Unit5 The power of nature

Using language

Enable the students to listen for details and catch the specific information as much as possible.

Learning ability goals

Enable the students to predict some important information in the process of listening and encourage the students to talk about the situations according to the listening materials.

Teaching important and difficult points

How to make sure the answers of listening material and help them to describe the disaster they have experienced.

Teaching aids

A recorder and cassette tapes, a projector, and a computer

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Pre-listening

Can you imagine the volcanologists' work?

They often face the dangerous situation.

Can you guess what the following three volcanologists' most frightening experiences are?

Step 2 Listening

Look at the pictures of volcanologists at work on page 38. Then listen to them talking about their most frightening experience. Write their names under the picture.

A. Frank Gore

B. Jane Small

C. Sarah Tang

Listen to the tape again, and answer the following questions.

1. How long has she been a volcanologist?

2. In what country was the volcano he/she talks about?

3. Why did he/she forget to be frightened?

Jane Small

1.How long has she been a volcanologist?