Unit4 Earthquakes
--- Wu Ying No. 5 Middle School
Introduction:
This is the first period of this unit. It includes Warming-up, New words, Pre-reading and Reading. In this period, students should get the first impression of natural disasters, especially earthquakes. Because students have learnt a little about earthquakes in their geography lessons, I will let they talk about them, including the phenomena before an earthquake and what people should when it happens. This period will get students to learn about the “Brave City of China”, that is Tangshan.
Teaching goals:
Get a general idea of earthquakes and some other natural disasters;
Train the students’ reading and speaking ability’
Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others.
Teaching important points and difficult points:
Train the students’ reading ability—skimming and scanning.
Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Lead-in
Task 1：Talking about natural disasters
Q:What kind of natural disasters do you know? (show the Ss some pictures of natural disasters.)
Flood, drought, typhoon, hurricane, sandstorm, volcano, earthquake.
Task 2: Talking about earthquake.
Q: Do you know when and where the greatest earthquake of the 20thcentury happened?
Tanshan, Hebei July 28th, 1976
Q: How much do you know about an earthquake?
---Before the earthquake: a prosperous city
---After the earthquale: in ruins
People were injured or lost their lives
Rescue workers dig out the injured and the dead. Survivors buried the dead, and felt very sad.
Step 2. Pre-reading
Task 3: Predictions of an earthquake
Q: Do you know what would happen before an earthquake? (with the picture on page 25 )
1.bright light flash in the sky;
2.annimals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc;
3.the water in the well rises and falls
4.the well walls have deep cracks with smelly gas;
5.mice run out to look for places to hide.
Step 3. Fast-reading
Task 4: Getting the general idea of the whole text.
Time: on July, 1976
Place: Tangshan, Hebei Province
What disaster: A big earthquake
Before the disaster: Many strange things happened
Damage: The city lay in ruins
More than 400000 people were killed or injured
Rescue: 150000 soldiers were sent to help.
Most of the 10000 miners were rescued.
Step4. Careful-reading
Task 5: Dividing the whole passage and finding out the topic sentense of each paragraph.
Part1 (para 1): sign
Topic ST: strange things were happening in northeast Hebei

 
Strange things
the water in the village wells
 rose and fell
the well walls
 had deep cracks and a smelly gas came out

the chickens and pigs
 were too nervous to eat

mice
 ran out of the fields , looking for places to hide

fish
 jumped out of bowls and ponds

Part 2 (para2~3): damage
Topic ST:
para2: Everything began to shake. It seemed that the world was at an end.
Para3: Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.
True or Fales questions
1.In fifteen terrible seconds a large city was completely destroyed. ( )
2.Then, later that afternoon, another small quake shook Tangshan. ( )
3.The number of people who were killed reached more than 400,000. ( )
4.Although it seemed that the world was at an end to the people in Tangshan, the people in Beijing and other cities nearby slept well on the night of July 28, 1976. ( )
5.All of the city’s hospitals, three-fourths of its factories and buildings and nine-tenths of its homes were gone. ( )
6.Two quakes shook Tangshan within one day. Everybody in other cities was afraid to go there.( )

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