Book 1 Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking教学设计
教学目标
1.Enable students to summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
2. Get students to find the detailed information about Tangshan earthquake.
3. Encourage students to appreciate the figures of speech in the text.
教学重点:
1. Enable students to retell how Tangshan Earthquake happened.
2. Improve students’ ability to grasp the order and organization of the text.
教学难点:
1. How to make students understand the figures of speech.
2. How to encourage students to describe other earthquakes in time order.
教学过程
Step Ⅰ Lead-in
Think about what can happen to a city during a big earthquake.
Step Ⅱ Pre-reading
Look at the title and photo below to guess what the text is mainly about.
Intention: It is intended to predict what the text is about according to the title and the photo.
Step Ⅲ While-reading
Activity 1 Read and check if you are right.
The passage talks about the terrible earthquake that nearly destroyed Tangshan city in Hebei Province in 1976.
Activity 2 Read the text carefully and write down the main idea of each paragraph.
Paragraph Main idea
Intention: This part is designed to help the students to understand the main idea of the passage.
Activity 3 The organization of the text.
Para.1: Before the earthquake
Para.2&3: During the earthquake
Para.4&5: After the earthquake
Intention: This part is aimed at helping students grasp the structure of the passage.
Activity 4 Answer the following questions.
1.What were some of the strange things happening before the earthquake?
2.How did people react to these strange things Why
3.What happened to the city and people How did the people feel
4.When did the earthquake happen
5.What happened later that afternoon
6.Who came to the rescue What did they do
7.What kind of help do you think people who have suffered an earthquake need
8.What do you think helped in the revival of Tangshan city
Intention: The part is aimed at helping students get detailed information about the earthquake.
Deep Thinking
Think about the questions carefully.
What other cities or towns have gone through similar changes What lessons can we learn from these events
Intention: The part is aimed to get the students to explore the lessons we can learn from the past earthquakes.
Step Ⅳ Appreciation
Activity 1 Explore the use of numbers.
Read the text carefully and explore the use of the numbers.
Deadly earthquake Nearly everything was destroyed But hope was not lost
11 km directly below the city
caused damage more than 150 km away
one third of the nation felt it
--- 75% of factories and buildings
90% of homes
tens of thousands of cows hundreds of thousands of pigs millions of chickens
The army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.
More than 10,000 doctors and nurses came to provide medical care.
Activity 2 Read the text again and understand figures of speech(修辞)in the sentences:
1.The water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell.
2. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end.
3. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.
4. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt.
5. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.
6. The night the earth didn’t sleep.
Intention: The two tasks are designed to help the students learn about the features of the passage.
StepV Summary
Use the words and expressions in the text to retell the earthquake in time order.
Time Event (key words)
several days before the earthquake
at about 3:00 a.m. on 28 July, 1976
at 3:42 a.m.
later that afternoon
after the quake
Intention: The purpose of the part is to help the students summarize the words and expressions related to the earthquake and use them by retelling the passage.
Step Ⅵ Homework
1. Retell Tangshan Earthquake in time order.
2. Use what we learned to describe the pictures below.