Unit 4—— Earthquake
Teaching goals:
Knowledge aims:
Ss will be able to master the following useful new words and expressions.
well,smelly,pond,burst,canal,steam,dirt,injure,brick,dam,useless,steel,shock,rescue,quake,electricity,army,shelter,
fresh,organize,bury, at an end, dig out, coal mine, in ruins
2. Ss will be able to know the basic knowledge about Earthquake
2）Ability aims:
Develop Ss’ reading ability.
3）Emotional aims:
Ss will be able to know damages earthquake bring about and the ways to reduce losses of an earthquake.
Ss will be able to know how to protect oneself and help others in earthquakes
Teaching contents
1) Teaching important points
1. Master the usages of the useful words and expressions above.
2. Improve the students’ reading ability.
3.Know how to cope with the quake.
2)Teaching difficult points:
1. The usages of some words and expressions.
2. How to train the students’ reading ability in learning the text.
Teaching Aids:
A computer and blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Lead-in/pre-reading
1、Give some information about Yushu earthquake.
2、Imaging your home begins to shake and you must leave it right now. You have timet to take only one thing.
What will you take Why
3、The best way to save yourself is to know there will be a quake before it happens .What do you think will happen before an earthquake Maybe you can refer to pictures on page 25.
4、Through two pictures before and after Tangshan enter in this lesson.
T: 30 years ago, on the day July, the 28th, a terrible disaster suddenly happened, and a beautiful city was removed from the map. Look at the two pictures, do you believe
that they are the same country But the truth is yes. Do you want to know what happened in this city Ok, today our text will tell you.
Step 2. while-reading
I. Skimming and scanning
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.
When did the earthquake happen
It happened on July 28th,1976.
2.How many people were killed or injured in the quake
More than 400,000
3.Who helped to rescue the people
The army
II. While reading try to divide the passage into three parts.
II. Careful-reading
Read carefully and try to do the exercises1、2 on page 27
2、Question:
1、 Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP
Suggested answer: night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer use this title to show how terrible and how usual the night was.
What does the sentence“Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean
Suggested answer: the writer compare the city to a person who suffered a lot in the disaster. He felt her pain. So when people came to help her, he feel the city will not die, she has hope and she can recover from the pain.
Step 3. post-reading
1、Retell the story(fill in blanks)
2、discussion
How can we protect ourselves (自我保护)in an earthquake
Don’t be nervous and keep calm.
Don’t try to run out of the classroom.
Protect your head by putting your bag on your head.
Squat(蹲下） or sit down under your desk.
Leave the classroom after the earthquake
Life is so beautiful.We must love our lives.In an earthquake SPEED IS LIFE.
Step 4. Homework
1.Write a piece of news about Tangshan(eg.the change of Tangshan after earthquake or others.)You can use the information in the passage. (No less than 100 words)
2. Underline the important phrases and sentences in the text.I use the new senior English for China student’s book1,and I teach the reading part of Unit4, Earthquake.
The teaching aims including three parts:
Knowledge aims:
Ss will be able to master the following useful new words and expressions.
well,smelly,pond,burst,canal,steam,dirt,injure,brick,dam,useless,steel,shock,rescue,quake,electricity,army,shelter,
fresh,organize,bury, at an end, dig out, coal mine, in ruins
2. Ss will be able to know the basic knowledge about Earthquake
2）Ability aims:
Develop Ss’ reading ability.
3）Emotional aims:
Ss will be able to know damages earthquake bring about and the ways to reduce losses of an earthquake.
Ss will be able to know how to protect oneself and help others in earthquakes
Teaching important points have
1. Master the usages of the useful words and expressions above.
2. Improve the students’ reading ability.
3.Know how to cope with the quake.
2)Teaching difficult points have
1. The usages of some words and expressions.
2. How to train the students’ reading ability in learning the text.
Teaching methods:
In this class,I will use below methods:Top-down model, shimming, scanning, discussion, and through three stages to teach:pre-reading,while-reading,post-reading
Teaching Aids:
A computer and blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Lead-in/pre-reading
1、Give some information about Yushu earthquake.
2、Two questions: 1)Imaging your home begins to shake and you must leave it right now. You have timet to take only one thing. What will you take Why
2)The best way to save yourself is to know there will be a quake before it happens .What do you think will happen before an earthquake Maybe you can refer to pictures on page 25.
3、Through two pictures before and after Tangshan enter in this lesson.
T: 30 years ago, on the day July, the 28th, a terrible disaster suddenly happened, and a beautiful city was removed from the map. Look at the two pictures, do you believe
that they are the same country But the truth is yes. Do you want to know what happened in this city Ok, today our text will tell you.
Step 2. while-reading
I. Skimming and scanning
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.
When did the earthquake happen
It happened on July 28th,1976.
2.How many people were killed or injured in the quake
More than 400,000
3.Who helped to rescue the people
The army
II. While reading try to divide the passage into three parts.
III. Careful-reading
Read carefully and try to do the exercises1、2 on page 27
2、Question:
1、 Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP
Suggested answer: night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer use this title to show how terrible and how usual the night was.
What does the sentence“Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean
Suggested answer: the writer compare the city to a person who suffered a lot in the disaster. He felt her pain. So when people came to help her, he feel the city will not die, she has hope and she can recover from the pain.
Step 3. post-reading
1、Retell the story(fill in blanks)
2、discussion
How can we protect ourselves (自我保护)in an earthquake
Don’t be nervous and keep calm.
Don’t try to run out of the classroom.
Protect your head by putting your bag on your head.
Squat(蹲下） or sit down under your desk.
Leave the classroom after the earthquake
Life is so beautiful.We must love our lives.In an earthquake SPEED IS LIFE.
Step 4. Homework
1.Write a piece of news about Tangshan(eg.the change of Tangshan after earthquake or others.)You can use the information in the passage. (No less than 100 words)
2. Underline the important phrases and sentences in the text.(共23张PPT)
Unit 4
Earthquakes
Team work
Discuss in your team
Imaging your home begins to shake and you must leave it right now. You have time to take only one thing. What will you take Why
Task1 :
Team work
Task2:
Discuss in your team
The best way to save yourself is to know there will be a quake before it happens .What do you think will happen before an earthquake
Reading
When did the earthquake happen
2.How many people were killed or
injured in the quake
3.Who helped to rescue the people
It happened on July 28th,1976.
More than 400,000
The army
1. The chickens didn’t eat because
2. The people didn’t worry because
3. Such a great number of people died because
4. Water was needed because
5. The people did not lose hope because
A. the army came to help them.
B. the quake happened while they were sleeping.
C. they were nervous.
D. dams and wells were useless.
E. they didn’t know what the strange events meant.
Join the correct parts of the sentences.
make a timeline
Time Event
For three days
At 3:42 am
Later that afternoon
Soon after the quakes
For three days
smelly gas
fish
the sound of planes
water pipes
jump
cracked and burst
came out of
well water,
cracks ,
rose and fell,
chickens, pigs ,
mice ,
too nervous to eat,
run out to hide,
bright light ,
were in the sky
could be heard
In the well
In the farmyard
In the sky
In the city
At 3:42 am, everything began to s_____.It seemed that the world was
a_ ___ ____. O________(1/3) of the nation f____ it. A h______crack cut across the city. The city lay i__ _____. Two-thirds of the people d____ or were i_______. Then later that afternoon, another big quake s______ Tang Shan, which t______ many r______workers and doctors. People began to wonder how long the d______ would l_____.
hake
t an end
ne-third
elt
uge
n ruins
at 3:42 am
Later that afternoon
ied
njured
hook
rapped
escue
isaster
ast
Soon after the quakes
The army:
Workers:
---sent soldiers to Tangshan. organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.
---built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
Result:
The city began to breathe again.
Question
1、 Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN‘T SLEEP
Suggested answer: night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer use this title to show how terrible and how usual the night was.
2. What does the sentence “Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean
Suggested answer: the writer compare the city to a person who suffered a lot in the disaster. He felt her pain. So when people came to help her, he feel the city will not die, she has hope and she can recover from the pain.
Retell the story
____________ happened in Tang Shan. For a few days, water in the wells _____________. From the ______ of wells __________come out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became ________. At 3:00 am, everything began to ______.It seemed that the world was _________. _________ of the nation ____ it. ___________cut across the city. The city lay _______.
Strange things
rose and fell
cracks
smelly gas
nervous
shake
at an end
One-third
felt
A huge crack
in ruins
Two-thirds of the people _____ or ___________. Then later that afternoon, another big quake ______ Tang Shan. People began to wonder ___________________________. But all hope ____________. _______ came to help those ________. Slowly, the city began to _____________.
died
were injured
shook
how long the disaster would last
was not lost
Soldiers
breathe again
survivors
How can we protect ourselves (自我保护)in an earthquake
.Don’t be nervous and keep calm.
Don’t try to run out of the classroom.
Protect your head by putting your bag on your head.
Squat(蹲下） or sit down under your desk.
Leave the classroom after the earthquake.
Life is so beautiful.
We must love our lives.
In an earthquake
SPEED IS LIFE.
drop onto the ground
keep away from the power lines
Ways on self-rescue
keep away from the signs
keep away from the buildings
hide under the furniture
drop onto the ground
hold onto the furniture
hide in the corner of the house
1.Write a piece of news about Tangshan (eg. The change of Tangshan after earthquake or others.) You can use the information in the passage. (No less than 100 words)
2. Underline the important phrases and sentences in the text.
Homework:
