[学科竞赛]Unit 4 Earthquakes.doc

Unit 4 Earthquakes The first period Warming up 设计思路： 本单元的话题为“地震”，主要描写了1976年唐山大地震的，各项语言活动都是围绕地震展开。 Warming Up通过两张图片展开话题“一旦地震发生，会造成什么样的危害，为后面的主题做了个热身运动。本部分通过图片，游戏或者图片等手段对地震知识进行适当的了解的基础上，引入对Tangshan和 San Francisco大地震的学习。 二，教学步骤： Step1: Greetings and Leading in Showing some pictures about different disasters and let Ss talk about some questions of disasters. T: Boys and girls, today we will learn about the knowledge of disasters and now please look at these pictures on the blackboard. And then we are going to do discussion. 问题设计： Do you know any disasters? What are they? Ss: Typhoon earthquake hurricane tsunami flood tornado What damage will they bring about? Ss: Anything in ruins, death, loses Step2: Introduction of earthquake (let students get the general idea of earthquake) 问题设计; Q: What do you know about earthquake? What causes quakes and where do they often happen? Q: How to avoid being hurt? Q: Have you heard of any earthquakes? Two pictures in warming up: Tangshan earthquake and San Francisco earthquake. Q: What do you know about these two pictures? Tangshan Step3: Introduction about the two earthquakes in Tangshan and San Francisco. 1976 Tangshan earthquake T: Many buildings were flattened into rubble when the earthquake hit. The Tangshan earthquake of July 28,1976 is one of the largest earthquakes to hit the modern world, in terms of the loss of life. The epicenter of the earthquake was near Tangshan in Hebei, China, an industrial city with about one million inhabitants. The earthquake left 242,419 people dead, according to official figures, though some sources offer much higher estimate. A further 164,518 people were recorded as being severely injured. San Francisco T: San Francisco lies in northern California and is surrounded on three sides by water. At 5:13 on the morning of April 18th, 1906, the city was shaken by a terrible earthquake. A great part of the city was destroyed and a large number of buildings were burnt. The number of people who lost