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海陵中学八年级英语教案（8A） 设计者： 曹兆泉 - PAGE 6 - 8A Unit 8 Natural disasters Period I Comic strip welcome to the unit Teaching Aims and Demands: 1、To talk about the topic about natural disasters by the comic strips. 2、To learn about the past contiuous tense. 3、To learn some names about natural disasters. Teaching main points and difficulties: words：earthquake, coach, flood, accident, wash, village, lightning, storm, thunder phrases：start to rain, lose final, wash away, catch fire, kill thousands of difficulties：disaster, mop, accident, mop all the water up, crash into a tree Teaching steps: Step 1: Warm-up activities 1 Read the conversation between Eddie and Hobo. Allow Ss enough time to make sense of the comic strip: heavy rain—Hobo is wet and cold.—His house is wet. Try to elicit from Ss what might happened to Hobo’s house. 2 Ask some open questions about each picture. * What’s the weather like? * What happened to Hobo? * What do you think happened to Hobo’s house? * How does he feel at Eddie’s home? * Why doesn’t he want to go home alone? * Will Eddie help him? Ask two more able students to role-play the conversation. 3 Elicit from Ss other bad weather conditions. Step 2: Presentation 1 Prepare Part A by providing more vocabulary to help Ss understand headlines in English. 2 Ask students to consider whether the disasters are natural and tick the appropriate boxes. Ss can do it individually and then compare their answers with a partner. Check the correct answers with the whole class and elicit a definition for a natural disaster. 3 Read the words in Part B and ask more able students to describe each weather condition only with simple phrases and words. 4 Ask Ss to complete the task on their own and check the correct answers with the class as a whole. Step 3. Language points Important points: natural disasters, mop it up, lose final, kill thousands of people, a car accident, crash into a tree, wash the village away, start a big fire, catch fire Ste