1、外研版高中英语必修3Module 3 The Violence of Nature听说课(1)By 李春英,武清区杨村一中Part 1 教案设计Teaching goals: 1 Let students learn about volcanic eruption related words and natural disasters;2 Enable students to describe a disaster and to have an interview about a disaster; 3 Make students aware of th e danger of disaste
2、rs.Teaching important point: Enable students to catch specific information while listeningTeaching difficult point: Enable students to describe an experiment and to have an interview about a disasterTeaching content: Listening and vocabularyEveryday EnglishSpeaking Teaching strategy: task based teac
3、hingTeaching procedures and ways:Step I Listening1 lead-inDirections: Show students some pictures about volcanic eruption. Get them to be familiar with the related words.T: Here are some pictures about a certain disaster. Can you tell me its name? S: Volcano.T: What can happen in a volcanic eruption
4、? Can you think of some words with the help of the pictures?S: Lava; ash.T: What about the result?S: Set fire; tidal waves; people are killed; flood.2 read the passage Directions: Show students the picture of the beautiful islandMontserrat and let them imagine what may happen to the island if there
5、is a volcanic eruption. Then let students read the passage and find out the answer. Make them prepared for the listening.T: This is a very beautiful island. Can you give me some information about it be referring to the first paragraph?S: It is in the Caribbean. It is only 16 kilometers long and 10 k
6、ilometers wide. But this tiny island had three volcanoes already. T: So that is the main problem with this island. Can you imagine what may happen to the island if a volcano erupts? Would you please read the following part?S: Ash, steam and lava will come out of the volcano. The villages could be bu
7、ried. There is also the possibility of a huge tidal wave which could flood half the island.3 listeningT: Here is a passage about this first dangerous eruption with some words missing. Try to fill in the blanks by guessing and discussing with your partner. Last week, the volcano _, and ash and lava _
8、 _ the mountain towards the sea. _, there are several villages in its path. _, we had plenty of warning. We _ _ get half the population to another island before the eruption took place. The most dangerous places are between the volcano and the sea. _, hundreds of houses _ _when the lava reached them
9、. _, no one was killed. _, we _ all the fires _ quite quickly. However, there is still danger. _, it wont be long before people are able to return home.T: OK, now lets have a look what words you have got there.S: .T: Your answers really make sense. But we dont know whether they are correct or not. N
10、ow please listen and check whether your prediction is correct. And add more information to it.Key: Last week, the volcano erupted, and ash and lava poured down the mountain towards the sea. Unfortunately, there are several villages in its path. Luckily, we had plenty of warning. We managed to get ha
11、lf the population to another island before the eruption took place. The most dangerous places are between the volcano and the sea. Sadly, hundreds of houses caught fire when the lava reached them. Thankfully, no one was killed. Fortunately, we put all the fires out quite quickly. However, there is s
12、till danger. Hopefully, it wont be long before people are able to return home.4 language points:“fire” phrases: fill in the blanks with a suitable fire phraseA restaurant caught fire last night and it had been on fire for 30 minutes before it was put out by the firemen. So the fire is out now. But p
13、olice are still trying to find out who set fire to it/ set it on fire.Summary:1) 主语为“人”的情况:sb set fire to sth; 某人放火烧某物 Sb set sth on fire; 某人放火烧某物Sb put out a fire;某人扑灭大火 Sb light/start a fire;某人点火Sb make a fire 某人生火2) 主语为“物”的情况:Something catch fire;Something be on fire;3) 主语为“火”的情况:A fire goes out;
14、 A fire is out.5 retellingDescribe what happened in the volcanic eruption with the help of the passage and their notes.Step II speaking1 pairwork: have an interview based on the listening materialDirections: Work in pairs. One acts as a journalist who is reporting on the volcanic eruption, the other
15、 as a local resident in one of the villages on the island- Montserrat. Then have an interview using the information from the listening.Last week, the volcano erupted, and ash and lava poured down the mountain towards the sea. Unfortunately, there are several villages in its path. Luckily, we had ple
16、nty of warning. We managed to get half the population to another island before the eruption took place. The most dangerous places are between the volcano and the sea. Sadly, hundreds of houses caught fire when the lava reached them. Thankfully, no one was killed. Fortunately, we put all the fires ou
17、t quite quickly. However, there is still danger. Hopefully, it wont be long before people are able to return home.2 groupwork: have an interview about a kind of violent natural eventDirections: Show students pictures of various natural disasters. One student is a television reporter who is reporting
18、 on a natural disaster and makes a list of questions to ask. Others are local residents in the area of the violent natural event think of what happened in the disaster, where you were and so onReference: Reporter: where were you when it happened?What were you doing? Residents: a house falling down/
19、a roof disappearing I was in my house. I saw water coming down the street.Step III homework1 Write a composition about the volcanic eruption on the island-Montserrat.2 Finish exercises 58 on the workbook.Part 2 教学反思This class is made up of two partslistening and speaking. As for listening, activitie
20、s are designed to stimulate students interest in listening by making them predict about the missing information first. It also makes it easier for students to grasp the language points in listening material by having students fill in the blanks: the adverbs which show good or bad news and fire phras
21、es. As with speaking, students can feel it natural to have an interview about listening material first and then choose their own topic.Part 3 专家点评 本课时教学目标明确,步骤清晰。鉴于该课时设计到了学生不是很熟悉的话题内容,听力材料中涉及较多生单词,教师把问题简单化,变课本中要求的ask-and-answer的题目设置为填空题,既能考察学生抓细节的能力又能考察学生对一些常见的和不常见的单词的掌握能力,这样的题目设置比起回答问题更让学生容易接受。在speaking中,以interview的形式出现,让全体学生都动口说,能够激发学生说的欲望。但是如果将听说的内容结合起来,说为听服务,或者听为说服务,这样不会让课时内容显得脱节,可能会更好些。