1、Unit 6 Natural Disasters CheckoutTeaching objectives1. To revise vocabulary and sentences related to natural disasters2. To revise the past continuous tense3. To talk about topics related to natural disastersTeaching proceduresStep 1 Language points revision1. Revise vocabulary related to bad weathe
2、r. Ask students to look at some pictures and tell the English word for each of them.2. Ask students to open their books at page 107 and do the word puzzle in Part B to find the words of the pictures. Then check the answers together: windy, snowy, thunder, rainy, scream, bomb.3. Students read these w
3、ords together. Tell them snowy, rainy and windy are adjectives to describe weather conditions. Ask them if they know any other adjectives about different kinds of weather conditions . Students talk about that in groups.4. Show some pictures and go through the adjectives about weather conditions with
4、 the whole class, e.g. sunny, stormy, cloudy, etc.5. Ask students if they remember how we can form these adjectives from nouns. Elicit answers from students, then tell them we add y to the end of a noun to form such an adjective. But we should first double the last letter of the words like fog and s
5、un , then add y.6.Review vocabulary related to natural disasters. Show some pictures about different natural disasters quickly. Invite students to tell the names of all these natural disasters as quickly as they can: rainstorm, snowstorm, sandstorm, flood, earthquake, typhoon.7. Organize a group tal
6、k. Ask when a natural disaster comes, how we can protect ourselves? Students talk about it in groups.8. Revise some important language points through free talk about natural disasters. E.g. When an earthquake comes, can we run wildly? No, we cant. We should try to hide in a safe place and protect ou
7、r heads.If we are trapped? What should we do? We should calm down and scream for help.Is a flood dangerous? Yes, a big flood can wash everything away. And every year many people lose their lives because of flood. etc.Step 2 Grammar revision1. Say natural disasters are really terrible. They can cause
8、 great damage and loss of life. In the 1970s, there was such a big natural disaster hitting Tangshan, which is in Hebei Province of China.2. Play the recording about the earthquake in Tangshan and ask students to listen carefully and answer some questions. Then talk about the questions with students
9、. 3. Say Millie wanted to know more about the earthquake in Tangshan. So she found a video about it in the library. Lets watch part of it together. Then ask what the video shows us? -It shows us the situation after the earthquake.We can see many soldiers there. What were they doing then? -they were
10、helping people in need.4. Ask students to look at Part A on page 107. Simon is asking Millie about the video. Students complete their conversation using the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Then check answers together.5. Show some key sentences in the dialogue on the Bb. Ask what tense all th
11、ese sentences are in? -They are all in the past continuous tense. Say in this unit, we learned about the past continuous tense. 6. Revise the past continuous tense. Ask if they can remember when to use the past continuous tense. Students talk about that. Then elicit answers from students.Explain we
12、use the past continuous tense to talk about things that were happening for some time in the past. We should use was/ were (+ not) + v-ing to form the past continuous tense.7. Ask students to look at two model sentences carefully and talk about when to use while and when.Explain when something else h
13、appened while a longer action was going on, we use when or while to join the two actions. We use the past continuous tense for the longer action and the simple past tense for the shorter actionWhen two long actions went on at the same time, we can use the past continuous tense in both clauses and wh
14、ile to join them. Step 3 Practice1. Say Sandy wrote a diary about the snowstorm that hit Beijing on Friday,28th January. Please help her complete part of the diary using the correct forms of the given verbs.2. Fill in the blanks with the right forms of the given words3. Put the following sentences into English.学优!中考- ，网
