UNIT 11 HURRICANE
Lesson 41
Teaching objectives and demands:
1.Words and useful expressions: hurricane, Good heavens, be anxious abut, expect, fortunately, warning, be likely to, painful
2. Daily expressions in communication: The expressions of expressing anxiety.
Key points:
1.The words and expressions: see above.
2. Structure of expressing anxiety.
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Revision
(1) Check the homework exercises.
(2) Revise the expressions about the weather. Ask the students for as many expressions as possible.

Step 2. Presentation
SB Page 61, Part 1. Get the ss to tell you what they can see in the picture; what do they think is happening? Read the introduction to the dialogue aloud.

Step 3. Listening
Play the tape of Speech Cassette Lesson 41 for students to follow. After that go through the dialogue and explain the remaining new words.

Step 4. Reading
Get the students to read the dialogue and then go through the grammatical points and structures.
(1)In the hills.
(2)Have been waiting for
(3)There is no need to be worried.
(4)Structure: Is likely to
(5)Grammar: about inversion: There you are.

Step 5. Practice
SB Page 61, Part 2. teach the new word painful. Explain that the ss must match the phrases on the left with the replies on the right. Do the first one with the whole class, then let the ss work though the exercise in pairs. Check the answers with the class. Get the ss to practice the phrases: the first student with the book open, the second ss with the book closed. Explain to the ss that these are all phrases for expressing anxiety, or for enquiring what the matter is.

Step 6. Workbook
Workbook Lesson 41, Exx. 1-3. Ex.1 is compiled to consolidate the dialogue. Get the students to discuss the answers in pairs. Get the students to do Ex.2 orally and then check the answers with the students. Ex.3 can be assigned to students as there.

Homework
(1)Finish off the exercises of Lesson 41 in the Foundational Exercise Book.
(2)Ex.3 in Workbook.
Evaluation of teaching:







Lesson 42~43
The Hurricane (I~II)
Teaching aims and demands:
1.Words and useful expressions:
Normal, strike, midnight, per, push over, path, block, pole, bring down, branch, bath, lamp, awake, cottage, plastic, blanket, call in altogether, take the place of, surprisingly, weatherman, broadcast, clear away, pipe, or so
2. Develop reading skills
3. Grammar: the past participle as predicative.
4. Structure: have + object + pp

Key points:
1.Words
2.Grammar: see above.
3.Develop reading skills.

Teaching methods: Reading—practice

Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Revision
(1)Check the homework exercises
(2). Revise the key points of Lesson 41.

Step 2. Presentation
Talk about the picture and ask the four questions at the head of the text.
i.What happens in a hurricane?
ii.Why are hurricanes dangerous?
iii.Which parts of China have hurricanes?
iv.Have you ever been in a hurricane?

Step 3. Skimming
Read the two passages quickly and answer the following two questions:
(1)Why did the hurricane cause so much damage?
(2)Who helped to get things back to normal after the hurricane?


Step 4. Summary of the three texts
Get the students to read the two texts and tell the main idea of the texts. Generalization: This text can be divided into 5 parts as follows:
Part 1(Para. 1~3) General introduction of the hurricane.
Part 2(Para. 4) Some lucky escapes.
Part 3(Para. 5) Help of the army and workers.
Part 4(Para. 6~8) Damage caused by the hurricane.
Part 5(Para. 9) The reason f
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