Unit 4 Earthquakes Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading Teaching goals: Knowledge aims: 1. Students will be able to master the following useful new words and expressions. disaster, natural, flood, drought, typhoon, hurricane, tornado, volcano, eruption, earthquake, damage, crack, brick, steel, electricity. 2. Students will be able to know the basic knowledge about Earthquake Ability aims: Develop students’ reading ability. Emotional aims: 1. Students will be able to know damages and presage that earthquake bring about. 2. Students will be able to know how to protect oneself and help others in earthquakes. 3. Students will be able to be aware of terrible disasters, meanwhile get them to cherish happy life. Teaching important points: 1. Master the usages of the useful words and expressions above. 2. Improve the students’ reading ability. Teaching difficult points: 1. How to make students understand the text better. 2. How to train the students’ reading ability in learning the text. Teaching methods: 1. Arousing student’s interests in the text by showing them some pictures and a shout video. 1. Explanation to get the students to have a clear idea. 2. Discussion to get the students to understand the text easier. Teaching Aids: A computer and a blackboard. Teaching procedures: I. Warming up Warming up by talking Good morning class. I think you must know Mr. Nature, and he is emotional. When he is happy, we will have a fine weather, so can you describe these views? Ok, but he is emotional, when he gets angry, what will happen? Do you know how many kinds of natural disasters? What are they? Look at the pictures, can you name all the disasters? Flood drought typhoon /hurricane volcano fire sand...
