Unit 4 Natural Disasters The Night The Earth Didn't Sleep 教学设计-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking: The Night The Earth Didn't Sleep 1.Teaching Ideology General Senior High School Curriculum Standards for English (2017) points out that Senior High English course plays a vital role in implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, which aims at developing students’ subject core competencies-language ability, cultural awareness, thinking capacity, and learning ability, thus comprehensively promoting quality education. As for reading instruction, specifically speaking, it should be guided by thematic meaning, based on texts, and targeted at solving problems, integrating knowledge acquisition and skill development into theme, context, discourse and pragmatics, with a view to promote students’ core competencies through learning and understanding, applying and practicing, transferring and creating activities. Therefore, this reading instruction pays close attention to unit theme context, ample input of the text and deep excavation of the thematic meaning; and concurrently guides students’ emotional participation and inculcates correct values. The classroom is built on student-centered environment, involving group cooperation as well as individual internalization, and, during which process, classroom generation is emphasized. Teaching procedures, based on Bloom’s taxonomy (see Figure 1.) ranking thinking ability from lower-order to higher-order, are provided with activities reflecting stratification, coherence and integrity. Using Task-based Language Teaching and integrating learning, teaching and evaluating to foster virtue and develop their comprehensive language competence. Figure 1 Bloom’s taxonomy 2.Analysis of teaching materials What This section is selected from unit 4, book I of New senior English for China.This lesson is the second part of this unit. The title of the reading material is The Night The Earth Didn't Sleep, whose theme belongs to Man and nature. It's about the big earthqu