Unit 5 The power of nature 教学设计3.docVIP

Unit 5 The Power of Nature 教学设计3 Period 1 Warming up ＆ pre-reading Teaching aims： 1. To have the students get a general idea of natural disasters. 2. To help the students develop speaking ability. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warming up 1. Show an episode of the film “The Day After Tomorrow” and introduce the film to the students. It is a science fiction. It describes that the temperature in the earth falls at a great speed and the earth begins to enter the ice age, which caused a great disaster to the people in the world. In fact this disaster is caused by people’s destruction to the nature. In the film we can feel the power of nature. Natural disasters are dangerous and can cause great damage to us. Can you think of other natural disasters? 2. Ask students to list other natural disasters, such as hurricane, earthquakes, volcano, etc. Show the pictures of these natural disasters. 3. Discuss about the measures that we should take to avoid natural disasters. We can find how powerful nature is and how weak humans are compared with a volcano, hurricane, earthquake or other natural disasters. But we are not completely powerless. We can take measures to protect ourselves from powerful natural forces. What measures should we take? 4. Find something about volcano. Volcano is one of these natural disasters. We should also do something to avoid its eruption or reduce its damage to us. What do you know about volcanoes? How is a volcano formed? How does a volcano erupt? 5. If we can predict the eruption of volcanoes, we can reduce its damage to us. So we need volcanologists to study volcanoes. Do you want to be a volcanologist? Why? If you are a volcanologist, what kind of work should you do and what kind of danger will you meet? Step 2 Pre-reading Make a questionnaire as on page33 and help them know whether they are interested in volcanology. Step 3 Homework: 1. Find more information about natural disasters, especially volcanoes. 2. Read articles about s