Unit 4  Earthquakes

3. train the students’ ability to do things step by step.
emotion:
1. honor the great people of tangshan.
2. learn to cooperate to each other.
teaching important points:
1. train the students’ speaking ability.
2. train the students’ ability to search for doing something.
teaching difficulties:
1. know how to write a speech.
2. know how to write a newspaper story.
3. learn to cooperate to each other.
teaching procedures:
step 1 revision
t: in the last period, we learned the attributive clause and how to choose a proper relative pronoun. now let’s check your homework exercises. please open your textbooks and turn to page 64. look at part 1 in using structures. i will ask some of you to read the sentences out.
(the teacher corrects mistakes if there are any.)
step 2 reading and writing
t: read the letter on page 29.in the blank at the beginning of the letter, write the last number of the year it is now. then in the blank near the end of the letter, use a number to say how many years ago the quake happened.
(after several minutes, the teacher checks the answers with the class.)
t: suppose you are the student who was invited to give the speech. what should you include in your speech?
(students give their different answers.)
t: yes, while writing, don’t forget to contain the information. now i will give you 15 minutes to write the speech. you can follow the points in part 3 on this page.
(while the students are writing, the teacher gets around the classroom and helps the students to deal with any difficulties that they have.)
(after 15 minutes)
t: are there any volunteers to read his or her speech?
( if there is nobody, the teacher asks one to read, and give some assessments.)
step 3 speaking
t: imagine that after your speech, zhangsha asks you to give a short talk about the new stamps about tangshan to honor the city. first, ask and answer the following questions in pairs.
(1) what do these stamps show?
(2) do you think these stamps are very important and why?
(3) will you collect these stamps? why and why not?
(after the students ask and answer these questions in pairs.)
t: now try to fill in the lines in the little talk. you can use some of the answers to the questions.
t: next i will ask one of you to read the little talk.
step 4 writing
t: by now you have learned writing a speech and a little talk. now you are going to write an article for a newspaper about a special event that happed in your hometown. first, let’s learn some skills of writing newspaper stories. before you write, you should write an outline. this is very useful. today, we will learn how to write an outline. please turn to page 31. read the instructions in bold and pay attention to some questions i prepared to you.