新人教版高中英语必修1Unit 4 Natural Disasters-Reading & Thinking教案

Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading & Thinking教案

【教学目标与核心素养】

1. Teach studentsto find out the paragraph topic sentences, understand the basic information ofthe Tangshan earthquake through skimming, searching and other reading skills.

2. Enable studentsto sort out the details of the paragraph, to understand the strange thingsbefore the Tangshan earthquake, the tremendous destructive force caused by theearthquake, and the rapid and selfless rescue and reconstruction after thedisaster.

3. Discuss thethinking brought by earthquake and sublimate the theme significance.

【教学重难点】

1. Developstudents’ reading ability such as skimming, scanning and summarizing.

2. Let studentstalk about the precursor before the earthquake, the damage caused by theearthquake, the rescue after the earthquake and the reconstruction after theearthquake.

【教学过程】

Step 1 Activity 1Activating background information

T: Today we aregoing to learn a passage with the title “The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep”. Sowhy didn’t the earth sleep on that night? What happened to the earth? Actuallythere is a movie directed by Feng Xiaogang focuses on the same earthquake. Now,I’d like to show you a short clip of the movie.

1. Talk about theearthquake

Q1. What do youlearn from the video?

2. Talk aboutTangshan earthquake.

Q1. What do youknow about Tangshan earthquake?

Q2. What do youwant to know about it?

Step 2 Activity 2Reading to get some basic information about earthquake

1. Read quickly tofind the answers to the students’ own questions.

2. Read for thetopic sentences and work out the organization of the text.

Q1 What’s the topicsentence in each paragraph?

Q2 In what orderdoes the author describe the earthquake?

Step 3 Activity 3Reading for detailed information

1. Read to getdetailed information about Paragraph 1.

Q1: What were thestrange things?

Q2: What waspeople’s reaction to these strange things?

Q3. Why didn’tpeople pay attention to these strange things/the signs before the earthquake?

T: People hadlittle knowledge of earthquake at that time.

Q4 When does thisparagraph mainly talk about?

T: Abnormal signsbefore the earthquake.

2. Read to getdetailed information about Paragraph 2.

Q1 How strong wasthe earthquake?

Q2 How did thepeople feel when the earthquake happened?

Q3 What does thisparagraph mainly talk about?

3. Read to getdetailed information about Para. 3.

Q1 What weredestroyed?

Q2 How does thewriter describe “everything in the city”?

Q3 How did thepeople feel?

Q4 What does thisparagraph mainly talk about?

4. Read to getdetailed information about Paragraph 4.

Q1. Who broughthope back? And what did they do?

Q2. How did thepeople feel after a lot of people came to rescue?

Q3. How was thecity after a lot of people came to rescue?

5. Read to getdetailed information about Paragraph 5.

Q1. What shows therevival of Tangshan?

Q2. How canTangshan revive itself and get up on its feet again?

Q3. In times ofdisasters, how can we go through it?

T: In times ofdisasters, we should unify, show the wisdom and stay positive.

Step 4 Activity 4Highlighting the theme and reflecting

1. Make a summaryof the text.

2. Furtherunderstand the title