2022年高中英语第二册上Unit10FrighteningnaturePeriod 1 Let’s listen and speak!Goals◆Talk about natural disasters: volcano, hurricane and typhoon.◆Express emotion, anxiety and fear.◆Learn to read the map of the United States.◆Practice making the weather forecast.Procedures:Step one: greeting and revision.1.Greet the class as usual.2.Check their homework for the last lesson.3.Review the main contents of the last unit.4.Review grammar learned in last unit: Inversion.Step two: Leading in (1).Hi, everyone. What is the weather like today? You can answer it is fine / cloudy/ rainy/ snowy. It is an ordinary day. The weather is usually normal. If a hurricane or typhoon came, the weather would be terrible. Who has seen a hurricane? Is it true that you have seen a hurricane? Now answer the following questions.1.What happened in the hurricane? 2.How long did it last?3.What was the result? 4.What did people do?5.How did you survive in the hurricane?Step two: Leading in (2): by doing “WARMING UP”.Hello, boys and girls. Look at the pictures, and answer the following questions.1.What is picture one about? Are you interested in geology? Are you going to be a geologist when you grow up? Why are you going to be a geologist? 2.What happens in picture two? What causes the result?3.What do you see in picture three? Are you interested in astronomy? Who was the famous astronomer in our history?4. What is picture four about? What can you see in it? By what can people see germs? Have you ever used any microscope? Are you interested in being a biologist?Some more quotes about nature and universeIf you study nature in books, when you go out of doors you cannot find her.(Agassiz Loui)如果你在书本中学习自然，那么当你走出户外，你就找不到她了。
（阿加西 ） I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore. I have amused myself by now and then finding a smooth pebble or a pretty shell, but the great ocean of truth still lies before me unknown and unexplored. （Newton Isaac） 看来我只是像个在海边玩耍的孩子，不时地拣起一块小小的卵石， 一片美丽的贝壳，聊以自娱，而横在我们面前的真理的海洋，却还有待于发现和探索 （牛顿）My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. （Hal Dane John Burden Sanderson） 我怀疑，宇宙的奥秘不仅超过我们的想象，而且超过我们的想象能力。
（霍尔丹）Everything in nature tells a different story to all eyes that see and ears that hear.（Ingersoll Robert Green） 自然界的一切，用不同的耳朵听和用不同的眼睛看结果都不一样 （英格索尔） Task 1: Looking and discussing ( pair /group work, approx. 10 min.)Look at page 1 on the screen, there are four pictures and four quotes, and then discuss in four groups the following questions:1.What do these quotes mean?2.Do you agree with them? Why or why not?3.Do you know any other quotes about nature and universe? (Give at least one example.)4.What words and phrases do you need to describe volcanoes and bad weather?5.What words or phrases can be used to express fear and anxiety?Useful words and phrases used to describe volcanoes and bad weatheractive volcano, erupt violently, break out, a tremendous explosion, black cloud, a river of liquid rock, tragedy strike, rain of hot ash, tremble and quake, volcano became quiet, hurricane, typhoon, gray clouds, heavy rain, strong winds, high winds, storm roar in one mighty swipe, hit the area, wipe out, lift a roof off a house, destroy, pour down, bring down, go up, stop, die away Task 2: Listening, filling and speaking. ( lockstep work, approx. 10 min.)1.Listen to the tape twice and write the information on the map of the USA.2.Ask the students to talk about the weather in the USA.3.Ask the students to tell what the people in Florida do when hurricane is expected.Task 3: Speaking up. ( group work, approx. 10 min.)After studying the dialogue ask students to express their emotion or fear. Let students tell their partners whether these things and situations frighten them. Why do they feel frightened? How should they behave in the dangerous situation?StudentsSituations Feelings and behaviorAthundering and lighteningHow terrible! I dare not go out. Beruption of volcano I think it is very frightening.CearthquakesIt’s a frightening thing. I’ll stay outside.Dseeing deadly snakesI’m frightened to death when seeing a cobra.Ein SARS-affected areasI get very upset. I wear a respirator all day.Useful expressionsIt makes me feel uneasy when…I think it’s very unpleasant…It makes me feel very worried.What’s really scary…I’m afraid of…She is scared to death.He gets into a total panic when…It makes my hair stand on end.What terrifies me…HomeworkAsk the students to write a short paragraph about a storm or a frightening thing.。