必修一Unit 4 Earthquakes 第二课时教学安排

概要：Reading第一步：预读，教师事先设计导读性问题，要求学生通过解读标题和插图，阅读文章的开头和结尾，在最短的时间内作答，然后用三两句话概括大意。Question 1 (can refer to P67 Speaking task )You are to choose eight things to put into your personal earthquake bag. What are they?Question 2 (the sign before an earthquake) Can you describe the pictures in pre-reading in details?Question 3 Do you know anything about Tangshan Earthquake?第二步：略读，要求学生全文通读，忽略不懂的生词，但是要求分辨出各个段落的大概意思。然后完成课后的第三题。Main ideas1. What happened before the earthquake.2. The earthquake destroyed

Reading

第一步：预读，教师事先设计导读性问题，要求学生通过解读标题和插图，阅读文章的开头和结尾，在最短的时间内作答，然后用三两句话概括大意。

Question 1 (can refer to P67 Speaking task )

You are to choose eight things to put into your personal earthquake bag. What are they?

Question 2 (the sign before an earthquake)

 Can you describe the pictures in pre-reading in details?

Question 3 Do you know anything about Tangshan Earthquake?

第二步：略读，要求学生全文通读，忽略不懂的生词，但是要求分辨出各个段落的大概意思。然后完成课后的第三题。

Main ideas

1. What happened before the earthquake.

2. The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan and shocked the people.

3. The damages of the earthquake

4. The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.

第三步：在详细阅读之前提示关于唐山大地震的背景：struck at 3.42am. on july 28, 1976；7.8 magnitude；epicenter was 11km below the city of Tangshan；242419 people killed；economic damage of those buried in the rubble were rescued；injuries from the earthquake caused 2.200 people to become paraplegics.

第四步：要求学生边读边完成课后的第一题,第二题。其中，第一题连接句子不但是对课文内容的考察，也是对英语句子逻辑性和语法的一个联系，在学生回答的事情应该引导他们注意这两点。

另外，教师可以设计一些需要查找的信息和具体事实的问题或任务：

（参考）

1. Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP?

Suggested answer: night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer use this title to show how terrible and how usual the night was.

2. What does the sentence“Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?

Suggested answer: the writer compare the city to a person who suffered a lot in the disaster. He felt her pain. So when people came to help her, he feel the city will not die, she has hope and she can recover from the pain.

要求学生带着问题快速浏览文章，从阅读材料中,迅速查找这些特定的信息和具体的事实。

第五步：要求学生运用语境猜测词的意思,把不认识的单词用简单的语句表述出来，分组讨论学习黑体字单词及词组的意思和用法。

Homework

小组活动，分工整理和讲解重点句型和难点。