2021-2022高中英语人教版选修6教案：UNIT5 THE POWER OF NATURE USING LANGUAGE （三） WORD版含答案.doc

1、Unit5 The power of natureUsing languageListening and Speaking教案Teaching goals 教学目标1. Target language 目标语言重点词汇和短语tremble, anxious, panic, courage, excited, worried, relieved, terrified, nervous 2. Ability goals 能力目标Enable the students to learn the ways of expressing fear and anxiety.3. Learning abili

2、ty goals 学能目标Enable the students to describe powerful natural forces that they have experienced and how they felt during and after the disaster.Teaching important points 教学重点Ways of expressing fear and anxiety.Teaching difficult points 教学难点Enable the students to describe powerful natural forces that

3、 they have experienced and how they felt during and after the disaster.Teaching methods 教学方法Listening, speaking, discussion and cooperative learning.Teaching aids 教具准备A recorder. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Step I ListeningThe students will listen to the volcanologists talk about their most fr

4、ightening experience. First get the students to describe the three pictures to help them recall the words or expressions theyve learned about the occupation volcanologist. Then listen and write their names under the pictures. T: Do you still remember the work of a volcanologist? Ss: Yes. He collects

5、 information about a volcano to help predict volcanos eruption. T: How can they get the information?S1: They must climb into a live volcano to take the temperature of the boiling rock inside and collect some lava for later study.T: Excellent! Please turn to page 38. Describe the three pictures with

6、your partners. Well ask some of you to describe the pictures in class.The students work in pairs to describe the pictures. They can turn to the text if they have some difficulty.T: Who will describe Picture 1?S2: A helicopter is flying to the volcano, when suddenly the volcano erupts. The ash and bo

7、iling rocks rush into the air hundreds of metres high. Luckily, the helicopter is not near the volcano, or it will be melt.T: Picture 2?S3: The volcano is erupting. The lava is flowing slowly down the mountain. A volcanologist is collecting lava with a special tool. He wears special clothes. It seem

8、s very dangerous to work there.T: How about Picture 3?S4: After an eruption, a crater formed. A woman volcanologist is making records and collecting information. She also wears special clothes to protect herself.T: These pictures are about the most frightening experience of three vocanologists. They

9、 tell us their stories. Please listen and write their names under the pictures.Get the students to listen to the tape for the first time and finish Exercise 1. Then check the answers with he whole class.Ask the students to read the questions in Exercise 2 before listening. Then play the tape, stop t

10、he tape after each person has spoken. Listen to the tape again if the students cannot write down the answers.T: The volcanologist sound very young. How long has he / she been a volcanologist? Lets listen to the tape again. Read the questions first and then listen and write down your answers. Ill sto

11、p the tape after each person has spoken. If you have any question, hands up!Play the tape for the third time. Make sure the students understand the sentences in Exercise 3 and know what they are asked to do. T: The three vocanologists describe their experiences. Please read the following sentences f

12、irst. Can you understand all of them?S5: Can you explain this sentence “I was trembling almost as much as the ground under my feet”?T: It means “The ground is shaking. I am very nervous so I am shaking, too.” Any other question? Write the name of the person beside the things they said.The students l

13、isten and write down their answers.Step SpeakingFirst, get the students to think of ways to express fear and anxiety.Second, ask the students to think of powerful natural forces that they have experienced. If they didnt experience any such things, they can imagine according to the text and what they

14、 heard just now. Then they are required to tell their similar experience and how they felt using expressions from Exercise 5 in Listening. T: The speakers describe their fear or anxiety. We can find these sentences in Exercise 3. How do you express fear or anxiety? Read these sentences aloud and the

15、n think of other ways.T: Whod like to answer this question?S1: There are many ways to show fear. For example, I was so terrified that I ran as fast as possible till I found I was in my office.S2: Knowing I was admitted to the university, I was so excited that I cried loudly.S3: I was in a panic so I

16、 checked all the windows and the door several times to make sure they were all locked.S4: I was relieved when all the people were removed to a safer place.S5: I was trembling and couldnt write a word.S6: I was so nervous that I couldnt read the text fluently.S7: I was so anxious that I couldnt sit b

17、ut walk back and forth in the playground.S8: I got up the courage to knock the door.T: Wonderful! I believe you have more ways to express fear or anxiety, but there isnt enough time. Lets turn to another topic a frightening experience. We have listened to the frightening experience of three volcanol

18、ogists. Its your turn to tell us your frightening experience. Think of a powerful natural force such as an earthquake, flood that you have experienced. If you didnt experience such thing, your imagination will help you. Tell your partners your experiences and how you feel. Try to use expressions fro

19、m Exercise 3.The students talk in pairs. After a few minutes, ask some students to tell their stories in class.T: Who will be the first to tell your story? S1: I was twelve years old when the mud-rock flow happened in the afternoon. My father and I were in the bookstore, enjoying the music and novel

20、s. I sat by the window, reading an interesting story. Suddenly I heard a strange noise. I looked out of the window. “My God!” I shouted. “A chocolate-colored flood is rushing down the street.” All the people ran to the window and saw what was happening, “Mud-rock flow!” Everybody was frightened and

21、tried to rush upstairs. My father made his way to me and pulled me by the arm and shouted, “To the hill.” We all kept running till we were on the top of the hill, which is just behind the bookstore. What a sad sight! Many houses slid by like toys. Beds were rolling in the flood with rocks. It lasted

22、 for twenty minutes. People ran to their homes and began to look for their family members, shouting and running. S2: It was a beautiful Sunday morning in the small town. I was reading a book near my home. My twelve-year-old sister Lihua was playing with a basketball. As I read, I looked up and saw a

23、 huge, black cloud far away to the west. It might rain, I thought. Soon, I heard a noise what sounded like a big gun. The sound seemed to grow louder. I looked up again. This time, I saw a huge cloud moving quickly across the sky. We watched as the sky grew darker. The cloud began to block light fro

24、m the sun. I again looked at my book. I noticed something unusual on the book. It looked like very fine dust. How strange, I thought. It is raining dust! My sister and I ran into the house and told my parents about what we saw. They turned on the television. We saw the report about the volcano explo

25、sion. The cloud covering the sky was ash from the volcano. The cloud had now almost covered the whole sky. In a moment, it was as black as night. A strong chemical smell was in the air. Ash fell very quickly in huge amounts. The ash now covered the ground. It was a frightening experience. We continu

26、ed to watch television report. Experts said they did not know what would happen. I looked outside the house again and wondered, “Will the ash bury us?” The volcano exploded for more than eight hours. At last, everything returned calm. We can saw the sky again. I was still terrified that I couldnt st

27、and up to see the different world outside.S3: I will tell you another volcano eruption. The volcano is one of the most frightening forces of nature. At that time I was a volcanologist. The volcano had been giving warnings for three months. These warnings were in the form of many small earthquakes. S

28、everal weeks earlier, government officials had declared an emergency. They barred people from entering the Mount Saint Helens area. A special permit was needed to travel near the mountain. Officials also forced people who lived near the mountain to leave their homes. It was the day before the explos

29、ion, we went there to watch the development and collect some information. The morning when we were having breakfast, the ground trembled. We ran out of the house. A strange smell was in the air. Fire, rock and volcanic gas flew out of the volcano with an unimaginable force. A cloud of ash went straight up more than twenty kilometers into the air in less than fifteen minutes. A very large wall of melted rock moved down the side of a mountain. It looked like a “river of fire”. Five hours later, the eruption stopped and all was peaceful.6