1、Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking教学设计科目：英语 课题：Reading and Thinking 课时：1课时教学目标与核心素养：知识目标： 掌握本课中出现的课标要求词汇和重要短语能力目标：培养学生根据上下文猜测词义和运用本单元的阅读策略的能力。情感目标：感受“灾害无情人有情”的感情。教学重难点教学重点：帮助学生掌握报告文学兼具文学性和纪实性的语言特征。教学难点：让学生学会欣赏文本中所运用的修辞方法和写作技巧，理解作者在作品中所表达的情感和写作意图。课前准备：多媒体，黑板，粉笔教学过程：一、Pre-reading1. Greeting
2、2. Leading-in教师活动：What does the title mean? Does the earth sleep as you do? If you cant go to sleep, how do you feel? Try to imagine what can happen to the earth if it doesnt sleep? what do you think the text is mainly about?二、 While- reading1. 教师活动：Please find the topic sentence of each paragraph.
3、Then summarize each paragraph in one phrase based on its topic sentence. For example, the topic sentence of the first paragraph is “Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei.” Strange things were happening, which could have warned people that an earthquake was on the way
4、. So the paragraph tells us the warning signs before the earthquake.学生活动：快速阅读文本，检验读前的预测结果，并完成活动3，归纳、概括各段大意。2. 学生活动：精读文本或按时间顺序分部分阅读文本教师活动：What were some of the strange things that were happening before the earthquake?3. 教师活动：When did the earthquake happen? Why was it one of the most deadly earthquake
5、s of the 20th century? What happened to the city and people? How did the people feel? What happened later that afternoon?Read the text and find the answers to the questions. When you come across a new word, try to use the context to help you understand it.学生活动：带着问题阅读文本，之后在小组内核对答案。4、教师活动：Who come to
6、the rescue? What did they do? Why does the author say “But hope was not lost”? What does the author mean by “Slowly, the city began to breathe again”?5、教师活动：Many sentences in the text give us a picture of the terrible earthquake in Tangshan. Which sentences impressed you most? Why? Numbers are widel
7、y used in the text. Why does the author mention so many numbers? In Paragraph 1, many verbs or verbal phrases, such as rose, fell, coming out of , and ran out of are used. Why does the author use them here? Now, how do you understand the title? Do you think the title is a good one? If not, can you give another title to the text?学生活动：再次阅读文本，体会纪实类文本的语言特点。三、 After-reading1、 学生活动：按时间线索，复述唐山大地震的过程，以内化语言。2、 结对，一人扮演新闻记者，另一人扮演唐山大地震的幸存者，编写对话并表演。四、Summary 总结课上所学。作业布置：完成活动5。
