高一英語(yǔ)Earthquakes教案
now i’ll show you a newspaper story to find out the headline, main idea and details of each paragraph.
the washington post
seattle-a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 hit washington state last week. the quake, the biggest in 50 years, caused billions of dollars in damage. but miraculously, only one person died and more than 100 people were injured in the quake.
authorities said one reason there wasn’t greater destruction is that the region spent millions of dollars in the last decade designing earthquake----proof facilities and improving existing buildings, schools and homes.
earthquake expert said the event illustrated(說(shuō)明) the growing gap between rich and poor nations in the ability to mitigate(減輕) natural disasters. only a handful of people were seriously injured here, a slight number compared with the devastation(破壞) in countries like turkey, india and el salvador, where quakes have buried thousands under poorly constructed buildings.
2. writing
now prepare the outline for a short newspaper story for china daily. you can use the example in exercise 1 to help you organize your outline.
3. underling
read the outline and the newspaper story in writing and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in them. copy them to your notebook after class as homework.
collocations from writing
a list of, put some details into each paragraph, a team of, raise money, thousands of,
plan to do sth., in early june, hope to do sth., be interested to do sth.
iv. closing down
closing down by summary
we have learned a lot about earthquakes. now let’s have a summary about what we have learned. look at the following questions.
(1) have you ever experienced an earthquake?
(2) can you describe an earthquake in english?
(3) what do you know about the cause of an earthquake?
(4) what new information about earthquakes have you learned now?
(5) what words and expressions can you use to describe an earthquake?
closing down by finding information
go to the library to read or get online to search in order to find more in formation about natural disasters.
part two: teaching resources (第二部分：教學(xué)資源)
section1: a text structure analysis of a night the earth didn’t sleep
i. type of writing and summary of the main idea
type of writing this is a piece of descriptive writing
main idea of the passage the article describes the cause, the course and the
result of tang shan earthquake in 1976. it
shows us the terrible image of earthquake. at the
same time it hits us that we must realize that