译林牛津版八上英语 Unit 8 Natural disasters Reading I教案

Unit 8 Natural disasters

Comic strip and welcome to the unit Teaching Aims:

1. To learn the new words and phrases 2. To meet the past continuous tense 3. Talk about some natural disaster. Step 1 Presentation

1. Show some pictures to learn some words. 2. Then read aloud the new words.

disaster mop up earthquake thousands of accident coach crash flood wash away village lightning storm thunder catch fire Step 2 Do some exercises. Do Part A on page 93. Check the answers. Step 3 Presentation

Show some pictures to present comic strip. Step 4 Listen and answer

1. Listen to the tape and answer the follow questions. 1) What’s the weather like? 2) What happened to Hobo?

3) What was Hobo doing when it started to rain? 4) Did Hobo hear the rain?

5) Why doesn’t he want to go home alone? 6) What do you think of Hobo? 2. Read the dialogue in pairs. 3. Act it out. Step 6 Listening

1. Listen to part B and answer the following question. 1) What happened to Vivien’s school? 2) When did it happen? 2. Read after the recorder.

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3. Pratice in pairs. 4. Act it out.

5. Make their own dialogue. Step 7 Explanation 1. wake up 醒过 wake sb. up 叫醒某人

e.g. I wake up at six every morning! 我每天早上六点钟醒来。

She wakes me up at six every morning. 她每天早上六点钟叫醒我。 2. mop up 拖干净，把......拖干净 e.g. Hobo wants Eddie to mop up the water. Hobo想要Eddie把水拖干净。 3. thousands of 成千上万的

e.g. There are thousands of people on the road. 路上有成千上万的人。

4. a car accident 一场车祸 e.g. There was a car accident yesterday. 昨天有一场车祸。

5. crash into 猛撞，碰撞

e.g. A car crashed into a tree last night. 昨天晚上一辆车猛撞到一棵树上。 6. wash away 冲走

e.g. A terrible flood washed away his house. 一场可怕的洪水冲走了他的房子。 7. fall from 从……掉下，落下

e.g. The boy fell from a tree and hurt his legs. 那个男孩从树上掉下来伤到了他的腿。 8. catch fire 着火

e.g. The house caught fire because of the lightening. 因为闪电那个房子着火了。 Step 8 Exercises

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根据汉语提示或所给词的正确形式填空:

1. There are many _________ (灾害) in the world every day. 2. I heard of a car _________ (事故) here. 3. --- What was the weather like yesterday? --- It was_________ (sun) but ________ (wind).

4. Our school football team _______ (lose) the game last Friday. 5. My brother __________ (fall) off his bike just now. 6. I __________ (do) my homework when my mother came back. 翻译下列句子：

1. 下周天气将会变得更糟。

The weather _________________ next week. 2. 数千人在一次地震中丧生了。

____________ people _____________ in the earthquake. 3. 一场洪水冲走了他们的房子。 A flood ________________________. Step 9 Homework

1. Read the text book and learn the new words and phrases by heart. 2. Do the exercises in the workbook. Reading I Teaching Aims:

1. Learn some new words.

2. According to the pictures, keywords and context speculate the main ideas. 3. Practise reading skills by learning “An earthquake”. Step 1 Presentation

Present the new words with pictures and read them aloud.

slight shake loud fear bomb shake direction in all directions brick come down silent not at all nervous heart beat trapped mind calm calm down since still alive dark shout at last daylight safe asleep after find one’s way out

Step 2 Match the words on the left with the meanings on the right. 1. Do part B1 on page 95. 2. Check the answer.

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Step 3 Presentation

1. Enjoy some pictures and present ‘What is earthquake?’ Step 4 Listening

1. Listen to text and do part B3. 2. Check the answers. Step 5 Reading

1. Read paragraph1 and finish the table. At first When it was What he did What he heard How he felt

2. Read paragraph 2 and complete the passage.

The real noise was like ______ under the ground. People ran _________. Timmy tried his best to _____ to the street. Pieces of glass and bricks _____________, and then the walls began to _________, too.

Read paragraph 3 and do the following exercises. 1) Timmy _____ after the noise and shaking ended? A. screamed B. calmed down C. ran wildly D. cried 2) He could see __________.

A. Anything B. someone around him C. nothing D. the bright daylight 3) He could hear _________.

A. some people screaming B. shouts from people

C. a loud noise like bombs D. It is not mentioned(涉及) 4. Read paragraph 4 and answer the following questions.

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1) What did Timmy feel when he was trapped? 2) Did he shout for help?

5. Read paragraph 5 and match the sentences. 1) I was trying to find my way out ____ 2) I screamed _____

3) Then I heard shouts from _____ 4) They quick ______ 5) At last, I saw _____

a. Help! Please help! I’m here! b. move away the bricks. c. the bright daylight.

d. when I suddenly heard some noise above me. e. excited people. Step 6 Exercises

1. Complete part B 2 on page 95. 2. Check the answers. Step 7 Discussion

After the earthquake, Timmy has some useful ways of protecting himself in the earthquake. If you are Timmy, what good ways of protecting yourself do you know? Step 8 Homework

1. Read aloud the article and underline the difficult parts. 2. Remember the new words in this lesson.

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