LessonPlanforUnit4——ANighttheEarthDidn’tSleep.docVIP

优秀教案 Lesson Plan for Unit 4——A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep Workbook Reading Task The Story of an Eyewitness By Wang Yuan (汪源) 2006572274 Teaching objectives and demands： Get the students to know something about the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Activate their relevant vocabulary and knowledge about earthquake. Get the students to understand the text and language points. Get the students to appreciate the literary devices the author used in the text. Teaching contents: A. key words and phrases to describe an earthquake: Destroy, in ruins, great damage, deep cracks, fall down B. difficult sentences: Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed. Never in all San Francisco’s history were her people so kind as on that terrible night. Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses far from the center of the city. A list of …..only a few addresses. A list of……will fill a library. A list of …..will never be made. C. Class activity: discussion about the author’s description of the earthquake. Important points and difficult points: Important points: Activate the students’ relevant vocabulary and knowledge about earthquake. Improve the students’ ability of analyzing the text and get them to develop the skills of obtaining the main idea of the text in the limited time. Difficult points: Get the students to understand some difficult sentences. Guide the students to appreciate the literary devices. Teaching approach Task-based learning Activity-based teaching (class work, individual work, group work) Teaching aids PowerPoint Time allocations Step1. Lead-in (2minutes) Step2. Pre-reading (5minutes) Step3. Fast-reading (8minutes) Step4. Intensive reading Step4.1 difficult sentences (10minutes) Step4.2 literary devices (8 minutes) Step5. Discussion