Unit 4 Earthquakes Period 6 Reading Task and Speaking Task 教学设计.docVIP

Unit 4 Earthquakes Period 6 Reading Task and Speaking Task 教学案 整体设计从容说课 This is the sixth teaching period of this unit. As usual, the teacher should check the students’ homework and offer chances for the students to go over what they learned in the last period at the beginning of the class. In this period, the teaching emphasis will be put on developing the students’ reading and speaking ability by dealing with the parts Reading task and Speaking task. In the part Reading task, the students will read a passage titled The Story of an Eyewitness, written by a famous American writer Jack London. In order to lead in the topic, the teacher can first ask some students to talk about the Tangshan earthquake. Then ask them to read and compare the passage with the one they have read on Page 26, whose title is A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep. Compare the ways that the writers described the facts and feelings. After comparison they will find the writer of The Story of an Eyewitness, Jack London, expressed more feelings while describing the earthquake. In the end, the teacher will play the tape for the students to listen to and read with emotions. This makes for improvement of not only students’ pronunciation and intonation, but also their understanding of the passage. As to new words and phrases, the teacher can just find those the students feel most difficult and help them to understand. That’s enough here. In the part Speaking task, the students are asked to choose eight things from the list below to put into their personal earthquake bag, present their list to the class and give their reasons for each choice. The teacher can first introduce the idea of a personal earthquake bag, make some suggestions of his own personal earthquake bag to the class, have a class discussion, and then encourage students to make their own choices and give their own reasons. In the end, make a class list and display it in the classroom showing the class choices for a personal earthquake bag. This