初中英语人教版八年级下册Unit-5-Section-A-3a.docVIP

Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came? Section A 3a The Storm Brought People Closer Together ﹡Teaching objects：1.?Knowledge Object： Students can learn new words: storm, wind, light, area, window, match, against, rise and phrases: fall asleep, in a mess, die down, break … apart 2) Students will be able to use the “when/ while” in sentences. 2. Ability Object: 1) Try to find necessary information through fast reading and careful reading. 2) Students can talk about past events and tell a story with the language chunks. 3. Emotion Object: The teacher encourages the students to think more of others and try to help each other in time of difficulty. Remember that helping others is just helping ourselves. ﹡Teaching importance： Reading skills: fast reading and careful reading. New words and new sentence structures. ﹡Teaching difficulties： 1. To master the structure: When + the past tense While + the past progressive tense 2. The new words and the language points. ﹡Teaching methods：fast reading careful reading Teaching procedure: Step 1 Question-guided learning T: Do you know the storm? What’s the storm like? When the storm is coming, what can you see? Show Pictures S: (strong winds, black clouds, no light, fallen trees and broken windows.) T: The storm sometimes brings disasters , bad things , to us. But it also brought people closer together. As a report says. A heavy rainstorm was in the area ----- Alabama. Ben went through a rainstorm. Let’s go with him and feel the storm. And find the reason. Now, let’s come into our lesson, The Storm Brought People Closer Together. ( write the title on the blackboard ) Step 2 Self learning Fast reading T: This is the article. We can see one , two , three, four paragraphs here. What are they talking about? Match the paragraphs with the meanings. Which paragraph or paragraphs are talking about things happened before the rainstorm? Which is during the rainstorm, while the rainstorm is happening, wh