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Teaching design

NSEFC Module 1, Unit 4: Earthquakes

Type：Warming up and reading (40 minutes)

Teaching objectives：

By the end of the class, students should be able to:

Skim the passage to find out the main idea and scan the passage to locate specific information；

To acquire more knowledge about the Great Tangshan Earthquake；

Generate right attitudes towards how to survive from the earthquakes and treasure the most important things in life.

Teaching focus and anticipated difficulties：

Teaching focus

To acquire more knowledge about the Great Tangshan Earthquake;

Anticipated difficulties

Be Lack of knowledge about how to survive from the earthquakes.

Teaching procedure：

T: teacher Ss: students

Step 1 Warming up (8 mins)

Activity 1 Ask and answer (4 mins)

T: Good morning class. How are you today?

Ss: Good. Fine...

T: Do you know the meaning of natural disaster?

S: Yes…

T: Would you tell me some natural disasters?

S: Flood. / Sandstorm. / Typhoon…

T: Have you ever experienced any natural disaster?

S1.2: Yes.

T: Would you like to tell us your experience?

S1: …

S2: …

T: Thank you for your sharing.

T: Now please look at these pictures, class. Can you name all the disasters?

Ss: V olcanic eruption Hailstone Flood Sandstorm Typhoon.

Activity 2 Talk about your feelings (4 mins)

T: Are you familiar with this date?

S: Yes. / No.

T: That does not matter. Look at the next picture. Please guess what had happened there. Yes, there might be a terrible earthquake. The pictures were taken in Tangshan. They are about the Great Tangshan Earthquake. What can you see in the pictures? Ss: The city was ruined and a lot people died or got hurt.…

T: I want you to talk about your feelings.

Ss: Sad Sorry terrible shocked…

Step 2 Pre-reading (4 mins)

Activity 3 Pair work (4 mins)

T: So the earthquake is quite terrible, right?

Ss: Yes.

T: Imagine an earthquake is coming and your house begins to shake. You must leave it right away. You have time to take only one thing, what will you take with you? Why? Discuss with your partner and find out his or her idea? Understand?

Ss: Yes.

T: Have you finished? So xx what are you and your partner’s idea s? Would you tell us?

S: Telephone/Water/Food/Bag…

T: Why?

S: …

Step 3 While-reading (18 mins)

Activity 4 Reading for main ideas (5 mins)

T：Today we are going to learn a new passage about the Great Tangshan Earthquake. Ok? First, please read the passage and find the main idea of each paragraph.

Para1: Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.

Para2: At 3:42 am everything began to shake.

Para3: Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.

Para4: All hope was not lost.