精品资料必修一 Unit 4 EarthquakesReading 教学重点1. Get the students to know basic knowledge about natural disasters.2. Get the students to learn about Tangshan Earthquake.3. Get the students to learn different reading skills.教学难点Develop the students reading ability.教学方法1. Task-based teaching and learning2. Cooperative learning3. Discussion教具准备The multimedia and other normal teaching tools三维目标Knowledge aims:1. Get the students to learn the following useful new words and expressions in this passage: shakewell (n. )risecracksmellypondpipeburstcanalsteamdirt ruininjuredestroybrickdamuselesssteelshockquakerescueelectricity disasterarmyorganizeburycoalmineshelterfreshright awayat an endlie in ruinsbe trapped under sth. a (great)number of2. Get the students to know basic knowledge about natural disasters.Ability aims:1. Develop the students reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.2. Train the students ability to collect useful information from the Internet by themselves.Emotional aim:1. Get the students know damages earthquakes bring about and the ways to reduce losses of earthquakes.2. Get the students to know how to protect oneself and help others in earthquakes.3. Get the students to be aware of terrible disasters, meanwhile get them to face it, treat it in a proper way, and never get discouraged.教学过程设计方案（一）Step 1 Lead-inShow the students some pictures about natural disasters and ask them:1. Have you ever experienced any natural disaster? Look at the pictures. Can you name all the disasters? (volcano, fire, typhoon, flood, sandstorm, hailstone, thunderstorm, hurricane, earthquake)2. Have you ever experienced an earthquake? Can you describe how terrible an earthquake is?地震的破坏(The earth is shaking; all the buildings will fall down; the roads will be destroyed; many people will be killed or injured; a lot of children will become orphans. . . )Step 2 Warming upTurn to Page 25. Ask the students to read and look at the photos of Tangshan and San Francisco to describe what they see in the two photos to a partner.(beautiful cities; broad roads; tall building; large population. . . )Imagine there has been a big earthquake in these two cities, what might happen to all the things in the photos?(If a big earthquake happened, the whole cities might be in ruins. Large quantities of tall buildings might collapse. The broad and busy roads might be destroyed. Many people might be killed or injured. . . )Step 3 Pre-reading1. Imaging 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? Is it money, water, fruits, mobile phones, a torch light, or anything else? Why?2. Talking and sharingWhat do you think may happen before an earthquake? Talk about the pictures on Page 25.(Cows, pigs and dogs become too nervous to eat. Mice run out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jump out of ponds. The water in the well will rise and fall. The well walls will have deep cracks in them. There will be bright light in the sky. . . )Step 4 ReadingTell the students:Today, we are going to read a news report about the strongest earthquake in Chinas history, which happened in Tangshan, Hebei, in 1976.1. Fast readingAsk the students to read the passage quickly and pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph.1)Answer the questions.Question 1:In what order was the passage written?Question 2:What is the general idea of the passage?(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 us something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake. )2)Fill in the table.Type of writingTopic sentence of Paragraph 1Topic sentence of Paragraph 2Topic sentence of Paragraph 3Topic sentence of Paragraph 4General idea of the passageSuggested answers:Type of writingThis is a news report.Topic sentence of Paragraph 1Strange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei.Topic sentence of Paragraph 2Everything began to shake and it seemed that the world was at an end.Topic sentence of Paragraph 3Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.Topic sentence of Paragraph 4All hope was not lost.General idea of the passageThe passage tells us something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake.3)True or False?Ask the students to decide whether the following statements are true or false. If it is false, try to correct it.(1)People in Tangshan were warned of the earthquake and didnt go to bed that night.(2)People in Beijing also felt the earthquake.(3)More than 400 000 people were killed in the quake.(4)Many rescue wor