Unit 4 Earthquakes

I. 单元教学目标
Know basic knowledge of earthquakes.
Know how to protect oneself and help others in disasters.
Write some passages about earthquakes.
Write a newspaper outline.
Learn to use the Attributive Clause.
II 目标语言
1. Talking about past experiences
I will never forget the day when the earthquake took place. The time was 5:15 in the afternoon and I was driving along the road.
2. Sequence
I asked a man standing next to me what had happened. Before he could answer, hundreds of bricks fell on him and he was killed. I thought the end of the world had come! Then I met a man who knew the way to a boat, and we ran in its direction. I saw many frightened cows rush up Market Street and drop into a great crack ground.
III 词汇
1.四会
shake,well,rise,smelly,pond,pipe,burst,canal,steam,ruin,injure,destroy,brick,dam,useless,steel,shock,quake,rescue,electricity,disaster,army,organize,bury,coal,mine,shelter,fresh,percent,speech,judge,honor,prepare,Europe.
２．认读
crack, survivor, miner
. 3. 词组
right away, at an end, dig out, give out, thousands of
IV. 语法
Ｔhe Attributive Clause (I )
V.重点句子
1.Farmers’ wives noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them.
2.It seemed that the world was at an end!
3.Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.
4.The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.
5.Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
6.Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed.
7.Man himself had to make ruins of some of the city’s best buildings so that they would not be a danger to those in the streets.
8.A list of buildings not destroyed was now only a few addresses.
9.Amazing as it may seem, Wednesday night was a quiet night.
10.Never in all San Francisco’s history were her people so kind as on that terrible night.
VI.分课时教案
THE FIRST PERIOD READING
Step I. Revision
Check the homework with the whole class.
Step II. Warming up
Ask the students to read the instructions and make sure they know what to do, and then have a discussion about the two pictures.
T: Today, before we begin our reading, I’d like to ask you a question, “What is the biggest sound you have heard in your life?”
S1: The sound of wind that blew in a winter night when I was very young. It sounded like a ghost who was howling. I was very frightened at that time.
S2: The biggest noise was the one that I heard when my neighbor was quarrelling with his wife. Perhaps, they broke their TV set.
T: That’s too terrible.
S3: The noise when planes take off.
S4: The sound of trains.
T: Good! I agree that all of them are big sound. But did you once heard the sound that the heaven falls and the earth cracks, in Chinese it is 天崩地裂?
Ss: No, we have no chance to hear that.
T: If there is a sound like this, what is it?
S5: When someone hears something unexpected and terrible. For example, when one of his loved families dies, he will feel this sound.
T: Terrific! You are using a literary way to express the sound.
S6: When an earthquake happens.
T: Great! I have waited for this answer for a long time. Today we’ll learn something about earthquakes. I think most of us have heard of earthquakes. Can you imagine how terrible it is ?
S7: The earth is shaking . All the buildings will fall down.
S8: Many people will die. And perhaps many children will lose their parents.
T: Yeah, earthquakes are disasters to everybody. Now look at the two pictures of Tangshan and San Francisco. Can you describe what you see in the pictures?
S1: Tangshan is a beautiful city. It has beautiful gardens, broad roads and some tall buildings.
S2: From the picture of San Francisco, I can see that it is a very big city. There are m
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