Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and thinking 教案-2025-2026学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 4 Natural Disasters - Reading and Thinking 教案 (Lesson Plan) I. Teaching Objectives： 1.Knowledge: Students will identify the chronological structure (warning signs, earthquake hits, damage, rescue, and revival) and main ideas of the text "The Night the Earth Didn't Sleep". 2.Skills: Students will practice and apply reading strategies such as predicting from titles/photos, summarizing paragraphs, and applying context clues to guess the meanings of new words (ruin, brick, trap, bury). 3.Affective: Students will appreciate the themes of hope, unity, and human resilience in the face of disasters, and understand the author's emotional intent ("灾害无情, 人有情"). II. Important and Difficult Points： 1.Important Point: Guiding students to follow the text's timeline (before, during, and after the earthquake) to understand the event's progression and the severe damage caused. 2.Difficult Point: Helping students understand and appreciate the language features of literary journalism (报告文学), particularly the use of specific data for authenticity (纪实性) and rhetorical devices (like simile and personification) for emotional impact (文学性). III. Teaching Aids Multimedia PPT (displaying photos, text, key questions), whiteboard and markers, worksheet. IV. Teaching Procedures： Step 1: Lead-in (5 minutes) 1.Teacher's Activity: Begin by asking students to discuss Activity 1 in pairs: "Discuss what can happen to a city during a big earthquake." (激活背景知识). Show the text's title ("THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP") and the main photo (Page 2) on the PPT. Ask students to complete Activity 2: "Look at the title and photo below and guess what the text is about." Ask follow-up questions: "What does the title mean Does the earth sleep ". 2.Purpose: To activate students' background knowledge about earthquakes and use the title and photo to generate interest and predictions about the text. Step 2: Reading Comprehension (Skimming for Main Ideas) (10 minutes) 1.Students' Activity - Fast Reading: Task 1: Skim the text quickly to check if their predictions from Step 1 were correct. Task 2: Complete Activity 3, summarizing the main idea for each paragraph. (Teacher provides Para 1 as an example: Warning signs before the earthquake.). 2.Teacher's Activity - Guidance & Summary: Monitor and set a time limit for fast reading. Invite students to share their main ideas for Paras 2-5. Guide the class to summarize the text's clear chronological structure: 1. Warning signs → 2. Quake hits → 3. Damage → 4. Rescue → 5. Revival. 3.Purpose: To train students' skimming skills (fast reading) and help them grasp the overall structure of the text. Step 3: Detailed Reading (Scanning for Details) (13 minutes) 1.Teacher's Activity - Guided Questioning: Para 1 (Warning): Ask students to read carefully and find the answer to Activity 6, Q1 ("What were some of the strange things... "). Para 2-3 (Damage): Ask for specific details: "When did it happen " "What was the damage " (e.g ... ...