——高锦媛
将乐职业中专学校
Unit 4
Earthquake
（Period1: Warming-up & Reading）
I. Teaching goals: 1.Learn and master the new words and expreions in this period (shake, rise, crack, burst, shock, rescue, pond, steam, destroy, in ruins, put up, give out)
2.Get a general idea of earthquakes and some other natural disasters; 3.Know the damage that an earthquake and other disasters could bring about and ways to reduce the loes of an earthquake.4.Realize and use the two skills of fast reading: Skimming and Scanning.II.Teaching important points:
1.Present a sequence of events to introduce to the students and try to describe an earthquake.Let student pay attention to some useful words sentences and way to describe an earthquake.
2.Let the students know what the correct attitude towards a disaster is and what we should do in a disaster for ourselves and for the other people.
III.Teaching difficult points : Teach the students how to use the two reading skills: skimming and scanning.IV.Teaching aids CIA课件
V.Teaching procedures: Step1.Lead-in 1.Free talk (the movie 2012, lead to natural disasters) 2.Brainstorming Q: How many natural disasters do you know? 3.Watch some pictures about natural disasters, broaden their vocabulary.(typhoon/tornado, flood, volcanic eruption, mud-rock flow, tsunami, earthquake.)(relate to some big events about them.) Step2.Introduction of Earthquakes 1.Q: What caused the earthquakes? 2.Q: What damage will an earthquake bring about? (group work) 3.Q:What strange things would happen before an earthquake? How to predict an earthquake?(watch a short video and find the answer) Step3.Pre-Reading 30 years ago, on the day July, the 28th, a terrible disaster suddenly happened, and the beautiful Tangshan was removed from the map.This is Tangshan quake.Does any body know something about Tangshan quake? (watch one part of the movie about Tangshan earthquake.) Step4.While-Reading a.( fast reading) 1.Introduce the two skills of fast reading: skimming, scanning 2.First skim the paage and get the general idea.3.Scan the paage and find out basic information.(time, place and the number of the death and injured) 4.Skim the paage again and divide the paage.
5.Find out the topic sentences for each paragraph.(guide them how to find out the topic sentences.) (group work,5 minutes)
