一、教学目标

1. To get the listening skills and words and expressions used in listening and speaking.

2. To get the listening strategies, especially picking out the key information of the questions, such as what, when, where, why and how.

3. Students can adapt their learning strategies according to the content of the unit.

4. Students can understand the characteristics of natural disasters.

二、教学重难点

Teaching key points:

1. Help students get familiar with some difficult words before listening.

2. Enlighten students to report natural disasters in a logical way.

Teaching difficult points:

1. Deal with some difficult words in listening.

2. Enable students to retell and report the natural disasters.

三、教学过程

Step 1. Lead-in

The teacher will show students a video about different disasters. Then ask students what they can see in the video and what are the names of disasters to lead in the topic.

【设计意图】教师通过出示视频，然后让学生回答相关问题，可以激发起学生的学习兴趣，自然地引入新课。

Step 2. Pre-listening

The teacher will hold a free-talk about what may happen in these disasters. After five minutes, the teacher will invite some students to show their results.

【设计意图】通过组织自由讨论的活动形式，可以启发学生的思维，并且在自由讨论的过程中也可以锻炼学生的小组合作能力和语言表达能力。

Step 3. While-listening

1. The teacher will ask students to listen to the text quickly and find out the main idea of the text.

2. The teacher will play the tape again and students should circle the key words in the questions below and write the kind of information they refer to. Then listen again and answer the questions.

3. Students will listen to the tape carefully and discuss with their partners about the main points of a news report.

【设计意图】通过回答问题、填表格等活动形式，学生可以掌握文章的大意、细节信息和新闻报告的结构。同时也可以培养学生的对于信息的提取和分析能力，提高学生的听力技巧，也体现了良好的育人价值。

Step 4. Post-listening

The teacher will ask students to read about the disasters below and prepare a short news report on one of them. Remind to start with the most important information and then provide the details. Then some groups are encouraged to show their news reports.

【设计意图】学生四人为一组根据课文提供的信息，准备一则新闻报告，并且让学生上台展示。这样的活动形式可以帮助学生把所学的知识学以致用，并且锻炼学生的语言输出能力、小组合作能力和口语表达能力。

Step 5. Summary

The monitor will be encouraged to summarize the main idea of the passage and the teacher will tell students they should protect the nature.

【设计意图】学生总结，教师补充，可以帮助学生回顾所学的知识，并且能够就知识点进行查漏补缺。

Step 6. Homework

Please search for more information about one of the natural disasters and show it next class.

【设计意图】合理的课后作业布置可以让每个学生将课堂活动延续到课下，将所学知识进行迁移创新，拓宽学生的知识面。

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四、板书设计