Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking 教案-2023-2024高中英语人教版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 4 Reading 《课程标准解读》 语篇教学，重要的是如何搞清语篇内部各种复杂的关系，前提是这篇文章是良好的有机整体。否则，不值得耗时。精选语篇很重要。这里要注意的是：一要关注语篇的类型和语篇的风格；二要以语篇为单位组织教学，换句话说，就是任何局部的理解都必须站在语篇全局的角度加以考量，这是重点；三是要培养学生的这种语篇意识，让他们也具有这样的学习策略；四是所有语篇的分析也仅仅是手段，不能为语篇而语篇，最终目的是为了能够获取作者的意义、思想、情感和价值观等。 READING I. What do we know from the photos? II. What does the title mean? Does the earth sleep as you do? III. Who are these people? What are they doing? IV. What might happen on the night? V. What do you think the text is mainly about? Guess what the text is mainly about. It’s a story about a disaster.                      B. It’s a story about great changes. C. It’s a story about a sleepless night.          D. It’s a story about the building of a new city. Read paras 2-3, put the sentences into the right order. ( ) It even caused damage to Beijing which is more than 150 kilometers away. ( ) Eleven kilometers directly below the city, one of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th century began. ( ) Later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tangshan again, making water and food harder to get. ( ) A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and waterways. ( ) Sand filled the wells instead of water. 利用语境猜测词义。一、生词所在句子或段落中出现的其它词汇的意思；二、文本的主题知识；三、生词在句子中的语法结构知识。下面看看如何利用语境猜测ruin和brick的词义。 第二段ruin上下文提取信息：coming to an end, deadly earthquakes, damage, crack, cut across, rivers of dirt, dead, injured, without parents, killed, badly injured。描述了毁灭性的画面：the large city was destroyed completely，可以猜测ruin“毁坏，破坏”。 第三段brick上文About 75 percent of the city’s factories and buildings, 90 percent of its homes, and all of its hospitals were gone及该词所在句covered the ground like red autumn leaves, but no wind could blow them away可知，工厂、建筑物、房子、医院等消失不见了，风没能吹走的红色物体遍地都是，可以推测brick “砖，砖块”。 1. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end! 明喻simile是用另一种事物比喻要说明的事物，通过比喻词将两者联系起来。常见的比喻词有like, as, as if, as though, seem和as ... as ...等。本句使用了明喻修辞手法，coming to an end让读者真切地感受到地震的强度和破坏性。 2. Bricks covered the ground lik