Unit 4 Period 1 Warming Up and Reading I. Learning Goals 1. Develop the students’ reading ability 2. Get the students to learn about Tangshan Earthquake and understand the text. II. Learning Guidance 1. By skimming and scanning, we students will grasp certain information and summarize the main idea of passage. 2. With systematic guidance, we students will master the basic reading ability to solve common problems in comprehension. III. Background information 1976 年 7 月 28 日北京时间 03 时 42 分 53.8 秒，在中国河北省唐山、丰南一带发生了强度里氏 7.8 级大地震，造成 24.2 万多人死亡，16.4 万多人重伤；7200 多个家庭全家震亡，上万家庭解体，4204 人成为孤儿；97%的地面建筑、55%的生产设备毁坏；交通、供水、供电、通讯全部中断；23 秒内，直接经济损失人民币100 亿元；一座拥有百万人口的工业城市被夷为平地。 Step I. Pre-reading 1. List some natural disasters: ___________, ___________,_ __________, ______________, __________, ___________, ______________. 2. Damage an earthquake may cause: ___________,[_________,___________,___________,_____________. Step Ⅱ. Skimming Skim the passage and then conclude the main idea. The passage mainly talks about a terrible________(what?) that happened in ________( where?) in _______( when? ) and caused great ________ to people. Step Ⅲ. Careful reading 1. Read the passage carefully and join the correct parts of the sentence. 1. The chickens didn’t eat because A. the army came to help them. 2. The people didn’t worry because B. the quake happened while they were sleeping. 3. Such a great number of people died because C. they were nervous. 4. Water was needed because D. dams and wells were useless. 5. The people did not lose hope because E. they didn’t know what the strange events meant. 2. Para 2-3 Damage during the earthquake 填入正确的数据 （→The data show how _______ the earthquake was. ） (1) ________ of the nation felt the earthquake. (2) In _______ terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. (3) ________ of the people died or were injured during the earthquake. (4) The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than __________. (5) All of the city’s hospitals, ______ of its factories and buildings and ______of its homes were gone. Step IV Intensive reading 1. Skim the passage and then Decide whether the sentences are True or False. (1) There were one million people in Tangshan at that time. ( ) (2) The earthquake began 10 kilometers directly below the city. ( )[来源:Zxxk.Com] (3) Not only the people but also the animals were shocked greatly. ( ) (4) There was only one quake at that time. ( ) (5)Workers rescued most of the 10 000 coal miners to the south of the city. ( ) (6)Almost everything in Tangshan was destroyed. ( ) 2. Scan the text and then choose the best answer according to the text. (1). What is the mood of this passage? A. Angry. B. Serious. C. Serious and a bit sad. D. Calm (2). The title “A night the earth didn’t sleep” means _________________ . A. people could not go to sleep as usual due to the heat. B. people on the earth couldn‘t fall asleep that night C. animals on the earth would not sleep that night D. the earth shook like a crazy that night (3). What does “them” in the sentence “No wind, however, could blow them away.” (in Paragraph 3) refer to? A. Red autumn leaves. B. Bricks on the ground. C. Bodies of dead animals. D. Sand in the wells. (4). People in the city went to bed as usual that night because ____________. A. they thought sleeping was more important whatever would happen B. they didn’t think it was strange for water pipes to crack and burst C. they thought it was natural to see some natural signs at night D. they could never imagine there would be an earthquake Step V. Post-reading : Listen carefully and Retell the story Several days before July 28, 1976, many _________ things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the _________. But people in the city of Tang Shan ________(think) little of these. At 3:42 am everything began to _______, which __________ everything of the city. People were ________. Then, later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tang Shan. Some of the rescue workers and doctors were ________ under the ________. More buildings _________(fall). Water, food, and electricity were hard to get. People began to wonder how long the _________ would last. Soon after the quakes, soldiers were sent to help the people in Tangshan. Slowly, the city began to ________ again. Step VI. Discussion What shall we do if an earthquake happens? ___________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 日 清反思
