Unit 4 Natural Disasters The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep Teaching Plan Teaching Philosophy Now, let’s first take a look at the theoretical basis.This lesson takes the teaching philosophy from the English Curriculum Criteria for regular high school released in 2017 as a guiding principle based on the concept of big ideas[1]. It aims to develop students’ core competencies through the activity-based English learning approach[2],so three levels of activities are carefully designed, including learning and understanding, applying and practicing as well as transferring and creating. According to the schematic theory[3], mind-map is a good way to cultivate students’ thinking ability, which is used in this lesson. Teaching Modes USE[4]Mode：Understanding , Sharing and Expressing PWP[2]Mode：Pre-reading , While-reading and Post-reading Analysis of Teaching Material ①What: The selected teaching material is from PEP Compulsory Course 1 , unit 4. The thematic context is human and nature and unit theme is natural disasters. This lesson is the second part of this unit.The text is about an earthquake that happened at night and caused great damage to the city and people. ②How: This discourse is described in time order. It includes 5 paragraphs and they can be divided into 3 parts. The 1st part talks about the warning signs before the earthquake, the 2nd tells what happened during the earthquake and its immediate effects and the last part is about the rescue work and the revival of the city. As for the language features, many rhetorical devices are used in the article such as simile, metaphor, exaggeration and personification. ③Why: Get students to form a positive attitude of “Disasters have no emotion, but people do.” Let them know what we should do for survivors if we were volunteers in an earthquake-stricken area. Analysis of Students As for the learners, The students I teach are the freshman in senior high school.They are active in class and eager for knowledge and have gained the basic reading skills.In the previous Listening and Speaking part, they have already learned something about natural disasters,including earthquake.But on the whole, they are still lower level language learners and short of vocabulary and lack such skills, especially have difficulty in deep reading and logical expression. Although they are familiar in topic in some ways, they know little about expressions. So I will employ proper methods to help them. Teaching Objectives Language Competence: 1.Learn about the basic information of the Tangshan earthquake; 2.Identify the language features of literary journalism and the structure of the text. Learning Competence: Master the ability to guess words according to the context. Thinking Quality: Grasp and use some words and phrases to describe a natural disaster. Cultural Awareness: 1.Reflect on the lessons that we can learn from the earthquake; 2.Adopt a more positive attitude towards natural disasters. Teaching Focal Points Lead st ... ...
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