八年级英语上册 Unit 8 Natural disasters Task教案 （新版）牛津版-（新版）牛津版初中八年级上册英语教案.doc

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.
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
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.
Task
Teaching aims:
To learn to organize ideas for writing an article for the school newsletter and to write an article about natural disasters
Step 1 Revision
Show some videos and pictures to revise some natural disasters.
Step 2 Reading
1. Read the books by themselves.
2. Learn some useful expressions.
3. Complete the exercises on page103.
Step 3 Explanation
1. tell sb. (not) to do sth.
告诉某人（不要）做某事
e.g. Mr. Wu told us to go home early.
吴老师告诉我们要早点回家。
2. share sth. with sb.
与某人分享某物
e.g. I share a bedroom with my sister.
我和妹妹共同用一个卧室。
3. keep doing sth. 一直（做）某事

e.g. The snow kept falling.
雪一直在下。
4. hear … doing sth. 听到…...在做某事
e.g. He heard a child crying next door.
他听到隔壁一个孩子在哭。
hear the noise of
e.g. I heard the noise of traffic last night.
5. get on / off 上/下车
e.g. She got on a bus quickly.
她快速的上了一辆公共汽车。
6. fall over 摔倒、跌倒
e.g. I nearly fell over in the snow.
我几乎在雪中摔倒。
7. clean the snow 清理雪
e.g. She cleaned the snow yesterday.
她昨天清理雪了。
Step 5 How to write about natural disasters
1. Choose the topic
定题
2. Choose materials
选材
3. Make the list
列提纲
4. Start to write
着手写作
5. Write the introduction part
6. During the disaster
a. What did you do?
1) wore more clothes/rain coat/glasses
2) called 110/119/120 hotline
3) closed the door and windows
4) went to high places …
b. What did you hear?
heard strong wind/big noise/ thunder
c. What did you see?
saw the lightning/lots of smoke/sand /
dark cloud/thick snow/ many people…
d. What happened?
1) be trapped/be frightened
2) lost my umbrella
3) walked/drove/rode---slowly/hard
4) fell down/over
5) crashed into …
7. After the disaster
1) What did you see?
saw people removing the snow/cleaned
the way/ sent the victims to the hospital/
got something from the flood---
2) What did you hear?
screamed / shouted / calmed down …
3) How did you feel?
frightened /excited/terrible/in fear/
worried / sad/ thankful …
Step 6 Writing
Try to write an article.
Play a game. Try to find out the mistakes.
Show some of their articles.
Homework
Review all the new words and language points in this unit.