高一英语The Violence of Nature

高一英语必修3
Module 3 The Violence of Nature

留坝中学　　饶　婷

Module 3 The Violence of Nature
教学内容：学习表达自然灾害的名词，试着用已经掌握的自然知识用英语对灾害的有关情况进行描述。学习过去完成时的被动形式，进一步区别主动和被动两种语态。系统学习间接引语语法。培养给词语下定义的语言技能。
教学目标：
1 语言知识、技能目标：掌握与自然灾害有关的词汇、短语；能读懂课文并理解语段之间的逻辑关系，从中获取信息并回答有关问题；能深刻理解过去完成时的被动形式的含义及间接引语的用法；能听懂教材配套材料并根据要求完成练习。
2 素质教育目标：了解中外历史上两次危害极大的地震，认真思考如果地震来临应该做些什么。

Period 1 Introduction
Teaching contents：
1 Important vocabulary and phrases:
flood, hurricane, lightning, thunderstorm, tornado, column, current, latitude, burry, disaster, feather, fur, occur, tropical, luckily, thankfully, hopefully, sadly, fortunately, violence, equator
2 Important sentence structure:
Sth is --------that /which ------
Teaching important points：Pronunciation of new words; Talk about the natural disasters in the world.
Teaching difficult points：To describe a natural disaster you have experienced.
Teaching methods：Listening, reading and practicing
Teaching procedures：
Step 1 Warming up
1 Remind the students of the tsunami in 2004 with a picture and talk about it.
T: As we know, at the end of 2004, a massiveearthquake sent tsunami smashing into Indian Ocean coastline. Many heavily populated areas disasters from it.
2 Ask the students to talk about it, such as Sri Lanka , Indonesia , Thailand , India, Malaysia and East Africa destroyed by the monster waves, causing millions of deaths. We human being saw the violence of natural disaster from it.
3 Ask the students to talk about the pictures in the Introduction, page 21.
Step 2 Lead-in (part 1, page 21)
Get students to match the words in the box with the definitions below. Then ask individuals to show their answers.
A flood is a lot of water in an area which is usually dry.
A hurricane is a very strong wind and storm.
Lightning is the flash of light which occurs during a thunderstorm.
A thunderstorm is a lot of rain falling quickly, with loud noises and flashes of light.
A tornado is a column of air that turns very quickly.
T: Now let’s pay attention to these sentences. Please find out the common characteristic in all of them.
S: The sentences all give a definition of something.
T: Very good. Each sentence gives a definition of a word. Any other questions?
S: The Attributive Clause appears in each sentence.
T: Well done! That is right. When we give a definition of a word, the Attributive Clause is usually necessary and hopeful. We’d better learn to use the structure “A is B that/which” Now let’s come to Part 3 on Page 22. Let the students match the words in the box with the sentences below and then check the sentences.
The suggested answers to Part 3, Page 22:
To bury means to place in the ground or tomb.
A disaster is a terrible event.
Feathers are something that you can see on a bird.
To occur means to happen.
Tropical is a word to describe the hottest parts of the equator.
Step 3 Discussion
1 Put the students into groups of four to discuss the questions.
2 Then open up the discussion to the whole class. If you wish, make notes on the board, especially of relevantvocabulary which may be new.
Step 4 Words study (Workbook Page 80)
Ask the students to turn to Page 80 and begin the task in vocabulary. In Activity 5.
Choose one student to read out the answers and check them with the whole class. Then the students read the sentences together.
Answers: volcano, eruption, ash, lava, tidal wave, flood.
Step 5 Homework
Surf the Internet for ways to avoid much damage from disasters.
Make three sentences to define the words earthquake, volcanic eruption, and plane crash, using the Attributive Clause.
The suggested answers:
An earthquake is a sudden violentmovement of the earth’s surface that can c
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