Teaching plan for Unit 4
Period 2 Reading “ A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep”
Teaching aims: 1) Learn about Reading :” A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep”
2) Develop the reading skills.
3)learn to protect nature.
Key points: Develop the reading skills.
Teaching aids: 1) computer 2) blackboard 3) tape-recorder
Teaching methods: Task-based Approach; Student-centered Approach
Teaching Steps:
Step1. Greeting
Greet the students as usual.
Step 2. lead-in
Talk about the causes of the earthquake.
Step 3 Pre-reading
“It is always caim before a storm.’
Talk about “ What may happen before an earthquake?”
Students discuss it in the group of 4; Then try to find out as many phonenomen as possible.
Step 4. Reading.
1)Talk about the title of the text.
2)Read the passage, and try to divide the passage into 3 parts.
The first part: Before the earthquake, strange things happened.
The second part: During the earthquake, the city was destroyed.
The third part: After the ear4thquake, people saw hope.
3)Read the text again, and try to anwer the T or F questions in the test-book.
4)Try to filling thr cloze texr according to the text.
Step 5 Discussion
1)Talk about the writing style of the passage .
2)Do the exercised in “Comprehending”.
Step 6 Homework.
1)Find out the usage of the key words in the text.
2)Find out the “Attributive Clause” from the text.

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