1.How is the disaster formed?

2. Writing

Divide the class into six groups. Each group discuss a topic and writes a composition together. After they finish the writing, they should do peer-revision. Then the teacher will post the compositions on the wall. Each composition should contain the following parts:

4.Post-tasks

Group work.

Imagine your teacher asks you　 to write an essay about human experiences and how people suffer during natural disasters. Which books would you choose to help you write your essay? What information do you think you could use from them?

Stage 3 Writing

1. Brainstorming

What natural disasters do you know?

2. Choose one book from the list which you don’t want to read and explain why you think it won’t interest you.

(This activity is to help the Ss develop the ability of scanning and express their own opinions with their own words.)

1. Which books on the list interest you? Give reasons why you might want to read them.

3.While-tasks

Ask the Ss to read the descriptions carefully again. Divide the whole class into two parts. Each part deals with one of the following two activities:

2.Pre-tasks

Read through the book descriptions and match them with the following book titles.

1. Volcano & Earthquake
2. Under the Volcano: A Novel
3. Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
4. Volcano & Earthquake
5. The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future
6. Hidden Big Island of Hawaii: Including the Volcanoes National Park
7. Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

(This activity aims to improve the Ss’ reading ability of skimming and the Ss can get the general idea of each paragraph.)

1.Lead-in

Ask the Ss to describe a kind of weather and what people do in such weather.

Today we’ll read some book descriptions about natural disasters and stories that happened in terrible weather.

3.Listen again and finish all the questions in this part.

(If necessary, play the tape again.)

Stage 2 Reading

2.Listen to the tape and do Exercises 1,2 & 3.