earthquake说课稿

Hello! Ladies and gentlemen ！Today my topic is Unit 4 A night the earth didn’t slee p. Now allow me to introduce the first part:
1. Analysis of the teaching materials:
This lesson is a reading passage. It plays a very important role in English teaching of this unit because we should lay particular emphasis on the students’reading ability in senior English teaching. By studying this lesson, students can not only get to know something about earthquake and enlarge their vocabulary and expression concerning with it, but also learn some reading ability. Of course, the students should receive some moral education. To cultivate the students’bravery of facing the difficulties and inspire their s ympathy to the people who needs help.
2. Analysis of the students :
From the aspect of knowledge and skills, some students can ’t put what they have learned into use. From the aspect of moral, it is common that some students in senior school are very indifferent to anything but study. Sometime they are lack of a sense of sympathy and justice. These are the problems that I want to get through.
3. Teaching Aims
(1) Knowledge objectives:
a. To learn some vocabulary and expressions about the earthquake and use them in
proper situation.
b. To learn a bout basic knowledge about the Tangshan earthquake
(2) Ability objectives:
c. use what we have learned to describe what would happen before – during – after the
earthquake
d. to improve the reading skill and the ability of using English to express one’s idea s
(3) Emotional objective:
a.to inspire the students’sympathy to the weak
b, to learn from the bravery of the people in Tangshan to face the reality and rebuild the city.
4. Teaching Important and Difficult Points:
Key points:
1) to get the students to know more knowledge about Tangshan earthquakes
2) to improve the students reading ability
Difficult points:
Using the learned phrases and sentence patterns to express one’s ideas
5. Teaching aids:
A tape recorder, the blackboard and PPT
6. Teaching process
Step1. Fast Reading
Read the text silently and quickly and try to get the information about the following questions.
1. What does the passage mainly talk about(what,where,when,how)?
The passage mainly talks about a/an ___________(what) that happened in _________ (where) in _____(when). ___________were killed or injured (how).
2. How many parts you divide the passage into? Choose one word to describe each part.
part 1. (Para. )
part 2. (Para. )
part 3.(Para. )
Step 2 Careful Reading
Part 1 What things are strange before the earthquake? (signs)
1. The water in the wells ___and____. Some deep ______could be seen in the well
walls. A ______ came out the cracks.
2. Mice ran out of the fields_____________________. Fish ____________ bows and ponds.
3. The chickens and even pigs were______________.
4. People could see _________ in the sky.
Part 2 while the earthquake
(1) Please read Part 2 and then answer the following questions.
What time did the earthquake At about ___________
happen?
Where did the earthquake begin? _____________directly below the
city
How long did the earthquake last? _______ seconds.
(2) Try to find some sentences from the passage to describe the damages in the pictures that the earthquake caused?
看图说话
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Part 3 After the earthquake
Why did we say “Slowly the city began to breathe again .”？
Step 3Reflection
• Why was the damage so huge?
Step 4 Language Appreciation 语言赏析(选做，如果课上没有时间，下课自行完成)
Slowly the city began to breathe again.
(1) Have you found a special rhetorical device( 修辞手法) applied here? What’ s it?
(2)Can you find other special rhetorical devices(修辞手法)in the passage?
Step 5 Title Appreciation 标题赏析
What's the meaning of the title "A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep"?
A.The earth was awake all night long.
B Animals on the earth would not sleep at night.
C.People on the earth couldn’t fall asleep that night.
D.The earth shook like crazy that night,ruining Tangshan.
Step 6 Inspiration 感悟
令 What do you think of the huge damage caused by natural disaster? 令 Compare with the powerful nature, we human being are powerless. Faced with it, we should …..
Step 7 Class Extension 课堂延伸
If a terrible quake hit our town, how could we save ourselves and others in the terrible situation?
Step 8 Homework
Work on a speech about self-rescue in an earthquake, covering the tips we’ve discussed in class.。