Teaching planModule FourSandstorms in Asia

Teaching Aims:

1. Knowledge and Skill

a. Get the students to review the violence of nature and know more about sandstorms and how

to protect the environment.

b. Through discussion and the comprehension of Reading, develop the students’ listening,

speaking, reading and writing, mainly reading.

c. Encourage the students to search the information on the Internet to gain more knowledge

of sandstorms and environmental protection.

d. Improve the students’ ability to read for specific facts.

e. To grasp the usage of infinitive, pay more attention to the usage of but + infinitive. 2.Emotion and Values

a. Enable the students to talk about the cause and influence of sandstorms，and the ways to

solve the problem in order to increase their sense of protecting the environment.

b. To encourage the Ss to talk about the damage caused by sandstorm and their own feelings

about it.

3. Cross-cultural awareness:

a. Understand the environmental protection of the whole world and strengthen their awareness

of environment protection. 4. Character-building:

a. To strengthen their confidence of protecting the environment we are living in.

b. Enable the students to talk about the sandstorms, the reasons for causing sandstorms and

the importance of protecting environment Difficulties and Importance:

a. Conclude and collect the words and phrases related to environment and environmental protection.

b. Ask students to think ways to protect the environment.

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 Writing

Speaking 1

Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary Period 3 Grammar 1 Infinitive Listening and Vocabulary Period 4 Grammar 2 but + infinitive

Everyday English

Period 5 Cultural corner

Speaking 2 Writing

Teaching Procedures: