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　　Unit 4 《Earthquakes》教案
　　Part One: Teaching Design (第一部分：教学设计)
　　Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading
　　(A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP)
　　Aims
　　To listen and talt natural disasters
　　To read about earthquakes
　　Procedures
　　I. Warming up
　　Warming up by looking
　　Good morning class. Have you ever experienced any natural disasters? Look at the pictures, can you name all the disasters?
　　volcano fire sandstorm
　　typhoon hailstone thunderstorm
　　flood hurricane earthquake
　　Have you ever experienced an earthquake? Can you describe how terrible an earthquake is?
　　(The earth is shaking; all the buildings will fall down; many people will die; many children will bee orphans.)
　　Warming up by discussing
　　Now, look at the pictures of Tangshan and San Francisco in warming up and describe what you see in the pictures. (beautiful cities; broad roads; tall building; large population.)
　　What will happen if there has been a big earthquake in these two cities?
　　As we all know, earthquakes are disasters to everyone. But can we avoid or at least reduce the loss caused by earthquakes? Can we foretell earthquakes? Now let’s e to Pre-reading and decide what may happen before an earthquake es.
　　II. Pre-reading
　　1.Talking and sharing
　　What are the signs of an earthquake? (e.g. Cows, pigs and dogs bee too nervous too eat. The mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. The water in the wells will rise and fall. Walls of the wells in village will have deep cracks. There will be bright light in the sky….)
　　2. Imaging and sharing
　　Imagine there is an earthquake now, your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time to take only one thing. What will you take? Why?
　　III. Reading
　　1. Listening and fast reading
　　Now let’s e to the text “A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP”and see what it tells us.
　　Please listen to the text and get the general idea of the passage. You should pay attention to the first sentences of each paragraph. In what order is the text written? (The text is written in time order. The general idea is the mixture of the first sentences of each paragraph, that is, the text tells us something that happened before the earthquaring the earthquake and after the earthquake.)
　　2. Reading and underlining
　　Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them in your notebook after class as homework.
　　Collocations from A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP
　　a smelly gas, e out of, in the farmyards, too nervous to eat, run out of, look
　　for place to hide, water pipes, think little of sth., as usual, it seemed that, at an
　　end, one hundred kilometers away, one-third, eight kilometers long, thirty meters
　　wide, cut across, in ruins, be injury, the number of, reaore than