1、Step 1. Warming-up 1. Lead in by talking about the earthquake which happened in the Indian Ocean at the end of last year. Ask Ss to describe it in their words. 2. Ask Ss to say about something more about earthquakes, such as the Tangshan Earthquake that happened in our country.3. Look at the two pic
2、tures on Page 25. Step 2. Listening 1. Listen to the tape to know why there are earthquakes in the world. 2.Listen to the tape and check the answers.( It is about the cause of earthquakes and how we can reduce losses from them.) 3. A few minutes later, check the answers. Step 3. Homework 1. Preview
3、the reading passage on Page 26 and do exercise I in the part “Learning about language”. 2. Ask Ss to look for more ways of reducing losses from earthquakes. The students can go to the library or use the Internet to search for information. After searching for the information, each group should make a
4、 poster, informing people how to reduce the losses of an earthquake. Record after teaching. Period Two 1. Learn some detailed information about an earthquake. 2. Improve the students reading ability. 3. Train the students ability to grasp key information while listening. 4. Train the students speaki
5、ng ability. 1. The new words and expressions. 2. Learn some detailed information about an earthquake. 3. Train the students ability to cooperate with others. 1. Words: shake, burst, rise, destroy, shock, fresh, injure 2. Phrases: right away, at an end 3. Sentence patterns:(1) It seemed/ seems that (
6、2) The number of sb./sth. Reached/reaches (3)All hope was not lost. 4. Improve the students reading ability. 5. Train the students ability to grasp key information while listening Step 1. Pre-reading 1. Ask Ss to pretend they are warned of a coming earthquake. They have time to take only one thing.
7、Tell their partners what they will take and the reason. 2. If an earthquake is around the corner, there must be some abnormal phenomena. Carefully look at the four pictures on Page 25 and try to describe what have been seen. An earthquake is very terrible. In this unit, we will learn something about
8、 the strongest earthquake in Chinas history, which happened in Tangshan, Hebei, in 1976. First listen to the tape with your textbooks closed and check whether the following statements are true or false. If it is false, try to correct it. 1. People in Tangshan were warned of the earthquake and didnt
9、go to bed that night. (F) 2. People in Beijing also felt the earthquake. (T) 3. More than 400 000 people were killed in the quake. (F) 4. Many rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins during the aftershock. (T) 5. People tried to get fresh water from under the ground in Tangshan. (F)
10、Step 3. Reading 1. Finish Part 1-2 in Comprehending on Page 27. 2. Finish Part 3 in Comprehending on Page 27. 3. Read the passage again to get important information about Tangshan Earthquake and fill in the blanks. Step 4. Homework 1. Read the text several times. 2. Do exercise 3 on Page 28. 3. Do e
11、xercise 2 on Page 28 in the exercise book and hang it in tomorrow. 4. Learn some words and phrases in this unit and make some sentences with them. ( Ss Book, Page 82-84) Period Three1. Train the students ability to read different numbers in English. 2. Learn the usage of some difficult words and exp
12、ressions. 3. Train the students ability to remove the difficulties while reading. 2. Train the students ability to cooperate with others. 1. The explanation of some difficult words and expressions. 2. Train the students ability to remove the difficulties while reading. Step 1. Revision 1. Ask Ss som
13、e questions based on the Reading passage. (1) What did people in Tangshan see in the sky before the earthquake?(2) What did people notice in the wells?(3) Did people pay any attention to these abnormal phenomena?(4) When did the earthquake begin?(5) Were there any aftershocks?(6) Did the survivors d
14、eny the city and go to live in other places?2. Check the homework (Ex2 on P28). Ask them to recite it after class. Step 2. Learning about Numbers Turn to Page 28 and look at Part 3. Match each word to the number that has the same meaning. Allow the students several minutes to finish the task. Check
15、the answers. Step 3. Important points Ask the students to turn to Page 82. Ask some students to make some sentences with the words or phrases. Deal with some difficulties. You can add more phrases. In order to master the usage of these words and expressions, please do some related exercises. 1. Fini
16、sh off the two parts in Using Words and Expressions on Page 63. 2. Translate the sentences on Page 63 into English. Write the English sentences in one of your exercise book and hand it in tomorrow. Period Four1. Learn to choose the correct Relative Pronouns for the Attributive Clauses. 2. Train the
17、students ability to report what others have said. 1. Learn the Attributive Clause. Learn to choose the correct Relative Pronouns for the Attributive Clauses. Check the homework exercises. Step 2. Grammar Writes the sentence “Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.” On th
18、e blackboard before class begins. Ask Ss to think what kind of clause it is?And then introduce The Attributive Clause to students.e.g. The woman who lives next door is a teacher. A sentence with an attributive clause contains two shorter sentences. In the sentence above, the two short sentences are:
19、 “The woman is a teacher.” And “The woman lives next door.” The Attributive Clause is the answer to the question: Which woman is a teacher?Would you try to divide the sample sentence on the blackboard into two short sentences?Sum up the rules: “Who” is used for people. “Which” is used for things. “T
20、hat” is used for things or people. “Whose” is used instead of his/her/their/somebodys. “Whom” is quite formal, and in most cases it is all right to use who instead. But when whom has a preposition before it, it cannot be replaced by who. Step 3. Practice 1. Now look at Part 2 in Discovering Useful S
21、tructures on Page 28. try to complete each sentence using that, which, who, or whose. Let the students do this exercise and check the answers. 2. Do more exercises in Ex 3 on Page51 in导学.After class, read the passage on Page 64. Its about advice on how to protect your home from an earthquake. Comple
22、te the sentences below, using who, whom, which, that or whose. Period Five1. Train the students speaking ability. 2. Train the students ability to search for doing something. 3. Train the students ability to do things step by step. 1. Know how to write a speech. 2. Know how to write a newspaper stor
23、y. 3. Learn to cooperate to each other. Check homework exercises and ask some students to read the sentences out. Step 2. Reading and writing Read the letter on Page 29. In the blank at the beginning of the letter, write the last number of the year it is now. Then in the blank near the end of the le
24、tter, use a number to say how many years ago the quake happened. (After several minutes, the teacher checks the answers with the class.) T: Suppose you are the student who was invited to give the speech. What should you include in your speech?(Students give their different answers.) Yes, while writi
25、ng, dont forget to contain the information. Now I will give you 15 minutes to write the speech. You can follow the points in part 3 on this page. (While the students are writing, the teacher gets around the classroom and helps the students to deal with any difficulties that they have.) (After 15 min
26、utes) Are there any volunteers to read his or her speech?( If there is nobody, the teacher asks one to read, and give some assessments.) Step 3. Speaking Imagine that after your speech, Zhangsha asks you to give a short talk about the new stamps about Tangshan to honor the city. First, ask and answe
27、r the following questions in pairs. (1) What do these stamps show?(2) Do you think these stamps are very important and why?(3) Will you collect these stamps? Why and why not?(After the students ask and answer these questions in pairs.) Now try to fill in the lines in the little talk. You can use som
28、e of the answers to the questions. Next I will ask one of you to read the little talk. Step 4. Writing By now you have learned writing a speech and a little talk. Now you are going to write an article for a newspaper about a special event that happed in your hometown. First, lets learn some skills of writing newspaper stories. Before you write, you should write an outline. This is very useful. Today, we will learn how to wr
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