Earthquakes reading学案

A Night the Earth Didn’t SleepⅠ.Why does the writer use “A night the earth didn’t sleep”as the title?______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________Ⅱ. Fast reading.What does the passage mainly talk about? When and where did the earthquake happen? ___________________________________________________________________________________Ⅲ.Scan the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.Position in Paragraph Topic sentenceparagraphⅣ.How many parts can this passage be divided into?Part paragraph Main ideaⅤ.Careful reading. Read the passage carefully and find more information about it.Data(数据)______of the nation felt the earthquake .A huge crack that was kilometers long and meters wide cut across houses.In terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.实用文档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.Ⅵ.Translate the following sentences into Chinese.1.But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep asusual that night.2. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.3. Then, another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook Tangshan.4. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.Ⅶ.语言点：1.Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away…imagine:imagine + n. /pron./ G./ cl.imagine sb. to beshake : cause to move to and froright away : at once ; in no time ; immediatelyright now : at this very moment实用文档Make up your mind___________.I’ll return the book___________.2.burst : to come open or fly apart suddenlyThe balloon suddenly burst.burst into + n.Some robbers burst into that house.burst outburst out + doing They burst out laughing.burst into+ n. burst out + doing……He burst into laughter. = He burst out laughingHe burst into tears. = He burst out crying.3 . But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, went to bed asusual that night. ( Non- Defining Attributive Clauses )Do you want a friend whom you could tell ev erything to like your deepest…(Unit 1 )…because those who ruled England at that time spoke French. ( Unit 2 )The plains where rice grows. ( Unit 3 )( Defining Attributive Clause )4.T w o-t h i r d s o f t h e p e o p l e d i e d o r w e r e__injured__d u r i n g t h e e a r t h q u a k e.(1)two-thirds= two thirds More than 61% of the surface of the surface of the earth ____covered by water.Seventy percent of the workers in this factory ______young.实用文档(2)injure: to hurt oneself/ sb / sth. physicallyCompare: injure/ hurt/wound Their criticisms _________him deeply. have hurt Smoking will _________his health.He was slightly ________in the car accident.He got ___________in the fighting.What you said ________my feeling.5. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.wonder : v. A. to have a feeling of surprise.B. to be filled with curiosity or doubt.n. one that arouses astonishment, surprise ; admirationIt is no wonder (that )= No wonder (that)---Tom often works deep into the night every day.---No wonder he always gets first in the examinations.6. All hope was not lost.all…not … = not all….: some but not allNot all the children are left. (= Only some of them left early.)Not all the children are noisy.(= Some of the children are not noisy.)& none of …..None of us were allowed to go there.None of these reports is very helpful.实用文档1.Find out the difficult sentences in the passage .2.Do exercises on page 27—28. Ex. 1,2 & 3 ( Learning about language)3.Do exercises 1 & 2 on page 63. ( Using words and expressions)4.Review Attributive Clause5.Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time totake only one thing. What will you take? Why ?答案A Night the Earth Didn’t SleepⅠ.Why does the writer use “A night the earth didn’t sleep”as the title?Night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer uses it as title to show how terrible and unusual that night was.Ⅱ. Fast reading. An earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976Ⅲ.Scan the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.实用文档northeast Hebei.beginning Everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world wasat an end.beginning Everywhere they looked nearly everything wasdestroyed.All hope was not lost. beginning Ⅳ.How many parts can this passage be divided into?Part paragraph Main ideaParagraph 1Strange things happened before the earthquake.Paragraph 2/3The earthquake destroyed the city of TangshanParagraph 4The army came to help the survivors.Ⅴ.Careful readingRead the passage carefully and find more information about it.Data(数据).1/38 3015 2/3400,00075%实用文档90%语言点：1. right nowright away4.isarehave hurtinjureinjuredwoundedhurt实用文档。