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

Unit 4 EarthquakesReading
A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep
一、教学内容：Pre-reading;Reading and prehending
二、教学目标：
1.学生能够通过题目大概猜测出文章的主要内容。

2. 学生通过快速阅读能够迅速查找到文章段落中的主要信息。

3. 学生通过仔细阅读完成相应的练习，从中获得相应的阅读能力。

三、教学步骤：
步骤一阅读前导入
学生通过文章标题大概猜测文章的主要内容。

A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep
The title“A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep”
C
means________.
A. the earth was wide awake all night long
B. people on the earth couldn’t fall asleep that night
C. a terrible earthquake happened in
Tangshan, China
D. animals on the earth would not sleep that
night
步骤二快速阅读
学生快速阅读文章，在阅读段落的时候，学生划出每个段落中的主题句，这样能够加速其对整段的理解。

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Topic sentence Paragraph
Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.Everything began to shake. It
seemed as if the world was at an end.Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.
All hope was not lost.
步骤三 仔细阅读
学生仔细阅读文章，完成相应的练习，从中获得相应的阅读能力。

1. 学生仔细阅读文章第一段，完成以下阅读理解题。

All the following unusual things happened
in the countryside before the earthquake except that__________.
A. the water in the village wells rose and fell
B. the chickens and even the pigs were too
nervous to eat
C. tens of thousands of cows would never
give milk again
D. fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds
C
2. 学生结合文章第一段和相关图片总结归纳“Signs before an earthquake 〞。

Signs before an earthquake
Bright light flash in
the sky.
The well has deep cracks
in it, and the water in it
rises and falls.
Chickens are flying
and dogs are barking,
and pigs and cows are
too nervous to eat.Fish jump out of the pond, and mice run wildly out of the fields.
3.学生仔细阅读文章，完成课本27页prehending 的练习1。

Read the passage carefully and join the correct parts of the sentences. 5.The people did not
lose hope because 4.Water was needed
because
3.Such a great
number of people
died because
2.The people didn ’t
worry because
1.The chickens didn ’t
eat because
E.they didn ’t know what the strange events meant.
D.dams and wells were useless.C.they were nervous. B . the quake happened while they were sleeping.A . the army came to help them.
步骤四 总结回顾
师生共同回顾“A Night the Earth Didn ’t Sleep 〞这篇文章的主要内容。

Conclusion
seem strange Signs before an earthquake
began to shake What happened in the earthquake
destroyed After the earthquake
rescue
The city began to breathe
again
步骤五 作业
学生课后复习本节课的内容，并完成5道翻译题，为下节课讲授的定语从句做准备。

Homework
一、Review the lesson.
二、Translate the following sentences.
1. 二百多公里外的北京都能感觉到这场地震。

2. 一条8公里长30米宽的巨大裂缝横穿房舍、
马路和渠道。

3. 死伤的人数达到40多万。

4. 在下午晚些的时候，又一次和第一次一样的
强烈的地震震撼着唐山。

5. 救援人员为那些家园被毁的幸存者盖起了避
难所。