高中英语必修一Unit 4 Earthquakes Reading 教案
Teaching goals： Words and phrases:
well, pipe, burst, million, event, as if, at an end, stream, dirt, in ruins, suffering, extreme, brick, dam, track, useless, shock, quake, rescue, trap, electricity, dig out, bury, mine, miner, shelter Important sentences:
A night the earth didn’t sleep.
It was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers away.
A huge crack that was eight kilometers longs and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals.
Later that afternoon, another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook Tangshan. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. Slowly, the city began to breathe again. 1.Skill goals
Learn basic knowledge about earthquakes.
Know how to protect oneself and help others in earthquakes. 2. Sensibility goals
Get the students to be aware of earthquakes ,meanwhile get them to face it ,treat it in a proper way. 3．Ability goals
a. Enable the students to collect the information from the text by themselves. b. Enable the students to get the main idea of each paragraph. c. Develop students’ sense of cooperated learning. Teaching important points：
Let the students learn basic knowledge about earthquakes and how to get information from the reading passage.
Teaching difficult points：
Develop students’ sense of cooperated learning. Teaching Methods:
a. Task-Based Approach b. Group discussion and presentation Teaching Aids:（教学用具） A blackboard and multimedia Teaching Procedures: Step1 Leading in
Watch a short movie to show how terrible the earthquake was . Earthquake is one of the most dangerous natural disasters in the world. Today we will learn an earthquake which happened in China.
Step2 pre-reading
Give a sheet of paper to every student. Go through the four paragraph and give a correct order. Check the basic information of the passage what, when, where In what order was the passage written? ( time order) Step3 Reading 1. Fast reading
Ask the students to read the passage quickly and pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph.
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1)Answer the questions. What is the general idea of the passage? (The general idea is the mixture of the first sentences of each paragraph, that is, the text tells us something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake. ) 2)Fill in the table. Topic sentence of Paragraph 1 Topic sentence of Paragraph 2 Topic sentence of Paragraph 3 Topic sentence of Paragraph 4 Suggested answers: Topic sentence of Paragraph 1 Strange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei. Topic sentence of Paragraph 2 Everything began to shake and it seemed that the world was at an end. Topic sentence of Paragraph 3 Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. Topic sentence of Paragraph 4 All hope was not lost. The structure of the passage Part1 para 1 before the earthquake sign Part2 para2-3 during the earthquake damage Part3 pare4 after the earthquake recovery 2. Reading carefully Ask the students to read the passage carefully to locate particular information. Task 1 Read the first paragraph. Find the adjectives(形容词）in first part to know to the signs before the earthquake 1. _______ things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. 2.A ________ gas came out of the cracks. 3. Chickens and pigs were too __________ to eat. 4.Some people saw _________ lights in the sky. 5.People in the city who thought _________ of these events ,were __________ as usual that night. Suggested answer: 1.strange, 2.smelly, 3.nervous, 4.bright, 5.little , asleep 1.Use one key word to describe the situation before the earthquake. 2. when reading the first paragraph, what is your mood? Task 2 Read the part 2 carefully and find the adjectives which can describe the terrible damage of the earthquake 1.Eleven kilometers _____below the city the____ earthquake of the 20th century had begun. 2. A ___ crack that was 8 kilometers and thirty meters ___ cut across houses ,roads and canals. 3. In fifteen ____ seconds a ____ city lay in ruins. 4.The suffering of the people was _____. 5.Bricks covered the ground like ____ autumn leaves. 6. People were _____. 7.Another ___ quake which was almost as ___ as the first on shook Tangshan. 第2页
8.Water ,food and electricity were ____ to get.
Suggested answer: 1.directly , greatest,2. huge, wide, 3.terrible, large, 4.extreme, 5.red, 6.shocked, 7.big, strong, 8.hard
Let students appreciate the words which are used properly in the passage in order to emphasize the bad situation people have to face. Let students know how to express their ideas clearly.
Task 3 Read Paragraph 4 and fill in the blanks. Try to understand what people did after the earthquake happened. Find the verbs(动词）to describe how to rescue the city. 1.The army ____150.000 soldiers to Tangshan to ____ the rescue workers. 2.The army ____ teams to ____ those were trapped and to___the dead. 3.Workers ____ shelters for survivors.
4.Fresh water ____ to the city by train truck and plane. 5. The city began to ______ again.
Suggested answer:1.sent, help 2.organized, dig out , bury 3.built, 4.was taken , 5.breathe
This paragraph use many verbs to illustrate the situation at that time. Army , government and people from other part of China offer their help to rescue the survivors and rebuild the city. So the city will not die, it still has hopes and it can recover from the pain. Task 4 Exercise
1、Ask the students to decide whether the following statements are true or false. If it is false, try to correct it.
1. People in Tangshan were warned of the earthquake and didn't go to bed that night. F 2. People in Beijing also felt the earthquake. T 3. More than 400,000 people were killed in the quake. F 4. All of workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins during the aftershock. F 5. People couldn’t use the railway tracks any more. T 6.People knew the disaster would end at last because a lot of people came to help. T 2、Choose the best answer:
1)What is the mood of this passage?
A. upset B. Serious. C. Serious and a bit sad. D. Calm.
2)How do you understand the real meaning of the idiom “It is always calm before a storm”? A. It is unusually quiet before a thunderstorm or hurricane hit.
B. One should not trust situations that seem peaceful since bad things may happen. C. The weather is fine before a storm comes. D. You should stay calm before a storm. Suggested answers: 1).C 2). B Step 4 Discussion
Show the questions on the screen and have a discussion.
1.Why does the writer use A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP as the title? 2. What does the sentence “Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?
Work in group and discuss the two questions so that students can understand the text deeply. Suggested answers:
1.I think the reason is that, as usual, night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer uses A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP as a title to show how terrible and how unusual that night was.
2.Here we can see that the writer compared the city to a person who suffered a lot in the disaster. He
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高中英语必修一Unit 4 Earthquakes Reading 教案
