人教新课标必修一教案：Unit 4 Earthquakes1.docVIP

Unit 4 Part 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) Aims To listen and talk about natural disasters To read about earthquakes Procedures I. Warming up Warming up by looking Good morning class. Have you ever experienced any natural disasters? Look at the pictures, can you name all the disasters? volcano fire sandstorm typhoon hailstone thunderstorm flood hurricane earthquake Have you ever experienced an earthquake? Can you describe how terrible an earthquake is? (The earth is shaking; all the buildings will fall down; many people will die; many children will become orphans.) Warming up by discussing Now, look at the pictures of Tangshan and San Francisco in warming up and describe what you see in the pictures. (beautiful cities; broad roads; tall building; large population.) What will happen if there has been a big earthquake in these two cities? As we all know, earthquakes are disasters to everyone. But can we avoid or at least reduce the loss caused by earthquakes? Can we foretell earthquakes? Now let’s come to Pre-reading and decide what may happen before an earthquake comes. II. Pre-reading 1.Talking and sharing What are the signs of an earthquake? (e.g. Cows, pigs and dogs become too nervous too eat. The mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. The water in 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 sharing Imagine there is an earthquake now, your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time to take only one thing. What will you take? Why? III. Reading 1. Listening and fast reading Now let’s come to the text “A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP” and see what it tells us. Please listen to the text and get the general idea of the passage. You should pay attention to the first sentences of each paragraph. In what order is the text wri