Teaching planModule FourSandstorms in AsiaTeaching Aims:1. Knowledge and Skilla. Get the students to review the violence of nature and know more about sandstorms and how to protect the environment.b. Through discussion and the comprehension of Reading, develop the students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing, mainly reading.c. Encourage the students to search the information on the Internet to gain more knowledge of sandstorms and environmental protection.d. Improve the students’ ability to read for specific facts.e. To grasp the usage of infinitive, pay more attention to the usage of but + infinitive.2.Emotion and Valuesa. Enable the students to talk about the cause and influence of sandstorms，and the ways to solve the problem in order to increase their sense of protecting the environment.b. To encourage the Ss to talk about the damage caused by sandstorm and their own feelings about it.3. Cross-cultural awareness:a. Understand the environmental protection of the whole world and strengthen their awareness of environment protection.4. Character-building:a. To strengthen their confidence of protecting the environment we are living in.b. Enable the students to talk about the sandstorms, the reasons for causing sandstorms and the importance of protecting environmentDifficulties and Importance:a. Conclude and collect the words and phrases related to environment and environmental protection.b. Ask students to think ways to protect the environment.c. Improve the student’s abilityof graspingthe general idea of the passage. Teaching Method:a. Task-based methodologyb. Communicative ApproachTeaching Time:Five periods:Period 1 vocabulary and WritingSpeaking 1Period 2 Reading and VocabularyPeriod 3 Grammar 1 Infinitive Listenin...
