1、必修一 Unit 4 EarthquakesReading教學(xué)重點(diǎn)1. Get the students to know basic knowledge about natural disasters.2. Get the students to learn about Tangshan Earthquake.3. Get the students to learn different reading skills. 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料教學(xué)難點(diǎn)Develop the students reading ability.教學(xué)方法1. Task-based teaching and learning

2、2. Cooperative learning3. Discussion 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料教具準(zhǔn)備The multimedia and other normal teaching tools 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料三維目標(biāo)Knowledge aims: 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料1. Get the students to learn the following useful new words and expressions in this passage: shakewell (n. )risecracksmellypondpipeburstcanalsteamdirt ruininjuredest

3、roybrickdamuselesssteelshockquakerescueelectricity disasterarmyorganizeburycoalmineshelterfreshright awayat an endlie in ruinsbe trapped under sth. a (great)number of 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料2. Get the students to know basic knowledge about natural disasters.Ability aims:1. Develop the students reading ability and

4、 let them learn different reading skills.2. Train the students ability to collect useful information from the Internet by themselves. 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料Emotional aim:1. Get the students know damages earthquakes bring about and the ways to reduce losses of earthquakes.2. Get the students to know how to protec

5、t oneself and help others in earthquakes.3. Get the students to be aware of terrible disasters, meanwhile get them to face it, treat it in a proper way, and never get discouraged.教學(xué)過程設(shè)計(jì)方案（一）Step 1 Lead-inShow the students some pictures about natural disasters and ask them: 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料1. Have you ever

6、experienced any natural disaster? Look at the pictures. Can you name all the disasters?(volcano, fire, typhoon, flood, sandstorm, hailstone, thunderstorm, hurricane, earthquake)2. Have you ever experienced an earthquake? Can you describe how terrible an earthquake is?地震的破壞(The earth is shaking; all

7、the buildings will fall down; the roads will be destroyed; many people will be killed or injured; a lot of children will become orphans. . . )Step 2 Warming upTurn to Page 25. Ask the students to read and look at the photos of Tangshan and San Francisco to describe what they see in the two photos to

8、 a partner.(beautiful cities; broad roads; tall building; large population. . . )Imagine there has been a big earthquake in these two cities, what might happen to all the things in the photos?(If a big earthquake happened, the whole cities might be in ruins. Large quantities of tall buildings might

9、collapse. The broad and busy roads might be destroyed. Many people might be killed or injured. . . )Step 3 Pre-reading1. Imaging and sharingImagine there is an earthquake now. Your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time to take only one thing. What will you take? Is it

10、money, water, fruits, mobile phones, a torch light, or anything else? Why?2. Talking and sharing 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料What do you think may happen before an earthquake? Talk about the pictures on Page 25.(Cows, pigs and dogs become too nervous to eat. Mice run out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish

11、jump out of ponds. The water in the well will rise and fall. The well walls will have deep cracks in them. There will be bright light in the sky. . . )Step 4 ReadingTell the students:Today, we are going to read a news report about the strongest earthquake in Chinas history, which happened in Tangsha

12、n, Hebei, in 1976.1. Fast readingAsk the students to read the passage quickly and pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph.1)Answer the questions.Question 1:In what order was the passage written?Question 2:What is the general idea of the passage? 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料(The text is written in time or

13、der. The general idea is the mixture of the first sentences of each paragraph, that is, the text tells us something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake. )2)Fill in the table.Type of writingTopic sentence of Paragraph 1Topic sentence of Paragraph 2Topic

14、 sentence of Paragraph 3Topic sentence of Paragraph 4General idea of the passageSuggested answers:Type of writingThis is a news report.Topic sentence of Paragraph 1Strange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei.Topic sentence of Paragraph 2Everything began to shake and it seemed

15、 that the world was at an end.Topic sentence of Paragraph 3Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.Topic sentence of Paragraph 4All hope was not lost.General idea of the passageThe passage tells us something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the eart

16、hquake.3)True or False?Ask the students to decide whether the following statements are true or false. If it is false, try to correct it.(1)People in Tangshan were warned of the earthquake and didnt go to bed that night.(2)People in Beijing also felt the earthquake.(3)More than 400 000 people were ki

17、lled in the quake.(4)Many rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins during the aftershock.(5)People tried to get fresh water from under the ground in Tangshan.Suggested answers:(1)FPeople in Tangshan thought little of the signs of the earthquake and went to bed as usual that night. 中小學(xué)

18、教育教學(xué)資料(2)T 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料(3)FMore than 400 000 people were killed or injured in the quake.(4)T(5)FFresh water was taken to the city Tangshan by train, truck and plane.2. Reading carefullyAsk the students to read the passage carefully to locate particular information.1)Do the exercises in the part Compreh

19、ending on Page 27.2)Fill in the following form. 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料TimeWhat happenedResultBefore the earthquake:three days before the earthquakeat about 3 am on July 28Wells:Animals:Lights and sound:Water pipes:People of the city thought_ and_While the earthquake:At 3:42 amLater that afternoonHouses, roads an

20、d canals:Hard hills of rock:The large city:The people:Some rescue workers and doctors:More buildings:Water, food and electricity:_ was destroyed._ hospitals, 75% of_ and 90% of_ were gone. More than_ were killed or injured.After the earthquakeAll hope:The army:Workers:Fresh water:The city_.3)Choose

21、the best answer:(1)What is the mood of this passage?A. Sad. B. Serious. C. Serious and a bit sad. D. Calm.(2)What can be inferred from the passage?A. If mice run out of the fields looking for places to hide, there must be an earthquake.B. If some natural signs had not been ignored, all the people in

22、 Tangshan city might have had a chance to survive.C. There wouldnt have been such a great earthquake, if people had paid enough attention to some natural signs.D. If some natural signs had not been ignored, more people might have had a chance to survive. 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料(3)Which of the following statements

23、 can not be part of the main reasons for the heavy loss of life in Tangshan earthquake?A. The earthquake happened in the deep night and people were sleeping in bed at the very movement. 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料B. There werent enough rescue workers.C. The buildings were poorly constructed and most of them were dest

24、royed in the earthquake.D. People were not careful enough to notice some natural signs before the earthquake. 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料(4)How do you understand the real meaning of the idiom “It is always calm before a storm”?A. It is unusually quiet before a thunderstorm or hurricane hit.B. One should not trust sit

25、uations that seem peaceful since bad things may happen. 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料C. The weather is fine before a storm comes.D. You should stay calm before a storm.Suggested answers:(1)C(2)D(3)B(4)B3. Language problemsWhile checking the answers with the whole class, deal with any language problems that the students

26、 cant understand.4. Reading aloudPlay the tape of the passage for the students to listen and follow. Then play the tape of Paragraph 1 of the passage once more; this time the students listen and repeat.Step 4 GameWork in pairs. Suppose you are a newspaper reporter, and the other is a witness of the

27、1976 Tangshan Earthquake. Now the newspaper reporter is interviewing the witness.Step 5 ExtensionShow the questions on the screen and have a discussion. 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料1. From whose point of view are events described? How do you know?2. What is the mood of this passage? How is it created?3. Why do you thi

28、nk the writer chooses to express his feelings about the quake rather than simply report what had happened?4. Why does the writer use A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP as the title? 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料5. What does the sentence “Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?Suggested answers:1. A writers who didnt

29、see the earthquake. He uses the third-person to describe the quake. His description is very objective. For example, in the second sentence of the third paragraph “Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. ”, the writer uses “they” instead of “we”.2. The mood is serious and a bit sad. I

30、t is created by giving details of how many people and animals were killed or injured and how many buildings were destroyed. 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料3. Although the writer was not there, he felt sad for the people of Tangshan. He knows that giving some personal feelings will make the reading more interesting.4. I t

31、hink the reason is that, as usual, night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer uses A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP as a title to show how terrible and how unusual that night was.5. Here we can see that the writer compared the city to a

32、 person who suffered a lot in the disaster. He felt her pain, and he worried about her. So when he said that people came to help her, we can feel his feelings to her. The city will not die, she has hope and she can recover from the pain.Step 6 Consolidation 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料Ask the students to read the passage again and try to retell it.One possible version: 中小學(xué)教育教學(xué)資料Strange things happened in Tangshan. For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell. The