牛津英语8A Uit 6 Natural disasters教案.docVIP

8A Unit 6 Natural disasters Use ‘because’, ‘as’ and ‘since’ to introduce the reason for something e.g., The children cried because they were frightened. Use ‘to’-infinitives to report someone’s orders ,requests and advice, e.g. Mr. Hu told us to go home. Use vocabulary to describe weather conditions and natural disasters, e.g., The weather today is sunny but it’ll be cloudy tomorrow. Language skills Listening Recognize key expressions involved in an emergency call Develop intensive listening skills by completing an accident report form Understand directions and instructions in a new context Speaking Describe an accident or disaster Respond to questions by providing more information Interact with others requesting information Reading Infer meaning from keywords，context and headline Identify specific meaning by reformulating sentences in a diary Sequence information to follow the fist of a story Writing Generate ideas about natural disasters Organize ideas for writing an article for the school newsletter Develop an awareness of audience and register Overview of the unit This unit introduces the topic of weather conditions and natural disasters，and how people survive them. Students are able to rely on their own experiences and general knowledge of the world to get a more direct understanding of the various disasters described. Unit opening Background information The comic strip introduces the idea of the damage heavy rain may cause. It also introduces the idea of helping people affected by natural disasters. It points forward to the various situations explored later in the unit. Warm-up activities 1. Allow students enough time to make sense of the comic strip: heavy rain—Hobo is wet and cold.—His house is wet. Try to elicit from students what might have happened to Hobo’s house. 2. Listen to the tape then answer the questions a.?????????????? What’s the weather like? (It’s raining.) b.?????????????? What happened to Hobo? (He got wet.) c.?????????????? What do you