Unit10

Teaching plan of Unit 10Frightening Nature(Designed to the periods)Teaching aims and demands1.Goals: Talk about natural disasters, volcanoes. Hurricanes and typhoonsExpress emotion, anxiety and fearPractice creative writing.2.Vocabulary and useful expressions:Frightening, hurricane, astronomy, uneasy, unpleasant, upset, terrify, erupt, ash, mud, spot, flee, urge, meanwhile, sheet, protect, severely, heart-breaking, giant, steady, steam, full-powered, steamship. Unbelievable, stillness, whisper, appropriate, at hand, knock about, all of a sudden, as though3.Function:Express feelings How terrible! It makes me feel uneasy when… I think it’s very unpleasant…… It makes me feel very worried…. I get very upset…. It’s a frightening thing…. I dare not…. I’m really scary…. It takes my hair stand on end.4.Grammar: Ellipsis A word about your composition. Though tired, he was not disheartened.You would do the same.Sit down , please.We’ll do the best we can.Everybody gone?That letter was the last.Teaching procedure:Teaching procedure:Period 1.Step 1.Warming up1.Brainstorming:Activity: find as many words as they can to define a natural disaster2.Following the steps of the warming-up on page 73.Step 2. Pre-reading 1.Show some pictures of disasters such as typhoon, tsunami .2.group work: how serious a loss people will suffer if there is a typhoon/ tsunami.Step 3. While-reading 1.Scanning: Ss read quickly and get a main idea.2.explain the words in bold.3.Ss read and get the main ideas of each paragraph.Step 4. After-reading Finish the exercises on p77 Step 5. Assignment surf the internet and get more information about volcanoes.Period 2.Step 1. Warming up Ask some Ss to retell the passage that they have learnt in last period.St...