Unit 4 earthquakes reading教案

A Night the Earth Didn't Sleep

Teaching Plan

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn about the Tangshan earthquake.

2. Develop the students' reading ability

3. Learn to care for others.

Teaching Important and Difficult Points:

Help the students to grasp key information while they are reading.

Teaching Methods:

1. Task-based methods to get the students to understand the passage.

2. Pair work and group work to make the students work in class.

Teaching Aids:

1. OHP

2. the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1.Revision

Go over the new words learned in the previous lesson.

Step 2.Lead-in

1. The teacher shows a series of pictures of some disasters on the screen and let the students name them.(The pictures are about a fire, a hurricane ,a tsunami, an earthquake and so on.)

2. The teacher shows a picture of new Tangshan to the students. Then asks the students to describe what they see.

3. The teacher shows another picture of Tangshan (the city after the earthquake), and gets the students to guess what happened and what damage it caused.

Step 3.Fast reading

1. Skim the passage and divide the passage into 3 parts.

2. Sum up the main idea of each part.

Part 1 (para.1): Before the earthquake, strange things happened.

Part 2 (paras.2-3): During the earthquake, the city was destroyed.

Part 3 (para.4): After the quake, people saw hope.

Step 4.Careful reading