Teaching plan for unit 4
Period 1 Warming up
Teaching aims: 1) Talk about “Earthquake”
2) Develop students’ speaking abilities
3) Learn to protect nature.
Key points: Lead the students to talk about earthquake and naturalo diasasters.
New words: earthquake; shake; right away; well; rise; crack; pond; pipe; burst; injure; ruin; dirt; destroy; lie in ruins.
Teaching aids: 1) computer 2) tape-recorder 3) projector 4) blackboard
Teaching methods: Task-based Approach; Student-centered Approach
Teaching steps:
Step 1. Greeting
Greet the students as usual.
Step 2. Daily report
Step 3. Lead-in.
1)Talk about the earthquake in Taiwan recently.
Show the vedio about the Taiwan earthquake.
2)Talk about the greatest earquakes in the world.
Step 4. Warming-up
1)Studnets talk about the pictures in warming up.
2)Students imagine the happening after an earthquake.
3)Show the students the pictures of the earthquake , and help the students to describe the pictures.
Step 5. listening ( work-book)
“Why do earthquakes happen?”
new words: Pacific Plate; North American Plate; Indian plate; movement
1)Listen to the tape for the first time and answer the T or F question.
2)Listen to the tape again , then try to fill in the chart.
3)Students talk bout what they’ve learned about the earthquake.
Step 5. Homework
Prepare”Reading
1) Look up the new words. 2)Answer the questions in “Comprehending”


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