unit4-earthquake-教案

Teaching plan:

Unit4Earthquake

(Reading: A Night the Earth didn’t sleep)

Content:

一、Analysis of the teaching material

二、Teaching aims and demands

三、Teaching difficult and important points

四、Teaching arrangements

五、Teaching aids

六、Teaching procedures

一.Analysis of the teaching materials：

This passage is about Tangshan earthquake happened on July 28, 1976. The passage can be divided into three parts. The first part is about some strange things happened before the earthquake. The second part is about the damages caused by the earthquake. The third part is about all help was given to Tangshan after the earthquake. From the passage, students will know clearly about the predictions before an earthquake. At the same time, teachers can guide them to think how to keep themselves safe from an earthquake, so that they can set up their right attitudes towards life.

二.Teaching goals:

Target language

Learn and master the new words and expressions in this period.

Ability goals

Students should improve their listening, reading, speaking and writing abilities. Students should improve their abilities to cooperate with others.

Emotion goals

Students learn how to how to keep themselves safe from an earthquake.

Students should set up their right attitudes towards life.

三.Teaching important and difficult points:

1. Train the students’ reading ability—skimming and scanning.

2. Master the main ideas of the whole passage.

四.Teaching arrangements：

Lead-in：3 minutes

Fast-Reading：4 minutes

Listening& Detailed-reading：27 minutes

Post-reading/ Summary (discussion in groups)：11 minutes

五.Teaching aids:

Multi-media computer, a tape recorder, PPT

六.Teaching procedures:

Step1. Lead-in

Ask Ss the question: Do you know when and where the biggest earthquake happened in China in the 20th century?

Step2. Fast-Reading

Get students to skim the whole passage quickly and answer:

Q: How many parts can this passage be divided into?

S: We can divide the passage into 3 parts. Paragraph ___:before the earthquake; Paragraph______，during the earthquake；Paragraph___，after the earthquake. Step3. Detailed-reading

Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.

Paragraph 1: Before the earthquake

1.The water in the wells _____and______.

2.Well walls had _______ _______in them.

3. A ______ _____came out of the cracks.

4. The chickens and pigs were too ______ to eat.

5. Fish ______out of the bowls and ponds.

6. Mice ___out of the fields.

7. At ____am on July 28, 1976, people saw _____ _____ in the sky.

Paragraph2-3：During the quake

Scan Paragraph 2 and 3 and finish the True or False.

1. At _____ am, the __________ earthquake of the 20th century began .

2. ________ covered the ground like red autumn leaves.

3. Two _______ and most of the bridges fell.

4. The railway tracks were now _________pieces of _______.

5. Water, food and ______________ were hard to get.

6. ______ of the nation felt the earthquake.

7. In ___ terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.

8. ____ of the Tangshan people died or were injured during the earthquake.

9. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than __________.

10. All of the city’s hospitals, _____ of its factories and buildings and _______ of its homes were gone.

Paragraph.4 After the quake

fill in the blanks.

Soldiers were sent to dig out those trapped and _______ the dead; People built_______ for the homeless and ___________ was taken to the city.

Step 4: Post-reading (Discussion)

______ happened in Tang Shan. For a few days, water in the wells ________. From the ______ of wells _______come out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became _____. At 3:00 am, everything began to ______. It seemed that the world was _______. _______ of the nation ____ it. _______ cut across the city. The city lay _____.

Two-thirds of the people _____ or ______. Then later that afternoon, another big quake _____ Tang Shan. People began to wonder ______________________. But all hope _________. _______ came to help those ______. Slowly, the city began to __________.

Step https://www.360docs.net/doc/488383720.html,nguage points

1.Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. imagine: form a mental picture

imagine + n. /pron.

imagine sb. to be

2. shake: cause to move to and fro

3. right awa y: at once; in no time; immediately

right now: at this very moment

Make up your mind ___________.

4.rise vi. rose, risen 上升; 升起; 上涨; 升高; 增加

raise vt. raised, raised 举起, 抬起，喂养

5.burst可以作动词，意为：使爆炸;使破裂；突然发生，突然出现。常构成短语burst into sth. 或burst out doing sth.，表示“突然开始（做某事）”，如：burst into tears = burst out crying（表示“突然哭起来”）。也可以作名词，意为：爆炸。

6.But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.

[考点] 定语从句中引导词who的用法。

7.It seemed as if the world…

1) as if 似乎，好像= as though

She spoke to me as if she knew me.

她和我说话的神情，好像她早就认识我

似的。

2) as if 在表语从句中相当于that:

It seemed as if the meeting would never end.

看起来会议没完没了

8.In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in _____.

lie (lay, lain): to be, remain or be kept in a certain state

in ruins: severely damaged or destroyed

9. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.

[考点] last在此句中意为“持续，延续”。可单独使用，也可后接for +一段时间（for可以省略）。

10. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.

dig out 挖掘；发现

bury: A. to place in the ground; B. to occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; absorb

Step 6. Discussion: How to protect ourselves from an earthquake?

Step 7: Homework

Using the information about Tangshan Earthquake, write a piece of news.