必修一unit4earthquake教案

Unit 4 Earthquakes

The second Period Reading

A night the earth didn’t sleep

王时娇Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

To make students get a general idea of earthquakes and some other natural disasters. To make students know the signs and damage of the earthquake.

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to describe the earthquake of Tangshan

Let the students write a summary of “A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN”T SLEEP”. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to describe the earth of Tangshan.

Help the students master the target language by doing some exercises.

Teaching important points 教学重点

a. Present a sequence of events to introduce to the students and try to describe an earthquake. Let student pay attention to some useful words sentences and way to 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.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Teach the students how to appreciate an article.

Teaching methods 教学方法

a. Discussing

b. Skimming and scanning

Teaching aids 教具准备

A slide projector

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程及方式

StepⅠLead-in (10 minutes)

Daily proverb: It is always calm before a storm. (暴风雨前总是平静的)

Show some posters and a short video about Tangshan earthquake, and then ask the students to answer the following questions.

(1)When and where did the earthquake happen?

(2) During the earthquake, what happened to the houses and the people?

(3) How do you feel about the earthquake?

StepⅡWhile-reading (20 minutes)

Task 1(fast reading): Divide the reading passage into three parts, and then find out the main idea of each part.

(Para.1)

Strange things were happening before the earthquake.

(Para.2-3)

The disaster happened and caused a lot of loss.

(Para.4)

Helps came to Tangshan. All hope was not lost.

Task 2(carefully reading): Read the text carefully, and try to understand the structure of the text.

Part 3

1. How the army helped the people in Tangshan?

The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. 2. What did the workers do?

Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.

Ste p ⅢPost-reading (8 minutes)

Group activity 1: First choose a situation from the following, discuss how to rescue yourselves when an earthquake happens.

1. If I were outdoors, I will_____________ and______________________

2. If I were having class, I will____________ and _____________________

3. If I were on a bus, I will_______________ and ___________________

Group activity 2: Look at the following things then discuss with your group members, and choose an essential(必需的) thing in your bag, what will you take and why?

You will take: torch, money, mobile phone, medicine, a bottle of water, blanket food