人教版高中英语第二册Unit10 Frightening nature 1

Unit 10 Frightening nature
Periods 1 Warming-up & Reading
Teaching Goals:
1. Learn something about volcano through reading.
2. The students can use what they have learned to describe volcanoes.
3. The students realize that human beings can overe any hardship.
4. The students will improve the ability to solve problems.
Teaching important points:
1.Try to master the useful new words & expressions in this period.
2.Understand the text well.
Teaching difficult points:
1.How to use the new words & expressions correctly.
2.To understand the reading materials of similar topics.
Teaching aids:
a puter, a tape recorder & a projector
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Warming up
Q1: What’s the weather like today?
It’s sunny (rainy, windy, etc).
Q2: Do you often care about the weather?
Yes. / No, sometimes.
Q3: How do you hear about it?
On TV. / Over the radio.
Q4: Have you ever heard of typhoon?
Yes, quite often.
Q5: What words can you think of to describe the typhoon weather?
heavy wind (blow hard) storm (show a picture of stormy weather.)
roaring thunder (also roaring forties: part of the Atlantic Ocean, often very stormy, between latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees south.)
Q6: What will you feel in such kind of weather?
frightened, scared, terrible, happy (Ask the students why they feel happy? ---- Because typhoon will often release the drought. What’s more there is enough water, which can be used to make electricity.)
Q7: What about the hurricane? Have you ever heard about it?
It is something like typhoon.
Q8: What about volcano?
Q9: Look at the picture. Find out as much as you can to describe it.
eg. eruption lava
Q10: How is a volcano formed?
1). Show a video about the eruption of a volcano.
2). Show a picture of the boiling water kettle, which means the eruption of a volcano is something like the boiling water from the kettle. That is, the rocks is very, very hot and melted to gas and liquid. And they try to get out like the steam and boiling water.
Q11: Where is the most possible place that a volcano may erupt?
Near the ocean. eg. Fujiyama mountain in Japan.
Q12: Do you know how a volcano works, if you do, describe it?
Rocks from under the earth bees hotter and hotter and many things erupted from the
volcano, such as:
Gas: vapour, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulphur, etc.
Solid: bits of rock and volcanic ash, etc.
Liquid: lava.
Step 2 Pre reading
1. Show a picture. Ask the students: What can you see in the picture? (The body of the people, exactly, the body of the people in the town of Pompeii in the southern Italy.----show a picture of the relics of the town of Pompeii.)
2. Show another picture. Ask the students to guess what happened in the town of Pompeii? (A volcano erupted suddenly and after 18 hours all were damaged, including the people, animals, plants and the town itself.)
Step 3 While reading
Task 1 Skim the text and answer the following questions.
Q1: What is described in the following passage?
The eruption of the volcano called Mount Vesuvius.
Q2: When and where did it happen?
On the 24th of August in 79 AD in southern Italy.
Q3: Who is the writer of the letter?
Pliny, the younger.
Task 2 Decide whether the following sentences are true or false.
1. A volcano erupted on the 24th of August in 79 BC in southern Italy. F
2. My uncle planned to save his friend’s wife Rectina. F
3. My uncle went to rescue Pompy after saving Rectina. T
4. The flames came from the homes of farmers who had left in a panic with the kitchen fires still on. F
5. They decided to try the open air instead of staying in the house. T
6. It was night when the volcano erupted. F
Task 4 Scan the text & fill in the following form.
DateOn the 24th of August in 79 AD in southern Italy.What happened:The eruption of the volcano called Mount Vesuvius.
First A cloud of unusual size & shape rising from a mountain drew my uncle’s attention and he wanted to see it from closer at hand.
NextAfter receiving a letter from his friend’s wife Rectina, he changed his mind to save her.
ThenIn spite of the danger, he turned back to rescue his friend Pompy and help calm down the other people.
FinallyMy uncle wanted to get out of the danger but failed. He was dead.
Task 5 Arrange the following statements according to the right order.
1. He decided to rescue his friend Pompy.
2. Some people watched an unusual cloud rising from a mountain.
3. Rectina begged him to save her.
4. He ordered a boat made ready.
5. Two slaves helped him stand up and immediately he fell down dead.
6. He bathed and had dinner.
7. A rain of rocks was ing down.
2-4-3-1-6-7-5
Task 6 Read the text again and explain what the words in bold refer to.
it: a cloud of unusual size and shape rising from a mountain
the one: the wind
the other: my uncle’s friend Pompy
their: flames
They: scared people
Homework:
1. (in the first period)Find out some sentences you enjoy most, & try to recite them as possible as you can.
2. Refer to the website to know more about the volcano.
Step Ⅶ Record after Teaching
The contents are not familiar to the students,so the students can’t
talk much. Maybe we should do something to make the students talk easily.。