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

Step 1: Lead in Good morning, everyone. Today we are going to learn the reading and the thinking part of this unit. Here is a picture, what can you see in the picture, an earth? What is she doing? The earth is sleeping. Can earth sleep? No. This is the use of personification. Now I need you to imagine what will happen if the earth doesn't sleep at night. Probably she's ill? Probably something terrible would happen. Step 2: Prediction. Now I need you to predict what our passage is going to talk about by looking at the title and the pictures. The title is the night the earth didn't sleep. And look at the picture what can you see in the picture? Yes, people are probably moving a stone. So what is our passage going to talk about? Probably a earthquake. Now, I need you to read the passage quickly and then check your guess. so did you guess it right? Step 3: Reading for main ideas The passage talks about a earthquake. Very good, a terrible earthquake. Where did it happen? In tangshan. And what else did you know? Great damage, the help of whole nation, the city has revived. So can you summarize the the main idea by organizing it into a complete sentence? Yes, a terrible earthquake hit Tangshan causing great damage, but with the help of the whole nation, the city has revived. Well done, ok, so now could you tell me the meaning of the revive? Yes, it means become better strong and active again, OK? So now during the rest of the lesson when you come across new words, you don't have to stop and look them up in the dictionary. The context will probably help you understand the meaning of the new words, OK? So now I need you to match them idea with each paragraph,can you do it now? So paragraph one goes to D. Strange signs before the earthquake and paragraph two goes to the happening of the earthquake. Paragraph three, the destructive effects and paragraph four the rescue work. The last paragraph the revival of the city. Well done, so now can you tell me how is the passage deve