Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary课题Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary课型New教学目标1. Enable the Ss to know about What is a Tornado?2. Get to know some useful language points3.Train the students’ skills重点Read to get certain information about: what is a tornado? What is a hurricane? 难点How to help students improve their reading ability学情分析The Ss can finish the task.教具课件1. A recorder 2. A projector 3. A computer教法1. Fast reading and careful reading to help the students understand the passage exactly.2. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.教学程序教学内容师生活动时间分配Step 1Step 2Step 3 See the pictures&talkRead & do exx12’30’Step 4Step5 Step 1 Revision Ask three or four students to read the word list and other students to correct their wrong pronunciations.Step 1 Presentation. Student A: reporter from one of the newspapers.Student B: interviewee.Now you are working on a special report about disasters, you need to interview some peopleQuestions like these:1 Have you ever experienced (a flood, a tornado a thunderstorm, a hurricane)? 2 Do you know anyone who has experienced one of the events?3 Have you ever read a news story about one of the events? Can you describe it?4 Do you know anything about the events? For example, what causes them?Step 2 Read the Gulf Stream and check the meaning of the words.1. What is a current? A. A kind of electricity B. A movement of water C. A kind of wind2. What kind of things flow? A. Water B. Time C. Money3. If two places are on the same latitude, they are on the same line______. A. east/west B. north/south Step 3 Fast-readingRead the passage, then finish the exercise at Activity 2, page 22.1. More than 400 Km/h.2. ...
