Unit 4 Earthquakes- Extensive Reading教案.docVIP

The Fifth Period: Extensive Reading Step I. Revision Show the exercise on the screen. Fill in the blank with a correct word. He made another wonderful discovery, _____ was more than we could expect. A. which I think is B. which I think it is C. which I think it D. I think which is ____ I drove to Zhuhai for the air show last week. ____ Is that the reason _____ you had a few days off? A. why B. who C. what D. where In the dark street, there wasn’t a single person _____ she could turn for help. A. that B. who C. from whom D. to whom All of the flowers now raised here have developed from those _____ in the forest. once they grew B. they grew once C. that once grew D. once grew I don’t like _____ you speak to her. the way B. the way in that C. the way which D. the way of which The weather turned out to be very good, _____ was more than we expected. what B. which C. that D. it He paid the boy $10 for washing ten windows; most of _____ hadn’t been cleaned for ten years. these B. those C. that D. which Answers to the exercise A 2. A 3. D. 4.C 5. A 6. B 7.D Step II. Pre-reading T: At the first period, we learned the earthquake happened in Tangshan. In that article the writer mainly described what happened during the quake. And the descriptions are objective. Now, we will read a story written by America’s most popular writer, Jack London. In the article he expressed his own feeling about the San Francisco quake. His account of the disaster is both factual and literary. You may feel it when you are reading the article. At first I’d like to show you some background of this article. Please look at the screen and read the passage. As luck would have it, at the time of the quake, America’s most famous writer, Jack London just happened to be living near San Francisco. His account of the disaster is both factual and literary, that is he tried to write not only for readers of that time but readers yet to come. London, like most great writers and form