Module Three

The Violence of Nature

Teaching Aims:

1. Knowledge and Skill

a. Get the general information about the violence of nature.

b. Using the Attributive Clause to explain words..

c. Improve the students' ability to give definitions of words.

d. Know the common enemies of our human being - natural disasters and the ways of surviving when one occurs.

e. To grasp the usage of the past perfect passive and indirect speech.

2.Emotion and Values

a. Fully realize the characteristics of different natural disasters and the danger they caused, improve the confidence of overcoming them, and try to make contributions to the development of the whole society.

b. To encourage the Ss to be active and cooperative in the class

3. Cross-cultural awareness:

a. Understand the natural disasters of different area and multi-form intensity of all parts of the world

4. Character-building:

a. To strengthen their confidence of learning well in order to make a better world for our next generation.

b. To let them know the ways of keeping them safe when some natural disasters occur.

Difficulties and Importance:

　a. Learn how to definite words, using the Attributive Clause

b. How to change the direct speech into the indirect ones.

c. Improve the student's ability of grasping the general idea of the passage.

Teaching Method:

a. Task-based methodology

b. Communicative Approach

Teaching Time:

Five periods:

Period 1 vocabulary and speaking

Function Giving a definition

Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary

Period 3 Grammar 1 The past perfect passive

Listening and Vocabulary

Period 4 Grammar 2 Indirect speech

Speaking

Period 5 Cultural corner

　　　　Everyday English

Writing

Teaching Procedures:

Period 1

Step 1. Warming up

Look at the picture and answer the following questions.

Q1. Have you ever heard of the tsunami in 2004?