Unit 4 　Earthquakes

unit 4 　earthquakes
first period : warming up , pre-reading , reading

teaching aims:
1、 develop the students’ reading ability and let them learn to use some reading strategies, such as skimming , scanning and so on.
2、 enable the students to talk in english.
teaching important points:
1、 get the students to learn different reading skills.
2、 enable the students to talk in english.
teaching difficult points:
1、 develop the students’ reading ability.
2、 enable the students to talk in english.
teaching methods:
1、 task-based teaching and learning.
2、 cooperative learning.
3、 discussion.
teaching procedures:
step 1 : revision
ask the whole class to read the new words of unit4 together.
step 2: lead- in & warming up
1、 play a vedio about the earthquake.
2、 show some pictures to ask the students to say out the names of the natural disasters.
3、 ask the students to look at the pictures on page25 and try to describe what they have seen.
4、 ask the students to imagine what might happen to all these things if there is an earthquake.
step 3: pre-reading
1、 imagine your home begins to shake and you must  leave it right away. you have time to take only one thing. what will you take? why?
2、 what do you think will happen before an earthquake?
step 4: while-reading
1、 skimming
task 1: find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
taks 2: divide the passage into three parts and complete the main idea of each part.
  part 1 :(para.1) before the earthquake ___________   began to happen but everyone _______________ them.
  part 2: (pare.2-3) the earthquake _________ the city of tangshan and
_________ people very much.
  part 3:(para.4)  _____ came to help the survivors,bringing______ for a new life.
2、 careful reading
task 1: read the passage carefully and join the correct parts of the sentences.
1.the chicken didn’t eat                a. the army came to help them.
  because
2.before the quake people         b. the quake happened while they were sleeping.
 didn’t worry because
3.such a great number                   c. they were nervous.
 of people died because
4.water was needed                     d. dams and wells were useless.