高中英语人教版必修第一册 Unit 4 Natural disasters（第1课时）教案

Unit 4: Natural disasters The Night The Earth Didn't Sleep 第1课时 一、教学内容 　　理清文本主线，理解文本字面意义，并深入理解唐山地震震前人们未觉察，震后人们的不幸、痛苦和损失，理解在面对灾害时人们所体现出的互助无私及巨大勇气，并就此思考如何看待灾难与人类的关系。 　　二、课时目标 　　1. 通过略读、寻读等阅读技巧，找出段落主题句，了解唐山大地震的基本信息; 　　2. 梳理段落细节信息，了解唐山大地震震前的反常、地震带来巨大的破坏力以及灾后的迅捷无私救援及重建; 　　3. 讨论地震给人们带来的思考，升华主题意义。 　　三、教学过程 　　Activity 1 Activating background information 　　本活动为实现课时教学目标1铺垫。 　　T: Today we are going to learn a passage with the title? So why didn’t the earth sleep on that night? What happened to the earth? Actually there is a movie directed by Feng Xiaogang focuses on the same earthquake. Now, I’d like to show you a short period of it. 　　1. Talk about the video related to the earthquake 　　Q1. What do you learn from the video? 　　2. Talk about Tangshan Earthquake. 　　Q1. What do you know about Tangshan Earthquake? 　　Q2. What do you want to know about it? 　　[设计意图]?课前播放唐山大地震视频片段，创设情境，激活学生背景知识，并引导自主提问，形成阅读期待。 　　Activity 2 Reading to get some basic information about earthquake 　　本活动的完成可以落实课时教学目标1。 　　1. Read quickly to find the answers to the students’ own questions. 　　2. Read for the topic sentences and work out the organization of the text. 　　Q1 What’s the topic sentence in each paragraph. 　　Q2 In what order does the author describe the earthquake? 　　[设计意图]步骤1学生在读前问题的引领下进行整体阅读，步骤2共同讨论段落的主题句，并通过了解文本的写作顺序理清文本结构。 　　Activity 3 Reading for the detailed information 　　本活动旨在落实课时教学目标2。 　　1. Read to get detailed information about Paragraph 1. 　　Q1: What are the strange things? 　　Q2: What was people’s reaction to these strange things? 　　Q3. Why didn’t people pay attention to these strange things/the signs before the earthquake? 　　T: People had little knowledge of earthquake at that time. 　　Q4 When does this paragraph mainly talk about? 　　T: Abnormal signs before the earthquake. 　　[设计意图]通过问题1帮助学生快速梳理本段主要信息，进而由问题2引导学生概括这部分信息的关键词，即一些奇怪的现象“strange”，随后通过问题2引出本段的另一个关键句, 即人们不同寻常的反应，接着自然过渡到问题3，引发学生思考文本隐含的内在信息,最后通过问题4概括段落主要信息。 　　2. Read to get detailed information about Paragraph 2. 　　Q1 How strong was the earthquake? 　　Q2 How did the people feel when the earthquake happened? 　　Q3 What does this paragraph mainly talk about? 　　[设计意图]本段细节信息较多而且较杂，教师要引导学生通过问题1根据关键词“deadly”寻找支撑信息，了解地震本身震级高，带来了很多的伤亡。通过问题2引导学生理解段落表达的人物情感。最后通过问题3概括段落主要信息。 　　3. Read to get detailed information about Para. 3. 　　Q1 What were destroyed? 　　Q2 How does the writer ... ...