Teaching plan for unit 4 Earthquakes Teaching plan for unit 4 Earthquakes Teaching aims and demands: Teaching aims and demands: 1. Topic: Topic: Basic knowledge of earthquakes; how to protect oneself and help the others in disasters 2. Useful words and expressions: Useful words and expressions: shake, well (n.), rise, smelly, pond, pipe, burst, canal, steam, dirt, ruin, injure, destroy, brick, dam, useless, steel, shock, quake, rescue, electricity, disaster, army, organize, bury, coal, shelter, fresh, percent, speech, judge, honour, prepare; right away, (be) at an end, dig out, bring in, a (great )number of 3. Functions: Functions: 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. Sequence 4. Grammar: Grammar: The attributive clause (I) 由 that, which, who, whose 引导的定语从句 The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000. It was heard in Beijing which is one hundred kilometers away. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. Teaching procedures: Period 1. Step 1. Warming up Teaching procedures: Period 1. Step 1. Warming up Ss discuss and answer some questions: 1. Which of the following may cause people the greatest damage? A. earthquake B. typhoon C. flood D. drought 2. Imagine 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? Step 2. Pre-reading Ss discuss and answer: 1. Do you know what would happen before an earthquake? 2. What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake? 3. Do you know anything about Tangshan Earthquake in 1976? Step 3. Reading 1. Skimming and find the answers to the following questions: a. What happened? 用心 爱心 专心 1b. When and where did it happen? 2. Ss read again and fill in the following form: Time What happened Before the earthquakeWells: Animals: Lights and sound: Water pipes: While the earthquakeHouses, roads and canals: Hard hills of rock: The large city: The people: After the earthquakeHospitals, factories and buildings: The ground: Dams: Railway tracks: Animals: Wells: 3. Ss read the whole passage again and get the main ideas of each part: Part 1. The natural signs of a coming earthquake Part 2. The damage of the city after the earthquake Part 3. The help to the survivors Step 4. Comprehending Ss finish Ex 1 and 2 on page 27. Step 5. Assignment 1. Surf the internet and get more information about the earthquake. 2. Retell the text. Period 2. Period 2. Step 1. Warming up 1. Ss share more information about the earthquake. 2. Ask some Ss to retell the text by using their own words. Step 2. Language points 1. lie lay-lain (v.) : to be, remain or be kept in a certain state 处于某种状 态 The village lay in ruins after the war. These machines have lain idle since the factory closed. 2. in ruins: severely damaged or destroyed 毁坏 an earthquake left the whole town in ruins. His career is in ruins. 3. number (n.): a quantity of people or things 数目；数量 用心 爱心 专心 2The number of people applying has increased this year. We were fifteen in number. a number of: a lot of I have a number of letters to write. A large number of people have applied. 4. injure (v.): to hurt oneself/sb./ sth. physically 受伤 He fell off the bicycle and injured his arm. 5. reach (v.): to achieve or obtain sth. 达成；达到；获得 Youll understand it when you reach my age. At last we reached a decision. 6. rescue (n.): an act of rescuing or being rescued 搭救；解救 A rescue team is trying to reach the trapped mines. Rescue (v.): to save or set free from harm, in danger, or loss 解救；救出 The rescued the man from drowning. 7. trap(v.): in a place from which one wants to escape but cannot 困住；陷于绝境 They were trapped in the burning hotel. 8. all not = not all: some but not all 一些；但不是全部 Not all the girls left. =Only some of them left early. Not all the children are noisy. =Some of the children are not noisy. 全部否定应用: none of None of us were allowed to go there. None of these reports is very helpful. Step 3. learning about language 1. Ss finish Ex 1,2 and 3 on page 27 and 28. 2. Teacher checks the answer and give the Ss some help if they have some difficulty. Step 4. assignment 1. Finish Wb.Ex.1 on page 63. 2. Ss try to remember the useful words and expressions by hearts. Period 3 Period 3 Step 1. Warming up Ss read the passage again and try to find the sentences with attributive clauses. e.g. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. Step 2. Attributive clause 1. Give Ss more sentences and let the Ss to find the structures of the attributive clause. 2. Ss do some exercises about how to use that, which, who or whose. 3. Ss finish Ex 2 on page 28. Some materials about attributive clause: 关系代词引导的定语从句 关系代词所代替的先行词是人或物的名词或代词，并在句中充当主语、宾语、定语等成用心 爱心 专心 3分。关系代词在定语从句中作主语时，从句谓语动词的人称和数要和先行词保持一致。