Unit 4 Natural Disasters

Period 1 Reading for writing

 

【教学目标与核心素养】

1. Get students to have a good understanding of how to write a summary about a news report.

2. Enable students to use some writing skills flexibly.

3. Develop students’ writing and cooperating abilities.

4. Strengthen students’ great interest in writing discourses.

【教学重难点】

1. How to enable students to have a good understanding of the skills of writing a suggestion letter.

2. How to enable students to write a good recommendation letter using some writing skills properly.

【教学过程】

Step 1: Lead in

Begin the class with the lead-in questions:

What is a tsunami?

What causes it?

Will it cause great damage to humans?

Watch the video and express your ideas.

It is strongly recommended that the teacher should ask students to discuss the topic freely with their partners and brainstorm some ideas concerning the topic. In this way, students can come up with more ideas and avoid being nervous at the beginning of the class.

Step 2: Read to discover details concerning how to write a summary about a news report

The teacher is expected to ask students to read a news report about a tsunami silently and then request students to discuss the questions below.

In this step, what should be highlighted is that the teacher ought to give students enough time to read individually and think independently.

In this period, the teacher uses when, what, why three questions to guide students to focus on details of a news report.

1. When did the tsunami happen?

2. What caused the tsunami?

3. Why would it be difficult to deliver food and supplies?

Step 3: Read to sum up

After finishing the tasks above, the teacher leads students to figure out the summary of the news report.

Check the main points it includes.

On 26 December 2004, a tsunami killed more than 6,500 tourists，fishermen and many other locals in Southeast Asia. Thousands of people are missing and the number of deaths is expected to grow. The damage caused by the tsunami is making it difficult for rescue workers to help the survivors.

date       time       place      event     cause     effect     following events

Learning   tip: A summary is a short statement of main points. A summary paragraph tells   the main ideas and the most important information of a longer passage.

1. Follow the steps below to write a summary for the first text called “the night the earth didn’t sleep.”

Read the text and write a list of the main details.

2. Organize the ideas and draft your summary. Pay attention to the following:

●A   summary should be around one third the length of the original text. ●Write   down the key supporting points for the topic. ●Do   not include unimportant details or examples.

3. Exchange drafts. Use the checklist to give feedback on your partner's draft.

√Does   the summary give you a clear idea of what the text is about? √Does   the summary include only the most important information of the text? √Is   the summary the proper length? √Are   there any spelling or punctuation errors? √Does   the writer use the correct tenses?

4. Get your drat back and revise it. Put up your summary in the classroom or read it to the class

Step 4: Practice

1. Use what you have learnt to write a news report

台湾高雄于2016年2月6日发展8时57分发生了6.7级地爬，损失修重，请根据下表提供的信息，为某英语报社写一篇100词左右的新闻报道，报道的标题已给出。

受灾情况：大量房屋道路被毁;多人受伤，许多人下落不明；供水、供电中断。军队帮助寻找幸存者、挖掘被困人员、掩埋死者。

赈灾措施：从各地运送来淡水和食物；号召群众支援灾区；社会各界和广大民众自愿为灾区捐款。

2. Discuss with your partners and figure out the features of a news report:

新间报道是记叙文的一种，其特点是以事实为依据，对人的经历或事实给予明确的、实事求是的报道。

基本结构：

英语新闻报道通常包括四部分:

①标题——标题应当简洁明了。

②导语——导语是消息开头的第一段或第一句话，简明扼要地揭示出消息的核心内容。

③主体——主体是消息的主要部分，要用充足的事实表现主题，对导语的内容作进一步的展开和阐述。

④结束语——通常是对全文内容进行概括性的总结。

3. 新闻报道增分句子

（1）陈述事实常用的句型:

①A terrible storm hit/struck ... , killing ..

②It was a cool autumn night when the earthquake happened. A large number of buildings fell down and roads were destroyed, leaving a great many people homeless.

地震发生在一个凉爽的秋夜。大量的建筑物倒塌，道路被毁,许多人无家可归。

③With the help of the rescue team, people who were the trapped in the flood were saved.

在救援队的帮助下，困在洪水中的人们得救了。

（2）陈述观点常用的句型:

①Clearly/Obviously/In my opinion/It seemed that people were shocked.

显然/在我看来/似乎人们震惊了。

②The whole city was in ruins after the earthquake.

地震后整个城市成了一片废墟。

（3）揭示原因常用的句型:

Because of/As a result of/Thanks to the help of the army, people who got injured were sent to the hospital immediately.