Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking 课件 2025-2026学年高中英语人教版必修第一册

Unit 4 Natural disasters Period 2 Reading and thinking Senior Obligatory Book1 Opening In the reading process, I will focus on students’ long-term development and enable them to use proper reading skills and strategies. In other words, students are guided to read efficiently and independently. My teaching plan will include 6 sections. General Introduction Section 1 Analysis of the teaching material Section 2 Analysis of the students Section 3 Identifying teaching aims Section 4 Identifying teaching methods Section 5 Teaching procedures Section 6 Blackboard design Status and content: The reading is the centre of this unit, in which we will learn some expressions, reading skills and the uses of attributive clause. Teaching keys: 1. Improve the students’ reading skills. 2. Enable the students to learn about the natural disasters. Teaching difficulty: The process of finding the main idea of each paragraph. Section 1 Analysis of the teaching material Section 2 Analysis of the students 1. The students are Senior one, so the task I set shouldn’t be too difficult. 2. The students have previewed the reading part before the lesson and learned new words, so during teaching, we have no new words. Section3 Identifying teaching aims Knowledge aim: Students are familiar with various expressions and have a good command of the natural disasters. Ability aim: Students can figure out the implied meaning while reading and listening. Emotion aim: Students realize the importance of surviving the earthquakes and loving our earth and life. Thinking quality aim: Inspire the students’ spirit of protecting the environment. Section 4 Identifying teaching methods Guided reading —— cooperative learning —— task-based method. With the teaching methods, I can guide the students to use effective reading strategies to comprehend the text, solve problems and complete different tasks. Section 5 Teaching procedures The teaching procedures include seven parts. They’re lead-in, pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading, role-play, discussion and homework. Part1 lead-in Can you guess what happened during a big earthquake? Buildings_____________ fell down People were ________________. trapped or buried The water pipes _____________________ . cracked and burst The city was____________and lay _______. destroyed in ruins 9 The night the earth didn’t sleep Part2 Pre-reading Look at the title and picture below and guess what the text is about. title The passage is about an earthquake Task1. Listen and skim for main information. 1). What’s the main idea of the whole passage? 2). How are the events arranged? The text is organized in time order. It mainly talks about the big earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976. Part 3 While-reading 11 Task2. Read for further information. Read the text carefully and then write down the main idea of each paragraph. Paragraph1:Warning signs before the earthquakes. Paragraph2:______________________________ Paragraph3:______________________________ Paragraph4:______________________________ Paragraph5:______________________________ The happening of the big earthquake. The immediate effects of the earthquake. The rescue work. The revival of the city . during the earthquake after the earthquake before the earthquake Part 3 While-reading 12 Strange things were happening In the village wells, ... In the farmyard, ... In the field, ... In the sky, ... What was the attitude of the people in the city towards those strange things? But the city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night. People ignored the warning signs ignorant Part 3 While-reading Task3 Read for details of each paragraph Para1. Strange things were happening. Supporting details 13 At _________, everything began to shake. ____________ of the nation felt the earthquake. A huge crack that was _______ kilometres long and _____ metres wide cut across houses. In less than___ minute, a large city lay in ruins. ___________ of the people died or were injured during the earthquake. The number of people who were killed or badly injured reached more than ________. All of the city’s hospitals, _____ of its factories and buildings and _____ of its homes were gone. Part 3 While-reading Task3 Read for details of each paragraph Para2. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. 3:42 a.m. One third eight 30 one Two thirds 400,000 75% 90% How did people feel at that time? shocked Supporting details 14 What was the people’s feeling at that time? People felt hopeless at that time. Para3. Everywhere survivors looked, there was nothing but ruins. factories, buildings and homes,hospitals bricks dams, bridges, railway tracks cows, pigs,chickens water, food,electricity Supporting details Part 3 While-reading Task3 Read for details of each paragraph 15 Part 3 While-reading Task3 Read for details of each paragraph Para4. But hope was not lost. who what result hopeful Supporting details soldiers doctors and nurses workers to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead came to provide medical service built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed the city began to breathe again 16 I think the revival of Tangshan was helped by the strong support of the government and the people who all worked in unity to rebuild the city even better than before. Part 3 While-reading Task3 Read for details of each paragraph Para5 . Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet. What do you think helped in the revival of Tangshan city? 17 ignorant shocked hopeless hopeful before the earthquake during the earthquake after the earthquake when the rescue came Part 4 Post-reading Task1.Read for finding out the change of people ’ s feelings 18 1).① The night the earth didn’t sleep. ②Slowly, the city began to breathe again. 2)....the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell... Part 4 Post-reading Task2.Read for language features and writing skills figure of speech: personification 拟人 Function: to make the language vivid and expressive, and resonate(共鸣) with readers. figure of speech: Repetition重复 Function: to make the description more vivid and involve the readers in the atmosphere. 19 3). It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. 4). ①Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. ②Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. figure of speech: ①simile明喻②metaphor 暗喻 Function: to make the description more vivid. figure of speech: exaggeration夸张 Function: to show the destruction was extremely severe. Part 4 Post-reading Task2.Read for language features and writing skills 20 Task3.What's the function of the figures? 3:42 a.m. 11 kilometers 200 kilometers 15 seconds 2/3 75%, 90% 400,000 To show the disastrous destruction and suffering; to make the passage true and convincing. Part 4 Post-reading 21 A survivor A reporter Part 5 Role play R: Hello, I am … , a reporter from CCTV 9. S: Hello, I am …. Nice to meet you. Dialogue 1. R: Did you notice anything strange before the earthquake? S: There were many strange things… Dialogue 2. R: What damage did it cause? S: Eleven km.../One-third of …/two-thirds … /400,000... Dialogue 3. R: Who came to the rescue? What did they do? S: The army.../doctors and nurses.../workers….. Part 5 Role play The dialogues may begin like this: Sit down under your desk. Don’t be nervous and keep calm. If you are in the classroom, don’t run out of it immediately. Protect your head by putting your bag on your head. Don’t use lift. If you are out of the building, run to the schoolyard. Part 6 Discussion:What shall we do when an earthquake happens? Make a poster about how to survive the earthquake. Finish the exercises on Page 51. Part 7 Homework Section 6 Blackboard design 1.Reading process: → signs before the earthquake → happenings and effects during the earthquake → the rescue work and the revival of the city after the earthquake. 2.Expressions: in ruins, in shock, set up, as usual, the number of ..., dig out, a home to, in the open air, sweep away, in danger, as many as. Reading: The night the earth didn’t sleep Thanks for your attendance! 27 $