高中英语Unit4Reading教案新课标人教版必修1

1、Unit 4 EarthquakesPart One: Teaching Design第一部分：教学设计Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading(A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN T SLEEP)AimsTo listen and talk about natural disastersTo read about earthquakesProceduresI. Warming upWarming up by lookingGood morning class. Have you ever experienced any natural d

2、isasters? Look at thepictures, can you name all the disasters?typhoonhailstonethunderstormfloodhurricane earthquakeHave you ever experienced an earthquake? Canyou describe howterrible an earthquake is?(The earth is shaking; all the buildings will fall down; many people will die; many children will b

3、ecome orphans.)Warming up by discussingNow, look at the pictures of Tangshan and San Francisco in warming up anddescribe what you see in the pictures. (beautiful cities; broad roads; tallbuilding; large population.)What will happen if there has been a big earthquake in these two cities?As we all kno

4、w, earthquakes are disasters to everyone. But can we avoid or at least reduce the loss caused by earthquakes? Can we foretell earthquakes? Nowlet ' s come to Pre-reading and decide what may happen before an earthquake comes.II. Pre-reading1 .Talking and sharingWhat are the signs of an earthquake

5、? (e.g. Cows, pigs and dogs become too nervoustoo eat. The mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. The waterin the wells will rise and fall. Walls of the wells in village will have deep cracks.There will be bright light in the sky.)2 . Imaging and sharingImagine there is an earth

6、quake now, your home begins to shake and you must leaveit right away. You have time to take only one thing. What will you take? Why?III. Reading1. Listening and fast readingNowlet s cometo the text “ A NIGHTTHEEARTHDIDN T SLEEP” and see what it tells us.Please listen to the text and get the general

7、idea of the passage. You should payattention to the first sentences of each paragraph. In what order is the text written?(The text is written in time order. The general idea is the mixture of the first sentences of each paragraph, that is, the text tells us something that happened before the earthqu

8、ake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake.)2. Reading and underliningNext you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations inthe passage. Copy them in your notebook after class as homework.Collocations from A NIGHT THE EART H DIDNN T SLEEP a smelly gas, comeout of,

9、in the farmyards, too nervous to eat, run out o： for place to hide, water pipes, think little of sth., as usual, it seemed t at anend, one hundred kilometers away, one-third, eight kilometers long, thirty me wide, cut across, in ruins, be injury, the number of, reach more than 400, everywhere, every

10、thing was destroyed, be gone, blow away, sth. be not safe tens of thousands of, give milk, half a million, instead of, be shocked, l that afternoon, be trapped under the ruins, fall down, allis/was not ,hundreds of thousof,dig out, the dead, to the north of, coal mines, built shelters, fresh wat3. R

11、eading aloud and translatingNext we are going to read aloud the text and translate it into Chinese.4. Reading and transforming informationRead the text again and answer the following questions.1. What natural signs of coming disaster were there?2. Can you think of some reasons why these signs weren

12、' t noticed?3. Can you describe the disaster caused by the earthquake?4. What events and situations probably made the disaster worse?5. How were the survivors helped?6. Could anything more have been done to help the survivors? Why or why not? Answers: 1,3, 4, 5 are easy to answer.2. Maybe at tha

13、t time people didn ' t have knowledge of an earthqu6. The students have their own answers.4. Discussing writing styleAs you have understood the general idea of the text, I still put more questions to you.1 . From whose point of view are events described? Howdo you know? (A writer who didn t see

14、the quake uses the third person “ they ” when he writes.)2 .Why do you think the writer chose to express her feelings about the quakerather than simply report what happened? (Although the writer was not there he felt sad for the people of Tang Shan. He knows that giving some feelingswill make the re

15、ading more interesting.)3 .Why is the title “ A NIGHT THE EARTIHDDN T SLEEP” ? (As usual, night isthe time to sleep, and night should be quiet and safe. But that nighteverything changed. The writer used it as a title to show how terrible andhow unusual that night is.)5. Reading and understanding dif

16、ficult sentences.If you have some difficult sentences to understand, come to me for help.IV. Closing downClosing down by doing exercisesNow please do the comprehending Exercises 1, 2 and 3 on page 27.Closing down by discussingBy nowyou ve known that earthquakes are terrible natural disasters and tha

17、t China is unlucky enough to have a lot of them. Now imagine that your group lives in the city that has a lot of earthquakes, what should you do duringan earthquake? Look at the given situation and discuss in pairs.(1) If you are OUTDOORS, (2) If you are in a HIGH BUILDING, If you are DRIVING, (4) If you are HAVING CLASS, If you are in a CINEMA, What should you do during the earthquake?Situation:(1) how to rescue those still trapped in the ruins;(2) how to take care of the survivors;(3) how to repair buildings that survive