earthquake的教案

UNIT 4 Earthquakes

The first period reading

Step I. Revision

Translate the following two sentences using present continuous tense to describe future.

你明天要去做什么？

我要去拜访我的祖父母。

Suggested answer:

What are you doing tomorrow?

I'm visiting my grandparents.

Step II. Warming up

Ask the students to name the nature disasters they know with the help of the pictures shown on the screen..

T: Today, before we begin our reading, I’d like to ask you a question, “How many nature disasters do you know?”

Show the pictures on the screen and help them pronounce the names correctly.

Step III.Fast-reading

Ask the Ss to read the passage in four minutes asking them to pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph to figure out what the passage is mainly about, and then try to get the main idea of each paragraph as well as find out the order of the passage.

After fast-reading, invite some students to tell the main idea of each paragraph. Then check the answer with the whole class.

Step IV.Careful -reading

In this part, teacher should ask the students to read the passage

carefully and underline the key words and numbers. Then let them fill in the blanks and answer some questions related to the detail of the text on the screen so that they could obtain some details.

Step V. Listening & Comprehending

Show the questions on the screen and let the Ss to have a discussion in groups of four on the following two questions

:1.What does the writer mean by “Slowly，the city began to breathe again”? (last sentence.)

2.Why does the write use “A night the earth didn’t sleep”as the

title?

Suggested answers:

1.That means Tangshan began to recover with the help of the society gradually.

2.As usual, night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that evening everything changed. The writer use “A night the earth didn’t sleep”as the title to show how terrible and how unusual that night was.

Step VI Extension

Discuss the question"How can we protect ourselves if an earthquake happen."

Step VII Homework

Exx 1,2,3 on P28