A night the earth didn’t sleep Unit4 Earthquakes A night the earth didn’t sleep 课型：Reading 重庆市木洞中学高一（9） 陈宗莉

How many Nature Disasters do you know? Step 1 lead-in Unit4(单元话题导入) How many Nature Disasters do you know? flood sand storm drought thunderstorm seismic sea wave / tsunami tornado, hurricane earthquake typhoon volcanic eruption hurricane fire

Wenchuan Earthquake 2008. 5. 12

The town lay in ruins. 破败不堪

The buildings fell down. 倒塌

Roads cracked. v. 开裂

A great number of people lost their homes. 许多，大量

Many people were killed or injured. adj. 受伤的

Step 2 Present Passage goals(课文目标呈现) Teaching goals(学习目标) 1.Improve students’ reading ability 2.Understand the meaning of the passage 3.Learn to care about the people suffering from natural disasters.

Step 3 lead-in passage(课文导入) Tangshan, Hebei July 28th, 1976

Step 4 while-reading (阅读任务1) Task 1 Read paragraph1 and match the events with the agents. C 1.the water in the well 2.the well walls 3.the chickens and pigs 4.mice 5.fish 6.some people 7the sound of planes 8.the water pipes A. ran out of the field to hide Bsaw bright lights in the sky C. rose and fell again and again D. jumped out of the bowls and ponds E. cracked and burst F .had deep cracks in them G. did not eat food H. could be heard even though there were no planes F G A D B H E

Data (数据) Para. 2-3 Step 5 while-reading task 2(阅读任务2) Part 2 1/3 8 30 _____ of the nation felt the earthquake. A huge crack that was __ kilometres long and _____ metres wide cut across houses. In ___ terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. ____ of the people died or were injured during the earthquake. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than ________. All of the city’s hospitals, _____ of its factories and buildings and _____ of its homes were gone. 1/3 8 30 15 2/3 400,000 75% 90%

Step 6while-reading task 3(阅读任务3) Part 3 leaves safe ruins wells steel milk dead

After the earthquake Step 7 while-reading task 4(阅读任务4) Part 4 Read Paragraph 4 and fill in the blanks. The rescue 150, 000 1. ________ were sent to Tangshan. The army teams dug out the trapped and buried the 2. ________. Most of the 3. _____________ were rescued. Workers built 4.________ for the homeless people. Fresh 5.________ was sent to the city. soldiers dead 10,000 miners shelters water

Step 8 Reading conclusion(课文总结) Post reading 1 Complete the summary of the passage. _____________ happened in Tangshan. For a few days, water in the wells ____________. From the ______ of wells __________ come out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became ________. At 3:00 am, everything Strange things rose and fell cracks smelly gas nervous

began to ______. It seemed that the world was _________ began to ______. It seemed that the world was _________. _________ of the nation ____ it. ____________ cut across the city. The city lay _______. shake at an end One-third felt A huge crack in ruins Two-thirds of the people _____ or ___________. Then later that afternoon, another big quake ______ Tangshan. People began to wonder died were injured shook

_____________________________. But all hope ___________ _____________________________. But all hope ___________. ________ came to help those _________. Slowly, the city began to _____________. how long the disaster would last was not lost Soldiers survivors breathe again

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