高一英语教案：上学期Unit4Earthquakes.docVIP

Unit4 Earthquakes Wu Ying No. 5 Middle School Introduction: This is the first period of this unit. It includes Warming-up, New words, Pre-reading and Reading. In this period, students should get the first impression of natural disasters, especially earthquakes. Because students have learnt a little about earthquakes in their geography lessons, I will let they talk about them, including the phenomena before an earthquake and what people should when it happens. This period will get students to learn about the “Brave City of China”, that is Tangshan. Teaching goals: Get a general idea of earthquakes and some other natural disasters; Train the students’ reading and speaking ability’ Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others. Teaching important points and difficult points: Train the students’ reading ability—skimming and scanning. Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Lead-in Task 1：Talking about natural disasters Q:What kind of natural disasters do you know? (show the Ss some pictures of natural disasters.) Flood, drought, typhoon, hurricane, sandstorm, volcano, earthquake. Task 2: Talking about earthquake. Q: Do you know when and where the greatest earthquake of the 20thcentury happened? Tanshan, Hebei July 28th, 1976 Q: How much do you know about an earthquake? Before the earthquake: a prosperous city After the earthquale: in ruins People were injured or lost their lives Rescue workers dig out the injured and the dead. Survivors buried the dead, and felt very sad. Step 2. Pre-reading Task 3: Predictions of an earthquake Q: Do you know what would happen before an earthquake? (with the picture on page 25 ) bright light flash in the sky; annimals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc; the water in the well rises and falls the well walls have deep cracks with smelly gas; mice run out to loo