Unit 2 Natural Disasters Reading 教学设计-2025-2026学年高一下学期英语译林版必修第三册

Natural Disasters 1. Teaching Objectives 1) Language Ability: Students will be able to extract key information from news reports, describe actions taken during natural disasters, and present a survival guide. 2) Cultural Awareness: Students will recognize how people from different cultural backgrounds respond to natural disasters and develop a sense of shared responsibility in disaster preparedness. 3) Thinking Quality: Students will analyze characters’ actions, infer personal qualities and apply reasoning to design practical survival strategies. 4) Learning Ability: Students will collaborate in groups to complete tasks, use charts to organize information, and reflect on learning outcomes through presentation and summary. 2. Teaching Key and Difficult Points Key Points · Extract key information from news reports (who, what, where, how) and complete a character action & quality chart. · Collaboratively design a survival guide for a specific natural disaster scenario. Difficult Points Infer personal qualities (e.g., calmness, responsibility, quick-thinking) from actions described in the text, and justify with evidence. 3. Teaching Materials PPT slides, Disaster cards for survival guide design, multimedia. 4. Lesson Procedures Step 1: Lead-in (5 mins) Activity 1 (Guessing Game): Play the first few lines of the song lyrics from Tornado. Ask: What natural disaster is being described? Activity 2 (Match Work): Match disaster names with their descriptions or images (e.g., tornado, earthquake, tsunami). Step 2: Pre-reading(6mins) Activity 3 (Brainstorm): Students list as many natural disasters as they know (e.g., flood, wildfire, drought, hurricane). Step 3: Pre-reading(8mins) Activity 4 (News Reports): Students read two news reports (Falmont earthquake and tsunami survival story). Complete the chart: Name Actions Qualities Alice Brown Opened door, signaled orderly exit, made wall of doors Thoughtful, responsible, calm Sabrina Andron Warned family, reacted quickly Quick-thinking, careful, calm Discuss: What can we learn from these two reports? Step 4: Post-reading(12mins) Activity5: group work, design a survival guide. Each group picks a disaster card (e.g., earthquake in classroom, tsunami at beach, wildfire nearby). Groups design a 3–5 step survival guide. Step 5: Presentation & Summary (8 min) Each group presents their survival guide. Summarize survival guide: For example: Flood----Move to a higher floor immediately. 1. Do not walk or swim through floodwater. 2. Grab a floating object if needed. 3. Class evaluates based on clarity, practicality, and teamwork. Teacher leads a final summary: We cannot prevent natural disasters, but we can... Step 6: Homework (2 min) Polish your survival guide (based on class feedback). Collect more information on disaster preparedness (e.g., emergency kit items, evacuation routes). 5. Assessment Assessment Type Method Formative Observation during group discussion and chart completion Summative Group survival guide presentation and written summary Self-assessment Students reflect: What did I learn about staying safe in a disaster? 6. Reflection 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $