Teaching Design for Book6 Unit5 The power of nature

Period1: Warming up and Reading

Teaching goals  教学目标

1. Target language  目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

volcano, erupt, compare with, hurricane, adventure, bored, excite, evaluate, unfortunately, burn to the ground, eruption, fountain, absolutely, fantastic, made one’s way, potential, impressive

b. 重点句式

⑴. Having collected and evaluated the information, I help other scientists to predict where lava from the volcano will flow next and how fast.

⑵. I was about to go back to sleep when suddenly my bedroom became as bright as day.

⑶. However, the most important thing about my job is that I help protect ordinary people from one of the most powerful natural forces on earth — the volcano. 2. 2.Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to learn about the powerful natural force — volcano and the work of an volcanologist.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to analyze the way the writer describes his exciting job.

Teaching procedures 教学过程

I. Test:(预习检测)

Read the new words of this unit.

II. Presentation:(新授)

Step1:Lead-in

Activity1: oral pratice

Free talk about the disasters.

Purpose: To make Ss get a brief understanding of. disasters

Step2:Fast reading

Task1: Skimming

1. How many parts can the text be divided into?

2.Match the main idea for each part?

Purpose: To make Ss get the structure of the text

Step3. Careful reading:

Task 1 ：Read  part 1(para1-para2) carefully then choose the best answer.

1. The writer doesn’t mind the  occasional danger of his job because  _____

A. He travels to unusual places and meets interesting people from all over the  world.

 B. He likes the different ways of working.

C. He thinks his job the most important.

  D. He is excited about dangers and feels alive.

2. What does the word “alive” mean in the sentence “... danger excites me and makes me feel alive”.

A.    Living or not dead.                

B. Active or lively.  

C. Continuing.                            

 D. Healthy.

3.Which of the following is not the factor that makes the writer’s job the greatest in the world?                                             

A. it’s dangerous but exciting.   

B. the writer can travel to unusual places and meet people from all over the world.

C. the writer can earn a lot of money.                                  

D. the writer is helping protecting people from the volcano.

Task2：Read part2(para3-4) carefully then finish the exercises.

1.      Why is the lava that flows on Mount Kilauea more dangerous than the actual eruption?

2.      These statement made the author realize that an eruption occurred? please make them in right order.

       a. I heard a strange sound.

       b. My bedroom became as bright as day.

       c. My bed began shaking.

       d. I ran out of the house into the back garden.

     e. An absolutely fantastic sight.

Read para 4 carefully then answer the two questions

1. What did the scientists wear when they got close to the volcano after it began erupting?

2.  What did the scientists do after the eruption?

Task3：Read part3(para5) carefully then finish the exercises.

1. What attracts the writer after he has studied volcanoes for more than twenty years?

purpose: To check how they comprehended the text

        To train their sense of cooperation and competition.

III. Consolidation: Fill in the blanks.（巩固练习）(8’)

      I have the greatest job in the world. I am never bored with it. Although it is occasionally dangerous, I don’t mind because danger 1. ______(excite) me and makes me feel alive. I think my job is the most important because I can help protect people 2._____ volcanoes. I am a volcanologist working for HVO. Our work has 3.______(save) many lives but unfortunately we can not save 4._____(they)houses. I have experienced a volcano eruption in Hawaii. I was fast asleep when my bed began shaking and I heard a strange sound like a train5.______ (pass) nearby. Then I found my bedroom was 6.____ bright as day, and red lava was fountaining hundreds of meters into the air. The next day, three of us wanted to get close to the  crater. We put on 7.________(protect) suits, helmets, big boots. and special gloves, 8.______ made us look like spacemen. We 9.______(slow) make our way to the edge of the crater to collect some lava for late study . After studying volcanoes for many 10._____(year), I am just as enthusiastic about my job as before. Why? Because of their beauty of their potential to cause great damage.

Purpose: To check what they have learnt in this class.

ⅤI. Discussion (5’)

Having learnt a little more about the work of a volcanologist, do you think it is an occupation you would enjoy? Discuss your reasons with others in your class.

Ⅴ.Homework

1.Retell the writer’s first sight of a volcano.

2. Recite the new words and expressions

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