试讲题目4Module 3 Reading and Vocabulary
Teaching Aims
1. Enable the Ss to know about What is a Tornado?
2. Get to know some useful language points
3.Train the students’ skills
Teaching Important Points
1、Read to get certain information about:
2、what is a tornado?
3、What is a hurricane?
Teaching Difficult Points
How to help students improve their reading ability
Teaching Aids
1. the blackboard
2. the multimedia
Teaching Methods
1. Fast reading and careful reading to help the students understand the passage exactly.
2. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Greeting and Lead-in
Help Ss perform a role play
Student A: reporter from one of the newspapers.
Student B: interviewee.
Now you are working on a special report about disasters, you need to interview some people
Questions like these:
1 Have you ever experienced (a flood, a tornado a thunderstorm, a hurricane)?
2 Do you know anyone who has experienced one of the events?
3 Have you ever read a news story about one of the events? Can you describe it?
4 Do you know anything about the events? For example, what causes them?
Step 2 Read the Gulf Stream and check the meaning of the words.
Suggested answers: 1B、2A、3A
Step 3 Fast-reading
Read the passage, then finish the exercise at Activity 2, page 22.
Suggested answers:
1. More than 400 Km/h.
2. It stays where it was.
3. About 800.
4. More than 700.
5. It has huge waves.
6. 8th September, 1900
7. No, he wasn’t
8. His coffin was dropped in the sea by a hurricane and carried to Canada by the Gulf Stream.
Step 4 Detailed-reading (True or False)
Ask Ss to answer questions one by one
1 All tornadoes have winds of more than 400 kilometres per hour.
2 There are more tornadoes occurring in the US than in other parts of the world.
3 Tornadoes can’t destroy furniture because they are not violent enough.
4 In the US, there are usually about 80 people killed in tornadoes every year.
5 The worst tornado in history killed at least 700 people
6 Every year there are six Atlantic hurricanes.
7 Both the worst tornado and the worst hurricane occurred in the US.
Step 5 language points.
1 Tonadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street
pick up: 1)拾起,捡起The monkey picked up a stone.
2)用车接,搭人或带货Wait at the gate after school and I’ll pick you up.
放学后在门口等我, 我会去接你。
2 Almost all of them occur in the US, in the area from Texas in the southeast to South Dakota in the north.
occur:发生=happen He told me how the accident occurred.
他告诉我那事故是怎样发生的.
occur to(想法念头等)想起,浮现An excellent idea occurred to me when I woke up this morning.
今天早上起床时,我突然想到了一个好主意.
It occurred to me that I would travel to Europe.
我突然想到要到欧洲旅游.
3 On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.
on average:平均起来 The price of the egg is eight yuan per kg on average
鸡蛋价格平均为每公斤8元.
Causing…是形式作结果状语, 表示两个动作之间具有必然的因果关系,通常放在句末. Football is played in more than 80countries, making it the most popular game in the world.
80多个国家都踢足球,使得它成为世界上最流行的运动.
