Module 8 Accidents Unit 1 While the car were changing to red, a car suddenly appeared.教学设计

Module 8 Accidents
Unit 1 While the lights were changing to red,
a car suddenly appeared.
I. Teaching material analysis
The topic of this module is about accidents. And the first unit is a listening and speaking class, which mainly discusses the traffic accidents. This topic is close to students’ life, and it is helpful to arouse students’ awareness of safety. Grammatically, Module 7 practices the past continuous tense at a particular time in the past, while this module helps students practice the past continuous tense with “while”, “when” and “as”. The previous module was learnt as a preparation for this module. After learning this class, students will have a better understanding of the reasons and results of accidents and learn how to reduce the risk of an accident.
II. Teaching objectives and demands
1. Knowledge objectives
A. Enable the students to listen and understand the reasons and result of accidents, as well as some advice
B. Encourage the students to grasp some key vocabulary.
C. Get the students to know the past continuous tense.
2. Ability objectives
A. Enable the students to practice some listening skills.
B. Enable the students to discuss the reasons and result of accident, and suggestions for avoiding accidents.
3. Emotional objectives
A. Encourage students to know some measures to prevent accident from happening.
B. Encourage the students to obey the traffic rules and cherish their lives.
III. Important points and difficult points
1. Important points
Get the students to listen and understand something about accident and enable them to describe the scene of accident.
2. Difficult points
Enable the students to grasp the past continuous tense with “when”, “while” and “as”.
III. Teaching approaches
1. Task-based learning
2. Communicative methods
A. Question and answer.
B. Group work and pair work.
C. Explanation.
IV. Time allotment
Step 1 Warm-up activities (8 minutes)
Step 2 Pre-listening activities (6 minutes)
Step 3 While-listening (18 minutes)
Step 4 Post-listening (12 minutes)
Step 5 Homework (1 minute)
V. Teaching aids
Multi-media; Blackboard; Realia.
VI. Teaching procedures
Step 1. Warm-up activities (8 minutes)
Lead-in
The teacher greets the students and introduces herself briefly. Introduce the topic of accident in the self-introduction part.
Meanwhile introduce the past continuous tense in self-introduction.
Watch a video
Watch a clip of video about accidents. Then ask students to answer several questions.
How many kinds of accidents did the video show
Why does these accidents happen
Then let the students answer these two questions and discuss the reasons of accidents.
Step 2. Pre-listening activities (6 minutes)
Pair-work: Prediction
Ask students to work in pairs and predict the reason of the accident.
Students may practice like this:
A: Was the driver going fast B: Yes, he was./ No, he wasn’t.
A: Was the driver looking B: Yes, he was./ No, he wasn’t.
A: Was the driver talking on his mobile phone B: Yes, he was./ No, he wasn’t.
B. Listen and underline the correct words.
1. The driver was/was not going fast.
2. The driver was/was not looking.
3. The driver was/was not talking on his mobile phone.
Step 3. While-listening (18 minutes)
A. First-listening: Questions and answers.
Why did Ms James look pale
Because she saw an accident.
2. Did the car hit the boy
No. The car stopped just in time.
B. Second-listening: True or false.
1. A boy was riding his bike and was talking on the phone on the road.
2. Ms James was waiting to cross the road when the lights were changing to red.
3. While the lights were changing to red, a car suddenly appeared round the corner.
4. The car didn’t stop because the driver was driving too fast.
Keys: 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F
(Ask students to check the wrong information and give the correct one.)
Third-listening: Listen and complete the advice.
When you are riding a bike, think about the risk of an accident!
Pay ________ and stop at ____________.
Don’t ____ too fast.
Don’t ride __________ with your friends!
Don’t _____________.
Keys: 1. attention; red lights 2. ride 3. side by side 4. listen to music
Step 4. Post-listening (12 minutes)
Group work: Investigation.
Create a situation: An accident happened at around 7:00 p.m. yesterday evening. A car hit a boy around the corner, and the boy was badly injured. But the driver went away. So the policeman will ask some people a few questions to find out who was the driver.
Divide students into groups of four or five students and give them card of their roles.
Ask students to practice in groups and choose two to three groups to show their dialogue before the students.
Emotional education.
Ask students to discuss what they learnt from this lesson.
Arouse students’ emotion with “Follow traffic rules, cherish our lives”.
Step 5. Homework (1 minute)
1. Write a passage about an accident with the words and expressions we learnt.
2. Search more information about the traffic accident and make a poster.