Unit 7 Natural Disasters教案

1、UNIT 7 Disasters 课程名称大学英语I使用教材应用型大学英语Level 1授课内容Text A：Preparation for an Earthquake Text B：Dans Tsunami Stories 授课学时8教学目的1. Ss can distinguish different disasters especially earthquake and know how to escape from such disaster.2. Ss can master the important words and phrases in the text.3. Conduct

2、a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities教学重点与难点Important points:Vocabulary Skillsuse words and expressions to describe natural disasters Grammar Focus: sentence basics Difficult points:Writing Skills: write a paragraph about natural disasters 教学方法与手段1. Audio-visual method and

3、audio-lingual method.2. Task-based language teaching method3. Communicative approach4. Using PPT教学过程 1 Pre-reading Activities Step 1. Warm-up Step 2. Pair Work Step 3. Video appreciation 2 While-reading Activities Step 1. Global reading: understanding Text as a whole Step 2. Detailed reading: learni

4、ng Textin detail 3 Post-reading Activities Step 1. Summarize the useful expressions Step 2 Check Ss understanding of Text B; Step 3. Some after-text exercises; Step 4. Role Play作业Home AssignmentAsk the Ss to write a letter to their friends.UNIT 7 Disasters1. Teaching Objectives:1. Ss can distinguish

5、 different disasters especially earthquake and know how to escape from such disaster.2. Ss can master the important words and phrases in the text.3. Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities2. Time Allotment:1st Period: Pre-reading Activities (Warm-up; Pair Work; Video

6、appreciation; Proverbs learning)2nd Period: While-reading ( Global-reading: understanding Text A as a whole ) While-reading Activities ( Detailed reading: learning Text A in detail ) 3rd Period: While-reading Activities (Detailed reading)4th Period: Post-reading Activities ( Summarize the useful exp

7、ressions in Text A ; Some after-text exercises;)5th Period&6th Period: Role plays, listening 7th Period& 8th Period: listening exercise3. Teaching Procedures:3.1 Pre-reading ActivitiesStep 1 Warm-up questions: 1) Human beings and nature should have co-existed in a peaceful manner, but in reality it

8、is not the case. Watch a video clip and discuss the Human-Nature relations at present. It is a movie but it is not just a movie. If humans keep ruining the environment indiscriminately, the intimidating scenes in the movie will eventually become a reality. 2) Do you know different sorts of natural d

9、isasters that inflict the globe?Hailstone: It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice.tornado; tropical cyclone; typhoon ; lightning; Drought; Wildfire; Volcanic Eruption; Tsunami; Earthquake3) What were you doing when the 2008 earthquake took place?Could you describe your experience of this tra

10、umatic event and your feelings towards the deceased? Step 2.Pair WorkSit in groups of five or six and discuss the following questions.Do you know any films or music on disasters?What is your favorite film or music on disaster? Why?Can you make a brief introduction to them?Tips for Ss:It is thought-p

11、rovoking/breath-taking/moving/touching.It has fantastic/good/plain visual effects.It is adapted from the real event, which injured and killed thousands of people.Step3. Video Appreciation3.2 While-reading Activities Step 1. Global reading: understanding Text as a whole Ask the students to read the t

12、ext first and then finish the comprehension questions. Step 2. Detailed reading: learning Textin detail 3.3 Post-reading Activities Step 1. Summarize the useful expressions Step 2 Check Ss understanding of Text B; Step 3. Some after-text exercises; Step 4. Role Play3.2 While-reading ActivitiesStep 1

13、. Global reading:Doing some exercises on page 121 to check Ss previewing of the text and understanding of it as a whole. Text structure:The text can be divided into 3 parts.Part I: para. 1Part II: para. 2-7Part III: para. 8Purpose: Improving students reading and writing skill and understanding the g

14、eneral idea of each paragraph. Step 2. Detailed reading:Students are asked to read the passage carefully again and discuss the difficult sentences and sentence structures. Purpose: Further understand the text （Train further reading ability）to find out some difficult sentences and details of the text

15、.Method: Reading the text together; Using task-based language teaching method, reading approach, communicative approach, grammar-translation approach and total physical response method.Difficult sentences:1. Sth may seem a distant possibility. = It is almost impossible for sb.to do sthTraveling all

16、over the world may seem a distant possibility. 2. Building codes are the publics first line of defense against earthquakes.建筑物抗震标准是公众对抗地震的第一道防线。3. The codes specify the levels of earthquake forces that local structures must be designed to withstand.这些标准对所设计的建筑物的抗震程度进行明确规定。that 在定语从句中做withstand的宾语，可以

17、省略4. to help you and your family gain a mastery of earthquake survival skills and know how to take precautions against earthquakes.5. Then you should move or secure objects that could fall and injure you先行词objects,引导词that 在定于从句中作主语，不能省略6. Secure objects that could tip and start a fire引导词that 在定于从句中作

18、主语，不能省略Words and Expressions: 1. strike v. 袭击 撞击 strike-struck-struckNewsland was struck by a serious earthquake last year. = be hit byV. 罢工 We are striking for another 2 dollars an hour.我们为争取每小时再加两美元而罢工。N. 袭击，撞击；罢工The strike shut down 50 airports, but most international flights were unaffected. 罢工迫

19、使50个机场关闭，但大部分国际航班并未受到影响。striking adj. 显著的; 引人注目的; 容貌出众的; 妩媚动人的;同义词补充attractive charming appealing 2. shattervt. 使破碎，使碎裂，砸碎; 使成为泡影; 使痛不欲生; How can you take my dream in life and just shatter it to pieces? 你怎么能把我这辈子的梦想撕成碎片?3. coden. 行为准则; 代码，密码; 信号;There is a strict dress code: no trainers or jeans. 有严

20、格的着装规定：不许穿运动鞋和牛仔裤。国家代码 country code 区号、电话区号 area code邮政编码 postal codevt. 将译成电码; 编码，加密;Product orders should be coded according to where they will be shipped.产品订单必须按照运送地点编号。4. specify v. 明确提出，详细说明; specify-specified-specified specifying Please specify what you will do. 请你详述一下你将做什么.Specification n. (一

21、般用复数) a car manufactured according to exact specifications 按照精确规格制造的汽车5. withstand vt.经受，承受，禁得起; 反抗; withstand-withstood-withstood withstandingShe couldnt withstand the lure of money and was dragged into the mire. 她经不起金钱的引诱,被拉下水了.No material known to man can withstand this much heat. 人们已知的材料中还没有能经得住

22、这样高温的.6. precaution n 警惕 预防措施 The fact woke them up to the need for the safety precaution.事实使他们认识到安全防范的必要性。precautious adj. 警惕的 小心的 cautious adj. 谨慎的 十分小心的7. emergency n.紧急情况；突发事件in an emergency 在紧急情况下Wealwaysregardhimas afriend,butheshowed hiscoloursinthecurrent emergency.我们一贯把他看作朋友，但在当前的紧急关头中，他原形毕露了。emergent adj.紧急的 意外的emergent treatment 急救处理 急症治疗8. supply v. 提供 补充 supply sb with sthsupply n. 供给 供应品 水源 water supply 电源 power supply 供应链 supply chain9. security guard 保安Ba Tu, Song Dandans son, wanted to become a secur