Learning about Language第二课时 公开课

Book1 Unit 4——A Night the Earth Didn’t

Sleep 教案

Teaching objectives：

A. Get the students to know something about the San Francisco earthquake in 1906.

Activate their relevant vocabulary and knowledge about earthquake. B. Get the students to understand the text and language points.

C. Get the students to appreciate the literary devices the author used in the text.

Teaching contents:

A.

key words and phrases to describe an earthquake:

Destroy, in ruins, great damage, deep cracks, fall down B.

difficult sentences:

1.Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed.

2.Never in all San Francisco’s

history were her people so kind as on terrible night.

3.Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses far from the center of the city. Important points and difficult points:

A. Important points:

Activate the students’

relevant vocabulary and knowledge about earthquake.

Improve the students’

ability of analyzing the text and get them to develop the skills of obtaining the main idea of the text in the limited time.

B. Difficult points:

Get the students to understand some difficult sentences. Guide the students to appreciate the literary devices. Teaching procedures:

Step1

leading-in

Show some pictures of natural disasters to arouse students’ interest in this lesson. Step2

presentation Task1 skimming&scanning: Match the main idea of each part. Task2 careful reading: 1. Read the text carefully and collect some datum about the earthquake. 2. Order the events according to the text. (group work) Task3 post-reading: Analyzing the literal technique of some certain sentences. Step3 Discussion: What you have learned from this lesson? that