高中英语人教版必修1 Unit 4 Earthquakes 第7课时教案

Unit 4 Earthquakes

Period 7

Teaching & learning contents: Using Language—Reading and Writing, and the rest contents in this unit.

Teaching & learning goals:

1. Read the sample report, analyse and study the structure of newspaper report/story.    

2. Learn to write an outline and then develop it into a newspaper report/ an article.

Main points: reading and writing practice

Difficult Points: organizing and writing a newspaper report/story

Class type: Writing 

Teaching & learning procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Task 1 Check the answers to the listening exercises in WB.

  Task 2 Ask few students to give speeches.

Step 2 Reading and Writing

  Task 1 Have the Ss read the brief description and the newspaper story and then talk about the following questions:

  1) Why an outline is important?

     Because an outline will prepare you to write a better story.

2) What should an outline conclude?

    A good outline should have a headline, a list of main idea and a list of important details.

3) Why a headline is important?

      A headline can tell the reader what the topic is, so it can attract the reader’s attention since the reader may not have bought the newspaper before they read the headline.

4) What are the steps to finish a newspaper story?

     First, organize the main ideas. Next, put some details into each paragraph.

5) What is the feature of the newspaper story?

     A newspaper story gives the most important news first and the least important news last.

  New words: outline, headline, cyclist,

  Task 2 Have the Ss compare a newspaper story with a short story after they read the brief description about how to write a newspaper story.

  Tell the Ss that a newspaper needs: a headline which is like the main idea of the article; the details of the story in time order; a conclusion which tells the situation now.

  Task 3 Study and analyse the newspaper story according to the structure on P32.

  Task 4 Ask the Ss to think of some idea for their article. They should identify: a special event; why it was special; what happened; the situation now.

  Task 5 Write down the outline and think of the details and try to write an article after class, swap with a partner and revise the article before they hand in.

  Show the Ss sample writing if necessary.

  China leads world in traffic death

  Experts say that road traffic accidents are on the rise and China ranks first in the world in traffic death tolls. Worldwide Statistics show that the global traffic accident death toll amounted to 500,000 in 2003, with the largest share,104,000 reported in China, followed by India with 86,000, the U.S. with 40,000, and Russia with 26,000, said Duan Liren, former deputy director of the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau. Road accidents are the seventh leading killer in China.

Step 3 Learning Tips & Reading for Fun

Step 4 Speaking Task & Writing Task in WB

Task 1 Get the Ss to list the things they choose and give reasons (Speaking Task in WB.).

  Task 2 Make a poster according to the instructions following the sample.

  Sample:

Step 5 Reading Task in WB

   Ss read the passage and do the reading comprehension exercises and check the answers.

Homework:

  1. Revise and summary the language items learned in this unit.

  2. Make a poster and write a short newspaper report.

  3. Revise this unit and do the related exercises.