Teaching content: Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading

Teaching objectives: By the end of class, students will be able to:

1. Learn some information about volcanoes.

2. Describe what do volcanologists do?

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warming up and lead-in

1. Human beings are powerful; they have invented many things, and they have been changing nature and the world.Have you ever considered how weak humans are compared with a volcano, hurricane or earthquake? Can you list some natural disasters?

2. Show some pictures of volcanoes, let the Ss know something about the categories of volcanoes and the eruption of volcanoes.

(设计说明：让学生列举所了解的各种各样的自然灾害，激发他们对本单元内容的学习兴趣，为学习本单元做好准备。）

Step 2 Pre-reading

Ask the Ss the following questions:

(1) Who studies volcanoes?

(2) Who will climb into a live volcano to take the temperature of the boiling rock inside?

(设计说明：从问题入手，让学生初步了解火山学家的工作性质和工作内容，引起他们对阅读课文内容的兴趣，为进一步学习做准备。询问学生对成为一名火山学家有无兴趣，并列举理由理解火山学家的工作就是能够帮助人们免遭火山袭击，工作中既有危险艰辛，又有乐趣。）

Step 3 Fast reading

1. Ask the following questions: What does a volcanologist do? Is the work important? What's the main idea of the article?

2. Read again and try to find out main ideas of each part.

Part 1(Para 1-2) The writer's experience of watching the volcanic eruption

Part 2(Para 3-4) The writer's job and its importance

Part 3(Para 5 The reasons for the writer's enthusiasm about his job.

(设计说明：通过问题和连线练习，锻炼学生快速阅读能力，采用整体理解策略，在阅读过程中抓住主题句和关键词，了解课文内容和文章结构，把握文章、段落的重点信息，总结课文和各部分大意。）