unit4.-earthquake教案

Unit 4 Earthquake

Reading

Teaching goals:

1. Ss will be able to know the basic knowledge about earthquake: damages caused by earthquakes and the ways to reduce losses of an earthquake.

2.Ss will be able to know how to protect oneself and help others in

earthquakes

3.Ss will be able to be aware of terrible disasters, meanwhile get them to

face it, treat it in a proper way, and never get discouraged.

4.Ss will be able to describe past experiences by using expressions and

sentences in this passage.

Teaching important points:

1.Ss will be able to know the basic knowledge about earthquake: damages

caused by earthquakes and the ways to reduce losses of an earthquake. Teaching difficult points:

1.Ss will be able to generalize the main idea of each parts.

2.Ss could understand some of the difficult sentences.

Teaching methods:

1. Explanation to get the students to have a clear idea.

2. Discussion to get the students to understand the text easier. Teaching Aids:

A computer and a tape recorder

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Lead-in

1. Question: Have you experienced an earthquake? If you have, tell me your experience. If no, let’s watch a video together.

1. Enjoy a part of film of earthquake.

What damage will an earthquake cause?

How do you feel about the video?

(suggested answers: get injured, be buried in bricks, cut off, fall down, crack and burst, lay in ruins; frightened, scared, sad…))

Step2. Fast reading

Today, we’ll learn a text “A Night the Earth didn’t sleep” First, let’s look at the title again, why the earth didn’t sleep for a night? What happened? What does the passage mainly talk about?

Exchange your understanding of the passage with group members and work together to find the main idea of each part.

In what order is the passage written? Time

How will you divide the passage?

Main idea of each part:

Part 1 (para.1): (Signs)

Strange things were happening before the earthquake.

Part 2 (para.2-3)(damage)

The disaster happened and caused a lot of loss.

Part 3 (para.4): All hope was not lost. (rescue)

Step 3 careful reading

1.Read carefully and try to get more information to fill in the blanks.

Part 1:

2.Individual work.

Part 2:

a). Get the students to find some details of this part.

Details:

a). Fill in the blanks with the data

1/3 of the nation felt the earthquake .

A huge crack that was 8 kilometres long and

30 metres wide cut across houses.

In 15 terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.

2/3 of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.

The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000 .

All of the city’s hospitals, 75% of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were gone.