Unit 8 Natural disasters 教学目标重点难点分析The same as above教学流程安排集体智慧（以知识体系为主）个性设计（二次备课）教学后记STEP 1 Talking about pictures Show the following picture to the students. Get then to guess what happened. Encourage the students to be creative and try to make different kinds of guesses. Get the students to listen to the tape and find out what happened. For weaker classes, get the students to talk about each picture. Picture 1: Whats the weather like? What happened to Hobo?Picture 2: What happened to Hobos house?/How does Hobo feel at Eddies house?Picture 3: Why doesnt he want to go home alone?Picture 4: Will Eddie help him?Get the students to read and practice the dialogue and then act the dialogue out. Encourage the students to add something to make the dialogue funnier. STEP 2 Getting to know the weatherSay Rainy days are very common. Now lets see if you know the following kind of weather. BAD WEATHERtyphoonThere is strong wind. It is difficult for people to hold their umbrellas. Walking may even be difficult. Many things fly in the sky. thunder and lightning It is really frightening. We can see bright lightning and hear the loud thunder. Sometimes it may start a fire, when the lightning hit a tree or a building. rainstorm (may cause flood)It rains heavily. Water is everywhere. In some places, it is very difficult for people to walk. They have to roll up their trousers. snowstorm(sandstorm)It snows heavily with strong wind. Deep snow covers everything. It is difficult for people to walk and easy to get lost. However, it really makes a beautiful world. For stronger classes, it is necessary to introduce more bad weather, like storm and sandstorm etc. Put it clear that bad weather sometimes can cause disasters Show pictures about the disasters and elicit the disasters, like flood, drought, tsunami, and hurricane, and earthquake etc. STEP 3 Making a summary about bad weather and disastersBad weatherheavy rain, rainstorm, thunder and lightning, wind , strong wind , typhoon , snowstorm, sandstorm, stormDisasters flood, drought , earthquake , fire, hurricane, etc. STEP 4 Finishing the exercises in Part AGet the students to finish the exercises in Part A and then check the answers. Disasters2. The Taiwan earthquake killed (cause loss of life) thousands of people. 5. A flood washed the village away. 6. Lightning started a big fire in a house. 8. A big storm killed 20 people. Accidents1. The school football team lost the game.3. A car accident killed three men. 4. A coach crashed into a tree last night. 7. A young boy fell from a tree and hurt his legs. Emphasize that natural disasters are caused by nature forces usually with great damage and loss of life. Accidents are things that suddenly happened. No one plans it. Sometimes they are caused by peoples mistakes.Explain some of the language used here and help the students to understand. STEP 5 Discussing about the bad weather and disastersGet the students to discuss about the bad weather and disasters. What will happen if there is a ?How will you/people feel if there is a ?What will you do if there is a ?STEP 6 Reporting bad weather or a disasterSuppose there is very bad weather or a disaster somewhere, get the students to work in pairs as reporters and cameramen and try to report it. Hello, everyone. I am a reporter from _. I am _. As you can see,_. People really feel frightened. So stay at home and take care. The bad weather will finish tomorrow. Thanks for watching. Ask the students to show their feelings and to act out the behaviors of people in the bad weather. If there is a strong wind, they may feel hard to walk and hard to hold the umbrella. STEP 7 Homeworka. Collect more information about bad weather and disasters. b. Finish off the exercise in the books. 练习安排板书设计备课组长审核签名： 年级主任复核签名：