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Periods 2 & 3 Reading
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. Words and phrases 生词和短语
shaking fear scream bomb shake direction wildly brick calm moment mind since somebody hurry daylight loudly everywhere
do some shopping a big noise like thunder look at each other in fear
under the ground start to shake run in all directions
try my best to do… run wildly fall down
calm down say to myself go through my mind
b. Key sentences 重点句子
I was doing some shopping when it started.
Some people screamed because they were very frightened.
People were running wildly while pieces of glass and bricks were falling down.
I thought somebody could hear me but no one came for a very long time.
I was trying to find my way out when I suddenly heard some noise above me.
I could not see anything at all and I did not know if anyone was around me.
A moment of fear went through my mind but I told myself to calm own since I was still alive.
2. Ability goals 能力目标
To learn something about the Taiwan earthquake.
To learn further about the past continuous tense.
To learn to protect oneself in a natural disaster.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
To infer meaning from keywords and context.
Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点
The expressions of describing what happened in the earthquake.
Teaching aids 教具准备
Tape recorder and Multi-Media.
Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式
Step I Revision and lead–in
This activity consolidates the vocabulary in Period One and leads to the new topic.
1. Show the pictures of some actions and ask some individual students to say a phrase:
start to rain mop all the water up crash into a tree fall from a tree lose the game etc.
2. Ask some individual Ss to say some sentences with the past continuous tense.
3. Ask a S:
T: Is a rainstorm terrible?
S: Yes, it is.
T: What about an earthquake?
S: It’s (more) terrible.
T: Yes. It destroys everything on the earth and even kills people. We should learn to protect ourselves and help each other during the earthquake. Do you know what everything is like during the earthquake, and how to protect ourselves? Let’s read an earthquake survivor’s home page. (write “survivor” on the Bb and explain)
Step II Reading
This activity includes pre-reading, during-reading and post-reading.
1. Read the article for the first time. Have the Ss read the story by themselves as quickly as possible and find the words and phrases they don’t know and underline them. Then show the following sentences with new words on the slide and go through sentence by sentence with the Ss.
(1) I felt a slight shaking through my body.
(2) People in the shopping center looked each other in fear.
(3) Some people screamed because they were very frightened.
(4) Then the real noise came, like bombs under the ground.
(5) People ran in all directions.
(6) People were running wildly while pieces of glass and bricks were falling down.
(7) I calmed down.
(8) A moment of fear went through my mind but I told myself to calm down since I was still alive.
(9) They were in a great hurry to move away the bricks and stones.
(10) I saw the bright daylight.
Encourage Ss to guess the meaning according to the story and help them when necessary, then teach pronunciation of the underlined words.
2. Ask Ss to finish Part B1 on page 96, then check the answers.
3. Read the article for the second time. Have Ss get the answers to the following questions after they finish reading.
Show the questions about the passage on the screen.
(1) What was Timmy doing when the earthquake started?
(2) What was the noise like?
(3) What did people do when it happened?
(4) What did Timmy do after he found he was trapped?
(5) Why didn’t he eat all the chocolate?
(6) How did people save him?
4. Read the article a third time carefully and then complete the table below.
Time
Timmy and other People
Acts
At the beginning of the earthquake
People
People looked at each other in fear. Some people screamed.
Timmy
During the earthquake
People
Timmy
After the earthquake
People
Timmy
A sample：
Time
Timmy and other People
Acts
At the beginning of the earthquake
People
People looked at each other in fear. Some people screamed.
Timmy
He was doing shopping. He felt a slight shaking He heard a loud noise like thunder.
During the earthquake
People
People ran in all directions. People were running wildly
Timmy
He tried his best to run out to the street.
After the earthquake
People
People were in a great hurry to move away the bricks and stones.
Timmy
He calmed down. He could not see anything at all. He was trapped He shouted for help. He was trying to find his way out. He was saved.
Play the tape for Ss to read the passage in a low voice with the tape.
1) Look through the passage again. And this time, Ss should find the answers of Part B2. Then check the answers with the class.
2) Do Part C according to the passage. Ss do it in groups and then make a report of what happened during the earthquake.
3) Complete Part D, say the correct sentence if the sentence is false.
4) After doing so many exercises about the passage. Get the Ss to look at the table of the passage:
5) Ss work in groups and retell the passage with the help of the table.
6) Ask individual Ss to retell the passage in class and teacher gives the comment for each one.
7) Encourage Ss to find their difficulty in understanding the story. Discuss the difficult points with the class. And help them solve their problems. See whether they can understand the following phrases and sentences:
do some shopping a big noise like thunder look at each other in fear
under the ground start to shake run in all directions
try my best to do… run wildly fall down
calm down say to myself go through my mind Some people screamed because they were very frightened.
I thought somebody could hear me but no one came for a very long time.
I could not see anything at all and I did not know if anyone was around me.
A moment of fear went through my mind but I told myself to calm own since I was still alive.
I was doing some shopping when it started.
People were running wildly while pieces of glass and bricks were falling down.
I was trying to find my way out when I suddenly heard some noise above me.
Encourage Ss make more sentences with “when” and “ while”.
Step III Oral practice
This activity provides oral practice using the target language.
T: Now work in pairs. One acts as Timmy, the other acts as an interviewer after the earthquake.
Sample:
S1: Hello, Timmy. I’m Fred, from Beijing Sunshine Secondary School.
S2: Hello, Fred.
S1: Where were you when the earthquake started?
S2: I was doing shopping in a shopping center.
S1: What did you feel at first?
S2: I felt a slight shaking through my body. And then I heard a loud noise like thunder.
S1: What happened then?
S2: The real noise came, like bombs under the ground. The earth started to shake. Some people ran in all directions.
S1: Were you afraid?
S2: Yes, very much at first, but I asked myself to calm down when the shaking ended.
S1: Were you OK when people helped you out?
S2: Yes.
S1: How lucky!
Ss work in pairs and give Ss the time limit.
Ask some pairs to act out their conversations.
Step IV Homework
1. Retell Timmy’s story with the help of the table given in this period.
2. Search the Internet to find more stories about the Taiwan earthquake in 1999.
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