1) What can you see in the picture? 2) What do you think is happening? 3) What do you think the passage is going to tell us? 4) After seeing this picture, what do you expect to learn from this reading passage?
Step II Listening
教师给学生播放本课的听力内容。(可见ppt.中的声音)
1). When and where did the fire take place?
2). How many people were trapped above the fire?
Key: 1) The fire took place at Sao Paulo’s Capital Building on February 4th, 1974. 2) More than 300 people were trapped above the fire.
Step III Reading
教师给学生5-10分钟的时间阅读此课,然后教师提供10道题来给学生。
Read the text again, then answer the questions.
1) Two hundred and twenty were killed in the Sao Paulo fire.
2) The building was not finished when the fire broke out.
3)All the offices were completely destroyed except those below the 11th floor.
4) Only the firemen knew how the fire had started.
5)At first, it was possible for the office workers to put out the fire.
6)Below the 11th floor people were able to escape into the street.
7)The people above the 11th floor were trapped because there were no fire escapes.
8)It was difficult for the firefighters to get close to the building because the smoke from the fire was too thick..
9)The ladders the firefighters had taken with them were not long enough.
10) Four hours after the fire started, the firemen still couldn’t control it.
Key: 1) False 2) False 3) False 4) False 5) False 6) True 7) True 8) False 9) True 10) False
Step IV Language focus
教师把本课的重点词汇讲给学生,如下:
belonged: If you own something, it belongs to you.
in the building: in the Capital Building
broke out : started
on the floors above: on the higher floors
escape: to get out of the building
fire escapes: special staircases for use in case of fire
close enough: close enough to rescuer the people
lost their lives: died
rescue: If a person is in danger, you rescue them by taking them to a safe place.
firefighter: a person who puts out fires and rescues people from fires and other dangerous situations
Step V Discussion
教师把本课的内容用图表形式让学生讨论,学生把讨论的结果填入空白处,如下:(答案见ppt.)
Say something about the Sao Paulo fire:
The time and the place of the fire
When did the fire take place?
Where did it happen?
The cause of the fire
The weak point of the design of the building
The rescue work
What problem did the helicopters have?
How many people were saved by the helicopters?
What was wrong with their ladders?
How long did it take them to control the fire?
The damage and casualt.