Unit4Reading教案.doc

Unit4 ReadingNO.8 Middle School Wang YingTeaching aims:1. Knowledge aims: 1) Get the students to understand the new words and expressions in this passage. 2) Get the students to know basic knowledge about earthquake.2. Ability aims: Develop the students reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.3. Emotional aims: 1) Get the students know damages earthquakes bring about and the ways to reduce losses of earthquakes. 2) Get the students to be aware of terrible disasters, meanwhile get them to face it, treat it in a proper way, and never get discouraged.Teaching important points:1. Get the students to learn about Tangshan Earthquake.2. Get the students to learn different reading skills.Teaching difficult points:Develop the students reading abilityTeaching methods:1. Task-based teaching and learning.2. Cooperative learning3. DiscussionTeaching tools: Tape recorder and other normal teaching toolsTeaching steps:Step1 Lead-inAsk the students to look at the title of this unit. Then ask them: What can you think of?(Wenchuan, Sichuan; Yushu, Qinghai; Tangshan, Hebei.)Step2 Warming up Ask the students to read and look at the photos of Tangshan and San Francisco to describe what they see in the two photos.(beautiful cities; broad and busy road; tall buildings; large population; beautiful bridge) Imagine there has been a big earthquake in these two cities, what might happen to all the things in the photos?(If a big earthquake happened, the whole cities might be in ruins. Large quantities of tall buildings might fall down. The broad and busy roads might be destroyed. Many people might be killed or injured)Step3 Pre-reading What do you think may happen before an earthquake? Talk about the pictures on page 25. (Cows, pigs and dogs become too nervous to eat, Mice run out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jump out of ponds. The water in the well will rise and fall. The well walls will have deep cracks in them. There will be bright light in the sky)Step4 Reading Tell the students: Today, we are going to read a news report about one of the strongest earthquakes in Chinas history, which happened in Tangshan, Hebei, in 1976.1.Fast ReadingAsk the students to read the passage quickly and pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph.1) Answer the questions.Question 1: In what order was the passage written? Question 2: What is the general idea of the passage?2) Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.2. True or false Ask the students to decide whether the following sentences are true or false. If it is false, try to correct it. People in Tangshan were warned of the earthquake and didnt go to bed that night. F People in Beijing also felt the earthquake. T More than 400000 people were killed in the quake. F Many rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins during the after-shock. T People tried to get fresh water from under the ground in Tangshan. 3. Reading carefullyAsk the students to read the passage carefully to fill in the following form.TimeWhat happenedResultBefore the earthquakeWells:Animals:Lights and sound:Water pipes:People of the city thought _ and _During the earthquakeHouses, roads and canals:Hard hills of rock:The large city:The people:Some rescue workers and doctors :More buildings:Water, food and electricity:_ was destroyed._ hospitals, 75% of _ and 90% of _ were gone. More than _ were killed or injured.After the earthquakeAll hope:The army:Workers:Fresh water:The city _.Step5 Consolidation Ask the students to read the passage again and try to retell it. They can use the chat above to help them.Step6 Extension Ask the students to listen to the tape and then discuss the two questions with their partners.1 Why does the writer use A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP as the title?(I think the reason is that, as usual, night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that everything changed. The writer uses A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP as a title to show how terrible and how unusual that night was.)2 What does the sentence “Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?(Here from the text we can see that the author compared the city to a person who suffered a lot from the disaster. He felt her pain, and he worried about her. So when he said that people cam