Theme of the class: Earthquake Kills Hundreds
Time of the class: 45 minutes
Target of the class: senior high school students
Type of the class: English vocabulary
Teaching Goals:
1. To make sure that students know the Chinese meaning and English explanation of the new words.
2. To introduce the different categories of the new words
3. To make sure that the students could know how to use these new words..
Key Point of Teaching: new words in a short reading text.
Teaching Methods: expository method, questioning method, discuss method.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Pre-vocabulary teaching (5 minutes) Warm up activity
Asking the students to listen to the song Earth Song, and fill in the blanks. There are five words missing in the lyrics. The song will be played once or twice according to the students’ requirements. Then, the teacher will ask all the students to say their answers to the song together and give them the correct answers. Then the teacher will ask one of the students to tell us the main idea of the song.
Therefore, the first step is a lead-in which helps to activate the atmosphere and enter into the next step coherently.
Step 2. While-vocabulary teaching (35 minutes) Introducing the new words in the short reading context
After the lead-in part, the teacher will firstly ask the students to look at the ppt, and there are two lines in the ppt. There are ten new words in the left line and its Chinese meaning in the right line. The teacher will ask ten students to find the corresponding Chinese meaning for the ten new words in the left line.
When the first part has been finished, there comes the second part. In the second part, the teacher will divide the students into several teams, and each team involves four to five students. Then the students will be asked to sort out these words according to different categories. There will be noun, ed-participle, and adjective. After three minutes, the teacher will ask three representatives from three groups to give us their answers. Then the teacher will analyze these words in detail.
The ppt will present these words one by one. Then, the teacher will analyze these words from several points and analyze the sentences in the short reading passage with the ten words, and the teacher will ask the students to make a sentence with some of these words. magnitude
Chinese meaning: 大小，震级，重要性
The quake, measuring 6.3 magnitude, came just minutes after a warning had been given by scientist. (from the reading text)
仅仅在科学家们发出警告之后的几分钟，6.3级大地震就发生了。 老师在学生的生活中非常重要。
Teachers are of great magnitude in students’ lives.
The teacher will explain this sentence in the text. The magnitude in the sentence means 震级. Then the teacher will ask the students to translate the sentence.
collapsed →collapse (original form ) Chinese meaning: 倒塌，瓦解, 晕倒 There are collapsed buildings everywhere. 到处都是倒塌的建筑物。
The teacher will tell the students its original form. Then explain the sentence in the text. And the teacher will tell the students the “collapsed” here is used as an adjective.
buried→bury
Chinese meaning: 掩埋，埋葬
Many people are believed to be buried under rubble. 有人认为很多人都被埋在了碎石之下。 Bury oneself in 全神贯注于… 我全神贯注于学习理财。
I bury myself in learning financial management.
The teacher will concentrate on the phrase “bury oneself in”. rubble
Chinese meaning : 碎石,碎砖
What are the differences among stone, rock and rubble? Stone: 主要是指经过岩石经过风化之后形成的颗粒较小的石头 Rock：主要是指岩石，大块的石头 Rubble：主要是指碎石和碎砖
The teacher will focus on the differences among the three words. massive
Chinese meaning: 大量的，巨大的 rescue
Chinese meaning : 营救，救援 survivor
Chinese meaning: 幸存者，生还者
A massive rescue operation was being organized to find survivors. 人们组织了一场大规模的救援行动来寻找幸存者。
rescue: it can be used as a noun as well as a verb, in our text , it is a noun. 直升飞机救出了将近20人。
Helicopters rescued nearly 20 people. (It is a verb)
Survivors→survive( Verb 幸免，生还) →survival（noun 幸存，残存） In this part, the teacher will focus on the part of speech of the word “rescue” and the different forms of “survivor”.
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