最新译林牛津版初中英语八年级上册Unit 8 Natural disasters公开课教学设计.docx

1、最新译林牛津版初中英语八年级上册Unit 8 Natural disasters公开课教学设计Natural disasters 第一课时 Welcome to the unitTeaching aims:To introduce the topic of disaters. To identify vocabulary related to disasters. To identify weather conditions and label pictures with correct words.Focus and difficulties: To recognize the weathe

2、r conditions and natural disaster.Teaching methods: Communication and descriptionTeacing aids: recorder Multi-media computer Teaching procedures:Step1 Lead in : T: Whats the weather like today?Ss: It Revise some other words about weather.e.g. rain, snow, wind.Step2 Presentation1.Show some pictures o

3、f snowstorm that happened inChina during last Spring Festival .Get them to answer the questions about it.1.Do you like snow in winter?2.Do you think too much snow is good or bad for people?2.Encourage students to tell their ideas.Show more pictures of bad weather.Ask: What caused the trouble or prob

4、lems?Help students to answer : nature. They are natural disasters.They cause the bad weather .They make people get into the trouble.Step3 Practice1.T: Do you know what other natural disasters ? What words do we use to talk about bad weather ?Elicit from students other bad weather conditions. ( rains

5、torm, snow storm,typhoon.e.g.)2. Read the words in Part B and ask more able students to describe each weather condition only with simple phrases and words.3. Help Ss to complete the task on their own and check the correct answers with the class as a whole.4.Show more pictures of natural disasters,he

6、lp students to know their names and describle them. Help students to use the Past Continuous Tense to talk about the pictures.5T: Can you distinguish natural disasters from disasters caused by other reasons?Get them to look at part A on P93 and try to finish this part check the correct answers with

7、the class as a whole,then read together.Teach some new words.Step4 ActivityDivide the students into groups of four to discuss. Bring some photos to each group and ask students to write a headline about natural disasters or accidents. Step5 Presentation1.T: Look at the pictures ,people suffered from

8、these natural disasters . What can we do to help them.Students will discuss it warmly. Then teacher leads students to the comic strip.2.T:Hobo has some trouble. What happened to him? Lets have a look. Students look at the pictures. Teacher asks some open questions about each picture.1).Whats the wea

9、ther like?( Its raining)2). What happened to Hobo?( He got wet.)3).What was Hobo doing when it started to rain? ( He was sleeping)4).Did he hear the rain? ( Half an hour later.)5).What do you think happened o Hobos house?(The floor was all wet.)6). Why doesnt he want to go home alone?(Because he wan

10、ts Eddie to mop all the water up)7).Will Eddie help him?(No. I dont think Eddie likes his idea.)2. Play the tape and students read after it.Explain some language points.Step 5.gamesAsk students to role-play the conversation.Step 6.Homework:Revises the contents we have learned. Preview Reading 8A Uni

11、t6 Natural disasters Reading(1)Teaching aims:1.To infer the meaning from the key words,pictures and the context.2.To elicit any information about the earthquakes in Taiwan or in other parts of the world. 3.To develop the Ssability and skills reading comprehension and let the Ss learn how to describe

12、 natural disasters and how o protect themselves in the natural disasters.Difficult points: The key words and phrases the comprehension of the story.Teaching methods: reading and talkingTeacing aids: recorder Multi-media computer Teaching procedures:Step1 Lead in : T: we have learnt some natural disa

13、strs last time .What disasters have we leart?Encourage students to say something about the natural disasters. Show some picturs of an earthquake that happened in Wengchuan,sichuan on May12,2008 .Step2 Presentation1.Let the students guess the new words by showing the pictures and talk about the earth

14、quake that happened in Sichuan. 2.T: What do people often feel/do when the earthquake happened? etc.Teach some new words and phrases. shake v. 摇动，震动 （shaking n. ）hear a big noise like thunder 听到一声像打雷一样的声音in fear (be frightened) 害怕，恐惧Scream v. 尖叫run in all directions 奔向四面八方run wildly 疯狂地奔跑fall down 掉

15、下来come down 倒塌，塌陷3.After learning these new words ,help students finish PatrB1. Check it together.4.T: There was an earthquake in Taiwan in 1999. Many people lost their lives in the earthquake , but a boy called Timmy surrived. Lets listen to the story to see what happened to himStep3 Listening and

16、skiming1.Play the tape for Studenets and check general understanding by asking some wh questions and doing exercises PartC. 2.Students skim the passage and do exercises on PartD.Step4 Reading and answering1. Listen and read after the tape one paragraph by one paragraph.Check if they understand by asking mo