1、Module 1 Unit 4 EarthquakeReading A night the earth didnt sleep第一课时Lesson Style: Reading Lesson一、 教学分析（一）教学内容分析与初中阶段主要重视英语知识和语法的学习有所不同，高中阶段侧重培养阅读能力，需要学生能把学到的知识灵活运用到对语言、文章的理解中，不断提高分析判断能力、逻辑思维能力和语言运用能力。本单元的话题是“地震基础知识(basic knowledge about earthquakes)”和“遇到灾难时如何自救以及帮助别人(how to protect oneself and help
2、others in disasters)”。具体涉及地震的成因、预兆、地震造成的损失、地震时的应急救生以及震后的救援等内容。本课是本单元的阅读部分，这是是一篇新闻报道，详细介绍了1976 年唐山大地震前的预兆、地震造成的城市建筑和人畜损失以及震后人们勇敢面对现实并及时实施抢救和重建工作的情况，从而了解学习到唐山人民勇敢面对自然灾害，积极进行灾后重建的精神。其次，通过对文章的学习，了解新闻的特点，为后面的写作做准备。二学生分析本人所教班级是高一（1） ，属于比较优秀的学生，由 52 名同学组成。虽具备了一定的听说读写能力，但掌握的词汇量较少，阅读能力还有待提高。因此，本单元侧重训练学生的阅读技巧
3、：略读、细读、总结归纳内容的能力、猜测词义的能力。三、教学目标1. Make the students know the things about Tangshan Earthquake: Strange signs before the earthquake, the destruction the earthquake caused and the aid and the rescue from the whole nation. 2. Training the students reading ability: Fast Reading, Close Reading, Summarizi
4、ng and word-guessing skills.3. Make the students understand: If you can know about the signs before an earthquake, we will make good preparations before it happens to reduce the loss.四、教学重点：1. Train the studentsreading ability2. How to summarize the general idea according to the lines to the passage
5、.【重点突破】采用任务型语言教学方法，把学生作为教学的主体，以任务为主线，通过听、说、读、写等活动用所学的语言完成所规定的任务。五、教学难点：How to choose a proper title for a passage.【难点突破】采用探究式的教学方法，引导学生通过观察、分析文章标题，总结出标题的特征。然后，根据标题的特征为所学文章建议一个恰当的标题。六、教学方法：Task-based teaching and learning; Inquiry teaching method；Cooperating learning七、教学设备Muti-classroom八、教学过程：I. Warm
6、ing upPresent two pictures to the students and make them answer some questions.Play the song The Heaven is Your Home 天堂就是你的家 to renderingthe environment.（渲染） the atmosphere.Tangshan Wenchuan1.Can you tell me the names of the two places in the pictures above?2. Where are they? 3. What happened to the
7、m?Play the video of Tangshan Earthquake and Wenchuan Earthquake. July 28th, 1976 Tangshan, Hebei Province May 12th, 2008 Wenchuan Area, Sichuan【设计说明】 通过展示唐山和汶川的两幅图画，引出关键词“地震” ；通过让学生观看唐山地震和汶川地震的有关视频，让学生感知、理解地震是一种可怕的自然灾害，它给我们造成了身体上、心灵上的双重伤害，如果我们能了解并认识地震前的预兆，就能提前做好准备。 ）II. Pre-readingPresent a group of
8、 pictures to the students which refer to the earthquake.Guess: What may happen before an earthquake? 【设计说明】通过展示一组图片，让学生通过观察、讨论预测地震发生前会出现什么样的征兆，培养学生的预测能力，并为阅读做好准备。III. ReadingWe are going to have an earthquake? Are you ready?(I) Fast ReadingPlease read fast the passage at Page26 and find out the gene
9、ral idea of each paragraph and sum up the general idea of the passage in one sentence.Para1: Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one paid attention to them.Para2: The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan.Para3: The people were very shocked at the destruction.Para4: The a
10、rmy came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.General idea:The passage is mainly about the terrible earthquake which happened in Tangshan, Hebei province. 【设计说明】让学生快速浏览文章 A Night The Earth Didnt Sleep,找出每一段的中心句或用自己的语言概括段意，然后用一句话概括全文的中心大意，旨在培养学生通过略读获取大意的能力以及用自己的语言聚合信息的能力，使他们从整体上来理解这篇文章
11、。(II) Close readingPlease read the passage again and find out what happened according to the timetable below.Time Events1. Water in the village wells _and _2. Well walls developed deep_ 3. A _ _ came out of the cracks4. Mice _ out of the fieldsFor three days5. Fish _ out of their bowls and ponds.1.
12、Bright lights _ in the sky2. The sound of _ could be heard although there were no planes.At about 3:00 am on July 28,1976 3. Some water pipe _1. Everything began to _ 2. Huge cracks appeared in the _3. _ burst from holes in the ground4. Rock _ into rivers of dirt5.75% of buildings some people still
13、had a noon rest at home; Children seated themselves to prepare for lessons. Everything was going on _ . At about 2:28, the earth and the mountain began to shake. The main road cracked, holes opened up in the ground, buildings fell down and water _ burst. People were shocked by the unexpected _. Some
14、 ran up and down the street while others _ in the buildings were waiting for help. The earthquake was one of the greatest _ in China. The earthquake _ many towns and _ people were killed.Keys: as usual, pipes, disaster, trapped, quakes, destroyed, a great number of【设计说明】让学生在具体语境中运用语言，并了解汶川地震。九教学过程流程图热身呈现单元主题导课地震来临的预兆为阅读作准备略读获取大意 作业课堂巩固与延伸复述凝聚信息细读细节 深层理解选择标题讨论科学的看问题
