Unit 4  Earthquakes

record after teaching :
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                              the second period
knowledge:
learn some new, phrases and some new sentence patterns.
ability:
1. learn some detailed information about an earthquake.
2. improve the students’ reading ability.
3. train the students’ ability to grasp key information while listening.
4. train the students’ speaking ability.
emotion:
1. train the students’ ability to cooperate with others.
2. know the deadliness of an earthquake and the signs before an earthquake is coming.
3. learn from the bravery of people in tangshan to face the reality and rebuild the city.
teaching important points:
1 the new words and expressions.
2. learn some detailed information about an earthquake.
3. train the students’ ability to cooperate with others.
4. train the students’ speaking ability.
teaching difficulties:
1 words: shake, burst, rise, destroy, shock, fresh, injure
2. phrases: right away, at an end
3. sentence patterns:
(1) it seemed/ seems that…
(2) the number of sb./sth. reached/reaches…
(3)all hope was not lost.
4. improve the students’ reading ability.
5. train the students’ ability to grasp key information while listening
teaching procedures:
step 1 pre-reading
t: suppose you are warned of a coming earthquake. now you have time to take only one thing. tell your partner what you will take and the reason.
t: if an earthquake is around the corner, there must be some abnormal phenomena. carefully look at the four pictures on page 25 and try to describe what you have seen.
step2 listening
t: everyone knows that an earthquake is very terrible. today, we will learn something about the strongest earthquake in china’s history, which happened in tangshan, hebei, in 1976. first listen to the tape with your textbooks closed and check whether the following statements are true or false. if it is false, try to correct it.