Learning about Language第二课时教学实录

Unit 4

Earthquake

Period 1

Warming up and reading

主备人:徐

洁 授课人:徐

洁

Teaching aims: 1.

Lead students to learn basic information about earthquake. 2.

Help students to know how to describe earthquake . 3.

Develop students’ reading ability. Teaching important and difficult points: 1.Enable students to understand the whole passage and improve reading skills. 2.Get students to discuss something about earthquake . Teaching methods:

Skimming;Scanning;inductive method;individual work and pair work. Teaching procedures: Step I

Warming-up

(1) What can you get from the pictures?(about disasters) (2) Can you describe the picture?(about Wenchuan earthquake)

Step II Pre-reading

Share the pictures on page25.

1.

People could see _______lights in the sky.

2.

The chickens and even pigs were______nervous _____eat. The dog was________loudly again and again.

3.

Mice ran out of the fields___________places to hide. Fish _______out of bows and ponds.

4.

The water in the wells____and____. And some deep ______could be seen

in the well walls.

Step Ⅲ

Reading 1. Fast reading

(1) What’s the meaning of the title?

Here we can see that the writer compared the city to a person who suffered a lot in the disaster. He felt her pain, and he worried about her. So when he said that people came to help her, we can feel his feelings to the city. The city will not die, she has hope and she can recover from the pain. (2)Skim the passage and get the main idea of each paragraph. Para 1:

________ the earthquake :_____________

Para 2--3: ________the earthquake :_____________

Para 4 : ________ the earthquake:

______________

3.Detailed-reading

Task1 Time:

Events For three days

___________________________ At about 3:00 am on

___________________________

July 28,1976

___________________________ At 3:42 am on July28, 1976

___________________________

Afternoon of July 28,1976

___________________________ Soon after the quake

___________________________

Task2

Ask students to answer the question 1.What natural signs of a coming disaster were there? 2.Can you think of some reasons why these signs weren’t noticed? 3.What events probably made the disaster worse? 4.What situations probably made the disaster worse? 5.How were the survivors held? Step IV Discussion 1.Choose one paragraph and act out an interview between a reporter and a survivor from the Tangshan earthquake. 2.What shall we do if an earthquake happens?

Before......

During......

(Earthquake Drills organized by our school)

After........ Step V

Summary 1.

What’s the main idea of the passage？

The passage is about ____________________________________________. 2.

What will you do if an earthquake happens? *Self-protection *Save oneself and others *“One in trouble, helps in all directions will come.”(一方有难八方支援) Step VI Homework (1)Read the whole passage carefully after class. (2)Finish the notes and exercises on P27. (3)Preview the language points.