Teaching plan of Unit 10
Frightening Nature
(Designed to the periods)
Teaching aims and demands

1.Goals: Talk about natural disasters, volcanoes. Hurricanes and typhoons
Express emotion, anxiety and fear
Practice creative writing.
2.Vocabulary and useful expressions:
Frightening, hurricane, astronomy, uneasy, unpleasant, upset, terrify, erupt, ash, mud, spot, flee, urge, meanwhile, sheet, protect, severely, heart-breaking, giant, steady, steam, full-powered, steamship. Unbelievable, stillness, whisper, appropriate, at hand, knock about, all of a sudden, as though
3.Function:
Express feelings
How terrible!
It makes me feel uneasy when…
I think it’s very unpleasant……
It makes me feel very worried….
I get very upset….
It’s a frightening thing….
I dare not….
I’m really scary….
It takes my hair stand on end.
4.Grammar:
Ellipsis
A word about your composition.
Though tired, he was not disheartened.
You would do the same.
Sit down , please.
We’ll do the best we can.
Everybody gone?
That letter was the last.
Teaching procedure:
Teaching procedure:
Period 1.
Step 1.Warming up
1.Brainstorming:
Activity: find as many words as they can to define a natural disaster

2.Following the steps of the warming-up on page 73.
Step 2. Pre-reading
1.Show some pictures of disasters such as typhoon, tsunami .
2.group work: how serious a loss people will suffer if there is a typhoon/ tsunami.
Step 3. While-reading
1.Scanning: Ss read quickly and get a main idea.
2.explain the words in bold.
3.Ss read and get the main ideas of each paragraph.
Step 4. After-reading
Finish the exercises on p77
Step 5. Assignment
surf the internet and get more information about volcanoes.


Period 2.

Step 1. Warming up
Ask some Ss to retell the passage that they have learnt in last period.
Step 2. Learning about the language
Teacher explain some language points in the text on page 76.
1.The sight of it awoke the scientist in my uncle to go and see it from closer at hand.
At hand
I haven’t the dictionary at hand but I will show it to you later.
Awake
I awake at sic in the morning.
Awake to the danger.
2.What started out as a trip for knowledge now calls for courage.
Call for
The workers are calling for better working conditions.
The work calls for endurance and patience.
3.He hurried to a place from which others were fleeing, and held his course directly into danger.
4.he paused for a moment wondering whether to turn back as the captain urged him.
Urge
Urge a horse on
Urge the freedom of speech
Urge sb. To do sth./ into doing sth.
5.He looked more asleep than dead.
He’s more mad than stupid.
The book seems to be more a dictionary than a grammar.

Step 3. Practice
Ss finish Ex 1 and 2 on page 77-78 by themselves.

Step 4. Assignment
1.Learn the useful expressions by heart.
2.Finish Wb. Ex1 –4 on page 146-147.


Period 3.

Step 1. Revision
Check the answers of Wb Ex 1 -- 4on page 146-147.
Step 2. Discovering useful structures
1. Ss look at the following sentences and translate them into Chinese.
A word about your composition.
Though tired, he was not disheartened.
You would do the same.
Sit down , please.
We’ll do the best we can.
Everybody gone?
That letter was the last.

2.Ss study more examples on p78.

3.More exercises to consolidate the Grammar.
.EX1—2 on p78
Step 3. Talking
1.Ss four in one group and have a discussion ab
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