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Teaching plan of Unit 10
Frightening Nature
(Designed to the periods)
Teaching aims and demands

1. Goals: Talk about natural disasters, volcanoes. Hurricanes and typhoons
Express emotion, anxiety and fear
Practice 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 though
3. 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 up
1. Brainstorming:
Activity: find as many words as they can to define a natural disaster

2. 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.
Step 2. Learning about the language
 Teacher explain some language points in the text on page 76.
1. The sight of it awoke the scientist in my uncle to go and see it from closer at hand.
At hand
I haven’t the dictionary at hand but I will show it to you later.
Awake
I awake at sic in the morning.
Awake to the danger.
2. What started out as a trip for knowledge now calls for courage.
Call for
The workers are calling for better working conditions.
The work calls for endurance and patience.
3. He hurried to a place from which others were fleeing, and held his course directly into danger.
4. he paused for a moment wondering whether to turn back as the captain urged him.
Urge
Urge a horse on
Urge the freedom of speech
Urge sb. To do sth./ into doing sth.
5. He looked more asleep than dead.
He’s more mad than stupid.
The book seems to be more a dictionary than a grammar.

Step 3. Practice
Ss finish Ex 1 and 2 on page 77-78 by themselves.

Step 4. Assignment
1. Learn the useful expressions by heart.
2. Finish Wb. Ex1 –4 on page 146-147.

Period 3.

Step 1. Revision
 Check the answers of Wb Ex 1 -- 4on page 146-147.
Step 2. Discovering useful structures
1. Ss look at the following sentences and translate them into Chinese.
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.

2.Ss study more examples on p78.
 
3.More exercises to consolidate the Grammar.
 .EX1—2 on p78
Step 3. Talking
1. Ss four in one group and have a discussion about the topic on page 145
2. Ss make  notes  during the discussion, and try to make full use of the role cards.

Step 4. Speaking
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.
Step 5 assignment
Finish Wb Ex 4 on P147

Period 4.

Step 1. Warming up
 Ask Ss some questions about how to protect the planet we live in:
Step 2. Reading
1. Ss read the passage on P148-149, and then write down the titles

2. Help Ss to understand the passage entirely.
3. Finish the comprehending EX on P149
Step 3. Writing
a. read the passage quickly and get a main idea of natural disasters.
b. Finish the writing task on p 150.

Period 5. (Listening)

Step 1. Listening
1. Ss finish the listening task on page 73-74.
2. Ss listen to the tape again and check the answers.

Step 2. dealing with the Ex  on p 144 of Workbook.
Step 3. Listening skills
     Give the students some tips on how to improve listening while checking the Ex.
a. make notes while listening;
b. grasp the most important information

Period 6. (Writing )

Step 1. Pre-writing
1. Ss read the passage on p79 and get the general idea about typhoon.
2. Explain the skills on how to organize a paragraph.
Step 2. While-writing
1. Ss write a short paragraph to tell the readers how the Nanshan passes through the hurricane.
2. Ss exchange their writing and correct the mistakes.
3. Ss rewrite the process again.
Step 3. After-writing
Choose some samples and show them in class.
 Tips on writing:
Pay attention to the form of narrative.
Pay attention to the tense while writing.
Pay attention to the structures of the sentences.
Step 4. assignment
Prepare a speech on natural disasters.
The tips on p80 may be of good help.

Period 7.

Teachers can use this period freely.
Suggestion:  1.Teachers can use this period to let Ss sum up what they have learned and explain what Ss couldn’t understand very well in this unit. Teachers can also add more practice in this period to consolidate what the Ss have learned. Finally, ask the Ss to finish Assessing on page 150. It is very important to improve their learning and let them have a sense of achieving gradually.
2. Encourage the students to do the project part.