江苏省南京市溧水区孔镇中学八年级英语上册 Unit 8 Natural disasters Peri

U8 Natural disasters

教学目标：1.To learn to organize ideas for writing an article for the school newsletter

2. To write an article about natural disasters.

教学重点：1. nearly, sandst orm, warning, remove, signal, roll

2. share…with…, look out of the window, forget to bring my keys,

continue to fall around us, come from behind, fall over, weather

report, the noise of traffic, remove the snow, typhoon signal number

3. To learn to organize ideas for writing an article on a natural

disaster.

教学难点：To learn to organize ideas for writing an article on a natural disaster 教具学具：Tape-recorder, slides and some pictures about natural disasters

教学设计

预习作业见学案

教学活动过程

预习交流见学案

展示探究

Step 1 Lead-in

1. Explain the context. Sandy wants to write an article about a natural disaster for the school newsletter. She wants to write about the snowstorm that hit Beijing this week. Let’s help her, OK?

2. Show some pictures about the snowstorm. Talk about them with the whole class and encourage students to make some sentences according to these pictures and key words provided beside each picture.

e.g. A snowstorm hit Beijing on Friday, 28th January.

People shared umbrellas with others.

Sa ndy and Millie lost their umbrella in the wind.

People could only walk slowly in the snow.

People were working hard to remove the snow. Explain ‘remove’ is a verb. It means ‘move away’.

Step 2 Writing structure

1. Ask stu dents to think about how we can organize these ideas to describe the snowstorm. Point out when we want to write an article, first of all, we should choose a topic, we should decide what to write about. This time we are going to write about a snowstorm. There should be three main parts in such an article: Introduction, during the snowstorm, and after the snowstorm.

2. Students talk about what should be written about in each part in groups.

3. Do a pair work. Ask students to turn to Page 105 ,read through the questions in Part B carefully and try to find out the answers in Part A.

Then invite some pairs to ask and answer these questions in front of the clas s.

4. Say we have helped Sandy complete her flow chart. Now let’s help her complete her article for the school newsletter. Ask students to complete P art C on page 106.

5. Analyze the structure of this article with the whole class. Then make a conclusion: Para 1 is the introduction of the snowstorm. Para2 and 3 describe what happened during the snowstorm. And Para 4 describes what happened after the snowstorm.

当堂检测

Step 3 Practice

1. Say we have helped Sandy complete an article about a snowstorm. A sk students to write an article about a natural disaster by themselves

2. Ask students to work in groups of four. First, each group chooses a topic to write about. Then talk in groups. Next, Sort out their notes into a flow chart as in Part B. Last, discuss their notes with others and share their flow chart with their group membe rs.

3. Ask some individuals to show his/her flow chart and talk about it with the whole class.

4. Students complete their articles.

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