牛津译林版八年级上册Unit 8 Natural disasters Welcome to the unit 教案

Unit 8 Natural disasters教案
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 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 3 Look and choose
Which headlines are about natural disasters
1. School football team loses final
2. Earthquake kills thousands of people
3. Car accident kills three men
4. coach crashes into tree
5. Flood washes away village
6. Lightning starts big fire in classroom building
7. Young boy falls from tree and hurts legs
8. Big storm kills 20 people
Step 4 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 5 Language points
1. When I woke up, there was water everywhere!
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. Who will mop up the water if I go home without you
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. Earthquake kills thousands of people
thousands of 成千上万的
“thousands + of +名词”表示不确定的数目，强调数量多。
e.g. There are thousands of people on the road.
路上有成千上万的人。
4. Car accident kills three men
a car accident 一场车祸
e.g. There was a car accident yesterday.
昨天有一场车祸。
5. Coach crashes into tree
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. Flood washed away village
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. Young boy falls from tree and hurts legs
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. Lightning hit a classroom building and it caught fire.
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。
在表示具体的火灾实例或炉火时，fire用作可数名词；fire用作物质名词时，为不可数名词。如：
They pick up sticks to make a fire.
他们拾了些树枝来生火。
Paper catches fire easily.
纸易着火。
Step 6 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. There are many _______ (nature) disasters in the world every year.
5. Most of the rare animals live in ______ (nature) reserves.
6. There are _________ (thousand) of ducks on the farm.
Translate the phrases.
1. 自然灾害
2. 半个小时以后
3. 把所有的水拖干净
4. 输了比赛
5. 成百上千的人
6. 一场车祸
7. 撞到树上
8. 把村庄冲走
9. 燃起了一场大火
10. 从树上掉下来
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 ________________________.
4. 如果你不小心驾车，你会撞到前面的树。
If you __________________, you ___________________________.
5. 上周六Daniel从自行车上摔下来了。
Daniel ______________ the bike last Saturday.