1. 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

2. 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

3. Wenchuan Earthquake

4. The town lay in ruins.
破败不堪

5. The buildings fell down.倒塌

6. Roads cracked.
v. 开裂

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

8. Many people were killed or injured.
adj. 受伤的

9. 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.

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

11. 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

12. 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%

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

14. 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, ________ 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. _____________________________. 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

18. 生死不离