广东省惠州市惠东县惠东荣超中学高中英语 unit4 第1学时 warming up and reading
学案 新人教版必修1
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the tangshan earthquake and the california earthquake.
at 3:42 a.m. on july 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the sleeping city of tangshan, in northeastern china. the very large earthquake, striking an area where it was totally unexpected, wiped out the city of tangshan and killed over 240,000 people - making it the deadliest earthquake of the twentieth century.
the california earthquake of april 18, 1906 is one of the most significant earthquakes of all time.
deaths: > 3,000
injuries: ~225,000
property damage: $ 400,000,000 in 1906 $$$
period 1 warming up and reading
step 1.warming-up
task 1:talking about disasters(group-work activity)
1. what disasters do you know ?
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2. have you ever experienced one of these disasters? can you describe what it was like and how you felt?
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task 2 looking and guessing:（课本25页的图片）
(1)what can you see in the picture?
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(2)what do you think may happen before an earthquake?
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step2. skimming
task1 prediction （课文标题预测）
1. what cause you can’t sleep well at night?
2. what a kind of information does the author try to convey to us through the title ?
3.what cause the earth “didn’t sleep at night” in the text?
task 2: divide the whole passage according to the change of time
part 1: ________________________________________________________
