高中英语 Unit4 Earthquakes单元教案 新人教版必修1

1、Unit 4 Earthquake一教学内容分析本单元话题为地震，主要描写了1976年唐山大地震，各项语言活动也都是围绕地震展开。本单元共分八个部分。Warming-up 部分通过两张图片引出话题一旦地震发生，将会造成怎样的危害，为后面的主题作了一个热身运动。Pre-reading 部分设置了两个开放性问题，目的是增加学生的生活常识，提高他们的应变能力。这部分为接下来的阅读作了很好的铺垫，学生可通过套乱，参阅有关地震的书籍并运用一些生活常识来回答这两个问题。Reading 部分具体描写了1976年唐山大地震的震前、震中和震后。作者详细描述了地震来临前的一些不正常的自然现象及动物的反常表现；地震

2、的来势汹汹并在顷刻间将整座城市夷为平地；震后人们勇敢面对现实并及时实施抢救和重建工作。Comprehending 部分包括三组练习，主要目的是为了帮助学生更好地理解Reading部分的文章。Learning about Language 部分分为两个部分：Discovering useful words and expressions 和Discovering useful structures.第一部分要求学生在把握文章的基础上，掌握重点词汇的词义及时用，这更注重培养学生运用上下文猜测词义的能力。其次还对一些复杂的数字读法进行了检测。第二部分则结合文章学习定语从句。Using Languag

3、e 部分分为Reading，Writing and Speaking；Listening和Writing。Reading，Speaking 包括读一篇邀请函，写一份演讲稿和关于一套新唐山邮票的Little talk。Listening 部分讲述了一位地震幸存者的故事，并根据听力材料进行正误判断和回答问题，旨在培养学生获取细节的能力，并通过听来模仿标准的语音和语调。Writing部分要求学生报纸写一篇新闻报道，学习如何按照规范的步骤进行写作，如选择适当地标题和组织语言等。另外这一部分也培养学生写作时注意标题、主旨大意和细节。Summing up部分帮助学生整理、巩固本单元所学到的知识，包括学到的

4、关于地震的知识，有用的动词、名词、表达方式和新的语法项目。Learning Tip部分就听英语方面给出了一些建议，建议学生多听广播或电视里的英语节目.二教学目标和要求根据英语新课程标准关于总目标的具体描述，结合高一学生实际和教材内容，我们将教学目标分为语言知识、语言技能、学习策略、情感态度、文化意识五个方面。1.知识目标（Knowledge） 词汇（Vocabulary）：shake, rise, crack, burst, well, smelly, pond, steam, destroy, ruin, injure, survivor, brick, useless, shock, qu

5、ake, rescue, electricity,disaster, organize, bury, coal, mine, shelter, fresh, percent, honor, prepare. 短语(Phrases and expressions)：right away, at an end, lie in ruins, be trapped under sth, to the north of sp, put up, give out, wake sb up, prepare sth for sth., think little of sth. 语法(Grammar)：定语从句

6、（The Attributive Clause）.能用英语描述任务的特征、行为等- 由who/ whom/ whose/ that引导；能用英语描述事物、事件的性质、内容等- 由which/ that/ whose引导。2能力目标（Ability）能运用所学语言知识描述地震前兆、危害及震后援救；根据已知信息推测将要听取的材料的内容；提高阅读技能和用英语进行思维、推理、判断的能力； 掌握演讲稿的格式及新闻报道的写作步骤和要点。3. 情感目标Affect学习唐山人民勇敢面对自然灾害，积极进行灾后重建的精神；在教学活动中培养学生的合作精神和互助精神。三教学重点和难点1重点词汇：injure，surv

7、ivor, shock, rescue, disaster, fresh, judge, prepare2语法：The Attributive Clause3难点: 运用所学知识表达自己的想法; 较长句子成分的划分及意义的理解; 如何能就课文内容完成一些开放性的话题讨论，能把课文的内容得以延伸与拓展;指导学生通过各种渠道如报纸、杂志、图书馆和网络等资源查找有关素材，培养信息社会收集查找资料的能力。四课时安排本单元共分为四个部分，具体课时教师可根据自身教学实践进行适当地安排和调整。Part 1：Warming-up和listening.通过游戏、介绍和VIDEO等手段对地震知识进行适当了解的基础

8、上，引入对San Francisco地震的学习，从而进入听力部分。Part 2：Pre-reading, Reading, Comprehending and Learning about Language.读前的两个问题：第一个问题问学生在危机情况下会带什么，有利于很好的激起学生的兴趣和调动课堂气氛，由此则可过渡到第二个问题对地震前兆的了解，从而自然地引入到对唐山大地震的学习。在对唐山大地震震前、震中和震后的学习中，可结合今年唐山大地震30周年的报道，使学生进一步了解唐山大地震和现今的唐山，形成对比和强烈的震撼，从而更好地了解学习唐山人民勇敢面对自然灾害，积极进行灾后重建的精神。其次，通过对

9、文章的学习，了解新闻的特点，为后面的写作做准备。重点词汇和语法的学习可结合文章进行，并配以适当的练习。Part 3：Writing由提前让学生完成的关于唐山的新闻写作来引入对写作的学习。通过对学生习作的评析，来引出新闻写作中应注意的事项，并通过适当的练习来进行巩固，再让学生对自身的习作进行修改。Part 4：Using Language(Reading, Writing and Speaking),主要学习SPEECH演讲稿的写作。通过对演讲稿的了解、注意事项和名人演讲的感受，让学生学会如何恰当地写演讲稿。五教学步骤Warming-up & ListeningTeaching goals:Ge

10、t a general idea of earthquakes and some other natural disasters;Train students listening ability and try to improve their pronunciation;Know the damage that an earthquake and other disasters could bring about and ways to reduce the losses of an earthquake.Teaching important points:Train the student

11、s listening ability and improve pronunciation.Teaching aids:A tape recorder; the blackboard; CIA课件Teaching procedures:Step1. Lead-in-video of different natural disastersT: Our hometown is a place full of a kind of disasters. What is it?Typhoon, earthquake, hurricane tsunami, flood, tornado, drought

12、are all called natural disasters.Q. what damage will they bring about?- everything in ruins/ death/ lossesStep2. Introduction of Earthquakes (Let students get the general idea of earthquake)Q: what do you know about earthquake? What causes quakes and where do they often happen? How to predict an ear

13、thquake?Q: How to avoid being hurt? -through gamesQ: Have you heard of any land earthquakes?-Two pictures in warming-up:TangshanEarthquake andSan FranciscoEarthquake.Q: What do you know about these two earthquakes?Step3: ListeningPre-listening-brief introduction of San Francisco EarthquakeQ: When di

14、d the quake happen?- 1906Q: what damage did bring about?- About 700 people died in the earthquake and the fires. And as many as 250,000 people lost homesWhile-Listening-according to the exercises in the text book3. Post-listening-How can we reduce the damage of earthquake? What can we do?Step4: Home

15、work- preview the reading A Night the Earth didnt Sleep and learn new words of this unitReadingTeaching goals:Target language 目标语言Learn and master the new words and expressions in this period.Ability goals 能力目标Train the students reading and speaking ability.Train the students ability to use the Inte

16、rnet to search for some useful information.Train the students ability to cooperate with others.Teaching important points:Train the students reading ability-skimming and scanning.Teaching difficult points:Describe the disasters.Teaching aids:CIA课件Teaching procedures:Step1. Lead-inT: We have a visit t

17、o the museum of natural disasters, and you have learned about some brief introduction of most disasters. Today, I want to show you round the earthquake department, and I hope you will like it and learn some useful knowledge. Now lets go.T: At the very beginning, I want to know how much you know abou

18、t an quake.Q1: What would you take with you if a quake happened?Q2: The best way to save yourself is to know there will be a quake before it happens. What kind of signs can tell you that there is a quake?Q3: What kind of damage can an earthquake cause?S: buildings are destroyed; people are killed; f

19、amilies are brokenT: Lets have a look at some pictures of such terrible site. (Pictures of quakes)T: (The last picture ismonumentofTangshanquake.) Do you know what this is?Step2. Pre-ReadingT: 30 years ago, on the day July, the 28th, a terrible disaster suddenly happened, and the beautifulTangshan w

20、as removed from the map. This isTangshan quake. Does any body know something aboutTangshan quake?T: Lets read a news report about the famous quake.Step3. While-readingI. Skimming & scaringGet the students comprehend the passage quickly and accurately, and meanwhile help the students to form a good h

21、abit of reading.T: First please skim the passage fast to obtain/ get a general understanding of the whole passage. And underline the answers to the following questions.When did the quake happen? (Why did the writer use different expression of the same thing?)How many people were killed and injured d

22、uring the quake?How many buildings were destroyed?Were there any people coming to rescue them?II. While reading, divide the whole passage into 3 parts and find out the main idea of each part.Para.1 before the quakePara.2-3 during the quakePara.4 after the quakeII. Careful-readingRead the passage aga

23、in and try to get more detailed information.T: Now lets read the passage again and find more information. Join the correct parts of the sentences. (Turn to page 27, ex1)T: Now you have read the passage carefully, please put the sentences in order. Number each of these things during theTangshanquake.

24、(Turn to page 27, ex2)T: here are some more work for you. You can work in groups.What strange things happened before the quake?What sentences can express the quake is GREAT?What numbers can express the quake is GREAT?Whatmetaphor does the writer use to say the quake is GREAT?What happened when rescu

25、e work was going on?How did the army help to rescue survivors?Complete the passage with some of the words in bold in the report.(Turn to page 28, ex2)T: Lets watch some pictures, and comparing the oldTangshan, theTangshanafter quake, and the newTangshanwe see today.Step 4 Post-reading (discussing)T:

26、 After read the news report, and see so many pictures, what impresses you most? Why?Or what do you learn from such a disaster?(Self-rescue, environment protection, rebuilt, love and help)I: self-rescue (a video game)T: When in a quake, if you know some self-rescue skills, you may probably save yours

27、elf. If you want to know some of the skills, click here. (Link to the index)Lets do little game to see how much you know about self-rescue.II. What did they suffer and feel?T: Can you understand what they suffer and what they feel after such a disaster?T: If you were one of the rescuers 30 years ago

28、, what could you say and what can you do to comfort them? Or how could you help them?III. RebuildingT: we see that the newTangshanhas been set up. What is needed to rebuildTangshan.IV: environment protectionT: nowadays there are more disasters than before. One of the reasons is that we pay more atte

29、ntion to our economy development than the earth we live.Look at these pictures. What can we students do to save the earth?T: Though the disasters destroy buildings, peoples lives, but it can not destroy the love among us.Step 5 HomeworkFind more news reports about earthquake.Write a piece of news ab

30、outTangshan. You can use the information in the passage.News WritingTeaching aims:Get students to learn how to write news;Train students the ability to cooperate with each other and to search for information;Learn more aboutTangshanearthquake and honor the people ofTangshan.Teaching difficulties:How

31、 to make students learn writing in a more practical and effective way;How to help students understand the tips for writing.Teaching procedure:Step 1: Lead-in-The 30th anniversary ofTangshan earthquake (news)T: We have learnt theTangshanearthquake. When did it happen? How many people died during the

32、earthquake?Step 2: Presentation of students news writing(homework of last class)-point out the mistakes in news writing according to three aspectsT: You have finished the news writing ofTangshanearthquake, and now its time for you to show your project. Others have to point out the mistakes in his or

33、 her writing according to three aspects.-Three aspects: headline; content and languageT: What do you think of his or her writing? Is it a proper news writing? What have you done before your writing?Step 3: Tips for writingPreparation - an outlinePreparation: Choose a topic; decide what you want to s

34、ay about the topic; Organize your ideas and write clearly.Outline: A headline; a list of main ideas; A list of important detailsHeadline Appreciation of headlinesNew business regulations;New tax on housing sales A Night the Earth didnt Sleep;Cyclists Ready to Go on the Road for Blind Kids;ChinaMarks

35、 30th Anniversary ofTangshanEarthquake;DoesBeijingsnack change its flavor?Memories of quake die hard forTangshansurvivors;Chao Chien-ming released. characteristics of headlinesQ: whats the characteristic of headlines? practice - write headlines for the following news according to the picture and inf

36、ormation givenFlood relief efforts-The death toll on the Chinese mainland from Typhoon Kaemi has risen to 32, with at least 65 still missing. Local governments are sparing no efforts to carry out relief work.PLA celebrates 79th birthday-The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army is 79 years old, and the De

37、fense Ministry has held a reception to celebrate.Quake hits Indonesian island-A moderate earthquake has struck nearIndonesias Nias island off northernSumatra. The quake, with a magnitude of 5.6 struck just before 8.30 am, and was centered under theIndian Ocean, about 55 kilometers northwest of the m

38、ain town on the island, Gunung Sitoli.Railways impact on Tibetans-The Railway brings the remote Qinghai-Tibet plateau closer to the rest of the world. With people able to move in and out of the region more easily and the economic benefits the railway brings, the lives of Tibetans will never be the s

39、ame again.3. Content- How to organize your content of news Tips-Be clear of the content you want to mention; List your ideas; Write the most important thing in the beginning and the less ones in the following Practice-write the beginning of news according to the information and picture givenA woman;

40、rifts on the wall;earthquake measuring 5.1degrees;Wenan County, northChinasHebeiProvince;11:56 a.m. Tuesday, July 4, 2006;the quakes epicenter -about 110kilometers fromBeijingand 80 kilometers fromTianjin;casualty not knownA woman points at the rifts on the wall of a village school after an earthqua

41、ke measuring 5.1 degrees on the Richter scale jolted Wenan County, northChinasHebeiProvinceat 11:56 a.m. (Beijing Time) Tuesday, July 4, 2006. The quake was a shallow-focus one, with its epicenter being around 110 kilometers fromBeijingand about 80 kilometers fromTianjin. No casualty was reported at

42、 press time.Special plane landed;BeijingWednesday morning (8.2);the body of Chinese UN observerDu Zhaoyu killed last week during Israels air raid onLebanon;Dus coffin covered with Chinese and UN flags; Eight Chinese soldiers.Chinese UN ObserversCoffin Sent HomeSpecial plane landed inBeijingWednesday

43、 morning, carrying home the body of Chinese UN observer Du Zhaoyu, who was killed last week duringIsraels air raid onLebanon. Dus coffin, covered with Chinese and UN flags, was carried down the plane by eight Chinese soldiers.4. LanguageTips-clear; objective; brief; accurate; written EnglishStep 4:

44、Appreciation of newsRadio-VOA news: Aid for tsunami victimsNews report-Tangshan Quake 30th AnniversaryStep 5: Improvement of students writing-Improve your news writing aboutTangshanearthquakeUsing Language-Reading, writing and speakingTeaching Aims:Enable the students to make a speechLet the student

45、s enjoy some famous speechesTeaching Important and Difficult Points:Review something about disasters How to make a speechTeaching Methods:Individual work group workTeaching Aids: Computer, blackboardTeaching Procedures:Step 1 Lead-in(Teacher shows a series of pictures of some disasters on the screen

46、, let the students talk about their feelings or anything they feel about the pictures.)(The pictures are: fire, hurricane, typhoon, tsunami, earthquake )T: In this unit, we learn a lot about disasters. We know disaster is not a good thing to us. We often feel sad or sorry if a disaster happens.T: Ri

47、ght now, you have just seen some of the disasters. Do you feel worried about these refugees?Ss: Yes.Step 2 DiscussionT: Yes, everybody will feel sorry for them. But who is the most worried people when a disaster happens?Ss: families and friends / government and president / .T: Suppose, there is an e

48、arthquake happen somewhere inChina, and you have a friend happens to be there. You are very worried. What will you do when you hear that an earthquake happens there? (Let the students discuss with their partner)Ss: I will feel very worried. I will make sure my friend is Ok as soon as possible. I wil

49、l make a call to see if he is Ok.T: Again, suppose you are a president of a country, and an earthquake happens in your country. What will you do?Ss: It is my duty to comfort the refugees and the society. So first I will make a live speech to the whole country, telling my people that I know it and I

50、will try my best to organize the rescue work and the rebuilding work after the earthquake.T: Yes, you are very clever. In fact, a real president will do just as you said - to make a speech. Now just lets listen to a real speech made by President Bush after a big earthquake hitIndiaon the first day o

51、f New Year.(Play the tape record for the students)Step 3 SpeechT: Right now weve just listened to a speech made by President Bush. Do you know something about how to make a speech? Can you tell me when should we make a speech?Ss: a speech competition / election / the beginning of a new year / the opening of some activity / anniversary .T: Yes, people need to make speeches at those times. Then do you know how to make a speech? What should we contain when we make a speech?Ss: Introduction: Give a strong first impression & preview your speechBody: E