unit 4 Earthquakes教案

UNIT
4
Earthquake
A
Night
the
Earth
Didn’t
Sleep
Teaching
Plan
Lecturer:
Liu
lizhu
Teaching
Aims:
Learn
about
the
Tangshan
earthquake.
Develop
the
students’
reading
ability
Learn
to
care
for
others.
Teaching
Important
and
Difficult
Points:
Help
the
students
to
grasp
key
information
while
they
are
reading.
Teaching
Methods:
Task-based
methods
to
get
the
students
to
understand
the
passage.
Pair
work
and
group
work
to
make
the
students
work
in
class.
Teaching
Aids:
OHP
the
blackboard
Teaching
Procedures:
Step
1.Revision
Go
over
the
new
words
learned
in
the
previous
lesson.
Step
2.Lead-in
The
teacher
shows
a
series
of
pictures
of
some
disasters
on
the
screen
and
let
the
students
name
them.(The
pictures
are
about
a
fire,
a
hurricane
,a
tsunami,
an
earthquake
and
so
on.)
The
teacher
shows
a
picture
of
new
Tangshan
to
the
students.
Then
asks
the
students
to
describe
what
they
see.
The
teacher
shows
another
picture
of
Tangshan
(the
city
after
the
earthquake),
and
gets
the
students
to
guess
what
happened
and
what
damage
it
caused.
Step
3.Fast
reading
Skim
the
passage
and
divide
the
passage
into
3
parts.
Sum
up
the
main
idea
of
each
part.
Part
1
(para.1):
Before
the
earthquake,
strange
things
happened.
Part
2
(paras.2-3):
During
the
earthquake,
the
city
was
destroyed.
Part
3
(para.4):
After
the
quake,
people
saw
hope.
Step
4.Careful
reading
Let
the
students
read
the
passage
carefully
and
finish
the
tasks
below.
Listen
and
tell
whether
the
statement
is
True
or
False.
People
in
Tangshan
were
warned
of
the
earthquake
and
didn’t
go
to
bed.
People
in
Beijing
also
felt
the
earthquake.
More
than
4000
000
people
were
killed
in
the
quake.
Many
rescue
workers
and
doctors
were
trapped
under
the
ruins
during
the
aftershock.
People
tried
to
get
fresh
water
from
under
the
ground
in
Tangshan.
Answers:
F
T
F
T
F
Do
the
exercises
in
students’
book
on
page
27.
Exercise
2.
Exercise
1
Step
5.Pair
work
Suppose
one
of
you
are
a
CCTV
reporter,
and
the
other
was
a
witness
of
the
1976
Tangshan
Earthquake.
Now
you
are
having
a
face-to-face
interview.
Please
work
in
pairs.
Step
6.Discussion
After
the
terrible
disaster,
many
children
became
homeless.
Please
work
in
group
and
discuss
what
we
can
do
for
them.
Step
7.Conclusion
A
Night
the
Earth
Didn’t
Sleep
is
a
news
report.
It
talks
about
the
1976
Great
Tangshan
Earthquake.
The
1976
Great
Tangshan
Earthquake,
which
had
many
early
signs,
destroyed
the
city
and
shocked
people
very
much,
but
rescue
soon
came
and
people
saw
hope
for
a
new
life.
What
can
we
learn
from
this
report
We
must
care
for
those
who
are
in
trouble.
We
must
do
our
best
to
help
those
who
need
help.
The
PLA
man
and
the
rescue
doctors
set
us
a
good
example.
Step
8.Homework
Read
the
passage
again
and
write
a
short
passage
about
the
1976
Tangshan
earthquake.