【全国百强校】哈尔滨市第九中学高中英语外研

Period 5 Speaking, Function, Writing and Everyday English Teaching contents: Reporting a natural disaster; Giving a definition; writing about a violent natural disaster; mastering some everyday English. Teaching important points: How to report a natural disaster; train writing ability Teaching difficult points: How to help the students to give a definition to a abstract

noun and how to write about a violent natural disaster. Teaching methods：explaining, practicing and listening

Teaching procedures：

Step 1 Speaking

Student A: You are a television reporter. You are reporting on a natural disaster.

1 Make a list of questions to ask.

Student B: You are local residents in the area of the violent natural event.

1 Decide which kind of violent natural event you

2 Think of things that happened to you or things that you saw.

3 Tell the reporter where you are and what you saw.

Step 2 Function

1 Try to find sentences in the text which gives a definition of a word.

A flood is a lot of water in an area which is usually dry.

A lightning is the flash of light which occurs during a thunderstorm.

A tornado is a column of air that turns very quickly.

2 Give definitions of the words following the patterns listed above.

An earthquake a volcanic eruption a plane crash

Step 3 Writing

1 Read the passage and answer the questions.

(1) Where did this happen? Near the beach.

(2) What happened to the trees? Begin to move from side to side.

(3) Where did the person have to stay? In their rooms.

(4) For how long? About two days.

following. Then share it with the whole class.

Are you clear what happen (4W and 1H)?

Do you know the writer’s attitude and emotion?

Are there any good connecting words or phrases?

Are there any good phrases or sentence s?

Are there any spelling mistakes?

Step 4 Everyday English