Module 4 Sandstorms in Asia
Reading and vocabulary
【teaching content】
Reading and Vocabulary
【teaching aims】
To let students master the main words and expressions;
To improve student’s reading skills by reading;
To train students to protect our environment.
【difficult and important points】
To comprehend the passage through exercises;
To express students’ ideas in fluent English.
【before-class activity】课前活动
What disasters have you learned?
【while-class activity】课中活动
Step I: Lead-in
what’s the reporter talking in the video?（教师课堂教学活动设计）
Step II: Fast-reading
Task 1: Please match main idea with each paragraph.
Para. 1 suggestions
Para. 2 causes
Para. 3 descriptions
Para. 4 measures
Para. 5 introduction
Para. 6 effects
Task 2: Discuss their answers within groups(学生课堂学习活动设计)
Step III: Intensive reading
Task 1: answer questions（教师课堂教学活动设计）
Paragraphs 2—4:
1.What are sandstorms?
________________________________________________________________________
2. Where do the sandstorms often occur?
3. Who experienced a sandstorm when he was young and what was his feeling?
4. Why have sandstorms increased in China?
5. Can you describe the process of desertification?
This is a process that happens when land becomes desert because of _____________and because people ____________trees and ______________ grass.
6. When sandstorms happen in Beijing, what is the weather like?
When __________ happen , citizens wake up to an orange _____ and strong ______ that cover the city in a thick, brown-yellowed _____.
Traffic? _______________________________________________________________________
Paragraphs 5-6:
What’s the weather experts’ advice?
What is the government doing to control sandstorms?
Task 2: Check their answers within groups(学生课堂学习活动设计)
Step IV: Post-reading(课堂学生学习效果评测工具和方法设计)
Task 1: complete the blanks
Sandstorms are strong, dry winds _________carry sand. They appear to ___________(increase) in recent years as a _____ of desertification. When they happen, the traffic moves very ______ (slow) because the thick dust makes ___ difficult to see.
When a sandstorm arrives in the city, weather experts ______ people not to go out. So ____ you want to go out, you’d better wear a ______.
Scientists have tried many ways ____________ solve the problem. ___________ (prevent) it coming nearer, the government is planting trees.
Task 2: Group work（能力提升）
An interview:
Choose one reporter, an expert in weather and a citizen in sandstorms from each group. And then talk about sandstorms in groups.
You can ask the following questions:
How do you feel and what do you see in a sandstorm?
2. What are the causes of sandstorms?
3. How can we prevent sandstorms?
4. What should we do to protect our environment?
Homework(课后活动)
Task1: Write a short passage about what we can do to protect our earth, according to the suggestions above.
2. Design a poster(海报) that encourages people to protect the earth.
评测练习
这是一节阅读课，为检测学生对课文的掌握程度，设计了两个读后活动。一是完成语法填空和组织一个采访活动，这两项紧扣学生课堂所学的短语和句型，同时提高学生的口语。二是作业安排，要求学生写出一份作文和设计一份海报，增强学生的环保意识。
一、 Post-reading
Task 1: complete the blanks
Sandstorms are strong, dry winds _________carry sand. They appear to ___________(increase) in recent years as a _____ of desertification. When they happen, the traffic moves very ______ (slow) because the thick dust makes ___ difficult to see.
When a sandstorm arrives in the city, weather experts ______ people not to go out. So ____ you want to go out, you’d better wear a ______.
Scientists have tried many ways ____________ solve the problem. ___________ (prevent) it coming nearer, the government is planting trees.
Task 2: Group work（能力提升）
An interview:
Choose one reporter, an expert in weather and a citizen in sandstorms from each group. And then talk about sandstorms in groups.
You can ask the following questions:
How do you feel and what do you see in a sandstorm?
2. What are the causes of sandstorms?
3. How can we prevent sandstorms?
4. What should we do to protect our environment?
二、Homework
Task1: Write a short passage about what we can do to protect our earth, according to the suggestions above.
2. Design a poster(海报) that encourages people to protect the earth.
课件18张PPT。tornado
hurricaneearthquake volcanic
eruptionlightningtsunamidisasters Step I. lead-in What are your feelings about sandstorms?Module 4
Sandstorms in Asia skimming (find the main idea with each paragraph）Para. 1 suggestions
Para. 2 causes
Para. 3 descriptions
Para. 4 measures
Para. 5 introduction
Para. 6 effects
Step II: Fast-readingTip: The first or last sentence can be helpful.Step III: Intensive reading Read the passage again and answer the questions.
Tip: the key words.
Paragraphs 2—4:1. What are sandstorms?
2. Where do sandstorms often occur?
3. Who experienced a sandstorm as a child and
what did he describe about it ?
4. Why have sandstorms increased in China?
5. Can you describe the process of
desertification?
6. When sandstorms happen in Beijing,
what’s the weather like?
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terrible; frightening; dangerousParagraph 2: 不定式做什么句子成分？ 是什么从句？To have been caught in a sandstorm was a terrible experience.-----
It was the most frightening and the most dangerous situation I’ve ever been in.
4. Why have sandstorms
increased in China?Sandstorms appear to have increased in recent years as a result of desertification.Paragraph 35. Can you describe the process of desertification?
This is a process that happens when land becomes desert because of _____________ and because people ____________trees and ______________grass.
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what is the weather like?Traffic ?---traffic moves very slowly.Paragraph 4Paragraphs 5-6:
They advise people not to go out.What is the government doing
to control sandstorms?The government is planting trees.What’s the weather
experts’advice?Sandstorms are strong, dry winds _________carry sand. They appear to ___________(increase) in recent years as a _____ of desertification. When they happen, the traffic moves very ______(slow) because the thick dust makes ___ difficult to see.
When a sandstorm arrives in the city, weather experts ______ people not to go out. So____ you want to go out, you’d better wear a ______.
Scientists have tried many ways ___ solve the problem. ___________ (prevent)it coming nearer, the government is planting trees.advisetoresultmaskslowlyithave increasedif②③④⑤⑥⑦⑧⑨⑩①thatwhich
To prevent Step IV: Post-readingTask 1: complete the blanks（走进高考）Task 2: Groupwork
（能力提升）An interview:
Choose one reporter, an
expert in weather and a citizen in
sandstorms from each group. And
then talk about sandstorms in groups.
You can talk according to
the following questions:
How did you feel and what did you see in a sandstorm?
2. What are the causes of sandstorms?
3. How can we prevent sandstorms?
4. What should we do to protect our
environment ?
Love trees. Love yourself. recyclesave waterplant trees
save electricityride bikesuse less paper1. Write a short passage about what we can do to protect our earth according to the suggestions above.
2. Design a poster(海报) that encourages people to protect the earth.Homework
