“The Power of Nature” (Module 6, Unit 5)

Listening and Speaking

• Teaching Material

• Teaching Method

• Study Method

• Teaching Procedure

Teaching Material• Theme• The first period of the unit• Teaching content• ---warming up: vocabulary concerning

volcano;• ---listening: volcanologists; model

“Expressing joy, fear and anxiety” • ---speaking: use the expressions expressing

joy, fear or anxiety .

Teaching Goals• Knowledge objectives:

---vocabulary concerning volcano and natural forces

---expressions expressing joy, fear and anxiety• Ability objectives:

---improve listening ability and listening skills

---to improve students’ spoken English • Emotion objectives:

---to arouse interest in the power of nature;

---To build up confidence and cooperative consciousness.

Teaching Method

• Task-based Teaching Approach

• student-centered classroom setting

• affection and an intimate relationship between the teacher and the learners

• Teaching aids: multimedia, blackboard

and hand-outs.

Study Method

• Cooperative learning

• Self-inquiry learning

• self-expression, peer discussion and cooperative team work

Teaching Procedure

• Step 1 Lead in

• 1. talk about the Wenchuan Earthquake to lead in the topic.

• 2. Brainstorm game:

to name some natural disasters to activate background knowledge.

Teaching Procedure

• Step 2 Warming up

• introduce some technical vocabulary concerning volcanoes with the help of a diagram so as to develop students’ understanding of what a volcano is and shows a volcano erupting.

Teaching Procedure

• Step 3 Listening

1. Pre-listening ---look at the pictures and make guesses ( what happened? What problems? How they feel?)

2. First listening:

Task 1---listen for the general idea and write down their names

Teaching Procedure

3. Second listening

Task 2--- listen and find out when the volcanologists no longer frightened.

4. Third listening

• Task 3---listen for expressions expressing fear and anxiety and fill in the blanks.

Teaching Procedure• Step 4 Speaking

• 1. Task 4---Practice reading the expressions to imitate the speakers’ stress and intonation

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Teaching Procedure

• 2. Task 5---Describe your own experience • (1) show a chart of words and expressions

indicating joy, fear and anxiety • (2) think of a powerful natural force or

imagine one• (3) provide two situations to choose• (4) group work: S1—tell experience and

feelings; S2--ask questions ; S3-- take notes; S4--report to the class.

• Step 5 Summary

• Step 6 Homework Assignments

• Write down the story with the help of the notes taken in class. Then ask your groupmates to make comments