高中英语 Unit4 Earthquakes二教案 新人教版必修1.doc

英语教案：unit4 earthquakes二（新人教版必修1） 高一 年级 英语 备课组主备人课型新授验收结果：合格/需完善时间 年 月 日分管领导课时第二课时第 周 第 课时 总第 课时 教学目标：1、 get the students to know basic knowledge about natural disasters.2、 develop the students reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.3、 train the students ability to collect useful information from the internet by themselves.重点、难点1. get the students to know basic knowledge about natural disasters.2. get the students to learn about tangshan earthquake.3. get the students to learn different reading skills.教 学 过 程学生活动修改意见3)choose the best answer:(1)what is the mood of this passage?a. sad. b. serious. c. serious and a bit sad. d. calm.(2)what can be inferred from the passage?a. if mice run out of the fields looking for places to hide, there must be an earthquake.b. if some natural signs had not been ignored, all the people in tangshan city might have had a chance to survive.c. there wouldnt have been such a great earthquake, if people had paid enough attention to some natural signs.d. if some natural signs had not been ignored, more people might have had a chance to survive.(3)which of the following statements can not be part of the main reasons for the heavy loss of life in tangshan earthquake?a. the earthquake happened in the deep night and people were sleeping in bed at the very movement.b. there werent enough rescue workers.c. the buildings were poorly constructed and most of them were destroyed in the earthquake.d. people were not careful enough to notice some natural signs before the earthquake.(4)how do you understand the real meaning of the idiom “it is always calm before a storm”?a. it is unusually quiet before a thunderstorm or hurricane hit.b. one should not trust situations that seem peaceful since bad things may happen.c. the weather is fine before a storm comes.d. you should stay calm before a storm.suggested answers:(1)c(2)d(3)b(4)b3. language problemswhile checking the answers with the whole class, deal with any language problems that the students cant understand.4. reading aloudplay the tape of the passage for the students to listen and follow. then play the tape of paragraph 1 of the passage once more; this time the students listen and repeat.step 4 gamework in pairs. suppose you are a newspaper reporter, and the other is a witness of the 1976 tangshan earthquake. now the newspaper reporter is interviewing the witness.step 5 extensionshow the questions on the screen and have a discussion.1. from whose point of view are events described? how do you know?2. what is the mood of this passage? how is it created?3. why do you think the writer chooses to express his feelings about the quake rather than simply report what had happened?4. why does the writer use a night the earth didnt sleep as the title?5. what does the sentence “slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?suggested answers:1. a writers who didnt see the earthquake. he uses the third-person to describe the quake. his description is very objective. for example, in the second sentence of the third paragraph “everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. ”, the writer uses “they” instead of “we”.2. the mood is serious and a bit sad. it is created by giving details of how many people and animals were killed or injured and how many buildings were destroyed.3. although the writer was not there, he felt sad for the people of tangshan. he knows that giving some personal feelings will make the reading more interesting.4. i think the reason is that, as usual, night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. but that night everything changed. the writer uses a night the earth didnt sleep as a title to show how terrible and how unusual that night was.5. here we can see that the writer compared the city to a person who suffered a lot in the disaster. he felt her pain, and he worried about her. so when he said that people came to help her, we can feel his feelings to her. the city will not die, she has hope and she can recover from the pain.step 6 consolidationask the students to read the passage again and try to retell it.one possible version:strange things happened in tangshan. for three days the water in the village wells rose and fell. the well walls had deep cracks and a smelly gas came out the cracks. the chickens, pigs and mice were too nervous. fish jumped out of bowls and ponds. at 3:00 am on july, 1976, people saw bright lights in the sky and heard the sound of planes even when no planes were in the sky. the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst.at 3:42 am everything began to shake. it seemed that the world was at the end! one-third of the nation felt it. a huge crack cut across the city. in fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. two-thirds of the people died or were injured. nearly everything was destroyed in the city. 75% of its factories and 90% of its homes were gone. then later that afternoon, another big earthquake shook tangshan. people began to wonder how long the disaster would last.all hope was not lost. the army sent 150 000 soldiers to help them. workers built shelters for survivors. slowly, the city began to breathe again.step 7 homework1. learn the new words and expressions in this part by heart.2. read the text again and again and write a summary of the text.ss try to give proper answers.tell the reasons why they answer like this.reading aloudss play games.ss look at the answers.ss read the passage again and try to retell it小结（教学反思）板书设计：choose the best answer:(1)what is the mood of this passage?a. sad. b. serious. c. serious and a bit sad. d. calm.(2)what can be inferred from the passage?a. if mice run out of the fields looking for places to hide, there must be an earthquake.b. if some natural signs had not been ignored, all the people in tangshan city might have had a chance to