unit4Earthquake全单元教案

Warming-up

Teaching goals:

1. Get a general idea of earthquakes and some other natural disasters;

2. Train students’ listening ability and try to improve their pronunciation;

3. Know the damage that an earthquake and other disasters could bring about and ways to reduce

the losses of an earthquake.

Teaching important points:

Train the students’ listening ability and improve pronunciation.

Teaching aids:

A tape recorder; the blackboard; CIA课件

Teaching procedures:

Step1. Lead-in

----video of different natural disasters

T: Our hometown is a place full of a kind of disasters. What is it?

Typhoon, earthquake, hurricane tsunami, flood, tornado, drought…are all called natural

disasters.

Q. what damage will they bring about?

---- everything in ruins/ death/ losses…

Step2. Introduction of Earthquakes (Let students get the general idea of earthquake)

Q: what do you know about earthquake? What causes quakes and where do they often happen?

How to predict an earthquake?

Q: How to avoid being hurt?? ----through games

Q: Have you heard of any land earthquakes?

----Two pictures in warming-up: Tangshan Earthquake and San Francisco Earthquake.

Q: What do you know about these two earthquakes?

Step3: Listening

1. Pre-listening

----brief introduction of San Francisco Earthquake

Q: When did the quake happen? Unit 4 Earthquake ---- 1906

Q: what damage did bring about?

---- About 700 people died in the earthquake and the fires. And as many as 250,000 people lost

homes…

2. While-Listening

----according to the exercises in the text book

3. Post-listening

----How can we reduce the damage of earthquake? What can we do?

Step4: Homework

---- preview the reading “A Night the Earth didn’t Sleep” and learn new words of this unit

Reading

Teaching goals:

1. Target language 目标语言

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

2. Ability goals 水平目标

Train the students’ reading and speaking ability.

Train the students’ ability to use the Internet to search for some useful information.

Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others.

Teaching important points:

Train the students’ reading ability—skimming and scanning.

Teaching difficult points:

Describe the disasters.

Teaching aids:

CIA课件

Teaching procedures:

Step1. Lead-in

T: We have a visit to the museum of natural disasters, and you have learned about some brief

introduction of most disasters. Today, I want to show you round the earthquake department, and I

hope you will like it and learn some useful knowledge. Now let’s go.

T: At the very beginning, I want to know how much you know about an quake.

Q1: What would you take with you if a quake happened?

Q2: The best way to save yourself is to know there will be a quake before it happens. What kind of signs can tell you that there is a quake?

Q3: What kind of damage can an earthquake cause?

S: buildings are destroyed; people are killed; families are broken…

T: Let’s have a look at some pictures of such terrible site. (Pictures of quakes)

T: (The last picture is monument of Tangshan quake.) Do you know what this is?

Step2. Pre-Reading

T: 30 years ago, on the day July, the 28th, a terrible disaster suddenly happened, and the beautiful

Tangshan was removed from the map. This is Tangshan quake. Does any body know something

about Tangshan quake?

T: Let’s read a news report about the famous quake.

Step3. While-reading

I. Skimming & scaring

Get the students comprehend the passage quickly and accurately, and meanwhile help the students

to form a good habit of reading.

T: First please skim the passage fast to obtain/ get a general understanding of the whole passage.

And underline the answers to the following questions.

II. While reading, divide the whole passage into 3parts and find out the main idea of each part.

Para.1 before the quake

Para.2-3 during the quake

Para.4 after the quake

II. Careful-reading

Read the passage again and try to get more detailed information.

T: Now let’s read the passage again and find more information. Join the correct parts of the

sentences. (Turn to page 27, ex1)

T: Now you have read the passage carefully, please put the sentences in order. Number each of

these things during the Tangshan quake.(Turn to page 27, ex2)

T: here are some more work for you. You can work in groups.

T: Let’s watch some pictures, and comparing the old Tangshan, the Tangshan after quake, and the

new Tangshan we see today.

Step 4 Post-reading (discussing) 1. When did the quake happen? (Why did the writer use different expression of the same

thing?)

2. How many people were killed and injured during the quake?