Teaching plan for unit 4：EarthquakesTeaching 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 of3. 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 heard in Beijing which is one 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. drought2. 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-readingSs discuss and answer:1.Do you know what would happen before an earthquake?2.What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?3. Do you know anything about Tangshan Earthquake in 1976?Step 3. Reading 1.Skimming and find the answers to the following questions:a.What happened?b.When and where did it happen?2.Ss read again and fill in the following form:用心 爱心 专心Time What happenedBefore...
