Lesson 25
一、Teaching Aims
Help the students have free talk about what an earthquake is and what people
usually feel when an earthquake happens.
Practise in pairs on talking about the earthquake that happened in San
Francisco in 1898.
Study the language items in the lesson.
Do the exercise on page 25 about the indirect speech.
二、Teaching procedures
Step 1 Warming- up
Ask the Ss some questions about earthquake, such as, “ What will happen when
an earthquake happens?” “ What causes an earthquake to happen?” “ What should
people do when an earthquake happens?” etc.
Step 2. Listening
The Ss are supposed to listen to the tape about the earthquake that happened in
San Francisco in 1989.
After listening to the dialogue the Ss are supposed to do the exercises on page
87. Exx.1.
What are Carl and Wang Bing talking about?
Where was Carl at the time of the earthquake?
How did Carl feel when the earthquake was happening?
Step 3. Practising
The students are supposed to do the pair work on page 25.
Change the sentences into Indirect Speech.
Step 4. Language points of the dialogue
as 的用法
so do you 形式的复习
at the time of 的用法
it sounded like中 sound的用法
feel sth. do的用法
6.fall off 和 fall down的辨析
quite a while 的用法
Step 5. Practising
If time is permitted, the students are supposed to do the exercise on page 87.
Exx.2---retell the dialogue.