文档介绍：Unit 4 Earthquakes
I. 单元教学目标
Know basic knowledge of earthquakes.
Know how to protect oneself and help others in disasters.
Write some passages about earthquakes.
Write a newspaper outline.
Learn to use the Attributive Clause.
II 目标语言
1. Talking about past experiences
I will never forget the day when the earthquake took place. The time was 5:15 in the afternoon and I was driving along the road.
2. Sequence
I asked a man standing next to me what had happened. Before he could answer, hundreds of bricks fell on him and he was killed. I thought the end of the world had come! Then I met a man who knew the way to a boat, and we ran in its direction. I saw many frightened cows rush up Market Street and drop into a great crack ground.
III 词汇
四会
shake,well,rise,smelly,pond,pipe,burst,canal,steam,ruin,injure,destroy,brick,dam,useless,steel,shock,quake,rescue,electricity,disaster,army,organize,bury,coal,mine,shelter,fresh,percent,speech,judge,honor,prepare,Europe.
2．认读
crack, survivor, miner
3. 词组
right away, at an end, dig out, give out, thousands of
IV. 语法
Ｔhe Attributive Clause (I )
重点句子
Farmers’ wives noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them.
It seemed as if the world was at an end!
Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.
The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.
Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
分课时教案
THE FIRST PERIOD READING
Step I. Revision
Check the homework with the whole class.
Step II. Warming up
Ask the students to read the instructions and make sure they know what to do, and then have a discussion about the two pictures.
T: Today, before we begin our reading, I’d like to ask you a question, “What is the biggest sound you have heard in your life?”
S1: The sound of wind that blew in a winter night when I was very young. It sounded like a ghost who was howling. I was very frightened at that time.
S2: The