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　　Warming up and Reading
　　【Teaching Material】
　　This unit is about natural disasters through the world and china, as we know, has a particular problem with earthquakes. In the last century five of the ten worst earthquakes happened in China. Although it is important for students to understand the dangers people face in a quake, it is just as important for them to realize that there are things that can be done to minimize the damage caused by quakes. For this reason, this unit keeps a positive tone or outlook. It includes exercises and tasks that enables students to thint how to avoid quakes, or at least some of the damage they can cause. This unit also lets them role-play community work that deals with disaster relief. As we all know, reading belongs to the input during the process of the language learning. The input has great effect on output, such as speaking and writing.
　　【Teaching goals】
　　Knowledge aims:
　　1. Get the students to learn the following useful new words and expressions in this passage.
　　2. Know basic knowledge about earthquakes.
　　Ability aims:
　　Develop the students’ ability and let them learn different reading skills.
　　Get the students collect the information from the internet by themselves.
　　Emotional aims:
　　Get the students to be aware of the terrible disasters, meanwhile get them to face it, treat it in a proper way, and never get discouraged.
　　【Teaching important points】
　　1. Get the students to learn about Tangshan Earthquake.
　　2. Get the students to learn different reading skills.
　　【Teaching difficult points】
　　Develop the students’ reading ability.
　　【Teaching methods】
　　1. Task-based teaching and learning.
　　2. Fast reading, intensive reading
　　3. Discussion.
　　【Teaching aids:】
　　CAI课件, A tape recorder
　　【Teaching procedures】
　　Step 1 Warming up
　　Warming up by looking
　　Show Ss some pictures about natural disasters and ask them two questions.
　　1. Can you tell some natural disasters?
　　(volcano, fire, sandstorm, typhoon, hailstone, thunderstorm, flood, hurricane, earthquake)
　　2. 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 become 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 come to Pre-reading and decide what may happen before an earthquake comes.
　　Step 2 Pre-reading
　　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? Is it money, water, fruits, mobile, phones, a torch light, or anything else? Why?
　　Talking and sharing
　　What are the signs of an earthquake?  Talt the pictures on Page 25.
　　(e.g. Cows, pigs and dogs become too nervous to 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…)
　　Step 3 Reading
　　Tell the students: Today, we are going to read a news report about the strongest earth-quake in China’s history, which happened in Tangshan, Hebei, in 1976.
　　1. Fast reading
　　Ask the students to read the passage quickly.