Unit 4 Earthquake教案

1、Unit 4 Earthquake一、 Teaching materialsP50, Unit 4 Earthquake二、 Type of the lessonSpeaking, listening, and learning三、 Teaching goals(一)Knowledge Cognition: 1. Students will learn some new words and phrases.2. Students will learn how to express their feelings about earthquake.(二)Learning Strategies: 1

2、. Autonomous Learning Strategy2. Effective cooperation and communication strategy 3. Information processing and inquiry strategy(三)Emotion and Value Cultivation: 1. Students will learn the spirit of “"people-oriented”.2. Students will learn to cultivate the spirit of solidarity and coordination

3、.3. Students will learn that Tangshan people were brave in the face of disaster and should learn a lesson from them.(四)Culture awareness:1. Students will learn to understand the seismic disaster information and the corresponding measures.2. Students will learn to improve their disaster prevention an

4、d self-protection awareness.(五)language skill:1. In warming up, students will be able to know some natural disasters and describe what will happen in the earthquake.2. In pre-reading, students will be able to discuss with other classmates and know the signs before an earthquake.3. In listening and r

5、eading, students will be able to understand the summary of the text and try to retell the text.四、 Teaching difficulties(一)Master the new words, phrases and useful expressions in the text(二)Train the students reading abilities to understand the content of text in detail(三)Train the students abilities

6、 to cooperate with others.五、 Teaching aidsBlackboard, computer-assisted teaching (multimedia), projector六、 Teaching strategiesThree dimensional approaches七、 learning waysDiscussing, listening, speaking and reading八、 Teaching procedures:Warming up1. Warming up by looking and saying (5 minute)T:Good m

7、orning class. Today we will learn a new unit. Before the class, I would like to ask you a question “Have you ever experienced any natural disasters?” Last week we had just experienced a disaster, do you know what is it? S:-typhoon T:Yes, is typhoon. But do you know

8、 it has a different name? Now, please look at the pictures. 台风/飓风 （区别） 洪水 flood 雪崩 snow slide 火山喷发/火山灰（危害）Typhoon/Hurricane 滑雪 ski Volcanic eruption/tephra 'tfr 2. Warming up by talking about the scene of Earthquake (3 minutes)T: Ok, I have been introduced some kinds of nature disaster. In today

9、's class we will focus on the earthquake. lets have a look at some pictures of such terrible site.First, I will ask students what did they know about earthquake and what will happen during the earthquake.Next, I will summarize the scene and show some pictures about what will happen when began to

10、 earthquake. (Tall buildings were destroyed. /Roads were cracked./People were injured./The city was in ruins.)3. Talk about the expediences of earthquake（5 minutes）T: Now, I will ask you a question: “Have you ever been through the earthquake?”S:.T: My answer is yes, I have been through yes, I have b

11、een through the earthquake twice, one is a big earthquake happened in Wenchuan in 2008 and another earthquake happened in Yushu in 2010. But it didn't have very strong shake or destroy in my hometown, it's not very near to the epicenter /p,snt/ Talk about my experiencen of earthquake to stud

12、ents.（讲述我的经历）4. Introduce two famous earthquake to students.(8 minutes)T: Have you heard of any other earthquakes?S:Tangshan earthquake.T:ok, please look at page 25, there are two pictures. Do you know where they are?S: Hebei province and American.T: Yes, first Id like you to learn about the two fam

13、ous earthquakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and The California Earthquake. first lets look at the picture of Tangshan. Its Tangshan before earthquake. Its very beautiful and prosperous. But a very large earthquake happened in this city.At 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the s

14、leeping city of Tangshan, in northeastern China. The very large earthquake, striking an area where it was totally unexpected, wiped out the city of Tangshan and killed over 240,000 people - making it the deadliest earthquake of the twentieth century. T:Lets see the San Francisco earthquakebefore Aft

15、erthe San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906 is one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. Deaths: > 3,000 Injuries: 225,000 Property Damage: $ 400,000,000 in 1906 $3. Pre-reading -Discussion(10minutes) Question& Answer:1.T：Now, Imagine your home begins to shake and you must lea

16、ve it right away. You have time to take only one thing. what will you take? Why? I will give you 4minuts to discuss four people in one group. And ever group choice one students to answer this question.S:.2.T: The best way to save yourself is to know there will be a quake before it happens. So, What

17、kind of signs can tell you that there is a quake? Lets look at pre-reading :1. What can you see in the picture? 2. What do you think may happen before an earthquake?Cows, pigs and dogs become too nervous to eat. The mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. The water in the wells w

18、ill rise and fall. Walls of the wells in village will have deep cracks. There will be bright light in the sky.3.What precautionary measure(防范措施) can we prepare before the disease coming? 1)Must have the daily necessities in the home.（water ,food, rope. ）2)Do not block escape way.3)Everyone need

19、 to clear evacuation route and refuge place.4. Skimming(10 minute)1.Let students paragraph the passage into 3 parts.PartEventsBefore the earthquake  (Paragraph _1_)_Strange things_ were happening both in the countryside and in the 

20、;city of Tangshan but _no one noticed_ them.During the earthquake (Paragraphs _2-3_)The earthquake _destroyed_ the city and _shocked_ the people.PartEventsAfter the earthquake (Paragraph _4_)Sold

21、iers were sent to dig out those trapped and _to bury_ the dead; _shelters_ were built for the homeless and _fresh water_ was taken to the city.2.I will play the tape and check the

22、answer of each paragraph.5. Homework (1 minute)6. Careful reading Unit 4 Earthquakes Reading A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP 1. Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.Happening 用ing表示不断地反复地发生2. For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell

23、. （rise-rose-risen）不及物动词3. A smelly gas came out of the cracks. In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to eat.Smelly adj 难闻的 smell n./v 气味/闻 也可以作系动词eg: It smells bad.Too.to. 太.以至于不能.4. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls an

24、d ponds. looking for places to hide 做伴随状语 eg: He sat there, crying.5. In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst. Pipe n. 管 管道Burst vi. (burst, burst)突然爆裂/（感情的）突然爆发 n.突然爆裂 爆发burst into.突然开始； burst in 打断；闯入；突然出现burst into laughter/tears burst out laughing/crying突然大笑/大哭起来 eg: Hea

25、ring the news, the woman burst into laughter. She burst out crying for no reason, which surprised us.6. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night. million n. 百万；无数/adj. 百万的；无数的 1)当其前面是具体的基数次时，后面不加s、用法同hundred、thousand、billion Eg：three

26、 million people（三百万人） 2)表示模糊的数量时或后面有of时，后面加s， Eg：millions of people（上百万的人）think little of 轻视 看不起 反义词：think highly of eg:We think highly of what the teacher says.as usual 像往常一样7. At 3:42 am everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end! shake (shook-shaken)震动 摇动 shocked adj.感到震惊的

27、 shocking adj.令人震惊的Be shocked by/at.对.感到震惊的 be shocked to do 因.而震惊 be shocked that.对.感到震惊as if 似乎, 好像 =as thoughEg:He looked as if he was very tired. 他看上去好像很累。（可在连系动词后） He behaved as if nothing had happened.他表现得好像什么也没发生过。（可在不及物动词后）at the end 结束 =over这是一个复合句。主句是It seemed, as if引导表语从句, 其后从句中谓语动词常用虚拟语气

28、。8. It was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers away. (非限制性定语从句)One-third of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals. （定语从句）cut across 径直穿过；打断 cut in 插入cut off切断 cut through 刺穿 9. In fifteen terr

29、ible seconds a large city lay in ruins. The suffering of the people was extreme. ruin n.废墟，毁灭 vt.毁灭；使破坏 in ruins 严重受损 Suffer from 遭受.痛苦 eg: suffer from cancer. suffer a loss 遭受.的损失（不用from）extremely adv.非常地，极其地 extremely popular / extremely worried 10. Two-thirds of them died or were injured during t

30、he earthquake. Thousands of families were killed and many children were left without parents. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000. Injure普通的伤害were left without parents 被动 使.处于.状态还原：leave及物V （the children）宾语 （without parents.）宾补 leave the water running. Leave the

31、 light on/off The number of /a number of 1)the number of表示“的数量”，跟复数名词连用作主语时，中心词是number，谓语动词要用单数。The number of students in our class is50.我们班学生的数量是50人。 The number of pages in this book is 60.这本书有60页。 2)a number of表示“许多”，相当于 many，修饰可数名词复数。作主语时，谓语动词用复数。number前可用large，small等修饰，以表示程度。A number of students

32、 are planting trees on the hill.许多学生在小山上植树。 11. But how could the survivors believe it was natural?Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.Survive survival (及物动词)直接+disaster destroy 过去式直接+ed =ruin /damage 区别(可修复)Eg：Damage of the house by storm can be repaired.12. (Half a million) 13. pigs and (millions of chickens) were dead.Sand now filled the wells instead of water.fill With tears_in her eyes, she couldnt see anything.(filling)主动 With her eyes_with tears, she couldnt see any