1、Unit 4 Natural Disasters 教学设计 Teaching Aims: Knowledge Objects: (1). Get the students to learn useful new words and expressions in this passage. (2). Enable students to know basic knowledge about earthquakes. 2. Ability objects: (1). Develop the students ability and let them learn different reading
2、skills. (2). Get the students collect the information from the internet by themselves. 3. Emotional objects: Get the students to be aware of the terrible disasters, meanwhile help them to face it, treat it in a proper way, and never get discouraged when in danger. Teaching important points： 1.Studen
3、ts master the new words,phrases and useful expressions. 2.Train students reading ability to understand the content of the text. Teaching difficult points: Develop the students reading ability. Teaching Procedures: Step one Lead-in Greet the students and show students a video about Australia wildfire
4、 to lead in the topic of this class. Show students the pictures and guess what these natural disasters are. A picture of earthquake to let students to discuss what can happen to a city during a big earthquake and then lead in the passage. Step two Reading Fast reading Read the text quickly and fill
5、in the table. Task1 When Where What Main idea: Task 2 Find out the topic sentences of each paragraph and divide the text into three parts. Para1:_ Para2:_ Para3:_ Para4:_ Part1( ):_ Part2( ):_ Part3( ):_ Careful reading Part1 Before the earthquake Join the correct parts of the sentences. The water i
6、n the wells a.ran out of the fields Chickens and pigs b.jumped out of water Mice c.were too nervous to eat A smelly gas d.rose and fell Fish e.came out of the wells Part 2 During the earthquake Find out the meaning of the numbers. 11kilometers:_ 8 kilometers:_ 30meters：_ one minute：_ 400,000：_ 75%,
7、90%：_ Task 3 Part 3 After the earthquake Who came to help? What were done immediately? Post reading Retell the story Circle the key time in the text How is the text developed? Step three Discussion and pairwork Suppose student A is an interviewer of a program and student B is a survivor of Tangshan
8、earthquake who are to be interviewed. What would they talk about? Discuss with your partners and do a role-play activity. Example: A: Hello, Mr/Mrs Li,nice to meet you, Im Jack from CCTV 8. May I ask you some questions? B: Yes,of course. What were done immediate? A; I think that you are a very lucky
9、 person. What do you think of the earthqauke ? B: Scary/terrible. A: Where were you when you heard the crash? B: I was sleeping as usual/. A: Do you notice something strange things before the earthquake? B: Yes, the wells and. Step four Homework Retell the story after class. Surf the internet to find the ways to protect ourselves in the earthquake.
