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　　Unit6 Natural disasters
　　PERIOD 1:
　　Teaching Objectives
　　To get to know the topic of the unit ---natural disasters
　　To identify the vocabulary related to the topic
　　Teaching Procedures
　　STEP 1 Talking about pictures
　　Show the following picture to the students. Get then to guess what happened.
　　Encourage the students to be creative and try to make different kinds of guesses. Get the students to listen to the tape and find out what happened.
　　For weaker classes, get the students to talt each picture.
　　Picture 1: What’s the weather like?  What happened to Hobo?
　　Picture 2: What happened to Hobo’s house?/How does Hobo feel at Eddie’s house?
　　Picture 3: Why doesn't he want to go home alone?
　　Picture 4: Will Eddie help him?
　　Get the students to read and practice the dialogue and then act the dialogue out. Encourage the students to add something to make the dialogue funnier.
　　STEP 2 Getting to know the weather
　　Say ‘Rainy days are very common. Now let’s see if you know the following kind of weather. ’
　　BAD WEATHER
　　typhoon There is strong wind. It is difficult for people to hold their umbrellas. Walking may even be difficult. Many things fly in the sky.
　　thunder and lightning  It is really frightening. We can see bright lightning and hear the loud thunder. Sometimes it may start a fire, when the lightning hit a tree or a building.
　　rainstorm
　　(may cause flood) It rains heavily. Water is everywhere. In some places, it is very difficult for people to walk. They have to roll up their trousers.
　　snowstorm
　　(sandstorm) It snows heavily with strong wind. Deep snow covers everything. It is difficult for people to walk and easy to get lost. However, it really makes a beautiful world.
　　For stronger classes, it is necessary to introduce more bad weather, like storm and sandstorm etc.
　　Put it clear that bad weather sometimes can cause disasters  Show pictures about the disasters and elicit the disasters, like flood, drought, tsunami, and hurricane, and earthquake etc.
　　STEP 3 Making a summary about bad weather and disasters
　　Bad weather heavy rain, rainstorm, thunder and lightning, wind , strong wind , typhoon , snowstorm, sandstorm, storm
　　Disasters  flood, drought , earthquake , fire, hurricane, etc.
　　STEP 4 Finishing the exercises in Part A
　　Get the students to finish the exercises in Part A and then check the answers.
　　Disasters 2. The Taiwan earthquake killed (cause loss of life) thousands of people.
　　5. A flood washed the village away.
　　6. Lightning started a big fire in a house.
　　8. A big storm killed 20 people.
　　Accidents 1. The school football team lost the game.
　　3. A car accident killed three men.
　　4. A coach crashed into a tree last night.
　　7. A young boy fell from a tree and hurt his legs. 
　　Emphasize that natural disasters are caused by nature forces usually with great damage and loss of life. Accidents are things that suddenly happened. No one plans it. Sometimes they are caused by people’s mistakes.
　　Explain some of the language used here and help the students to understand.