英语必修3外研版Module3第2课时教案
Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary
课题
Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary
课型
New
教学目标
1. Enable the Ss to know about What is a Tornado?
2. Get to know some useful language points
3.Train the students’ skills
重点
Read to get certain information about:
what is a tornado?
What is a hurricane?
难点
How to help students improve their reading ability
学情分析
The Ss can finish the task.
教具课件
1. A recorder 2. A projector 3. A computer
教法
1. Fast reading and careful reading to help the students understand the passage exactly.
2. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
教学程序
教学内容
师生
活动
时间分配
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step5
Step 1 Revision Ask three or four students to read the word list and other students to correct their wrong pronunciations. Step 1 Presentation.
Student A: reporter from one of the newspapers.
Student B: interviewee.
Now you are working on a special report about disasters, you need to interview some people
Questions like these:
1 Have you ever experienced (a flood, a tornado a thunderstorm, a hurricane)?
2 Do you know anyone who has experienced one of the events?
3 Have you ever read a news story about one of the events? Can you describe it?
4 Do you know anything about the events? For example, what causes them?
Step 2 Read the Gulf Stream and check the meaning of the words.
1. What is a current?
A. A kind of electricity B. A movement of water C. A kind of wind
2. What kind of things flow?
A. Water B. Time C. Money
3. If two places are on the same latitude, they are on the same line______.
A. east/west B. north/south
Step 3 Fast-reading
Read the passage, then finish the exercise at Activity 2, page 22.
1. More than 400 Km/h.
2. It stays where it was.
3. About 800.
4. More than 700.
5. It has huge waves.
6. 8th September, 1900
7. No, he wasn’t
8. His coffin was dropped in the sea by a hurricane and carried to Canada by the Gulf Stream.
Step 4 Detailed-reading (True or False)
1 All tornadoes have winds of more than 400 kilometres per hour.
2 There are more tornadoes occurring in the US than in other parts of the world.
3 Tornadoes can’t destroy furniture because they are not violent enough.
4 In the US, there are usually about 80 people killed in tornadoes every year.
5 The worst tornado in history killed at least 700 people
6 Every year there are six Atlantic hurricanes.
7 Both the worst tornado and the worst hurricane occurred in the US.
8 The worst hurricane of all time killed about one-sixth of the population in the US.
9 Charles Coghlan didn't become famous until he moved to New York.
10 Coghlan’s coffin was destroyed by the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
11 It was only because of the hurricane that Coghlan’s body could travel back to Canada.
Step 5 Fill in the form.
Tornado
Hurricane
Definition
Place
Phenomena
Bad results
The worst example
Step 6 language points.
1 Tonadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street
pick up: 1)拾起,捡起 The monkey picked up a stone.
2)用车接,搭人或带货 Wait at the gate after school and I’ll pick you up.
放学后在门口等我, 我会去接你。
2 Almost all of them occur in the US, in the area from Texas in the southeast to South Dakota in the north.
occur:发生=happen He told me how the accident occurred.
他告诉我那事故是怎样发生的.
occur to(想法念头等)想起,浮现
An excellent idea occurred to me when I woke up this morning.
今天早上起床时,我突然想到了一个好主意.
It occurred to me that I would travel to Europe.
我突然想到要到欧洲旅游.
3 On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.
on average:平均起来 The price of the egg is eight yuan per kg on average
鸡蛋价格平均为每公斤8元.
Causing…是形式作结果状语, 表示两个动作之间具有必然的因果关系,通常放在句末.
Football is played in more than 80countries, making it the most popular game in the world.
80多个国家都踢足球,使得它成为世界上最流行的运动.
4 The cemetery where Coghlan was buried was destroyed by the hurricane and Coghlan’s coffin ended up in the sea.
end up with 以…结束
begin with 以…为开始
start with 以… 为开始
Without your help, the experiment will end up with failure.
没有你的帮助, 这实验将以失败告终.
5 The Gulf Stream had carried it 3000 kilometres up the eastern US coast to Prince Edward Island.
Up to a place 沿着某个地方,常常是由南向北由下至上.假如方向相反,则用down.
Step 7 Exercises
1昨天下午，爸爸给我讲述人年轻时的经历。
Yesterday afternoon, father told me about his _____________ as a young man.
2我国在过去三十年经历了巨大的变化。
Our country __________________ great changes in the last thirty years.
3 Before we moved into the new house, we bought many ______.
A furnitures B furniture C Pieces of furniture D pieces of furnitures
4 --Genny’s mother died last night.
--No wonder her spirits has been ______ greatly.
A. effected B. affected C. caused
5天气的突然变化影响了他的健康。
The sudden change of weather _______ his health.
6我想知道这一事件是什么时候发生的。
I want to know when this event_________.
7这个主意是他在梦中想到的。
The idea ___________ him in a dream.
8平均每年有400人死于这种疾病。
400 people a year die of this disease__________.
9公共汽车在机场外接乘客。
The bus _______passengers outside the airport.
Step 8 Homework
1 I ____ you not to move my dictionary—now I can’t find it.
A. asked B. ask C. was taking D. had asked
2 According to the art dealer, the painting ____ to go for at least a million dollars.
A. is expected B. expects C. expected D. is expecting
3 --- The window is dirty.
--- I know. It ____ for weeks.
A. hasn’t cleaned B. didn’t clean C. wasn’t cleaned D. hasn’t been cleaned
4 More patients ____ in hospital this year than last year.
A. treated B. have treated C. had been treated D. have been treated
5 The first use of atomic weapons was in 1945, and their power ____ increased enormously ever since.
A. is B. was C. has been D. had been
6 --- How long ____ at this job? --- Since 1990.
A. were you employed B. have you been employed
C. had you been employed D. will you employed
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Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary
Tornado
Hurricane
Definition
Place
Phenomena
Bad results
The worst example
xt street
pick up: 1)拾起,捡起 The monkey picked up a stone.
2)用车接,搭人或带货 Wait at the gate after school and I’ll pick you up
occur:发生=happen He told me how the accident occurred.
他告诉我那事故是怎样发生的.
occur to(想法念头等)想起,浮现
An excellent idea occurred to me when I woke up this morning.
教学后记
The Ss can’t recite the text.
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