Lesson17Staying Safe in an Earthquake教学设计- 2025-2026学年冀教版（2012）九年级英语全册

Lesson 17 - Staying Safe in an Earthquake

一. Teaching Objectives

 Language Competence

1.Students can master new words: earthquake, calm, object, survival.

2.Students can understand and use sentences to talk about what to do during an earthquake, e.g., "Stay calm as the earth begins to shake and move." "Get under a table or a bed."

 Cultural Awareness

Students know that in areas prone to earthquakes, people have specific safety knowledge and measures to protect themselves, which is a common sense in Western countries with earthquake risks.

Thinking Quality

1.Students can analyze the different situations during an earthquake (inside, outside, after the earthquake) and think about the corresponding safety actions.

2.Students can think critically about the importance of staying calm in dangerous situations.

Learning Ability

1.Students can improve their reading comprehension by reading the passage about earthquake safety.

2.Students can work in groups to discuss earthquake safety tips, enhancing their collaborative learning ability.

 二. Teaching Key & Difficult Points

Key Points:

Learn to use the vocabulary and phrases about safety precautions in earthquakes and use of if clauses and imperative sentences.

Difficult Points:

Interpret the text and analyze the structure of the text and improve students' reading and writing abilities to some extent.

三. Teaching Aids

PPT with pictures of earthquake scenes.

四. Teaching Procedures

 Step1   Warm - up 

- The teacher shows some pictures of natural disasters (earthquake, flood, typhoon) on the PPT.

- Ask students: Do you know these natural disasters?

Have you ever experienced an earthquake?

- Let students discuss in pairs and then share their ideas.

Step2 Presentation 

- Vocabulary Teaching:

- Show the word card "earthquake". Say: "Earthquakes usually come without warning. ."

- Show the word card "calm". Say: "Stay calm as the earth begins to shake and move.

- Show the word card "object". Say: "An object is a thing. Falling objects can be dangerous in an earthquake."

- Show the word card "survival". Say: "Survival means staying alive. Staying calm can help with survival in an earthquake."

- Let students read the words after the teacher and then read them by themselves.

- Sentence Teaching:

- Show the picture of an earthquake scene. Say:

What is the first thing you should do when an earthquake happens?

- Show the picture of someone getting under a table. Say:

Inside: get under table/bed; don't stand near walls/windows, stay in kitchen, get into lift.

Outside: get to open area; pull over (no trees/tall buildings); stay away from sea water.

After: move to open area (if fire); keep an eye out; use phone once.

- Let students repeat the sentences.

Step3  Reading 

Pre - reading:

- Ask students the "THINK ABOUT IT" questions:

1.Have you ever experienced an earthquake? When and where?

2.What is the first thing you should do when an earthquake happens?

- Let students share their answers.