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　　Unit 4  Earthquakes
　　1. Knowledge:
　　Learn and master the new words and expressions in this period.
　　Words:
　　Ability:
　　1. Train the students’ listening ability.
　　2. train the students’ listening ability.
　　3. Train the students’ ability to use the Internet to search for some useful information.
　　4. Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others.
　　Emotion:
　　1. Know the damage that an earthquake
　　2. Know the ways to reduce the losses of an earthquake.
　　Teaching important points
　　Train the students’ speaking ability by describing, talking and discussion.
　　Difficulties:
　　Train the students’ listening ability.
　　Step1 Warming-up
　　T: Do you know what happened in the Indian Ocean at the end of last year? It shocked or we can say frightened the whole world.
　　S: A terrible tsunami brot there on 26th Deber. More than 200 000 people were killed.
　　T: Yes. It is said that it is the biggest in the fore decades. A tsunami is an undersea earthquake. Then have you heard of any land earthquald you please list some?
　　S: We can often hear that earthquar in Japan. In 1906, an earthquack San Francisco, USA. About 700 people died in the earthquake and the fires. And as many as 250 000 people lost homes.