Unit4　EarthquakesPeriod1　WarmingupandReading教案（人教版必修一）.docVIP

Unit 4　Earthquakes Period 1　Warming up and Reading 说课 This is the first teaching period of this unit. At the beginning of the class, the teacher can lead in the topic of the unit by showing students some pictures of natural disasters and talking about them. As to Warming Up, the teacher had better ask students to describe the two photos on Page 25. In a sense, the photos show two cities famous for their earthquakes during a period of calm. Students must imagine what an earthquake could do to the buildings, roads and bridges they see in the photos. When students try to express their ideas, they will probably have difficulty. This activity provides them with the chance to learn how to do this. It is also a good opportunity for the teacher to teach them the new words and phrases for the unit, such as cracks, cut across houses, roads and canals, fall down, lie in ruins and destroy. Before reading the passage A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep, the students should discuss the two questions in the part Pre-reading. For the first question, students must consider what is of most value to them materially. Perhaps the things students would take are expensive, or perhaps the things would have symbolic value. Would they take their camera or a photo album? Would they take their diary or a favorite sweater? The choices the students make and the reasons they give for making those choices should reveal something about them as people. The second question asks students to make guesses about what happens before an earthquake. Of course, the reading will describe to them what actually happened as the result of one terrible earthquake. So this question must precede the reading. Encourage students to think freely about the question and think of a reason why such and such might happen. This part prepares students for the reading passage. The reading passage titled A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep recounts the terrible earthquake that nearly destroyed the city of Tangshan in Hebei Province in 1