Teaching Plan Unit 5 The Power of Nature
AN EXCITING JOB Content: Reading — An Exciting Job Cla: Cla 16 Teacher: Cao Yinfeng Teaching Time: 40 minutes Teaching Aims:
1.Knowledge
Through reading, students are able to have a thorough and deep understanding of the paage. 2.Ability Through reading, students are able to further improve their abilities to get and deal with information, as well as use reading skills. 3.Emotion Through learning, students are able to broaden their horizons and raise their awarene of protecting nature as well as team spirit and confidence in learning English.Key points: 1.Grasp and use the way of reading correctly. 2.Find out some important information.Difficult points: How to improve students’ abilities to sort out the different information.Teaching aids:
Multimedia facilities and Textbook Learning Strategies:
Learn through observation and experience as well as exploration and cooperation.Teaching Methods：
Constructive teaching as well as task-based teaching.Teaching Procedures： Step 1 Lead-in
1.Enjoy the video about the eruption of volcano
2.Learn more information about the volcano through some students’ report.Step 2 While-reading
1.Fast reading ( To understand the whole paage and finish task1& task2)
Task 1: Read the paage and find the main idea of each part.Task 2: Choose the best answer.2.Careful reading (To understand the paage and finish task3 ) Task3: Students are divided into four groups and each group has their own task
Group1: Q1-Q2 Q1.Why is the lava that flows on Mount Kilauea more dangerous than the actual eruption? Q2.Why did the scientists have to get close to the volcano after it began erupting?
Group2: Q3-Q4 Q3.Why was it difficult for the writer to walk towards the edge of the crater? Q4.When did the writer first see an eruption? What did it look like?
Group3: Q5-Q6 Q5.What made the author realize that an eruption occurred?
Q6.What was the writer wearing when getting close to the crater? And what
was the result? Step 3 Post-reading Task4: Answer the questions in the JOB part.Q1.What is the writer’s job?
Q2.Do you think a volcanologist’s job is important and why? Step 4 Short-writing We all know that there are various jobs in the world, but what kind of job do you like? According to this topic, please think about your favorite job, and then finish the short writing.I have given you some useful expreions as following Step 5 Homework
Finish the short-writing after our cla and hand in your compositions tomorrow Step 6 Blackboard Writing Design Step 7 Reflections after Cla
