人教新课标英语必修一Unit-4-Earthquakes-单元教案设计

Unit4Earthquakes
1课时设计与课时分配
1st period Reading(I)
2nd period Speaking and listening
3rd period Grammar
4th period R eading(II)
5th period Writing
The First Period Reading(Ⅰ)
T eaching important points教学重点
a.Present a sequence of events t o introduce t o the students and try to describe an earthquake.Let student pay attention to some useful words sentences and way t o describe an earthquake.
b.Let the students know what the correct attitude towards a disaster is and what we should do in a disaster for ourselves and for the other people.
T eaching difficult points教学难点
T each the students how to appreciate an article.
T eaching methods教学方法
a.Discussing
b.Skimming and scanning
T eaching aids教具准备
A slide projector
T eaching procedures&ways教学过程及方式
StepⅠRevision(2minutes)
Check the homework with the whole class.
StepⅡWarming-up(3minutes)
Ask the students t o r ead the instructions and mak e sure they know what to do,and then have a discussion a bou t the two pictures.
Ste pⅢPre-reading(3minutes)
There are two questions in this part.Both are very interesting.The first one can mo r e
or less reveal the students values;while the second one can enlarge their imagination. No matter what their answers are,as long as they have given careful thoughts t o the situations,their answers should be good.
StepⅣReading(20minutes)
In this part,the teacher should ask the students to read the passage quickly and silently for the first time to g e t the general idea of the passage.Ask them to pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph.This can help them finish Exercise3 in Comprehending.It is a bo u t the main idea of each paragraph.Then ask them to r ead the text again carefully to obtain some details.Before reading for the second time, show some questions on the screen,and let the students read the questions first.These questions can guide them to have a good understanding a bo u t the text.They can also mak e preparations for Exercises1and2,which are a bo u t details.
Skimming(5minutes)
The teacher shows the screen and gives them a little time t o think over.
1S trange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.
2The disaster happened.
3Nearly everything was destroyed.
4All hope was no t lost.
Careful reading(15minutes)
Show on the screen.
1.What natural signs of a coming disaster were there?
2.Can you think of some reasons why these signs weren’t noticed?
3.What events probably made the disaster worse?
4.What situations probably made the disaster worse?
5.How were the survivors helped?
Give the students8minutes to r ead the text and then to think over or discuss the questions.The teacher should walk in the classroom t o help those who need help. StepⅤExtension(8minutes)
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1. From whose point of view are events described? How do you know?
2. What is the mood of this passage? How is it created?
3. Why do you think the writer chooses t o express his feelings a bo u t the quak e rather than simply reporting what ha ppene d?
4. Why is the title A NIGHT THE EART H DIDN’T SLEEP?
5. What does the sentence “Slowly, the city began to breathe mean? The teacher can ask the students to have a discussion in gr oups of four at first and
then ask some of them to show their ideas.
Step Ⅵ Comprehending (5 minutes)
By n o w, the students have had a further understanding about the text. So it’s time to
have a summary abo u t what they have learned in this class. The compr ehending part
on P age 27 gives them a good chance to do this. Exercise 1 is a bo u t the details in the
text, which is easy to finish. Exercise 2 is a bo u t the important functional item of this
unit —sequence. Exercise 3 asks the students to write a summary . At the first glance, it
seems difficult, and some students may feel that it is impossible for them to write it.
In fact, this exercise gives them the way t o write a summary . In other words, what
they should do is t o write down the main idea of each paragraph. And in the course of
skimming, the teacher has guided them to find these main ideas. So this exercise
sh ouldn’t be a difficult one. The teacher should explain this to the students. Give the
students two minutes to finish the exercises, and then check the answers with the
whole class.
Step Ⅶ T ranslation (2 minutes)
The purpose of this step is t o let students know the meanings of some complex
sentences, and let them learn the sentences by heart. If time permits, do this at once,
or leave it as homework.
1. Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them.
2. The n u mbe r of the people who were killed or injured reached m o r e than 400,000
3. It seemed as if the world was at an end.
4. It was a city whose hospitals, 75% of its factories and buildings and 90% of its
homes were gone.
5.Then,later that afternoon,another big quak e which was almost as strong as the first one shook T angshan.
6.The army organized t eams t o dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.
7.Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
StepⅧHomework(1minute)
T:Now,it’s time for assignment.Toda y we have two tasks t o finish after class.The
The Second Period Listening and Speaking
T eaching important points教学重点
a.Help the students to improve their speaking skills.
b.T ell the students how t o mak e use of the given information to express their thanks.
c.T ell the students how to tell short stories in a literary way.
T eaching difficult points教学难点
a.T each the students the ways to express themselves.
b.Help the students how t o tell a folktale in a literary way.
c.Conclude some ways on how to improve the students’listening ability effectively. StepⅠRevision(5minutes)
The teacher can ask some of the students to read ou t their answers t o the exercises. This is a good and effective way to check the homework.After that,the teacher can begin t oday’s task.
(The process is omitted)
StepⅡReading and speaking(35minutes)
1.A thanks speech(7minutes)
T:Boys and girls,if s o me bo d y gave you some help,I think you would express your thanks t o him or her.Have you ever done so?
Ss:Y es.
Ladies and gentlemen,
It's my honour to be here t o celebrate the opening o f the new park to honour those wo
而 s
died in the terrible disaster . First, I'd like to express my thanks who worked hard to
rescue surviors. Without your help, we don 't kn ow how ma n y children would lose their
parents, and how man y parents would lose their children. An old saying said that a friend
in need is a friend in deed. No words are strong enough to
express our thanks t o you, because it's y ou who gave our grandparents and parents’ life again and also br ought
hope to this city. Second, I wish to express my thanks for the great efforts o f those who
worked hard to build a new city. Y ou built new homes and offices within only seven years.
Y ou were so quick that the UN honour ed y ou for your quick work. It seemed as if the
disaster was just a nightmare. Y ou speeded up the c o mpletmen t o f the nightmare! An d I'd
also like t o thank the visitors for listening to my speech. It's a good time for all o f us t o
look back at the past and t o look forward t o the future. As a middle school student, I'd
like to say that “Our destiny offers n ot the cup o f despair , bu t the chalice o f opportunity ”.
(Richard Nixon, American President ) 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒， 是机会之杯。

(美国总统 尼克松 . R.) We will work hard to make our future mo r e beautiful!
Thank you!
2. A little talk (5 minutes)
It ’time for the students to discuss the stamps of new T angshan.
3. A short story (10 minutes)
This integrated language activity enables students to use their imaginations to tell
short stories in a literary way. Y ou may want to encourage your students to use a
literary device, such as simile, personification or metaphor .
Group one:
In the center of the earth lives an evil ghost. He usually sleeps for many years. During
these years, people on the earth live a happy life. But when he wakes up, he shall
howl. And then people feel an earthquake.
Group two:
Some people believe that there is a magic world in the center of our earth, where lives
a kind of wiser living thing. They can mak e UFO. When the UFO comes o ut to visit
our world, there is an earthquake.
Group three:
There are too many people on the earth,and people are building too many buildings. Besides,they dig too many and too deep holes.The earth can’t stand.She shakes,and an earthquake happens.
A giant fish carries a stone on his back.A cow stands on the stone and balances the earth on one of her horns.From time to time,her neck begins to feel pain,so she throws the earth from one horn to the other.(From East Africa)
The earth was a giant catfish,which fought with a god.The god won and s too d in victory on the catfish’s head.But every now and then the catfish tries to escape by moving his huge tail,which shakes the ground.(From Japan)
Ste pⅢListening on Page62(10minutes)
Ste pⅣListening on Page66(10minutes)
This listening material gives the students a chance to learn mo r e knowledge a bo u t earthquakes.The way and steps of listening are the s ame with the ones in step2.But the three pictures can help the students to guess what will happen in the listening.So teacher can ask the students to look at the pictures and discuss what they might have learned.
StepⅤSpeaking task(15minutes)
This part is coming after the Listening.In content they have the same topic.It’s better t o pu t them together.Also this exercise gives students practice in taking words and phrases from the reading p assage and pu t them into a short dialogue.S tudents have the option of acting out a short dialogue rather than simply reading it.
StepⅥHomework
preview the USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS on P age63,and do Exercises1 and2on P age29in discovering useful structures.Next time we will learn the Attributive Clause.That’s all for today,bye everyone!
The Third Period Grammar
T eaching important points教学重点
The Attributive Clause:the structure and the usage of who,whose,that,and which.
T eaching difficult points教学难点
The usage of the words that,which,who and whose
T eaching procedures＆ways教学过程及方式
Ste pⅠRevision(10minutes)
A student stands up and reads ou t the passage.At the s ame time,the teacher should pay attention to the forms and tenses of the words.After that,ask the class t o discuss if they have some different answers.If so,mak e some necessary changes.
StepⅡDiscovering useful structures(20minutes)
There are two kinds of this clause.One is the Restrictive Attributive Clause,which modifies the noun;the other is the Non-Restrictive Attributive Clause,which gives extra information,and is written with commas.
Show on the screen.
1.But the one million people of t he city,who thou ght little of these events,went t o bed as usual that night.
2.It was hear d in Beijing,which is one hun dr e d kilometer away.
3.A huge crack that was eight kilometer long and thirty meter wide cut across houses, roads and canals.
4.The n u mbe r of people who were killed or injured reached mo r e than400,000.
5.The army organized t eams t o dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.
6.Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
While the students are translating the sentences,the teacher should notice the difference in translating the Restrictive Attributive Clause and the Non-restrictive Attributive Clause.If the students have any errors,correct them.
The T eacher had better give the p aper o ut before class,so that the students can have time t o preview t he grammar.
I．定语从句
1.限定性定语从句（Restrictive Attributive Clauses）
大多数定语从句对所修饰词的意思加以限制，表示“……的人（或东西）”，称为限定性定语从句。

在限定性定语从句中，当关系代词在从句中做宾语时，在绝大多数情况下都可以省略，特别是在口语中，在被修饰的词为all,everything等词时尤其如此。

2.非限定性定语从句（Non-Restrictive Attributive Clauses）对所修饰的词没有
限定词义的作用，而只是补充一些说明，通常都有一个逗号把它和句子的其它部分分开，在译成中文时，这个从句多译成一个并列句。

限定性定语从句去掉以后，句子意思常发生变化，甚至不能成立，而非限定性定语从句拿掉以后对剩下部分没有太大的影响。

如：
Answers to the Exercise1
1who2Whom3Who4whom5who6w h o/who m7whom8whom
9whose10whose11that12that13that14whose15that
Exercise2in Discovery useful structures
Give the students some time to r ead the sentences quickly and loudly,and try t o r e me mber them.A few minutes later,ask some of them to recite the sentences.
For Exercise3,the teacher can give the students some time to pr epar e the sentences and play the game quickly.This is a good way t o mak e the class lively.
Ste pⅢUsing structures(15minutes)
This is advice on how t o p rotect one’s home from an earthquake.The main purpose is t o practice the Attributive Clause.This exercise is a kind of procreative activity for the students,which can be done only after the students read and understand the passage.So perhaps it is difficult for some students.The teacher should be patient to them and give them enough help.
Five minutes later
(The answers to the exercise are omitted)
For Exercise2,the teacher can r ead ou t the instruction for the students,and mak e sure they know what t o do.If some student find it difficult t o finish,the teacher can give them a hand by offering some words from the text A SAFE HOME.For example,the word I have chosen is comput er/the word I have chosen is the kitchen/the word I
have chosen is th e place…a nd so on.And must mak e the students know the purpose of the exercise is t o g e t familiar with the Attributive Clause.
Ste pⅣHomework
T:Well,all of you did very well.Now,time is up.Today’s homework is to finish the Summing up and Learning Tip on P age32.And mak e good preparation t o the R eading T ask on page65.Make sure you know the meaning of the text clearly. Class is over.See you next time!
The Fourth Period Reading(II)
T eaching important points教学重点
T each the students how to enjoy and analyze an article,from its words,sentences and the structure of the text.
T eaching difficult points教学难点
T each the students how to enjoy and analyze an article.
T eaching procedures＆ways教学过程及方式
StepⅡPre-reading(2minutes)
As luck would have it,at the time of the quake America’s most famo us writer,Jack London just happened to be living near San Francisco.His account(叙述)of the disaster is both factual and literary,that is,he tried t o write no t only for readers of that time bu t readers yet to come.London,like mo s t great writers and former journalists, knew a good story when he saw it.He and his wife r ode on horseback at a fast gallop(飞驰)from their ranch to the hills overlooking the“city by the bay.”What they saw both horrid（使害怕）and fascinated(吸引)them.
StepⅢReading(20minutes)
Show on the screen.
1.Who is the man in the picture?
2.What can we see from the word never in the sentence Never before in the history has a city been so completely destroyed?
3.How many negative words are used in the first paragraph,and what can we know from these words?
4.What’s the feature(特点)of the sentences in th e first and second paragraph?
5.What’s the main idea of the second paragraph?
6.What can we learn from the first sentence and the last sentence?
Ask the students t o discuss the questions in groups.After that the teacher checks the answers with the whole class.
T:Who is the man in the picture?
StepⅣAnswering questions(5minutes)
Give the students some time to finish the exercises and then check the answers with the whole class.
Suggested answers to Exercise1
1.shocked
London is both greatly surprised and frightened by what he sees,so“shocked”is a good word to describe his feelings.
2.sad
London knows that many families lost their loved ones and all their possessions. Suggested answers to Exercise2
1.The writer of the San Francisco in1906shows mo r e feeling a bou t the earthquake. Because he is an eyewitness.He is also writing a personal report,no t a histoty lesson.
2.Both writers give similar details a bo u t the people hurt by the quak e and the things it destroyed.
3.Neither writer gives details of big events before little events.
Suggested answers to Exercise3
I believe the writer’s description because the writer is an eyewitness and he is also writing a personal report,no t a history lesson.
StepⅤListening on Page31(10minutes)
This is a first-person narrative story.A man is giving his account of what happened
to you.
during the second big earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906. In this listening
material the teacher should also remind the students to pay attention t o the sequence.
Exercise 3 is designed for this purpose. It is necessary to let the students practice
reading the sentences aloud.
Ste p Ⅵ Homework （2 minutes ）
In this class we read and listened t o two stories, both of which are a bo u t the 1906 San
Francisco earthquake. The stories are true and were written for the Museum of the
City of San Francisco. The museum has many such personal accounts and pho tos at
http://www . Sfmuseum. Org/1906/06.html .If you are interested in them, you can
surf in the site I’ve given The other is to go
on with the listening and check
the answers t o the exercises.
The Fifth Period Writing
T eaching important points 教学重点
a. T each the students how to write an outline of a newspaper .
b. T each the students how to write a poster .
T eaching difficult points 教学难点
a. T each the students the ways t o express themselves, and form their own writing methods.
b. T ell the studnts the difference of the outlines betw een a short story and a newspaper story .
Step ⅠWriting an outline (10 minutes)
This part is t o write an outline of a newspaper story . The teacher should guide the
students to finish this task. Ask them to r ead the instructions. And then answer the
questions on the screen. Give them 2 minutes t o read and think a bo u t the questions.
1. Why is an outline important ?
2. What should an outline include?
3. Why is a headline important ?
4. What are the steps t o finish a newspaper story?
5.What is the feature of a newspaper story?
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The teacher can r ead out the examples for the students one by one and asks them “What’s the headline?What’s the main idea?And what are the details?”By doing t the students can master the structure of newspaper stories and are no t worried a bou t writing an outline for China Daily.
After doing this,the teacher can explain t o students that newspaper stories and short stories are organized very ually a short story begins with small details
and includes big details later.A newspaper story just d o es the opposite.Both kinds of stories use paragraphs with main ideas.
The point-of-view in a good newspaper story is objective(i.e.it has no point-of-view) while a short story is subjective,(i.e.has a point-of-view).A newspaper story has no conclusion;a short story generally does.
Give the students5minutes to prepar e the task,and then have a summary by asking
and answering.
StepⅡWriting a poster(12minutes)
SB Writing T ask,P age67
In fact this part is the continuous one of the Speaking T ask.That is,Speaking is the
b ase of the Writing.The instructions have told the students how to write a poster and what should be written down.Ask the students to r ead the instructions carefully,and mak e sure they know what they are going t o do.Give them5minutes to write. Possible sample:
Poster
Earthquakes are terrible natural disasters.Although we cannot avoid it,we can survive by making preparations.Here are the essential things you should always take during an earthquake.
Y ou should take a bottle of water.It can k eep you alive for a long time,if you are trapped under the ruins.T ake some fruit,in case you are hungry.And also take a torch light and a mobile.These can help you k eep in touch with the outside world,and it is easy for rescue workers to find you quickly.
Don’t put fresh fruit in the bag as they will go bad quickly and cause problems. Don’t take money,especially don’t go back to take money when the house is shaking. Y ou may be caught in the ruins.
StepⅣHomework(2minutes)
T:In this class we learned how t o write an outline of a newspaper story and how to write a poster.W e have known the difference of th e outline betw een the newspaper and a foletale.I hope it can help you a lot in your writing.Today’s homework is to finish the Summing Up and Check Yourself t o consolidate what you have learned. OK,that is all for today.Bye-bye!。