the things that happened during the snowstorm and then after the storm.

Sandy tells us what she saw, what she hear and how she felt during and after the snowstorm.

After this it is important to point out that to organize the ideas will help people who are telling a personal story. It is also very important for the speaker to consider of the audience.

STEP 4 Completing the sample article

Give the students 4-5 minute to complete the sample article. And then check the answers to it.

Get the students to figure out the structure of the article.

STEP 5 Locating some important sentence patterns

Go through the article and help the students to locate some important sentence patterns.

  A snowstorm hit Beijing…

  I shared an umbrella with her.

  Snow continued to fall around us.

  I nearly fell over.

  I looked out of the window and saw that people were working hard to remove the snow.

STEP 6 Getting more ideas about what to write

Ask the student to open their books and turn to page 106. Go through the items listed here and make sure that the students can get more ideas about what to write about here.

Explain some of the phrases here by action.

Typhoon signal number/ weather report/ snowstorm warning

Roll up trousers/ walk slowly

STEP 7 Deciding which disaster to write about

Give the students 3-4 for them to decide which disaster to write about. Walk around to help the student to organize their ideas and get more ideas. Tell the students to write about their own experience because this may give their article power.

STEP 8 Homework

a.   Read the sample article once again and try to understand its structure.

b.   Write about a disaster you would like to write about.

c.   Finish off the exercises in the Evaluation Handbook and learning English