Unit 4 Natural disasters Lesson 2 Reading and Thinking教案--人教版高中英语必修第一册.docx

Unit 4 Natural disastersLesson 2 Reading and Thinking【教学目标】1. To infer main ideas of a passage from keywords and context. 2To talk about a natural disaster.【教学重难点】1To talk about a natural disaster and remember the key points.2To use the vocabulary and sentences related to natural disasters.【教学过程】Step 1 Before-reading1Different kinds of bad weather conditions and natural disasters.Ask students to tell the name one by one.2Tell students that an earthquake is a natural disaster that can cause great damage or loss of life. Ask if they know what will happen when an earthquake takes place.Elicit any information about an earthquake they know.3Show pictures about an earthquake and present some new words about it, e.g. shaking, bomb, fear, scream, direction, wildly. Then ask students to read the new words together. 4Talk to students about the context of Timmys story. Elicit any information about the Taiwan earthquake in 1999 from students. E.g. The earthquake took place on 21st September 1999. More than 2,300 people died and about 12,000 buildings fell down. Its believed to be the strongest earthquake to have hit Taiwan last century.Step 2 While-reading1. Tell students that Timmy is a lucky boy. He survived the earthquake and wrote a story about it. Ask them to read through Timmys story silently and try to answer the two questions.No.1: What was Timmy doing when the earthquake started? No.2: Did Timmy give up or try his best to survive when he was in danger during the earthquake?2Discuss the two questions with students to check understanding.3Ask students to do Part B1 and help Sandy match the words on the left with the meanings on the right.4Then ask students to read Para 1 and 2, and try to complete the table to find out: when the earthquake came, what did Timmy feel/hear/see and do?5Ask what happened to Timmy then? Tell them to read Para 3 and 4 to find the answer. Present: Timmy was trappedExplain be trapped.6Ask what Timmy did to save himself after he was trapped? He did five things to help himself. Ask students to read the rest part of the story to find out the answers.7Tell students Timmy put some pictures he draw about the earthquake on his home page. Ask students to complete Part B2 to put them into the correct order and write the captions in the blanks.8Ask them to complete Part B3. Write a T if the sentence is true, write an F if it is false.Step 3 Post-reading1Present some language points: e.g. shaking, shake; try to do sth.; run in all directions; calm down; be in a great hurry to do sth.; in different ways.2Do a quiz to check understandingStep 4 Assignment1Recite the new words.2Recite the passage. 3Find out useful words and phrases in Reading. 2 / 2学科网（北京）股份有限公司