高中英语人教版 (2019)必修 第一册Unit 4 Natural disasters教案及反思

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2019新人教高中英语必修一Unit4Reading and Thinking教案Teaching aims:1.Enable students to learn about the Tangshan earthquake,summarize the main idea and figure out the structures2.Identify the language features of literary journalism and the structures of the text. 3.Appreciate the figures of speech and writing skills used in the text. 4.Grasp and use some words and phrases to describe a natural disaster,and strengthen the awareness of coping with disasters.Teaching key points:   Guide students to better understand the language features of literary journalism and the structures of the text.    Help students to figure out the writing purpose and emotions expressed in the text. Teaching difficult points:   Enable students to grasp and use some words and phrases to describe a natural disaster.   Guide students to explore the figures of speech of the text. Teaching procedures:Step I Lead-inAsk students to discuss what can happen to a city during a big earthquake. Work in pairs.Suggested answer:A city can be damaged in the earthquake. The electricity can go down. The water can be unsafe to drink. Fires can start. People can panic or get severely injured.StepⅡPredictionAsk students to look at the title and photo on Page 50and guess what the text is about. Then answer the following questions.Questions:1.What’s the text mainly about2.What does the writer mean by the title（本题可留到最后解答）Suggested answers:1.The text is mainly about a terrible earthquake. 2.Night is time for sleep. Usually it should be safe and quiet. But at that night,the earth was active and everything changed. That was a sleepless night.Step Ⅲ Skimming for main informationActivity 1 Read the passage to judge the type of writing of the text and how this text is organized.Questions:   What is the type of writing of the text?   How are the events arrangedActivity 2  Read the text carefully and then write down the main idea of each paragraph.Paragraph 1:Warning signs before the earthquake. Paragraph 2:________________________________Paragraph 3:________________________________Paragraph 4:________________________________Paragraph 5:________________________________Suggested answers:Activity 11.The type of writing of the text is literary journal-ism, which lies between news reports and literary works.Literary journalism usually describes real historical events and real characters. The usage of the figures of speech can stimulate readers' feelings and thus touch the readers.2.The text is organized in the chronological/time order. Activity 2Paragraph 1:Warning signs before the earthquake. Paragraph 2:The happening of the big earthquake. Paragraph 3:The immediate effects of the earthquake.Paragraph 4:The rescue work.Paragraph 5:The revival of the city.Step IV  Scanning for detailsActivity 1  Read Paragraph l to answer the following questions.Questions:   What's the topic sentence of Paragraph 1?   What were some of the strange things happening before the earthquake? 3. What was the attitude of the people in the city towards those strange things?Suggested answers:1.Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei.2.    Strange things were happeningIn the farmyard1.Dogs refused to go inside building2.chickens and pigs were too nervous to eatIn the field  fish jumped out of the water  Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide.In the village wells  The water rose and fell   Deep cracks appeared  Smelly gas came out of itIn the sky  bright lights were seen  Loud noises were heard   But the city’s one million people ignored all the signs and were asleep as usual that night.Activity a Read Paragraph 2 to answer the following questions.Questions:   What’s the topic sentence of this paragraph?   What about the supporting details?   What was the people’s feeling at that time?   Guess what the word“ruin”means from the context.Suggested answers:It seemed as if the world were coming to an end.Supporting details（红色部分为学生填写）At 3:42 am everything began to shake.11 kilometres below the city,one of the greatest earthquakes of the 20th century had begun.It was felt in Beijing,which is more than 150 kilometres away. Nearly 1/3 of the whole nation felt it.A huge crack that was 8 kilometres long and 30 metres wide cut across houses,roads and waterways.In less than one minute a large city lay in ruins.2/3 of the people who lived there were dead or injured.Thousands of children were left without parents.More than 400,000 of people were killed or badly injured. People were shocked at that time.This word describes the city straight after the earthquake.In a short time, a lot of damage was done, so it must describe a place that has been badly damaged.Activity 3  Read Paragraph 3 to answer the following questions.Questions：   What's the topic sentence of this paragraph?   What about the supporting details？   What was the people’s feeling at that time?Suggested answers:   Everywhere survivors looked, there was nothing but ruins2.Supporting detailsfactories, buildings and homes, hospitals, bricksbridges, railway trackscows,pigs, chickensWater,food, electricity   People felt hopeless at that time.Activity 4 Read paragraph 4 to answer the following questionsQuestions:   What’s the topic sentence of this paragraph?   What about the supporting details?whowhatResult       3. What does the writer mean by“Slowly,the city began to breathe again”Suggested answers:But hope was not lost.2.whowhatResultsoldiers dig out those who weretrapped and bury the dead   the city began to breathe again doctors and nursescame to provide medical to breathe careworkers built shelters for survivorswhose homes had been destroyed 3. The writer means that the city began to function again,because the earthquake had stopped people and sup-plies moving about, and so it was like the city couldn't breathe.Activity 5 Read Paragraph 5 to answer the following questions. Questions:What's the topic sentence of this paragraph?What do you think helped in the revival of Tangshan city?Suggested answers:1. Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet.2. I think the revival of Tangshan was helped by the strong support of the government and the people who all worked in unity to rebuild the city even better than before.Step V Reading for language features and writing skills Activity 1 Read the text once again and find out the sentences where figures of speech are used and their function.Activity 2 Figure out the function of the figures. Suggested answers:Activity 11.①The night the earth didn't sleep.②Slowly,the city began to breathe again.(personifica-tion 拟人；to make the language vivid and expressive，and resonate with readers)2....the water in the village wells rose and fell,rose and fell.（repetition 重复to make the description more vivid and involve the readers in the atmosphere)3.It seemed as if the world were coming to an end!（exaggeration夸张to show the destruction was extremely severe)4.① Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves...（simile明喻to make the description more vivid）②Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt.(metaphor 暗喻）Activity 2 To show the disastrous destruction and suffering;to make the passage true and convincing.Step Ⅵ  DiscussionDiscuss the following questions. Work in pairs. Questions:What other cities or towns have gone through similar changes?What lessons can we learn from these events?Suggested answers:Wenchuan county and some other towns near Wen-chuan have the similar experiences. These towns were built up from the ruins. As well as developing better ways to detect and prepare for these disasters, we have learnt that acting quickly and in unity is the best way to get over such disasters. The strong support from the government and people around is also very important. Step Ⅶ  Homework 1.Summarize the passage.2.Do some research on other natural disasters by surfing the Internet and make a report.