Using LanguageⅡ教学设计与反思

Book1 Unit4 Earthquakes

高一英语组

王莹莹

_______________ ( Para 4)

________________ Soon after the quake

Teaching aims: 1.To know basic knowledge of earthquakes. 2.To know how to protect oneself and help others in disasters. 3.To further reading the passage about earthquakes and to improve the Ss’

reading ability. Careful reading（try to fill in the blanks.）10min Main Idea

Details

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_______things were happening in the

countryside in northeast Hebei. •

The water in the wells ____

and ______.

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A _______ gas came out of the cracks. Signs before •

The chickens and pigs were too ________ Leading in 3min

Kinds of natural disasters:

Introduce three earthquakes in China:

Fast reading ( find the time points of each paragraph and try to divide the whole passage into three parts. ) 8min

the earthquake

to _____. The order of the passage：

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Fish ________out of the bowls and ponds. ___________ •

Mice _____ out of the fields. (Para 1)

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At ______ am on July 28, 1976, people saw ___________ ________ _______ in the sky.

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___________

( Para 2.3)

During the earthquake

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At _____ am, the __________ earthquake of the

20th century began .

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______burst from holes in the ground.

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Hard hills of the rock became rivers of ____. During the •

________ covered the ground like red autumn earthquake leaves.

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Two _______ and most of the bridges fell.

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The railway racks were now _________piecesof

_______. •

______ now filled the wells instead of water. •

Water, food, and _______ were hard to get.

The army: sent soldiers to Tangshan. Organized

teams to _____ those who were _____and to _____ After the the dead. Workers: built shelters for _____whose homes earthquake had been______. Result: The city began to

_______ again. All hope was not lost.

Brief summary of the text

15min

____________ happened in Tang Shan. For three days, water in the wells ____________. From the ______ of wells __________ came out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became ________. At 3:00 am, everything began to ______.It seemed that the world was _________. _______ of the nation ____ it. ______ cut across the city. The city lay _______. Two-thirds of the people _____ or ______. Then later that afternoon, another big quake ______ Tang Shan. People began to wonder ___________________________.But all hope ____________.

_______ came to help those ________. Slowly, the city began to _____________. Further reading

7min

Everybody hates rats. But in the earthquake capitals of the world—Japan, Los Angeles, Turkey—rats will soon be man's new best friends. What happens after an earthquake? We send in rescue dogs. Why? Because they can smell people. Dogs save lives. They help rescuers to find living people. But dogs are big and they can't get into small spaces. So now a new research project is using a smaller animal to save lives: the rat. How does it work? First, the rat is trained to smell people. When this

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happens, the rat's brain gives a signal (信号). This is sent to a small radio on its back，and then the rescuers follow the radio signals. When the rat's brain activity jumps, the rescuers know that someone is alive. The rat has smelled that person. Although there are already robots which can do this job, rats are better. Christian Linter at Cornell University—New York says, “Robots' noses don't work well when there are other smells around. Rats are good at that.” Rats can also see in the dark. They are cheaper and quicker to train than dogs, and unlike robots, they don't need electricity! The “rat project” is not finished, but Julie Ryan of International Rescue Corps in Scotland says, “It would be wonderful. A rat could get into spaces we couldn't get to and a rat would get out if it wasn't safe.” Perhaps for the first time in history，people will be happy to see a rat in a building(but only after an earthquake, of course)．

1．In the world earthquake capitals, rats will become man's best friends because they can ________. A．take the place of man's rescue jobs. B．find the position of people alive who are trapped in buildings. C．serve as food for people alive who are trapped in buildings. D．get into small spaces. 2. From the third paragraph we know the rescuers can judge a person is alive by ________. A．the noise made by the rat. B．the rat's unusual behavior. C．the signal sent by the radio on the rat's back. D．the smell given off by the person. 3．In doing rescue jobs, ________. A．rats smell better than dogs. B．dogs don't need to be trained to smell people. C．robots' sense of smell can be affected by other smells around. D．rats can see in the dark and smaller than robots. 4．According to the passage, the “rat project” means to ________.

A．use the dog to save lives after an earthquake. B．use the rat to save lives after an earthquake. C．use the rat to feel the coming earthquake. D．use the robot to save lives after an earthquake.

Appreciate a passage

Perfect Disaster

All around us buildings shook. We decided to leave the town. We stopped once we had left the buildings behind us. The carts were moving in

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opposite directions, though the ground was perfectly flat, and they wouldn't stay in place even with their wheels blocked by stones. In addition, it seemed as though the sea was being sucked(吸) backwards, as if it were being pushed back by the shaking of the land. Certainly the shoreline moved outwards, and many sea animals were left on dry sand. Behind us were frightening dark clouds that opened up to show fire-like lightning, but bigger. Not long after that the clouds reached down to the ground and covered the sea. Now came the dust, though still thin. I looked back. A dense cloud appeared behind us, following us like a flood pouring across the land. Then a darkness came that was not like a moonless or cloudy night, but more like being in a closed and unlighted room. You could hear women and children crying, men shouting. Some were calling for parents, others for children; they could only recognize them by their voices. Darkness and ashes came again, a great weight of them. We stood up and shook the ash off again and again; otherwise we would have been covered with it and crushed by the weight. At last the cloud became thinner and thinner until it was no more than smoke or fog. Soon there was real daylight. The sight that met our still terrified eyes was a changed world, buried in ash like snow. ―from Pliny's letter to a friend

文章是Pliny写给朋友的信，介绍地震后地动山摇，天昏地暗的情景，和人们惊慌失措的样子。

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本节课的收获

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主旨大意题如何去做？

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细节理解题如何去做？

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通过本节课阅读你又了解了哪些词汇?

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