高中英语必修一unit4 Reading

17 Reading and Thinking目标导航知识精讲【核心词汇】1.ruin n. & vt. 破坏；毁坏搭配：fall into ruin 衰落，衰败financial ruin 破产2.shock（1）n. 震惊；令人震惊的事；休克搭配：in shock 震惊，吃惊He’s still in a state of shock. 他至今还惊魂未定。

The news of his death came as a great shock to everyone. 他去世的消息让所有人都非常震惊。

She was taken to hospital suffering from shock. 她因休克被送到医院。

（2）vt.（使）震惊搭配：It shocks sb. to see/hear... 看到/ 听到……使某人震惊。

It shocked them to hear that he had gone abroad.听说他出国的消息，他们惊讶不已。

3.trap（1）vt. 使落入险境；使陷入圈套（trap—trapped—trapped）be/get trapped in 困在……中；陷入……中trap sb. into doing sth. 诱使某人做某事They were trapped in the lift. 他们被困在电梯里。

By clever questioning they trapped him into telling the truth. 他们用巧妙的提问诱使他说出真相。

（2）n. 险境；陷阱lay/set a trap（for sb.）（给某人）设下圈套fall/walk into a trap 落入圈套people caught in the unemployment trap 陷入失业困境中的人们If you choose this way，you’re likely to fall into a trap. 如果你选择这条路，你可能会落入圈套。

Teaching DesignBook1 Unit4 Earthquakes ---ReadingTeaching Aims :（教学目标）1. Knowledge aim：Know the basic knowledge about earthquake.2. Ability aim:Learn to use different reading skills.3. Moral aim:Learn to face difficulties bravely.Teaching Important Points: (教学重点)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.Teaching Difficult Points: （教学难点）Develop the students’ reading ability.Teaching Methods: （教学方法）1.Task-based teaching and learning2. Cooperative learning3.Discussion.Teaching Aids:（教学辅助）1. a multimedia classroom2. The blackboardTeaching Procedures: （教学过程）Step1: leading-in:Pictures Natural disasters earthquakeStep2: Read the text quickly and pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph and answers the questions:1.In what order was the passage written?2.What is the general idea of the passage?Type of writing: ___________ This is a news report.____________________________Topic sentence of Paragraph 1:_______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Topic sentence of Paragraph 2:_______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Topic sentence of Paragraph 3:_______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Topic sentence of Paragraph 4:_______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ General idea of the passage:_________________________________________________ Step3: Careful reading: (for example)Part1: Ask and Answer:1.When and where were the strange things happening? What are they?2.Why did the text say the world seemed to be at an end?3.How was the city destroyed after the earthquake?4.When did the second earthquake hit the city? What was the result of that?5.Who came to help Tangshan first ? And how?Part2: True or False:1.People in Tangshan were warned of the earthquake and didn’t go to bed as usual thatnight.2.People in Beijing also felt the earthquake.3.More than 400,000 people were killed in the earthquake.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.Part3: English and Chinese: (typical sentences)1. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events,were asleepas usual that night.2. it was felt in Beijing,which is one hundred kilometers away.3.In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.4.People began to wonder hoe long the disaster would last.5.All hope was not lost.6.Slowly the city began to breathe again.Step4: Deep reading:1.Which sentence in the text of reading can replace the following sentence?The city will not die,she has hope and she can recover from the pain._______________________________________________________________2.Why does the writer use A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP as the title?________________________________________________________________Step5: Rewriting________________ happened in Tangshan. For there days, water in the wells _________________. From the ________ of wells _____________ came out.Chicken , pigs and mice became ___________. Fish jumped ____________bowls and ponds. At 3:42 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 died or _________________. People began _______________________________________. But all hope ___________________, soldiers came to help those ______________. Slowly, the city began to __________________.Step6: Summarizing and discussingStep7: Homework1.Write a short passage about the Tangshan earthquake.2.One acts as a reporter,and the other acts as a survivor to make a dialogue.3.。

Unit 4 Natural DisastersPeriod 2Reading and Thinking教材分析该板块以“描述自然灾害”(Describe a natural disaster)为活动主题，要求学生通过阅读文本，了解我国20世纪70年代发生在唐山的大地震，学习报告文学这种纪实性文体的语言特征，最后完成用自己的语言描述自然灾害的任务。

该语篇文本没有报告文学中常见的中心人物，但按地震前、中、后的顺序向读者整体描述了唐山大地震这场灾难。

全文描写生动、包含情感，体现了作者想要表达“灾害无情，人有情”的思想感情。

教学目标1. 能正确理解使用下列词汇：ruin, percent, brick, metal, shock, electricity, trap, bury, breathe, effort, wisdom, context, suffer等。

2. 阅读描述重大灾害的纪实性报告文学语篇，掌握该类语篇的语言特征和叙事要点，能分析阅读语篇的文本结构。

3. 掌握在阅读中根据上下文猜测词义的策略；巩固合成词的相关知识；能运用构词法知识推测词义。

4. 从历史事件的角度了解国内外发生过的一些重大自然灾害，树立防灾意识和自我保护意识。

5. 能够了解和掌握一些与自然灾害相关的安全常识和防范措施。

教学重难点【教学重点】帮助学生掌握报告文学兼具文学性和纪实性的语言特征，让学生学会欣赏文本中所运用的修辞方法和写作技巧，理解作者在作品中所表达的情感和写作意图。

【教学难点】掌握在阅读中根据上下文猜测词义的策略。

教学过程Step 1 Warming-upHave a brief review of the natural disasters mentioned in news reports in Period 1. Discuss ingroups what can happen to a city during a big earthquake.设计意图：回顾上节课的内容，激活关于自然灾害和地震的背景知识。