Teaching Plan

Unit 16 Warm-up & Lesson 1 Stories from History |

By He Wenwen

Teaching Aim:

1.     Warming up: introduces the topic of the whole unit----stories. Students are asked to accumulate the English names of all kinds of stories, such as true story, love story, legend, myth, biography, adventure stories, and detective story and so on.

2.     Lesson 1:to practice reading for prediction and details

          To learn and practice Past Perfect

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

Task1: T takes out a story book and ask students two questions:

1. Do you like reading stories?

2. Can you name some kinds of stories?

Task2: Then have a brainstorm

Task3: Let’s enjoy some stories and identify the kinds of stories in the pictures.

     Harry Potter  Fantasy

 Romance of Three Kingdoms  Historical story

Ⅱ. Pre-reading

Task1: Have you heard about Pompeii? What do you know about it?

Use the following words to make a guess about Pompeii:

volcanic eruption,   buried,   event,

disappear,   disaster,   preserved,

destroy,   discover,   scientist

Ⅲ. Reading

Task1: Listen and read to get the main idea of the passage:

It is about a city named Pompeii , which was buried by a volcanic eruption and discovered again by some scientists 1,600 years later.

Task2: Second reading:

Write down the things in connection with the following people and time expressions

Task3: Sum up: fill in the blanks

Pliny was a Roman writer who had _________ and wrote about a _________ eruption which ________ on August 24th,79AD and it was of Mt. Vesuvius. The tragedy had left a deep __________ on Pliny whose uncle died in the event.  The whole towns and villages were _________ by the ashes of  Mt Vesuvius. By 1748, scientists started to ________the ancient city Pompeii. It is like a “time capsule” __________ a frozen moment in history. Not only the buildings and objects of Pompeii attract the people, but also the forms of the people caught in the _______ that made the city a __________  to human history. The bodies of people died in Pompeii showed their exact _______of getting together for_________. Today, since the digging started, people and scientists visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the ______________. In this way, the city __________ nearly 2,000 years after its ________.

Ⅳ. Post-reading

Discussion:

What natural disasters do you know?

If you meet one of them, what will you do?

Ⅴ. Homework:

1.     Read the text again and find out some useful words and expressions.

2. Finish the exercise3&4 inPage6-7