Learning about Language教学设计(第二课时)

Teaching Plan

Book 1 Unit 4 Earthquakes --Reading Comprehension Teaching aims: 1. Get the students to know basic knowledge about natural disasters.

2. Get the students to learn about Tangshan Earthquake and understand the text. 3. Get the students to learn different reading skills. Teaching important points: let the students master the following important words: burst, event, extreme, injure, destroy, shock, rescue, trap, right away, as if, at an end, in ruins, dig out Teaching difficult points: The attributive clause

Teaching aids: multi-media, blackboard

Teaching steps: Step 1: Lead-in: talk about what damage an earthquake will cause. 1.

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The city lay in ruins. The railway tracks were destroyed. The roads cracked.

The houses and buildings fell down. A great number of people lost their homes. Many people were killed or injured. Step 2: Enjoy a film. Step 3: Listen, read and answer. 【合作探究】While reading

Task 1: Fast Reading

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Time: July 28, 1976 •

Place: Tangshan, Hebei

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Disaster: A big earthquake

Main idea: An earthquake happened in Tangshan on July 28, 1976. Task 2: Scanning

(1) Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph. Para.1 _____________________________________________________________ Para.2

____________________________________________________________ Para.3 ______________________________________________________________

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Para.4

___________________________________________________________ (2) Doing the match. Divide the passage into three parts and find out the main idea of each part.

Part 1 (Para.1) (C)

A. What happened during the quake and the damage caused by the quake. Part 2 (Para.2-3) (A)

B. The rescue work after the earthquake Part 3 (Para.4 )

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C. Signs before the earthquake. Step 4:

Task 3: Careful Reading

Part 1. Signs before earthquake The water in the village wells

. The well walls had

. A smelly gas

. The chickens and even the pigs were too

to eat. Mice ___________________ looking for places to hide and fish jumped out of their

. People saw _______________in the sky. The water pipes in some buildings __________________.

Part 2. Fill in the blank with data. 

of the nation felt the earthquake . 

A huge crack that was

kilometres long and

metres wide cut across houses. 

In

terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.

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of the people died or were injured during

the earthquake. 

The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than

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All of the city’s hospitals,

of its factories and buildings and

of its homes were gone.

Part 3. Multiple choices. (1)Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. Many soldiers helped to rescue the people who were trapped under the ruins. B. Most of the twenty thousand miners were rescued from the coal mines. C. Workers built shelters for homeless survivors. (2)What does the last sentence“ Slowly, the city began to breathe again.” mean?

A. The animals began to breathe. B. The city returned to normal gradually. C. People who were trapped came to life.

Step 5: Summarize and retelling. 【自我提升】After reading

Task 4:Retell the story An earthquake

happened in Tangshan in 1976. For a few days, water in the wells rose and fell. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became nevous. And the water pipes

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in the buildings cracked and burst. But the people in Tangshan thought little of these events.

At 3:42 am, everything began to shake. It seemed that the world was at an end. A huge crack cut across the houses and roads, then the city lay in ruins. Two-thirds of the people died or were injured. Then later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tangshan. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last. But all hope was not lost. Soldiers came to help Tangshan people. Slowly, the city began to breathe again. Step 6: Discussion: What should we do when in face of earthquake?

If we are at school/home, ……

If we are on a road, ……

If we are in a high building, ……

Step 7: Homework.

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