英语旧人教高中第二册上 Unit10 Frightening Nature.doc

Unit 10 Frightening Nature (Designed to the periods) Teaching aims and demands Goals: Talk about natural disasters, volcanoes. Hurricanes and typhoons Express emotion, anxiety and fear Practice creative writing. Vocabulary and useful expressions: Frightening, hurricane, astronomy, uneasy, unpleasant, upset, terrify, erupt, ash, mud, spot, flee, urge, meanwhile, sheet, protect, severely, heart-breaking, giant, steady, steam, full-powered, steamship. Unbelievable, stillness, whisper, appropriate, at hand, knock about, all of a sudden, as though Function: Express feelings How terrible! It makes me feel uneasy when… I think it’s very unpleasant…… It makes me feel very worried…. I get very upset…. It’s a frightening thing…. I dare not…. I’m really scary…. It takes my hair stand on end. Grammar: Ellipsis A word about your composition. Though tired, he was not disheartened. You would do the same. Sit down , please. We’ll do the best we can. Everybody gone? That letter was the last. Teaching procedure: Teaching procedure: Period 1. Step 1.Warming up Brainstorming: Activity: find as many words as they can to define a natural disaster Following the steps of the warming-up on page 73. Step 2. Pre-reading Show some pictures of disasters such as typhoon, tsunami . group work: how serious a loss people will suffer if there is a typhoon/ tsunami. Step 3. While-reading Scanning: Ss read quickly and get a main idea. explain the words in bold. Ss read and get the main ideas of each paragraph. Step 4. After-reading Finish the exercises on p77 Step 5. Assignment surf the internet and get more information about volcanoes. Period 2. Step 1. Warming up Ask some Ss to retell the passage that they have learnt in last period. Step 2. Learning about the language Teacher explain some language points in the text on page 76. The sight of it awoke the scientist in my uncle to go and see it from closer at hand. At hand I haven’t the dictionary at hand b