teaching plan for unit 4
earthquakes
teaching aims and demands:
1. topic:
basic knowledge of earthquakes; how to protect oneself and help the others in disasters
2. useful words and expressions:
shake, well (n.), rise, smelly, pond, pipe, burst, canal, steam, dirt, ruin, injure, destroy, brick, dam, useless, steel, shock, quake, rescue, electricity, disaster, army, organize, bury, coal, shelter, fresh, percent, speech, judge, honour, prepare;
right away, (be) at an end, dig out, bring in, a (great )number of
3. functions:
talking about past experiences:
i will never forget the day when the earthquake took place. the time was 5:15 in the afternoon and i was driving along the road.
sequence
4. grammar:
the attributive clause (i)
由that, which, who, whose引导的定语从句
the number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.
it was felt in beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers away.
workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
teaching procedures:
period 1.
step 1. warming up
ss discuss and answer some questions:
1. which of the following may cause people the greatest damage?
a. earthquake b. typhoon c. flood d. drought
2. imagine 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?
step 2. pre-reading
ss discuss and answer:
