1、編號3Unit 4 EarthquakesReadingTeaching objectivesTo help students learn to read about past experiencesTo help students better understand earthquake”To help students use some important words and expressionsTo help students identify examples of the attributive clause in the textTeaching difficult and im

2、portant pointsMaster the new words ,phrases and useful expressions in the text .Train the students' reading ability to understand the content of text in detailTrain the students'ability to cooperate with others.Teaching Methodology: Task-based teaching mode ; Pre-taskTask-cyclePost-taskTeach

3、ing Tools: Blackboard, computer-assisted teaching (multimedia),projector,Teaching proceduresStep 1: Greeting &Lead-inShow the Greeting to the students as usual.Task 1: Free-talk on picture-linking(show a picture or a video of two high buildings and a flying 747 Flight)Question& Answer:1. Wha

4、t can you see in the picture or video?Suggested Answer: (two buildings, one 747 plane)2. What is the plane doing now?Suggested Answer: (The plane is flying towards the building)3. Can you guess what will happen next?Suggested Answer: people on plane will die.The plane will be broken into pieces or c

5、rash.The buildings will be destroyed and then fall down to ground.4. Could you tell me what this accident is, which we 've known before?Answer: (9.11Terrorism Attack)5. Can we say 9.11 is a big disaster?Answer: Yes, of course.Step 2: Warming-upTask 2: Talking about disasters (Group-work activity

6、)1. What other disasters do you know?(Typhoon ; Volcano ; Flood ; SARS ; Fire )2. Have you ever experienced one of these disasters? Can you describe what it was like and how you felt?Suggested Answer: ( like a terrible ghost, dangerous, frightening ,afraid ,nervous ,etc.)Step 3: Pre-readingTask 3: L

7、ooking and guessing:1. What can you see in the picture?2. What do you think may happen before an earthquake?Suggested Answers: Before an quake, animals will become nervous. Cows, pigs, horses and dogs will be upset. Mice will run about and fish will jump out of water. In winter, people can even see

8、snakes.There are bright lights in the sky. Water pipes may crack or burst. So earthquake is predictable.3. You have time to take only one thing.What would you take when the earthquake is coming ?Step 4: PredictionTask 4: Probing Questions :1. What cause you can't sleep well at night?Suggested An

9、swers:(Physically ill, psychologically interrupted, have a bad dream, or thinking about sth throughout the night )2. What a kind of information does the author try to convey to us through the title?A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN T SLEEPSuggested Answers:(There must be something strange happening at night on

10、 earth. So the earth didn't sleep)3. What cause the earth didn't sleep at night“ in the text?Suggested choicest earthquake , volcano, tsunami ,tornado ,hurricane, flood)Answer: Earthquake( Ss have previewed the text)Step 5:Fast readingRead the text as quickly as possible and try to answer th

11、e following questions below.Task 5: Divide the whole passage according to the change of timePart 1: Signs before earthquakePart 2： Damage and destruction of earthquakePart 3: Reconstruction after earthquakeStep 6:Careful readingTask 6 :Reading the para 1 for the second time and finish the following

12、diagramIn the wellWell water, rose and fell,smelly gas ,came out of ,cracksIn theChickens&pigs,nervous to eat ,farmyardmice run out to hide,fish , jump out ofIn the skyBright light, the sound of planeIn the cityWater pipes ,cracked and burst,people ,go to bed as usualTask 7: Reading the para 2 &

13、amp;3 and fill in blanks of two diagrams below. What do all thenumbers referred to in the 2nd passage?What do you feel?3:42 A.M.Began to shake11 kilometersBelow the city ,underground20th centuryThe greatest earthquake100 kilometresHeard away from Beijing1/31/3 nation felt this earthquake8 kilometres

14、The length of crack30 metresThe width of crack15 secondsThe earthquake only last so shortThousands ofFamilies killed ,children left without400,000People were killed or injured The numbers referred in passage 375%The factories and buildings were gone90%The homes were goneTwoDams fellTens of thousands

15、 ofThe cows never give milk againHalf a millionPigs diedMillions ofChickens died What happened later that afternoonEventSituationAnother big quakeRescue workers &doctors ,trap, under ruinsshook TangshanBuilding down, water, food, electricity hard to getStep 7:Sentences EnjoymentTask 8: Read agai

16、n and try to appreciate the language of the passage:1 .For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell.Repetition to make a deeper impression on the reader2.1 t seemed that the world was at an end!Exaggeration: to draw people ' s attetotithe seriousness of the disaster

17、.3.8 ricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.Simile: to create a vivid image.4.510 wly, very slowly, the city began to breathe again.Personification: to form a vivid image.5.A night the earth didn 't sleepPersonification: to form a vivid image.Step 8:ConsolidationTask 9:Task Filling the

18、blacks with the first given letter:Several days before July 28,1976, many s things happened in Tangshan. They were signs forthe e. But people in the city of Tangshan didn think m of these. At 3:42am that day,theearth began to s,which d the city. Many people,including workers and doctors,came tor tho

19、se t under the ruins. Later that afternoon,another big earthquake struck Tangshan.More people were killed or injured and more buildings f down. Soldiers were called in to help therescue workers. Twere organized to dig out the trapped and b the dead.Step 9:Post readingTask10 : Discussion.1 .From whose point of view are events described? How do you know?(He uses third-person to describe the quake. For example,“ EveryWoked thearlyeverything was destroyed.)”2 .Why do you think the writer choose to express his feelings about the quake rather than report what had happened?(Although the w