人教版九年级全册英语 Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected. SectionA 3a-3c 教案

Life is full of unexpected
一、Teaching Target
1. To develop students’ reading abilities by finishing the exercises.
2. To make Ss be able to describe the lucky or unlucky days using the past perfect tense after reading the passage.
二、Teaching contents
1. To learn how to describe the unexpected things happened in our daily life.
2. To learn to read through the passage by doing some exercises.
三、Teaching Importance and difficulties.
1. To be able to understand the passage about the unexpected things written with the past perfect tense.
2. To be able to describe the events happened in the past using the past perfect tense and the adverbial clause of time.
四、Teaching materials
PPT, Media, pictures
五、Teaching steps
Step 1. Warming up
Show Ss a video and some pictures. Guide Ss to say what happened that day.
Step 2. Reading Life is full of unexpected.
1. Let Ss read the first paragraph and find the answers to the three questions.
Q1: What time did the writer arrive at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
Q2: What did the writer decide to do first
Q3: How far away was the coffee place from his office
2. Check the answers.
3. Showing some pictures about the earthquake, let ss talk about them.
Then answer the two questions below.
4. Have ss read the second paragraph and put the sentences in the correct order.
5. Read the passage again and complete the table.
Incident Date Place How did the writer end up missing both events
1 The World Trade Center was hit by a plane September 11, 2001 In New York He decided to get a coffee first from a coffee place two blocks away
2 In New Zealand He missed his plane to New Zealand
Step 3. Summarize
Today we’ve learned the passage “Life is full of the unexpected.” We all know the unexpected will happen unexpectedly. So we should learn how to describe the lucky or unlucky days in English.