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1、高一英语必修1Unit4 EarthquakesPart One: Teaching Design (第一部分：教学设计)Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading(A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP)AimsTo listen and talk about natural disastersTo read about earthquakesProcedures I. Warming upWarming up by lookingGood morning class. Have you ever experienced any
2、natural disasters? Look at the pictures, can you name all the disasters? volcano fire sandstorm typhoon hailstone thunderstorm flood hurricane earthquakeHave you ever experienced an earthquake? Can you describe how terrible an earthquake is? (The earth is shaking; all the buildings will fall down; m
3、any people will die; many children will become orphans.)Warming up by discussing Now, look at the pictures of Tangshan and San Francisco in warming up and describe what you see in the pictures. (beautiful cities; broad roads; tall building; large population.)What will happen if there has been a big
4、earthquake in these two cities?As we all know, earthquakes are disasters to everyone. But can we avoid or at least reduce the loss caused by earthquakes? Can we foretell earthquakes? Now lets come to Pre-reading and decide what may happen before an earthquake comes.II. Pre-reading1.Talking and shari
5、ng What are the signs of an earthquake? (e.g. Cows, pigs and dogs become too nervous too eat. The mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. The water in the wells will rise and fall. Walls of the wells in village will have deep cracks. There will be bright light in the sky.)2. Imag
6、ing and sharingImagine there is an earthquake now, your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time to take only one thing. What will you take? Why? III. Reading1. Listening and fast readingNow lets come to the text “A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP” and see what it tells us.Pl
7、ease listen to the text and get the general idea of the passage. You should pay attention to the first sentences of each paragraph. In what order is the text written? (The text is written in time order. The general idea is the mixture of the first sentences of each paragraph, that is, the text tells
8、 us something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake.)2. Reading and underliningNext you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them in your notebook after class as homework.Collocations from A NIGHT THE
9、EARTH DIDNT SLEEPa smelly gas, come out of, in the farmyards, too nervous to eat, run out of, look for place to hide, water pipes, think little of sth., as usual, it seemed that, at an end, one hundred kilometers away, one-third, eight kilometers long, thirty meters wide, cut across, in ruins, be in
10、jury, the number of, reach more than 400, 000, everywhere, everything was destroyed, be gone, blow away, sth. be not safe for, tens of thousands of, give milk, half a million, instead of, be shocked, later that afternoon, be trapped under the ruins, fall down, allis/was not,hundreds of thousands of,
11、 dig out, the dead, to the north of, coal mines, built shelters, fresh water3. Reading aloud and translatingNext we are going to read aloud the text and translate it into Chinese.4. Reading and transforming informationRead the text again and answer the following questions.1. What natural signs of co
12、ming disaster were there?2. Can you think of some reasons why these signs werent noticed?3. Can you describe the disaster caused by the earthquake?4. What events and situations probably made the disaster worse?5. How were the survivors helped?6. Could anything more have been done to help the survivo
13、rs? Why or why not?Answers: 1, 3, 4, 5 are easy to answer. 2. Maybe at that time people didnt have knowledge of an earthquake. 6. The students have their own answers.4. Discussing writing styleAs you have understood the general idea of the text, I still put more questions to you. 1.From whose point
14、of view are events described? How do you know? (A writerwho didnt see the quake uses the third person “they” when he writes.)2.Why do you think the writer chose to express her feelings about the quake rather than simply report what happened? (Although the writer was not there he felt sad for the peo
15、ple of Tang Shan. He knows that giving some feelings will make the reading more interesting.)3.Why is the title “A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP”? (As usual, night is the time to sleep, and night should be quiet and safe. But that night everything changed. The writer used it as a title to show how terrible and how unusual that night is.)5. Reading and understanding difficult sentences.If you have some difficult sentences to understand, come to me for help. IV. Closing down
