Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking 教学设计 -2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

Book 1 Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking教学设计 教学目标 1. Enable students to summarize the main idea of each paragraph. 2. Get students to find the detailed information about Tangshan earthquake. 3. Encourage students to appreciate the figures of speech in the text. 教学内容 教学重点： 1. Enable students to retell how Tangshan Earthquake happened. 2. Improve students’ ability to grasp the order and organization of the text. 教学难点： 1. How to make students understand the figures of speech. 2. How to encourage students to describe other earthquakes in time order. 教学过程 Step Ⅰ Lead-in Think about what can happen to a city during a big earthquake. Step Ⅱ Pre-reading Look at the title and photo below to guess what the text is mainly about. Intention: It is intended to predict what the text is about according to the title and the photo. Step Ⅲ While-reading Activity 1 Read and check if you are right. The passage talks about the terrible earthquake that nearly destroyed Tangshan city in Hebei Province in 1976. Activity 2 Read the text carefully and write down the main idea of each paragraph. Paragraph Main idea 1 Warning signs before the earthquake. 2 3 4 5 Intention: This part is designed to help the students to understand the main idea of the passage. Activity 3 The organization of the text. Para.1: Before the earthquake Para.2&3: During the earthquake Para.4&5: After the earthquake Intention: This part is aimed at helping students grasp the structure of the passage. Activity 4 Answer the following questions. 1. What were some of the strange things happening before the earthquake？ 2. How did people react to these strange things? Why? 3. What happened to the city and people? How did the people feel? 4. When did the earthquake happen? 5. What happened later that afternoon? 6. Who came to the rescue?What did they do? 7. What kind of help do you think people who have suffered an earthquake need? 8. What do you think helped in the revival of Tang