高一英語Earthquakes教案
warming up by reading
what should you include in your speech when you try to write one? read the letter on page 29 and imagine you are the student who was invited to give a speech. now write a short speech, in which you should follow the points in exercise 3 on page 29.
ii. reading and underlining
read the letter and exercises again and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the letter. copy them in your notebook after class as homework.
collocations from the letter
congratulations, be pleased to do sth., win the high school speaking competition, a
group of five judges, all of whom, agree, be proud of, open a new park, honour those who died in the terrible disaster, would like to do, have you do sth., as you know, invite sb.
to do sth., on that special day, at the beginning of, thank sb, for doing sth.,
honour sb. for sth., be known as, encourage sb. to do sth., be happy to do sth.,
collect stamps, lose one’s life
iii. listening
turn on your books at page 30. we’ll listen to a story about a person who experienced the 1906 san francisco earthquake. i’ll play the tape three times. first listen and try to get some details that exercises 1 and 2 request. second listen again and try to finish the exercises. third listen and check your answers.
iv. guided writing (sb. page 31)
1. making a introduction
have you ever read a newspaper story? now turn on your books to page 31 and look at writing. read the brief description about how to write a newspaper story. compare a newspaper story to a short story and answer the following questions.
1) what should you write before writing a newspaper story? (outline)
2) what should a newspaper outline have? (a headline; a list of main ideas; a list of important details)
3) why a headline is needed? (it can tell the readers what the topic is; it can also attract the readers’ attention)
4) how can you finish a newspaper story? (first, you should write a headline, then organize your main ideas into paragraphs, and then put some details into each paragraph.)
5) have you found out the difference between a newspaper story and a short story?
(usually a short story begins with small details and includes big details later. a newspaper story does just the opposite. both kinds of stories use paragraphs with main ideas. in a good newspaper story, the point-of-view is objective (i.e. it has no point-of-view) while a short story is subjective (i.e. it has a point-of-view). a newspaper story has no conclusion; a short story generally does.)