人教版高中英语说课稿-Unit-4-Earthquake.doc

Unit 4 Earthquake A Night the Earth Didnt Sleep Good morning, everyone! Today I will discuss my teaching of the reading passage of Unit4 in Book1: A night the earth didnt sleep. First, Id like to talk about the content, status and function of the teaching material. The topic of this unit is about earthquakes. In order to help students get more information about the topic, the reading passage gives us a detailed description of the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, including things happening before, during and after the powerful quake. After learning, students are able to realize that if we can read the warnings and signs before an earthquake, we can make good preparations for the coming disaster and decrease the loss of people and property.According to the statements above, I make the following teaching and learning aims: 1. Knowledge and skill aims:a. To get some basic knowledge about earthquakes and try to describe an earthquake.b. To develop students abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and improve their reading skills.c. To be able to retell the text in proper words.2. Process and methods:a. Scan to generalize the main idea of the passage.b. Read carefully to get the outline and summarize the key words of each part.c. Skim to catch the important details and learn to get and deal with the information.3. Emotion and value:Students are able to get more knowledge about earthquakes and learn how to protect themselves and others.Based on the learning aims above, I make out the important points and difficult points.a. Important point: to practice students reading skills, such as skimming, scanning, careful reading, word-guessing, etc.b. Difficult point: Try to deal with the information and form effective learning strategies. Next, I will talk about the teaching methods and learning methods.a. Task-based teaching: different tasks are designed according to the learning materials and learning aims.b. Situational teaching: students can learn more about earthquakes in a direct and interesting way by watching a short movie.The topic of this unit is closely related to students life. On the basis of their original knowledge, students can enlarge their information input by grouping and discussing.Then, I will show my teaching procedures.Step1. Leading-in:Watch the famous film the Tangshan Earthquake by Zhang Yimou to arouse students interest in the topic and make preparations for the readingStep2. Scan the passage to get the general idea.Step3. Skim the passage to find out the whole structure and the topic sentence of each paragraph.Step4. Read the passage carefully to get detailed information in each part and finish the following tasks. I will use PPT to show the following tasks.Task1: True or false.Task2: Answer some questions.Task3: Fill in the blanks according to the whole passage.Step5. Story-retellingRetell the story to deepen students understanding of the passage and learn to express themselves in English. I will use PPT to show some pictures and useful words for students reference.Step6. Discussion: What should we do if an earthquake happens when we are in the classroom? The purpose of this activity is to train students thinking, encourage them to speak English bravely and improve their abilities of self-protection and the protecting of others.Finally, Summary of the class: Students are asked to recall what they have learnt and check if they have achieved their learning aims. And then I will make a conclusion of this class in one sentence: Where there is life, there is hope.Homework: Choose one paragraph from the passage and act ou