Unit 21 Lesson 3 Epidemics throughout history 教学设计1.docVIP

Unit 21 Lesson 3 教学设计 Teaching Aims: To read an article about epidemics To improve the Ss’ reading ability To improve the Ss’ speaking ability Learning method: Concluding Teaching procedure: Step 1: Addressing Step 2:Lead-in 1. Listen to the song “Tears in heaven” . 2. What’s your feeling after hearing the song? 3. Why was the singer so sad? 4. What else may cause death? 5. Epidemics can cause more deaths than anything else. Step 3: Read the text ( 1 ) Read the title carefully and get some general ideas of the text 1. Predict what will be talked in the text 2. Read other titles and discuss what will be involved 3. What is an epidemic? (show pictures about AIDS and bird flu, and ask the Ss to give their own answers) 4. Which of the following diseases are epidemics? AIDS, cancer, headache, flu, heart disease, stomach-ache, TB, malaria, smallpox, SARS 5. Causes of epidemics: virus 6. Tracks of epidemics 7. Epidemics in history ( 2 ) Find out the meanings of the different numbers and know more facts about the text 1. Ask the Ss to find out the numbers in the text and to talk about the related facts about them 2. Give the Ss an example 3. Ask the Ss to practise in pairs 4. Ask questions in turns in class ( 3 ) Know the fact about an event or phenomena in details (use a form to help you if necessary ) 1. Talk about the events and fill in the blanks epidemics Time Place effect SARS 2002/2003 G.D.-H.K.-Vm-Ca.-Sig doctors nurses affected 2. Guess the names of the epidemics in the text 3. Guess the names of the other epidemics ( 4 ) To know the development of the article 1. Show the sequencing exercise 2. Show the ways to do this exercise 3. Ask the students to do the exercise in the text ( 5 ) conclusion: Step 4: Read another science article 1. Discuss the title 2. Talk about some numbers 3. Do the sequencing exercise Step 5: Homework Finish reading the new article and retell the text in your own words. (120words )