高中英语 Unit4 A Night the Earth Didn't Sleep Reading教

Unit4 A Night the Earth Didn't Sleep Reading
Content of the passage
The passage mainly tells us that an earthquake happened in Tangshan at night on 28 July, 1976, and 400,000 people were killed or seriously injured, because its main reason was that the earthquake happened at deep night. The passage can be divided into three parts. The first part is about some strange things happened before the earthquake. The second part is about the damages caused by the earthquake. The third part is about all help was given to Tangshan after the earthquake. From the passage, students will know clearly about the predictions before an earthquake. At the same time, teachers can guide them to think how to prepare yourself before an earthquake happens, how to self-rescue during an earthquake and how to help the people in disaster-hit areas. So that they can set up their right attitudes towards life. Ability goals
Students should improve their listening, reading, speaking and writing abilities. Students should improve their abilities to cooperate with others.
Emotion goals
Students learn how to help the sufferers.
Students should set up their right attitudes towards life.
Key points and difficulties
1.Get the main ideas of the whole text.
2.Train the stu dents’ reading ability—skimming, scanning and detailed reading.
3. How to prepare yourself, how to self-rescue and how to give help to the sufferers.
Activities
Step1 Warming-up 5分钟
Step 2 Skimming 10分钟
Task1 Predict the general idea.
(How to predict: read to the title and the pictures of the textbook.)
Task2 Find out four topic sentences. (How to skim: read the title and the first and the last sentence of each paragraph)
Task3 Divide four paragraphs into three parts according to the time order. And then choose one word to describe each part.
Step3 Scanning 7分钟
(How to scan: read Part 1 quickly and find out the sentences you need.)
Task1 Find out what happened to them
Task2 Presentation (A boy and a girl)
Step4 Detailed reading 11分钟
Task1 Fill in the blanks and make a report. Step4 Detailed reading
Task2 Multiple-choice
Step5: Post reading: 5分钟
Discussion in groups
Group1 How to predict an earthquake before if happens?
Group2 How to self-rescue during an earthquake?
Group3 How to help the people in disaster-hit areas?
Step6: Homework: 2分钟
1.Learn from the author; try to write a news report.
2. Find out all the attributive clauses in the text.。